What’s New on the Streets of Australia?

Illicit drug manufacturers are innovative, productive and working diligently to stay one step ahead of the government’s efforts to identify designer drugs. By the time a drug is added to the Schedule 8 – Controlled Drug or Schedule 9 – Prohibited Substance lists, a new drug like MDPV or “Smiles” appears. It is difficult for employers to stay current on the newest substances to hit the streets. That is precisely why it is important to use a high quality workplace drug testing company that has access to the latest research and produces state-of-the-art drug testing kits.

In January 2012, it was reported that some drug users in Adelaide were experiencing severe psychotic episodes due to a new street drug commonly referred to as Scat Cat, Meow-Meow and 666. Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) is extremely potent and similar to MDMA. The drug produces a number of serious side effects that include rapid heartbeat, dizziness, nausea, paranoia, delusions and violent behaviour, among many others. Though MDPV has been on the federal controlled drug list since 2010, after numerous overdoses and several deaths, the drug was added to Schedule 9 effective May 1, 2012, thus banning it.

In some ways, MDPV is old news because it has been identified and a controlled drug for six months. However, there are other new street drugs that have recently made appearances. One of them has a street name that belies the danger it presents to users – “Smiles”.

No Smiling when Using Smiles

Smiles is a derivative member of a set of drugs the chemists refer to as 2C-I. Its chemical name is 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine and is fortunately not yet commonly used by substance abusers. An obscure synthetic drug, it has been used mostly by clubbers who are looking for a cheap high. However, what the users are experiencing are severe hallucinations, bizarre behaviour, seizures and fatally high blood pressure. Smiles bind to serotonin receptors at a far higher rate than other drugs and alter the balance of serotonin and dopamine. The drug causes muscles to contract and get “locked” leading to rigidity, rising temperature and death.

Smiles recently came to the forefront of the Australian discussions on drugs when a young man in Perth continually slammed his body into trees, poles and other fixed items while high on 25B-NBOMe. A tablet form of 2C-I, the new version has been linked to numerous overdoses in Perth.1

A worker who decides to use Smiles will often begin showing signs of extreme distress within an hour of use. If this happens, emergency personnel should be called immediately for aggressive treatment. It is impossible for any drug testing company to rapidly develop test kits that will detect the newest synthetic street drugs made with unpredictable and unknown ingredients, but there is a good chance a drug user will test positive for some other type of substance. Numerous statistics show that most substance abusers are poly users, meaning they are using multiple drugs or drugs and alcohol. For example, the Australian Institute of Criminology released a report involving interviews of almost four thousand detainees. Of the people interviewed by the Drug Use Monitoring program, 44 percent were poly drug users.2 When it does not appear an emergency exists as an employee begins to behave irrationally for some reason, a workplace drug test should immediately be performed for cause. This establishes a workplace record of illicit substance use when the worker tests positive for an illicit substance.

WHO are These People?

One person reading a news report concerning 2C-I asked WHO are these people mixing synthetic drugs and why is it that humans will snort, inject, drink, inhale and consumer anything? It is an excellent question. Though it is not the duty of employers to psychoanalyse workers, they do need to understand that easy drug availability makes random drug and alcohol testing an imperative. Synthetic drugs may change formulas, but poly users seem to have no compunction about mixing legal and illegal drugs or mixing multiple illicit drugs and alcohol.

No one can predict the next new street drug, but there will be one. It is critical that employers diligently adhere to a random drug and alcohol testing program and not be discouraged by the appearance of synthetic street drugs. The habits of drug users are such that current drug screening tests will identify workers using the newest drugs, simply because drug users cannot seem to stop at using a single drug and will rely on the popular drugs also to ensure they experience a ‘high’. In the meantime, laboratories are very close to developing drug tests that detect similar chemical compositions as opposed to identical. That is precisely why employers need to use an experienced drug testing company for supplies and testing services.

CMM Technology offers state-of-the-art drug test equipment that include both urine and saliva products. Using the Alcohol Test kits found at cmm.com.au/index.php ensure that employers are testing based on the latest medical research. 

This article has been taken from http://www.amazines.com/article_detail.cfm/5239867?articleid=5239867

Understanding Psychological Pain

Those of us, and the author includes herself in this, who have been repeatedly hurt by addicts often find it difficult to forgive them. However, it will help you to understand something about the psychological pain that they are going through. Note: Even though this about understands their pain, there is nothing you can do to help them except to protect yourself and your personal boundaries from them. In no way is this article a solution to helping addicts. That is a problem which can only be fixed by them, and only they can start, continue, and finish helping themselves.

When you suffer from low emotional intelligence, you are not just incompetent in many parts of your life and relationships. You still have full mental capacity and ability to think. You are still able to dream and think about all of the goals which you someday hope to achieve. You are aware that you can mentally and physically accomplish all of your goals.

There is a glass wall between what you can do and what you are technically capable of doing. You are not fully grown up on the inside, so you cannot handle the burden of responsibility of the lifestyle of someone who is your age. If you are emotionally twelve years old on the inside, you will not be able to emotionally handle the responsibilities of an eighteen year old, and so on. As you grow older, and the burdens of your age increase against your internal age, you’re suffering and misery increases. You know that something is wrong, and that something is holding you back, but you simply cannot figure out what to do about the problem.

This is why businesses implement Workplace Drug Testing , Urine Drug Test and oral fluid drug tests are tools at your disposal that assist you to ascertain if there are any drugs in their system. As a leader in your business, it is your responsibility to make sure that your employees are kept safe, even from each other. For more information about Drug test Kits in Western Australia, call CMM Technology today.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3037

Drug Testing is a Core Requirement

For some inexperienced business owners, employee drug testing may seem a little unnecessary. If you have the expenses to cover it, then yeah, sure, it might be a good idea, but it is really no big deal.
Drug testing is such a big deal that we at CMM Technology cannot stress it enough. One of the core requirements of business operation is the need to have someone and something to protect your company assets. We do this by locking the doors, installing security systems, and vetting new employees and only promoting them to further access to our assets when they prove their trustworthiness. However, there is another aspect of this.

What happens when you are attacked from the inside? What happens when one of your employees puts your company assets and your employees in jeopardy? You need physical evidence that they are a danger to others on the jobsite. One of the most-touted arguments against employee drug testing has been that it is a violation of your privacy. Some people may even say that your character is not being judged, but your urine.
However, the law is a defined and finite power. The law regulates appropriate conduct to be demonstrated in civilised society. These laws protect the citizens of our country. Without them, personal interpretations, which can go to any extreme imaginable, would be open to the public. Innocent people can get hurt. Companies can be sued for things which they did not have a part of.

Breathalyser tests, drug tests, and any other type of employee drug testing helps to record data about whether or not an employee is engaging in abusive behavior while on the jobsite. This recorded data is physical evidence which can be presented in court should the company find itself sued or in any way liable for the irresponsible and dangerous actions of an employee who is under the influence. For this reason, CMM Technology not only distributes equipment for drug test in Western Australia, but we also offer recalibration service for any devices which you are already using. Our goal is to increase the safety of company assets. Call CMM Technology today to order your drug testing products.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=3025

Drifting in a Sea of Fog

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If you have ever driven in fog, then you know how much fear that it can induce in someone. The fear is not so much in getting lost or a fear of the hazy gray smokiness of the air around you. It is a fear of blindly being led off of the road which you are on…a road which ensures your safety and wellbeing. Without this path ahead of you, you could drive into oncoming traffic, fall into a ditch or over a cliff, and you can get your vehicle stuck in areas which you would need a tow truck to pull you out of. This slipping off the road business is a dangerous thing to encounter.

Drifting in a sea of fog is a phrase that is also used to describe being without motivation, goals or direction. When people use it in this manner, they intend to convey a feeling of almost not being human anymore, since most of their humanity is based upon clear cut feelings and memories and visual impressions of people and objects and life experiences.

When you indulge in drug abuse or alcohol abuse, your mind is drifting in a sea of fog. This is no directionless phase, since most people on this path slip toward a very definite end of broken relationships, lowered standards of living, and repeated and chronic self abuse. In order to understand why businesses implement employee drug testing, you may wish to consider that a company is like a living organism which must grow and thrive in order to stay healthy. When the organism is dysfunctional, money leaves rather than coming in.

Money is very good about going where it is safe.

Adulterant tests and all types of breathalyser devices and drug testing reveal the inner workings of employee behavior toward themselves. If they engage in rampant self abuse, it shows. To have workers who are fit for duty is to have a healthy organism which produces products and services for your community. Order your drug test equipment from CMM Technology today. Drug testing in Western Australia has never been so easy.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=2986

Disengaging from Abusive Coworkers

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Let us say that you love your job, or are at least satisfied with it, and that you have abusive coworkers with whom you do not wish to associate and about whom you frequently have negative thoughts. This is a dual-sided situation. Not only can someone make themselves obnoxious, but others can choose to see them as obnoxious. Both sides of this situation must occur in order for a worksite to be plagued with abusive coworkers. There must be a bully, and there must be a recognition of the bully.

For you to achieve some measure of clarity and therefore rid yourself of the energy of this person, you must take one of those two factors under your control. You cannot change and really can in no way alter the behavior of a person without their consent. The alternative, then, is to manage and control to what extent they are able to affect you.

This all sounds very simple on paper, doesn’t it?

As we all know, though, principles are great until you encounter an emotional situation where the individual in question is directly attacking you or someone with whom you associate. Then it becomes an all out war in your mind, where you are willing to fight dirty and take them down systematically, if just to gain control over your world again.

And the only thing which can make an emotional situation worse is if one or both of you have low emotional intelligence. At that point, you are subject to reactions, which are entirely out of your control, rather than your straightforward logical thinking. This is why we distribute employee drug testing equipment.

Though the systematic and cool universe of drug testing in Western Australia, you can make sure that everyone is keeping themselves under control. After all, you are liable for injuries on the jobsite resulting from an inebriated or high employee. You bear, by law, some of the burden of such workplace liabilities.

Protect yourself and your assets by checking out and reviewing our Lifeloc FC10 personal breathalyser devices and our Medix integrated pro-split cup 6+6. And while you’re at it, call us today.

 This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=2983

Dealing with Employee Testing in Small Businesses

Small businesses, generally businesses of one hundred employees or less, are part of the local economy and they keep everything from prices to inflation from rising. Small companies also take care of their customers on a more personal basis, and they are more likely to develop long term positive relationships with their clients. This is a big deal, since most or all the business that a small company receives can come from repeat loyal customers. In other words, you may be serving most of the target demographic of customers in your area.

For this reason, it is especially important that you hire really high quality employees who are trained in how to act and how to respond to difficult customers. If they help to keep your reputation strong, then business never leaves. However, if they continue to be awkward and to drive clients away, then you are looking at a very real and very documentable liability…not only that, but they are a liability which you are paying to be employed at your company every day.

That sounds like a lot of money going down the drain.

When you deal with customer service, you must be willing to vet your employees up and down main street before hiring them. If you know them and they have a solid reputation both with you and with your community, then hiring them would be even more beneficial than the average high quality employee. One of their assets is that they bring these desired customers into your business through their local reputation. It strengthens your business foundation.

At CMM Technology, we distribute drug test equipment and breathalysers to companies throughout Australia, and we also provide breathalyser recalibration service to many businesses in Western Australia. Our goal is to bring you high quality customers by helping you improve the quality of employees which you have with you. Scientific reading from employee drug testing is about as objective as it can get. For more information, visit our website and check out our products. We would love to know what you think of our recalibration services, and we would love to provide you with your next batch of equipment.

This article has been taken from http://cmm.com.au/articles/?p=2973

Physiological Side Effects of Drug Abuse

When you are giving your employees drug tests for their working requirements, you are doing so much more than protect your company and all of your assets. You are helping them with their physical and emotional health. What do we mean by this? The tying of emotions to the physical body is part of physiology, and low emotional intelligence, along with supported means of abuse such as drug abuse or alcoholism, can create repercussions in both the mind and in the body through multiple means. When you implement employee drug testing, you are helping to keep your employees from melding their weaknesses together into one large ball of scar tissue.

Psychologically, drug abuse and alcohol abuse weaken the body’s ability to defend itself against physical and emotional onslaught, not to mention it strengthens the mind’s tendency to engage in self destructive thinking. In other words, these physiological side effects (which tie the emotional and the physical together) compound the problem, rather than allowing the individual to break up their emotional and physical issues separately and in small increments so that they are manageable and easy to deal with. The largeness and the compounding of the problem also foster hopelessness, or the belief that if you should break these small problems up and gradually eliminate them that they will spring back up and cause further damage later on. In other words, the compounding of the problem fosters the sense that emotional or physical issues will never really go away, and will just keep coming back, so there is no point in fixing those problems in the first place. This mentality, in turn, leads to the individual not actually looking for a permanent solution to their issue. They believe that only temporary solutions are available, and so they seek to fix them with drugs and alcohol, which are notoriously temporary and unstable.

In the workplace, you need reliability, and for that reason CMM Technology provides workplace drug testing equipment, including Oraline saliva drug tests and Alert J5 personal breathalyser devices. Drug testing in Western Australia has never been run so efficiently.