few months ago, I started noticing that a lot of people were turning to prescription medicines to enhance their studies. Only the prescriptions weren’t theirs; they were buying these pills from the people they were actually prescribed for.
Australia has a drug problem it’s just not the one you’d think in 2013 non-medical use of prescription medicines were found to be at its highest level since 1998 with four-point-seven percent of australians miss using these drugs for how and why are australian severely turning to pharmaceuticals paul is one such as dralon who hands out his excess medication from
His double script to others i was diagnosed as having inattentive type ad d when i was 11 and i technique dexamphetamine and it started when i had an an excess of decks and somebody was asking about and i given them some and it sort of gone from there it’s something that’s happened from time to time over the years there’s probably been half a dozen people that
Have gotten texts from me no no there’s definitely aligned to me in taking money for it or being sort of a large sale scale supplier of it it’s more me helping someone out with the script you know people that is taking medication from me are ongoing often we sort of discuss ways that we can sort of mitigate the risk of that one of the things i’ll often do is if
It’s someone that i’m close to i will give them the medication that in my prescription bottle with my name on it so that is there were ever to be caught with that they could just say oh yeah it’s a friend of mine he got me to hold on to them for and when we were out the other day it’s a little scary in theory it could be anywhere from minor charge right up to
Distribution of the class a drug if i was to give them to someone and they were using them to to extract the raw and 10 mins from they could be used to create speed it’s also ingredients and other drugs if i was involved in our then i probably would be charged as you know as a drug distributor which would be a pretty a pretty full-on charge i think distribution
Of a class a is up to 20 years sam has just started using adhd medication without a prescription this year i’ve been using the excuse for that six months now i really wanted to see if it made a difference because i’ve been reading all these stories about people using enhancements for studying and it’s one of those check if was actually real or not so i decided to
Give to go nothing to lose the everything to gain because i was going to buy them on the internet just to give a good go buddy really trust the brand so i just started asking around and he’s bringing it up in conversation and i found someone who didn’t and it looks like oh i asked him if i could just have one that’s who and just see if it shows like yes drove no
Problem and then i took him and it did change my thinking so and then asked for more and then they will of get no problem so to advantage of it i guess so even like getting jc’s like on the side was good but i never thought you could buy adderall or ritalin without prescription so i was really shocked and surprised when i couldn’t i didn’t feel comfortable doing it
The fact that you buy something without prescription just kind of feels wrong especially over the internet i’ve never been a big drug user yes owner and further is i’ve done a lot of research sound that’s not just off a whim this was you know months and months of research so we find it but i don’t take the deck sees all the time they’re purely just for studying and
Initially i won’t feel anything for about half an hour and program the half an hour one hour mark i’ll start feeling i know just feel different you feel like you just want to get something done like something about just like you read up i reference like i want to read another one i want to read another one well if you’re doing like math equations like all want to
Do another five questions well i want to do another hour it’s just your kind of feel like just want to do more and more and more drug squad commander detective superintendent tony cook also commented on the matter the method will often depend on the type of drug being targeted which can include doctor shopping or seeking the same medication for multiple doctors and
Pharmacies falsifying symptoms stolen and fraudulent prescriptions or even theft from a pharmacy i asked mark douglas acting president of the new south wales pharmacy guild and john blacker branch committee member of the pharmacy guild of australia about how pharmacists are dealing with this alarming trend and they know the drugs that that people would be maybe
Looking for and when you see a prescription that looks funny so for so for instance of a m4 script might have three medicines on an annex asked for one to be dispensed the other two are just there to make up the numbers so they’ll ask for the for the one that can be abused to be dispensed the other ones to be deferred so for instance if it has been sold stolen
Or there has been strange activity in these abusable medicines that the department of health would send out circular tool doctors and all pharmacists so we’d be on a heightened level of looking for any prescriptions from a stolen scrip pad or some doctor surgery’s been broken into what there’s a high level of usage of particular medicines in an area then the new
Science department of health tell us and doctors what’s going on and the other people that liaise with the police but if the police come in they see your records and we have to keep records of all these abusable medicines we have to keep up-to-date signed records so the pharmacist is a sign for you to supply and we have to show that we followed the proper procedures
Real-time recording we’re pharmacists and gps and health other health professionals and the consent of areas like the department of health can see what’s going on can see patterns in real time that would be the real difference to us that would really help us understand doctor shopping you know destructive behavior of people would help us to intervene and to try to
Make better health comes for the for our consumers did there’d be a medicine is prescribed to treat a condition if you haven’t got that condition well then you can do yourself harm so i just think it’s the modern generation experimenting with prescription drugs and other use of drugs i’m not exactly sure what sort of blogs available the party scene but i think
These drugs are more freely available than just by going to a pharmacy with a forged prescription sometimes they have been mr. directly from some other maybe member of the family towards them or they’ve been purchased from friends i think it is a danger because i’ve seen in the last 30 years of practice and increase in the use of amphetamine for adhd and a dd and
There’s a report recently i think at the last few days about the upsurge of prescription reasons for those medications in western australia so yeah people are starting already sustained we be worried about the amount of these drugs are being prescribed legally and there might be some follow through into the legal market through people selling these medications as
Well i would be very skeptical of any grant coming by the internet that it was actually what what they said it was probably a fake and the person would be getting ripped off
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The World Of Licit Drug Trade By Hatch Macleay
