By BBC Hague correspondent Anna Holligan:

It feels a lot like a doctor’s surgery: dove-white walls, a slightly clinical antiseptic smell. The difference is, it's not you that's being checked but your pills.

The waiting room is filling up when we arrive. The staff tell us it's like this every week. It's unprecedented to have access to a free service that lets you have your pills and powders tested, let alone one that's funded by the government. But here in the Netherlands, you see they do things differently.

We're taken into an intimate room where two casually-dressed women sit behind a desk laden with drug paraphernalia. Petri dishes, razor blades, an acidic type substance – “the same stuff they use to preserve dead bodies” says our Trimbos Institute guide Sander after noticing my confused face.

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Karen and Renee are the first to enter, and, with a flourish of quintessential Dutch candor, the couple explain why they've dropped in: “We take drugs to party, so the music and the colours are stronger and also, for sex so the sex is better. Why do we have them tested? Because we like drugs, but we like our lives too and we don't want to die.”

We all know drugs are inherently unsafe. The tests won't take into consideration the environment where you're taking the MDMA or amphetamines and they won't prevent your organs from burning if your body temperature reaches 42 degrees (a common cause of drug related deaths). But they will let you know if there are any unfamiliar substances lurking inside and alert you to any increased risk.

The pragmatic approach is born out of a culture that believes in accepting the reality of life and shaping policy in a way that recognises that human behavior cannot be completely controlled. In some cases they believe, the best the state can do is minimize the harm associated with unpredictable pursuits like getting high.

Many experts in the Netherlands believe that in places like the UK young people are risking their lives with new and increasingly fatal 'legal highs'. Walking through Utrecht, a city that used to have a huge drugs problem, Sander tells us those legal highs aren't taking off in the Netherlands because the government takes a more practical, less penal approach to dealing with users. Sander says here, they take the drugs they can get tested because they can get a more solid indication of what they're made of.

Raymond, director of the Trimbos institute frowns, shaking his head resolutely at any suggestion that government cash is being used to facilitate people's recreational drug use. 

So how do they justify it? And could and should countries like the UK look at how the Dutch have done it and try to introduce a similar pill testing system here? 

If you missed Anna Holligan's report you can listen here (at 7.30am, available until September 3rd)

Scrutinize the electrical sockets. Examine the bookshelves. Check out the sofa. Where did they get those carpets? All yield potentially vital clues and can possibly save lives. Amidst such drab domestic banality children are being abused and it is the job of the people at the Internet Watch Foundation to view this vile material, get it taken down and pass on as much knowledge as they can garner to the relevant authorities.

I spent an afternoon on an industrial estate just outside Cambridge during the week meeting the men and women who spend all day watching it - 9am until 6pm. Then it's back to their families for tea.

“Does it make you angry? Does it make you sick?” I asked. “Does it make you, well, mad?” The consensus answer is that most of all, it makes them determined to help, rescue and save children from unspeakable depravity.

Chris told me that they are totally focussed on getting answers and despite the fact that he has seen some of the most vile category five abuse you can ever imagine, he and the others all love their job. They love it because one child saved makes the whole thing worthwhile. Sure they have counselling. Sure they sometimes have to take a walk and play a computer game to escape, but sure as anything they are on a mission.

The Internet Watch Foundation, funded by the industry, says it's seen a 42% increase in reports to its online hotline since the same period last year. Post-Savile there has been a huge rise in awareness. Susie, the boss, tells me this has been a good thing, but as ever, with limited resources and the pay of a junior social worker, they are always going to be up against it. They don¹t complain though. The more awareness the better. They have a job to do.

Just don’t call it child porn though. That message comes across loud and clear. “This is not porn. That legitimizes it in the minds of the perpetrators and confuses the issue. This is abuse.” And every piece of footage is a crime scene.

Struck by their collective will to do good and determination to get this stuff taken down I asked how young some of the children can be. “Newborns” says Sarah. My God. I couldn’t do what they do.

In December Nick Matthew found himself in a vast arena of 15,000 sports fans cheering on their heroes from a huge variety of different sports and disciplines for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He might well have been wondering whether he would ever find his name being cheered, experience the standing ovations and glowing praise from sporting legends. In fact, chances are that most of those present wouldn’t know Nick Matthew - or his many outstanding achievements.

You see, Nick plays squash. He’s very good at it. In fact, he’s currently the British no. 1 and has been World Champion twice. But squash is not an Olympic sport, and so it’s off the agenda. It’s not on our radar, not even once every four years.  Nick and his fellow players are desperate for that to change.

Squash is one of eight sports competing for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics – the others are baseball/softball, karate, in-line speed skating, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and wrestling. Each will argue a strong case and a decision will be made by the International Olympic Committee in September. Between now and then, 5 live Breakfast will have a go at each of the sports and hear from its major players why it should be featured in future Olympics.

Squash has many things in its favour. It has transformed itself into an exciting spectator sport by creating transparent courts – effectively a glass box that can be placed pretty much anywhere (Grand Central Station in New York recently hosted a tournament). It is a global sport, boasting of champions from all continents. It’s accessible and could readily encourage wider public participation. Plus we’re good at it here in the UK. Nick’s main rival is James Willstrop, also a former world number 1 and currently 2^nd in the UK, and Laura Massaro is no. 3 in the world.

I played squash for the first time with Nick as my tutor and it was exhilarating. I could see how easy it would be to catch the bug. But let’s be fair – I haven’t yet had a taste of wushu or wrestling, so I cannot say with complete impartiality what the IOC should do. Nick and the wider squash community face an anxious wait, desperately that this could be the game’s golden break - and could bring more Olympic golden moments for GB sports fans.