Title – Ecstasy ‘not worse than riding’
Source – www.bbc.co.uk
Date – 7th February 2009
The decision regarding the reclassification of Ecstasy is due soon and it looks like the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is set to recommend that a downgrading from class A to class B occurs.
Having said that the current government ignored their advice on the reclassification of cannabis and few would be greatly surprised to see them ignore this latest advice. Any downgrading is seen as a sign of weakness and political opinion, especially in relation to drug policy, will make it difficult to be seen to be ‘weak on drugs’.
In this context the comment that ‘Ecstasy is no more dangerous than riding a horse’ seems somewhat frivolous. I have not read the piece of academic work from which it comes and maybe it has been taken out of context, but the fact is it has been reported.
But there is no point in trying to justify the comment, clearly the two activities are worlds apart and ‘the comment’ seems to have been made only in the context of the annual deaths from each activity. Naturally this is only the tip of the iceberg as far as illegal drugs sales go; horse riding hardly has the terrible detrimental affect on communities that drugs and drug dealing does.
There also seems to be little reference to the unknown and unproven long term effects of Ecstasy use which researches have in the past called a ‘time-bomb’ waiting to happen.
So let’s put this to one side and consider the real issues for us and that is the impact that illegal drugs can have on our businesses, our employees and our customers.
In any business there can only be one approach to illegal drugs and that is the adoption of a ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ and enforcement of that policy through Drug Awareness training. We can provide you with this training and using training aids such as our
Drugs Box our training provides realistic and client focussed training which your employees can relate to.Source – www.bbc.co.uk
Date – 7th February 2009
The decision regarding the reclassification of Ecstasy is due soon and it looks like the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is set to recommend that a downgrading from class A to class B occurs.
Having said that the current government ignored their advice on the reclassification of cannabis and few would be greatly surprised to see them ignore this latest advice. Any downgrading is seen as a sign of weakness and political opinion, especially in relation to drug policy, will make it difficult to be seen to be ‘weak on drugs’.
In this context the comment that ‘Ecstasy is no more dangerous than riding a horse’ seems somewhat frivolous. I have not read the piece of academic work from which it comes and maybe it has been taken out of context, but the fact is it has been reported.
But there is no point in trying to justify the comment, clearly the two activities are worlds apart and ‘the comment’ seems to have been made only in the context of the annual deaths from each activity. Naturally this is only the tip of the iceberg as far as illegal drugs sales go; horse riding hardly has the terrible detrimental affect on communities that drugs and drug dealing does.
There also seems to be little reference to the unknown and unproven long term effects of Ecstasy use which researches have in the past called a ‘time-bomb’ waiting to happen.
So let’s put this to one side and consider the real issues for us and that is the impact that illegal drugs can have on our businesses, our employees and our customers.
In any business there can only be one approach to illegal drugs and that is the adoption of a ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ and enforcement of that policy through Drug Awareness training. We can provide you with this training and using training aids such as our
At Beyond The Blue we run a number of courses for those working in the Licensed Retail Sector including The National Certificate for Licensees Drug Awareness (NCLDA). For other sectors our bespoke Drug Awareness (DA) courses, which examine illegal drugs, their effects and the drug litter synonymous with their use, are specifically designed to reflect the nature of our clients working environment. Our Conflict Management and Resolution (CMR) course complements these courses to help employees deal with Workplace Violence and drug related behaviour.
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