Posted on 08/21/2007 5:14:33 PM PDT by secretagent
WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have figured out how to give an entire community a drug test using just a teaspoon of wastewater from a city's sewer plant. The test wouldn't be used to finger any single person as a drug user. But it would help federal law enforcement and other agencies track the spread of dangerous drugs, like methamphetamines, across the country. Oregon State University scientists tested 10 unnamed American cities for remnants of drugs, both legal and illegal, from wastewater streams. They were able to show that they could get a good snapshot of what people are taking.
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Hey, we already have the Congress mandating toilets. What have you got to hide?
Can you imagine what kind of stuff they’ll find in San Francisco’s wastewater?
“What this city needs is an enema!”
There’s no reason I can think of which would prevent them from extending such a monitoring program down to individual neighborhoods, or even homes and apartments buildings, hmmm...
Piss outside boys, piss outside.
Yow can pee in private, but your pee is public knowledge.
Another thing... I wonder how they rule out the illegal dumping of expired drugs (i.e., down the toilet) by hospitals, pharmacies and patients? If they can’t correct for that, they’ll overestimate how much drug use is actually going on a city.
“The folks in this city are strung-out on peanuts & corn!”
| Birth control may be harming state's salmon Synthetic estrogen in water seems to ... How fish are affected by such chemicals in the wild remains unclear. ... seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/124939_estrogen04.html - 33k - |
So yeah, they can also test birth control through waste water and compare that to levels of abnormalities in fishery and amphibious wildlife in any drainage system. Women have destroyed the Chesapeake estuary, quite literally.
Chesapeake estrusuary?
If you have no reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to a bag of garbage, you certainly have none as to what you flush.
No, I didn't think so.
And I thought it was bad having the Government in your bedroom...now they’re gonna be in your toilet! Thank goodness I have a septic system. Well water, too...which means I have none of that damn fluoride to contaminate my precious bodily fluids.
They'd need some heavyduty, unbreakable monitoring equipment to get an accurate reading on that place.
As much as I am against drugs, I do not want gestapo style neighborhood door-to-door sweeps for contraband, either.
It does not take much to extrapolate. Once it has become an established tactic, where ever for whatever, no one or thing will be safe from searches based on some study which discloses someone's bad habits in the neighborhood.
In response to complaints about that, every residence's wastewater could e monitored, just as garbage can be freely rooted through.
Scientists have found large quantities of cocaine residue in a river in northern Italy - suggesting consumption is much higher than previously thought.
They say they found the equivalent of 40,000 doses a day in the Po valley, home to about five million people.
...one fairly affluent community scored low for illicit drugs except for cocaine.
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Field said her study suggests that a key tool currently used by drug abuse researchers - self-reported drug questionnaires - underestimates drug use.
Probable cause.
Just leave your doors unlocked (and open) so the Police don't break them down when doing their no-knock raid.
If it's good for Home Depot types, and middle class America, it's good for those in control.
LOL
If this were a news outlet could it be consider limiting free speech?
We know they put fluoride in water, well..
If they can take your car when you buy drugs, can they confiscate your sewer system if they find drugs?
Are you a Glenn Beck fan?
I doubt they do that. The presence of pharmaceuticals in the water supply is well known. I'm sure they use other methods of disposal. In fact, you can take old meds to your local pharmacy and have them dispose of them for you, rather than have you flush them.
Carolyn
Damned right!
At the same time a drug bust hit a nearby house, and the camera got a view of the flushed contraband entering the sewer line!
Seriously, what do we expect but substance abuse, STDs, abortions, and crime when we stop raisning our kids in two parent homes and turn the government loose to raise and teach them anything the leftist desire to transform them with? Satan has already won this country to him, we merely fail to see our treading water is keeping us afloat just long enough to be sucked down the liberal whirlpool of degeneracy.
No. Why?
How long until they begin doing this on individual homes, public restrooms, and even restrooms at the workplace? I can imagine some potential for abuse with this.
Looking for the wrong color and type of vehicle, trying to blame it on white racists. Yep. I remember.
There are always those who will try to take advantage of events to use the fear generated to further their consolidation of power.
In the People's Republik of Maryland, which is what the place has become in the last 30 years (I grew up there long ago), there is a definite anti-gun sentiment on the part of many in positions of authority, and they tried to use the "Beltway Sniper" to shake down a lot of people. It did not fly, and when the shooters were caught, they were not in a white van, were not white racists, and in fact were black muslims--the latter conveniently ignored by the press.
Imho, they were just terrorists, but not what Chief Moose wanted. He wanted white supremacists or some such so he could justify shaking down any bubba with a shotgun. White (fleet type, cargo) vans are the main vehicle of tradesmen, primarily because little they own in the way of tools and materials would be safe from thieves in that area if it was left sitting in the back of a pickup unattended.
What did happen, though, is that the fallacy of a disarmed populace being safer was shattered. No one was "safe", and doubtless, firearm sales increased as a direct result.
Which is a good thing, because the more people decide they are responsible for their own safety, even in relatively limited venues, the less they are willing to surrender that capability to the state.
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One other angle to this is how contaminated government water is (public water that is). :)
The same dipsticks who support this will then turn around and complain about no-smoking policies and trans-fats bans. They couldn’t connect the dots if there was only one.
You mean the “drug warriors” ?
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