Drunken violence, which included gang beatings, a naked man attempting to strangle his partner and brawls.

17:19 a naked man attempting to strangle his partner and brawls. , Drunken violence , which included gang beatings 0 Comments

Mennilli said police were "sick of this booze-till-you-drop culture".
"What is really distressing is the number of underage people congregating in public, in parks and the like, with the sole purpose of drinking themselves into a stupor," he said.In the northeastern state of Queensland, more than 900 people were arrested or issued with warnings by police as thousands of officers took to the streets around the country to enforce the crackdown during the Christmas party season.
In Western Australia about 180 people were arrested, while 123 were arrested in South Australia, 200 detained for drunkenness in the southern state of Victoria and 45 picked up in the national capital Canberra.According to government figures, drink-related injuries kill four Australians under the age of 25 and 70 are hospitalised due to alcohol-linked assaults each week.But despite Australia's booze-addled reputation, other nations including Ireland, Britain and Germany drink more litres per capita, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Mexican government legalized possession of marijuana, cocaine and heroin.

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August of this year the Mexican government legalized possession of marijuana, cocaine and heroin. The United States has long held that a great percentage of illegal drugs brought into this country are manufactured and smuggled into the United States across our borders. In the United States, possession of any of these drugs is illegal and the penalty can be imprisonment. The Mexican government says that they are losing their battle with the drug cartels in part because of the illegal firearms crossing the border from the United States into Mexico.

The Mexican Government defends their legalization of drugs. "This is not legalization; this is regulating the issue and giving citizens greater legal certainty," said Bernardo Espino del Castillo of the attorney generals office.

Legal certainty is accurate. The citizens and visitors of Mexico are now certain that they will not be arrested for possession of these drugs. They have immunity.
In addition this new law gives the Mexican citizens and visitors from the United States the opportunity to legally try out these drugs and add to the Drug Cartels bank of addicted users. Its now a reality that the desperate migration of Mexicans into the United States might, in part, be an attempt to flee their county that is clearly in the control of the Mexican Drug Cartels.Should we as Americans turn away these refugees (who are infiltrated with drug smugglers) ? Or should we, if we have a choice, wage war in Mexico rather than Afghanistan. To see a real story of the war on drugs in Mexico click here: courtesy of Boston.com

CHEMICAL produced in Wales is being used by law enforcement agencies throughout the world to identify smuggled stashes of cocaine.

14:32 CHEMICAL produced in Wales is being used by law enforcement agencies throughout the world to identify smuggled stashes of cocaine. 0 Comments

CHEMICAL produced in Wales is being used by law enforcement agencies throughout the world to identify smuggled stashes of cocaine.Three friends who run Celtic Chemicals, which was founded by their fathers in 1979, sell their £1,000-a-kilo cobalt-based material for use in detection kits which turn substances containing cocaine bright blue.Customers now include NIK Public Safety, one of the world’s biggest suppliers of drug detection technology.The kits are used by British police forces and US border patrols.Bridgend-based Celtic Chemicals also supply a nitrate-based solution which has become increasingly sought-after as a result of its use in the manufacture of SatNav devices and mobile phones.The company also works with Alzheim, a Powys-based outfit which uses daffodil extracts to delay the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.Celtic Chemicals has doubled its turnover in the past five years as demand for its specialist products rises.It has just announced a £20,000 investment in equipment which will allow staff to analyse the purity of chemicals with new accuracy.The company was founded by Ian Woolcock, Ray Houlton and Murray Donald, and is now run by their sons Rhys, Simon and Ben.Mr Woolcock said that being part of a multi-family company was “an interesting situation” but added: “I suppose the most unusual thing is we all still get on.”
Many hi-tech companies are developed to be sold to larger corporations, but this is not an immediate goal for the team.Mr Woolcock said: “We are in charge of our own destiny to a degree. I think the overriding feeling is it’s a positive place to be.”But he added: “It depends how big the cheque is.”
The new equipment, he said, would allow the company to manufacture greater volumes in a shorter time.He added: “This will also safeguard nine permanent jobs.” Celtic Chemicals was launched to manufacture and process organic metallic salts, widely used in a range of industries such as electronics, food, pharmaceuticals and metal finishing.
The company moved to Kenfig Industrial Estate at Bridgend three years ago when it was restructured with help from the former Welsh Development Agency. The recent £20,000 funding comes from the Assembly Government.Mr Woolcock was confident the company could continue to compete with rivals in China and the Far East.A key advantage, he said, was the speed at which it is able to meet orders. It is often able to develop products within one to two weeks.Shipping costs also allow Celtic Chemicals to compete with low-cost economies, he argued, saying: “If you’re in the UK, you can’t buy 100 kilos of a product from China. The freight costs would outweigh any cost advantage.”The company continues to look for new potential projects and collaborations on its doorstep.“We try and keep things within Wales if we can,” he said. “We’ve always got lots of irons in lots of fires.”Ieuan Wyn Jones, Minister for the Economy and Transport, said Celtic Chemicals was an example of the many small but highly innovative companies in Wales that had a global reach.“It’s great news to hear that products developed by a Welsh SME [small to medium company] are having such an impact on the fight against drug smuggling around the world.“It’s also good to hear that Celtic Chemicals has doubled its turnover and with support from the Assembly Government invested in state-of-the-art equipment that will help boost business prospects further.”The company is able to supply kosher and halal-friendly trace elements for the nutrition sector, as well allergen-free products.Its chemicals are also used in metal-finishing processes and in capacitor production.
The company serves the pharmaceutical and personal care markets by supplying pure sources of minerals.Laboratory supplies such as ammonium and zinc are provided by the kilo, and the team have developed a niche with ceramic colours.Inorganic copper, cobalt and nickel are all provided for the colouring of glazes.

Rabbi who was arrested after a five-day binge of cocaine and prostitutes

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rabbi who was arrested after a five-day binge of cocaine and prostitutes said that he took drugs to alleviate the loneliness he felt after his wife died.
Baruch Chalomish, 55, told a court that he began snorting the drug because he felt lonely after his wife died, insisting: “I wanted to stop feeling depressed, to feel normal.” The Israeli-born father of three, who was once an eminent Jewish academic, has in recent years built a £7 million fortune from astute share dealing and property development. The prosecution at Manchester Crown Court claim that the rabbi was the financier in a commercial cocaine-supply business while his alleged accomplice, Nasir Abbas, 54, a convicted drug dealer, provided the drugs and the customers. They rented a luxury service flat in northern Manchester over the new year holidays where the rabbi admits that he indulged to excess. Police found 101g of cocaine at the flat and his home along with cutting agents and “snap bags” but he insists that he is not a drug dealer. He stepped into the witness box to say that he felt deeply ashamed of his behaviour. He told his defence counsel, Jonathan Goldberg, QC, that he began taking cocaine three years ago when he was introduced to it by an Israeli friend with whom he celebrated the Sabbath. He was introduced in turn to Mr Abbas. Both men are accused of possessing cocaine, which Chalomish admits, and dealing the drug, which he denies. They would go to parties in flats around Manchester and snort cocaine alongside “distinguished” professionals such as doctors, he said. Chalomish frequently broke down and cried when the death of his wife, Freda, who died aged 40 in 1996, was mentioned. When asked why he took the drug, he said: “I probably wanted to forget her death.” Cocaine allowed him to feel so high he no longer had any worries, and not feel lonely any more. “This was very important to me,” he said. The rabbi, who agreed he spent up to £1,000 a week on cocaine, bowed his head and cried as he admitted he paid prostitutes to have sex with him. He said he bought the cocaine from Mr Abbas, who also organised the parties.He insisted that he bought only the purest cocaine from Mr Abbas, who provided “the best in town”. Chalomish said: “If you go to the streets you buy cocaine, they can mix it with dangerous things. And I didn’t want to have this so when I have pure cocaine I know nothing is mixed with it. I know I’m not taking something which can damage my health more than cocaine itself.” The rabbi told the court that by the time he was arrested in an hotel apartment on Shudehill, Manchester, on January 5, he had been on a cocaine and prostitute binge that had lasted up to five days.
He admitted he was “exhausted” as he had been doing “a lot of sniffing”.

The rabbi told the court he was introduced to one prostitute called Emma. He had paid between £400 and £500 to spend two days with her.

Asked why police found so much cocaine in his house in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Chalomish said: “First of all it is difficult to get pure stuff. Once you get it, you get quite a lot, so I know I have supplies for the next three or six months.” Asked by his counsel how he felt now the court case had been reported in the media, Chalomish replied: “Deeply ashamed. It is probably the biggest punishment I have ever had in my life.” Mr Abbas failed to turn up for the trial, which has gone ahead in his absence. The jury has been told that he telephoned his solicitor on the eve of the trial to claim that the rabbi had made a threatening call and had sent heavies to his house to warn him off.Chalomish denies making any such threats. The trial continues.

Cocaine addiction among British women has skyrocketed by almost two-thirds in the past four years.

13:34 Cocaine addiction among British women has skyrocketed by almost two-thirds in the past four years. 0 Comments

Figures released today show the number of women under 35 treated for addiction has gone from 790 to 1,261 since 2005.
For men under 35, the increase is equally stark, up to 5,263 from 3,024 in 2005.
Rosa O'Connor, director of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, said there was some good news, with figures showing fewer women were seeking treatment for crack and heroin addiction.
'It is good news that women are turning away from heroin and crack, the most problematic drugs, but we are concerned by the increase in cocaine dependence,' she said.She warned of the dangers for women using cocaine and alcohol together.
The drugs could damage their fertility, cause paranoia and heart problems, she said.
The price of a line of cocaine has plummeted in recent years - along with purity.

accused the Thai police of committing serious ethical violation by setting a pseudo sting operation to nab injection drug users (IDU)

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Bangkok-based drug-users support group and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/Aids out of Canada on Thursday accused the Thai police of committing serious ethical violation by setting a pseudo sting operation to nab injection drug users (IDU) while seeking treatment.Nearly half of the 252 IDU surveyed said police has planted drugs on them and claimed that they had to pay bribe to the police to avoid arrest.
"This form of drug planting was found to be associated with numerous health-related harms including syringe sharing and drug-related overdose," said Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG) and the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (Vancouver, Canada), in a statement released Thursday.

Prince Charles’s harpist accused of carrying out a string of burglaries was addicted to heroin

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royal musician accused of carrying out a string of burglaries was addicted to heroin during her time as Prince Charles’s harpist, she told a court.
Jemima Phillips, who was appointed Charles’s harpist in 2004, told a court in Gloucester Wednesday she started using crack cocaine, and then heroin five years ago.
Phillips, 28, who performed at Charles’s wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 and other royal events attended by the Queen, is accused of stealing cash and electrical goods in four raids on private homes carried out along with her boyfriend. In her three years as the Prince’s harpist she played at royal residences, including Balmoral Castle, Clarence House and Highgrove, as well as the House of Commons.Phillips told the court she had endured a string of “disastrous” relationships and started using crack cocaine after having her second abortion.
The court heard that shortly afterwards she started a relationship with a man who introduced her to heroin and violently beat her. Phillips said although she fled from him and returned to her parents’ home in Gloucestershire, her heroin habit “increased”. She met co-defendant William Davies on a street corner in Gloucester in January this year, when he gave her a bag of heroin. Prosecutor Martin Steen said the pair raided four homes between May 22 and May 28 and stole a handbag, TV, guitar, mobile phones, cameras, wallets, bank cards and laptops - which she denies.

Body builds up a tolerance for heroin

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Heroin is typically injected or snorted by users though it can be smoked. In spite of the negative consequences in his life, the one who is a heroin addict continues to use the drug. He is not able to choose. The need for heroin becomes a driving force in his life.As with any other drugs, the body builds up a tolerance for heroin. The addict will have to use larger amounts in order to achieve the high. In time, the addict will have to take heroin several times per day trying to avoid the withdrawal symptoms. The repeated use leads to addiction, whether you are using needles or not.The most common experiences a user can have when he becomes dependent on the heroin are cravings in between uses, spending time thinking about the last time they got high and what the next high will be like, focusing on where and when they can get the next dose, sudden financial difficulties and erratic behavior, track marks around injection points.Using heroin it affects the way nerves in the spinal cord communicate pain sensations to the brain. Shortly after the drug is snorted or injected, it creates an intense feeling of pleasure. Heroin works on the pleasure centers in the brain by affecting the level of dopamine that it produces. People who want to quit using heroin do better when they are well motivated to do so.
The motivation may come from the person who is addicted to heroin themselves or because of the involvement of concerned friends or family members. When someone detoxes from heroin, they are going to experience a series of withdrawal symptoms, like diarrhea, insomnia, muscle aches, vomiting, etc.The withdrawal symptoms will start within a few hours after the person stops using heroin, with the peak occurring within 24-72 hours. Symptoms of withdrawal may be present for a week after the last time the addict used the drug. Ideally, this step in heroin treatment is performed under the supervision of a doctor.