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A less severe approach would be making the drugs prescription-only, Dr Haikerwal said.
Of course, that's a great idea too, not that it would benefit doctors in anyway.
A less severe approach would be making the drugs prescription-only, Dr Haikerwal said.
KostoN said:Methcathinone
hoptis said:Of course, that's a great idea too, not that it would benefit doctors in anyway.
NSW to crack down on illegal drug labs
June 6, 2007 - 6:40PM
People who buy cold and flu tablets in NSW will soon have their names added to an Australia-wide computer database as part of a crackdown on illegal drug labs.
Tablets containing pseudoephedrine are being bought in large quantities by so-called pseudo runners who sell them on to drug barons, NSW Premier Morris Iemma says.
The cold and flu tablets were then being cooked up into killer drugs such as speed and ice in secret labs, Mr Iemma told reporters in Sydney.
Under Project STOP, which is a joint initiative with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, chemists will ask people for photo identification before they sell medications containing pseudoephedrine, and then enter buyers' details into the database.
Although the scheme isn't mandatory for chemists or purchasers, the government believes it will be effective.
"This online database will log sales and identify so-called pseudo runners who buy cold and flu tablets from different pharmacies," Mr Iemma said.
"This database will target criminals."
The premier said people with legitimate reasons for buying the medicines had "nothing to fear".
Police Minister David Campbell said the database already operated in Queensland and had produced impressive results.
In the first 14 months of operation, he said, it had helped identify 211 suspected pseudo runners and seven illegal drug labs.
"This should put a major dent in the dangerous operations of backyard drug cooks who are risking lives in our suburbs," Mr Campbell said.
Asked what would stop runners from simply refusing to hand over their drivers license, Mr Campbell said: "It may be pharmacists choose not to sell the product in that circumstance".
"That's the beauty of the system."
Tough laws controlling the sale of cold and flu tablets containing pseudoephedrine were introduced in 2006.
The medicines can only be brought from pharmacists who must ask for photo identification.
The government said taking the next step, and asking pharmacists to enter those names into a national database, did not breach any privacy laws.
Project STOP will begin next month.
Dude are you serious!! How the hell can you honestly say that the liberals of all political parties have softer policies on drugs than Labor!? Your statement is utterly rediculous!Special-T.B.K said:FUCK ME!
This Robert Pyne has a HUGE vendetta on drugs! He's going down, if this prick is in your electorate do not vote him back in! I love the Liberal's, except this prick.
A Labour government is trying to get in on Browny points with the *non illicit using public*, with strict drug laws and tougher penalties! the solution- Vote the Liberals!!!
SpecTBK
Scheme praised over pseudo runners halt
June 23, 2007 - 12:09AM
An online database that prevents "pseudo runners" from buying up dozens of packets of cold and flu medicine for manufacture into illegal drugs has won a national award.
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia's Project STOP, which was rolled out across Queensland's chemists from late 2005, received the Excellence in Law Enforcement award at the National Drug & Alcohol Awards in Sydney.
It tracks the sale of pseudoephedrine-based medicines to prevent multiple purchases by one person, and it is credited with a drop in the number of illegal drug laboratories and 30 arrests.
Guild president Kos Sclavos said Project STOP would be rolled out to chemists across the country.
"The diversion of pseudoephedrine for illegal manufacture into methamphetamines is a global problem," Mr Sclavos said.
"The national roll-out of Project STOP will help community pharmacy and law enforcement fight the misuse of cold and flu medications across Australia, and maintain access to these effective medicines for legitimate consumers."
Large quantities of over-the-counter pseudoephedrine-based medicines have been used to make illegal drugs such as speed and ice.
pill_jockey said:I totally agree. The new PE (Phenylephrine) formula does sweet fuck all and when you tell them this and ask for pseudoephedrine they treat you like a criminal because you know what medication works for you.
Hyde backs drug sale database
MICHAEL OWEN, POLITICAL REPORTER
August 03, 2007 02:15am
POLICE Commissioner Mal Hyde is supporting a plan for an online database to record the details of people buying products containing pseudoephedrine.
The national database plan is based on a Queensland system which tracks sales of over-the-counter flu medications which contain pseudoephedrine, primarily to identify unusual bulk purchases.
Under a national proposal, supported by SA Police, a database set up by the Queensland Pharmacy Guild would be expanded so police could identify frequent or suspicious buyers.
The sale of pseudoephedrine products has been linked in SA with a dramatic increase in break-ins and ram-raids believed to be associated with the "ice" epidemic.
Pseudoephedrine - found in cold and flu treatments - can be used to produce illegal drugs such as ice.
Proposed new laws for an SA database were dropped this year in favour of the national approach out of Queensland.
A spokeswoman for Mr Hyde said SA Police would support the proposal.
"SAPOL will support the proposal for police access to an online data base of pseudoephedrine purchasers, to be maintained by pharmacies and funded federally," she said.
Family First MLC Dennis Hood, who had proposed state legislation for an SA database, said the federal initiative would be reviewed in 12 months.