This bulletin provides an overview of the demographic profiles, patterns of festival attendance and drug use, policing experiences and help-seeking behaviours of 5,155 Australian music festival attendees surveyed in late 2018. Specifically, it outlines:
- Demographics (age, sex, residence, education, employment, criminal history)
- Frequency and nature of festival attendance within and outside Australia
- Frequency of illicit drug use and typical quantities consumed
- Likelihood and nature of police encounters
- Emergency Medical Treatment (EMT) seeking and level of interest in reducing drug use