Do I need a Search Warrant??

[JJ_BPK]

This little gem from the back end of the today's Miami Herald "Health Briefs"

The old saying "Your A$$ in mine" now has meaning!!!

Forensic Science Student Applies New Technique to Research

Juliet Kinyua found that cities can monitor cocaine usage by testing sewage water.

Written by John Davis

When it comes to cocaine, users of the drug in Lubbock abuse up to a third more on the weekends.

That’s what a master’s student with Texas Tech’s Institute for Forensic Science discovered after testing sewage water headed for the Lubbock Wastewater Treatment Plant. She reported her findings in the peer-reviewed Journal of Forensic Science.

Juliet Kinyua, now a doctoral student at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) from Kenya, studied Lubbock sewer water as part of her master’s research project. She found that, on average, people in the city used 900 grams of cocaine during an average weekday, but increase their usage by up to 1,200 grams on weekends.

Assuming 100 milligrams of cocaine makes a dose, that’s 9,000 and 12,000 doses respectively.

Kinyua worked under the supervision of Kathy Sperry, senior director for the Institute of Forensic Science, and Todd Anderson, a professor of environmental toxicology at TIEHH. To test the water coming into the treatment facility, she used a process called sewage epidemiology.

About five years old, the system is more commonly used in Europe to pinpoint neighborhoods where residents use high amounts of illegal drugs as well as what kinds of drugs are being abused. Kinyua then used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to test for a chemical product created when humans metabolize cocaine.


continued:

http://today.ttu.edu/2012/06/forensi...e-to-research/

The Odious Questions:

• Do you need a search warrant to snoop the poop?
  
• Does Big Mamma and the trolls at DHS really crawl thru your shiite?
  
• Is there evidence of anus crimes being flushed down the drains of America??
  
• Can I get continuing ed credits for busting you A$$

[Hand]

This story stinks.

[Pete]

Same as trash I think.

Once it's at the street for collection it's fair game - I think.

[Sdiver]

Well, who ever they get to go through the poop looking for used cocaine .... sure would have a shitty job.

[Destrier]

septic tank

[Kyobanim]

Is there evidence of anus crimes being flushed down the drains of America??

This just made me spit my panini all over my laptop.

[bluebb]

This just made me spit my panini all over my laptop.

In America we call them sammiches

Blue

[Richard]

Major cities have been testing their water supplies for years regarding a growing concern over pharmaceutical and illegal substance levels in their drinking water.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...water-cocaine/

http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/20...ng-people.shtm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0922111434.htm

And so it goes...

Richard

[Kyobanim]

Originally Posted by bluebb

In America we call them sammiches

Blue

Touche'

[Deadhead 63A1]

I remember reading an article about 10 years ago where a study was testing caffeine levels in the Puget Sound to ID possible sewage leakages. I don't remember how they addressed storm water runoff from coffee tossed down drains but supposedly it was an effective method...