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!”
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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.
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