Interesting on 'Drug Trafficking'

[AJMD429]

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A world I see the edge of (occasional patients who use illicit stuff).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfRcOoXKAc

Hearing the guy say he smuggled cocaine by 'impregnating it into rubber' then somehow re-extracting it sure gives a person confidence - yeah, I'd just love to use THAT stuff...no risk there, just using a dangerous drug, made by who-knows-who, then morphed into rubber boots or whatever, then somehow extracted out. Yikes...!

[gamekeeper]

Thankfully I've never been tempted to try illicit drugs I'm even wary of Aspirin..

[barbarossa]

I could never afford illegal drugs as I wasted all my money on guns

[AJMD429]

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Back in Pharmacy School one of the more interesting classes was 'Pharmacognosy' which is the study of natural, mostly plant-based medicine. The same professor taught a course called 'Drug Abuse', and it was an effort to help us recognize what kinds of symptoms patients/customers might have that would suggest street drug use, and how those drugs might interact with prescribed drugs.

I graduated top in my class (probably just a good test-taker), but the result is that somewhere there is a college transcript I have that says I got an A in "Drug Abuse"...

Nearly everyone in our class used a bit of one particular plant-based medication for relaxation, but other than that I don't think any of us abused any drugs - in fact, after you study all the chemistry and learn all the side-effects and interactions, it tends to make you wary of ALL medications, abusable or not.