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Tim Piatowski

Tim Piatowski

Australian harm reduction researcher (Griffith University / UQ) who led the world's first steroid drug-checking trial and co-founded the Steroid QNECT peer education program.

Jun 14, 2026

10:34
Has someone made an application to get it approved, or how does that work?
10:40
During that, I guess, approval process, there needs to be a body of evidence, right? Right.
10:46
And so to meet that body of evidence, we do preclinical work, we do observational work, move to hopefully eventually clinical work and then human clinical trials and so on and so forth in, I guess, increasing size and scope in terms of the phases.
11:09
So are they using it illegally or they can get it legally somehow? Is it like a buy but wear type thing? No.
11:16
I mean, if you're purchasing, so if I go in to my prescriber and I have- You mean your doctor? Doctor.
11:24
Yeah, yeah.
11:24
And I have diabetes.

44 MINS LATER

55:47
Do you think about this or do you sort of just more, you're more in the science, do you think about the broader issue that Australia could become?

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