Crystal meth usage ‘rival crack’

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Title – Crystal meth usage ‘rival crack’
Source – www.bbc.co.uk
Date – 15th February 2008

Methamphetamine which is known by many different names including ‘Crystal Meth’ and its popular name from the US of ‘Ice’, is still not ‘common’ in the UK, but this is more through luck rather than good judgement.

Crystal Meth is predominantly produced in Asia and Central America and hence why two of the ‘developed’ countries most affected are the USA and Australia, the reason the UK and much of Europe has so far avoided the epidemic rise in use and addiction to Crystal Meth is geography and nothing more.

For this reason, of most concern is the rise in the number of ‘factories’ discovered in the UK in the last few years. This is a drug which is highly addictive and very destructive. In both the USA and Australia whole communities have been devastated by the pandemic nature of the spread in the use of the drug and its devastating effect.

The important message to send out is that Crystal Meth is not something to be experimented with; it is not a drug you can take at the weekend and live a ‘normal’ life through the week. It catches up with people very quickly and destroys them physically and mentally. Crystal Meth users can look twice their age after just a short period of use, 20 year olds looking like 40 year olds and it’s a drug that spirals people out of control before they even realise it.

The UK has been given an advantage by tectonic plates taking us far away from the USA and Asia over hundreds of millions of years. Most drug plagues have reached our shores, Crystal Meth has not yet taken hold and now is the time to inform people of its dangers and for everyone to be vigilant of its devastating effects and the signs and symptoms of those already using the drug and the drug litter they leave behind.
Effective training of employees helps to identify these signs and courses like our BIIAB National Certificate for Licensees –Drug Awareness (NCLDA), our BIIAB National Certificate for Door Supervisors and our In-House Security Induction Course are the perfect way to train staff in effective management of drug problems within you working environment and in establishing zero tolerance policies and putting those policies into practice.

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