The Health Secretariat, along with the Federal Commission for the Prevention of Health Risks, is promoting the idea that manufacturers of anti-flu drugs should substitute phenylephrine for pseudoephedrine
The Health Secretariat, along with the Federal Commission for the Prevention of Health Risks, is promoting the idea that manufacturers of anti-flu drugs should substitute phenylephrine for pseudoephedrine .
The government is recommending that phenylephrine - which has similar characteristics to pesuedoephedrine, but of shorter duration - should be utilized in over-the-counter anti-flu medication.
The Health Secretariat (SSA) signaled it is toughening the rules regulating the importation of the chemical pseudoephedrine, used as a precursor ingredient to make the illegal narcotic methamphetamine.
The government has restricted the importation of pseudoephedrine to just four ports of entry: Manzanillo, Ciudad Juárez, Veracruz and the Mexico City airport.
Vehicles transporting loads of pseudoephedrine from customs to medical laboratories should be tracked with special security measures, the government says. It also said facilities receiving shipments of the chemical should also upgrade their security.
AIM-listed Cozart to help Scottish police with drug tests
Scotland’s drug users are facing a new threat to their freedom.
The Scottish Executive has awarded a contract to Cozart, an Oxfordshire-based forensic testing group, to supply portable drug-testing services for those arrested in Scotland.
Under a new policy approved last year by the Executive, all Scots arrested for so-called “trigger offences”, such as robbery and burglary, could be subject to saliva-based tests to determine whether their crime is linked to drug abuse.
Initially, the pilot project will cover three police stations in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, but the scheme could be rolled out more widely if deemed a success by the police, who are trying to destroy the link between drugs and acquisitive crime. Suspects who test positive for heroin or cocaine will be channeled into drug treatment programmes.
Cozart, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market, already supplies its RapiScan testing equipment to 173 police stations in England and Wales under a similar scheme introduced last year.
RapiScan is a portable device that can be used by police to check for the presence of a number of substances in bodily fluids. It tests almost 20,000 people arrested in England and Wales each month.
The two-year contract in Scotland will come into effect in June, with options to extend it for a further two years. Financial details of the contract are not known.
After the launch of the pilot project last year, Hugh Henry, the Scottish Deputy Justice Minister, said: “Around a third of all recorded crime in Scotland is related to drugs and more than three quarters of those sentenced by the courts to a custodial sentence show signs of drug misuse and drug-related offending.
“We need effective interventions that nip drug-related offending in the bud and channel offenders into the treatments we are supporting. These pilots will give adults with drug problems in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen an incentive to engage with services and get the help they need.”
Cozart develops and manufactures drug-testing equipment, including kits for on-site testing of saliva and crime scene laboratory testing.
The company, which also has subsidiaries in Italy, Spain and Sweden, sells kits to police and law enforcement agencies, as well as to employers who operate drug-testing policies.
Up to 80% of new Scottish prisoners who test positive for drug abuse
£66.7m Amount Scotland invested in drug treatment in 2005-06
Source: http://www.timesonline.april/ 2007
The Scottish Executive has awarded a contract to Cozart, an Oxfordshire-based forensic testing group, to supply portable drug-testing services for those arrested in Scotland.
Under a new policy approved last year by the Executive, all Scots arrested for so-called “trigger offences”, such as robbery and burglary, could be subject to saliva-based tests to determine whether their crime is linked to drug abuse.
Initially, the pilot project will cover three police stations in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, but the scheme could be rolled out more widely if deemed a success by the police, who are trying to destroy the link between drugs and acquisitive crime. Suspects who test positive for heroin or cocaine will be channeled into drug treatment programmes.
Cozart, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market, already supplies its RapiScan testing equipment to 173 police stations in England and Wales under a similar scheme introduced last year.
RapiScan is a portable device that can be used by police to check for the presence of a number of substances in bodily fluids. It tests almost 20,000 people arrested in England and Wales each month.
The two-year contract in Scotland will come into effect in June, with options to extend it for a further two years. Financial details of the contract are not known.
After the launch of the pilot project last year, Hugh Henry, the Scottish Deputy Justice Minister, said: “Around a third of all recorded crime in Scotland is related to drugs and more than three quarters of those sentenced by the courts to a custodial sentence show signs of drug misuse and drug-related offending.
“We need effective interventions that nip drug-related offending in the bud and channel offenders into the treatments we are supporting. These pilots will give adults with drug problems in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen an incentive to engage with services and get the help they need.”
Cozart develops and manufactures drug-testing equipment, including kits for on-site testing of saliva and crime scene laboratory testing.
The company, which also has subsidiaries in Italy, Spain and Sweden, sells kits to police and law enforcement agencies, as well as to employers who operate drug-testing policies.
Up to 80% of new Scottish prisoners who test positive for drug abuse
£66.7m Amount Scotland invested in drug treatment in 2005-06
Source: http://www.timesonline.april/ 2007
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