“I welcome the opportunity to be wrongfully arrested.”

Critical care doctor David Caldicott is tired of young people dying from overdoses at festivals, so he wants to test their pills.

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The man with the thick Irish accent and massive side-burns is a key member of the group of doctors and experts who're openly thumbing their noses at the NSW government and promising to roll-out a pill testing trial at music festivals.

There's been a series of high-profile deaths of Aussie teenagers from dodgy caps and pills and Caldicott thinks potentially breaking the law is worth the risk.

"I am the father of three very precocious girls and a son, I welcome the opportunity to be wrongfully arrested. My girls need frocks and I don't know what the going rate for wrongful arrest is at the moment," he told BuzzFeed News.

Caldicott is part of a renegade group of medical experts, including Dr Alex Wodak (below) who think educating young people through pill testing will stop them from taking dangerous substances.

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