If you fail alcohol testing in Victoria repeatedly, eventually it’s likely you will receive a prison sentence. So, if you are a repeat offender for drug testing in Victoria you’d think you’ll also potentially face a spell in the big house, but you won’t. In a legal quirk, an article this week in the...
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How long does cannabis impairment last?
You enjoy a joint of cannabis now again. No judgement here, that’s your choice, but if you’re the type of person who’s reasonably responsible, you’ll want to make sure your pleasure doesn’t impact your safety or someone else’s safety. In other words, you’ll want to make sure that you’re not impaired before driving, going...
Do police face drug testing?
There’s a sport in Australia that it seems many of us love to play. There are a few versions but it can perhaps best be summed as the ‘knocking the people in charge’ game. In social media comments made under our posts, this often involves knocking the politicians and others that create the rules...
Saliva drug testing not such as pain
Have you ever had to undergo saliva drug testing, on the roadside or at work? If you haven’t, have you ever wondered what it’s like? Is it painful or is it as annoying to your nose and throat as having a COVID-19 test? If you’ve ever had the standard COVID-19 test (with over 15...
Drugs in the news again
Tasmania drug testing and Victorian drugs crackdown Maybe it’s because we work in the drug testing industry, but everywhere we turn these days drugs are in the news. This week’s batch (pardon the pun) comes from Tasmania, where there are calls for paramedics to undertake drug and alcohol testing, and Victoria, where police are...
The real cost of drugs in workplaces and on roads
NT drug testing fail just one of string of charges What’s the real cost of drugs in our workplaces and on our roads and what measures should we use? Is it the number of failed drug testing results? Is it the cost in dollars to business, in the case drugs in workplaces, and society...
Operation Tango Anaconda targets illicit drugs in Queensland
Queensland Police are targeting illicit drugs as part of Operation Tango Anaconda, to be run for the next four months. According to an article on Brisbane’s 4BC website, as part of the operation, 726 vehicles were pulled over on the Bruce Highway near the Glass House Mountains on Tuesday night. Drug testing found that...
It’s not just COVID showing up in our wastewater!
An article on Perth’s 6PR has highlighted that it’s not just COVID-19 showing up in our wastewater. According to the Western Australian radio station’s report, Australians spent an estimated $8.9 billion on illegal drugs in 2020. The information was gleaned from the latest round of drug testing of our wastewater, for the Australian Criminal...
Double trouble on our roads
What’s worse than driving a car or going to work over the legal limit for alcohol? What’s worse than getting behind the wheel or turning up on the job high on drugs? The answer is pretty simple really – it’s driving while the influence of both alcohol and drugs. In NSW, if you now...
Drug testing required in far north Queensland
If it looks like cocaine and smells like cocaine, then it probably is cocaine, but police in far north Queensland are conducting drug testing just to make sure. This follows the discovery of ten packages of a suspicious white powder on an island in Queensland’s far north. According to an article on PerthNow, police...