With Harold Pollack’s Curbside Consult: Who’s Winning the War on Drugs?Marijuana is not good for you. You have to get that one exactly right. I didn’t say, “Marijuana’s not that bad.“ I said, “Marijuana’s not good for you.” And more people using marijuana is not good for society.

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It turns out that Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, lots of these countries are coming to us now for help with their internal drug demand problems. So what have always been considered drug producing countries, now they are having significant internal addiction problems.

At MAC **testing for it** Updates 18/11 19/11

money to be made supplying BNX – bought in 0.5mg amounts for injection = > $100 for 16mg.
inmates with regular visitors pulled out for strip search
bleach is supplied (?available) to clean fits

18/11 Brumby commits to probe on jail drugs

19/11 Royal Abbott

In The Age by Beth Wilson

ABC RN 360 Bedtime storiesA groundbreaking program at Risdon Prison in Hobart is using storytelling to help prisoners reconnect with their children.

ABC RN Problem Solving Courts: Part 2

Ross Fitzgerald in The Australian.
The truth is that an alcoholic’s or an addict’s best chance of recovery lies in practising total abstinence.

Tracy Soh (Turning Point) on some issues re poly-drug use.

GCMS on positive UDS screens  – may be possible to strike arrangement with lab.

tobacco

• total consumption includes that used in bongs
• induces the drug-metabolising enzyme CYP1A2 ? opiates
• nicotine ? effect on cravings & w/d symptoms?

Smoking and smoking cessation: clinically significant interactions with commonly used medicines October Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

Smoking induces the drug-metabolising enzyme CYP1A2 and thus in patients who smoke, or who are cutting down or stopping smoking (with or without the aid of drug treatment), the doses of any concomitant medication metabolised by CYP1A2 may need to be adjusted accordingly. The most important medicines to consider in those who smoke, or who are trying to quit, include theophylline, olanzapine, clozapine, caffeine, and warfarin.

The buses, each costing $100,000, would enable a tenfold increase in the number of paroled criminals undergoing urine tests, Corrective Services Minister John Robertson said. SMH

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