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Your bar staff and security staff are the eyes and ears when you are not around, so they need to be alert too. They also need to know what is expected of them in relation to potential drug misuse and dealing on your premises. What do I look for? • Torn up beer mats/cigarette packets/bits of cardboard left on ashtrays. • Roaches (home made filter tips from cannabis cigarettes). • Small packets made of folded paper, card or foil. • Empty sweet wrappings left in the toilets. • Payment with notes that have been tightly rolled. • Traces of blood or powder on bank notes. • Traces of powder on smooth surfaces, particularly in toilets. • Very clean surfaces in toilets. • Syringes. • Spoons or burned tinfoil in toilets. How do I spot a dealer? • A person that stays a while and has a lot of friends that only stay for short periods. • A person making frequent trips to the toilet, garden or car park followed by different people at the same time. • People exchanging small packages or cash often in a secretive manner, but may be quite open to avoid suspicion. • A person seeming to hide in corners talking very quietly. • Conversations including frequent references to drugs, especially slang terms. • Remember, dealers are not identifiable by appearance, and often look highly respectable. Working together Although you and your staff are responsible for the day to day running of your premises, the police are able to offer advice on preventative measures and support in dealing with this problem. Encourage your staff to report all incidents of drug misuse in your premises, including any suspicions they may have regarding drug misuse. Don’t be tempted to ignore a small problem or an isolated incident, failure to take decisive action may encourage further drug activity and highlight your premises as a soft target. Involvement in a local ‘Liquor Accord’ scheme is an ideal way of promoting a joint, zero tolerance approach to drug misuse. Your Liquor Accord meetings enable information on drug misuse to be shared amongst local venues and assist you to build up a picture of what is happening in your area. Liquor Accords Liquor accords promote a co-operative approach to developing safe and well managed environments in and around licensed premises. They support harm minimisation and responsible serving principles and operate as a component of an overall strategy to ensure safety in the local community and promote effective communication and problem solving between licensees and key stakeholders. Each liquor accord is formulated by its members to resolve local issues within a local area. Strategies are shared and adapted to address similar issues within different communities. Liquor accords include representatives from licensed premises, businesses, councils, police, government departments and other community organisations. The geographical area covered by an accord is usually determined by its members, taking into consideration police divisional and district boundaries, local government areas and any unique environmental factors, such as stadiums and entertainment precincts. For more information on liquor accords, or to find out if there is a local liquor accord in your area, go to the Queensland Government Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation website www.olgr.qld.gov.au. It is important to remember that drug related activities are illegal. They can affect your trade by deterring other customers and drug dealing can increase the potential for other criminal activity, such as intimidation, violence and damage. You also run the risk of losing your licence. Remember! Remember that you have a legal obligation to provide a safe environment for patrons and staff. This applies not only to your premises but also to the surrounding neighbourhood. Effectively addressing drug issues in your venue plays an important party in you meeting this obligation. Grateful acknowledgement is made to Burnley Borough Council, United Kingdom for permission to reproduce copyright material from its Drugs in pubs and clubs brochure. Last updated 2 August 2012 FOR EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION
. Name What does it look like? How is it used? What to look for Dangers Cocaine Coke, Charlie, C, Snow, Dust, Posh Stimulant White powder which is grainy and can sometimes be shiny Most commonly ‘snorted’. It can also be injected. Some people rub it into the gums, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream. Others add it to a drink or food. Freebase and crack cocaine are usually smoked. • Traces of powder on smooth surfaces used to cut and snort the cocaine. Customers making frequent visits to the toilets. Payment with tightly rolled bank notes. • Runny nose, sniffing, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, increased confidence, energy and feelings of invincibility. • Cocaine numbs pain and so someone under its influence who behaves in an aggressive manner may continue to fight, despite having been restrained or injured. • In higher doses, or when missed with alcohol, cocaine can cause unpredictable violent/aggressive behaviour, paranoia, anxiety, agitation and panic. Ecstasy E, XTC, Ecy, Te love drug, Pills, MDMA Stimulant Ecstasy usually comes in the form of a tablet, in various shapes, sizes and colours. Often, the tablets are imprinted with logos and designs from popular culture. The most common way to take ecstasy is by swallowing. • People with lollipops or dummies to counteract the jaw clenching and teeth grinding associated with ecstasy use. • Dilated or enlarged pupils, excessive sweating. • Feelings of wellbeing, closeness to others, empathy, high levels of continuous energy without feeling tired. • Ecstasy induces a rise in body temperature; users are at risk of extreme dehydration, heatstroke or hyperthermia (overheating), especially when dancing. • Ecstasy pills may contain a huge range and quantity of substances including anaesthetic drugs, amphetamines (speed), so effects can be unpredictable Cannabis Marijuana, Dope, Hash, Grass, Pot, Weed, Splif, Joint, Yarndi, Skunk Depressant Marijuana is the dried leaves and flowers of the plant. Marijuana is generally smoked in hand-rolled joints, or in a pipe (a bong or cone). • Distinctive smell, aromatic, sweet and slightly sickly. • Torn cigarette packets or beer mats used to make filters. • Reddened/bloodshot eyes, relaxation, sleepiness and reduced coordination, spontaneous laughter, loss of inhibition. • Cannabis use can worsen symptoms associated with psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. • Cannabis use, particularly with alcohol, can cause a condition known as drug-induced psychosis. Disorientation, memory problems and visual hallucinations are some of the symptoms. Amphetamines Speed, Fast, Up, Uppers, Louee, Goey, Whiz, Super coke, Bass Stimulant Amphetamines can come in the form of a powder, tablets, capsules or crystals in a range of colours ranging from clear/white through to brown, sometimes even orange and dark purple. Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted. • Traces of powder on smooth surfaces. Customers making frequent visits to the toilets. Payment with tightly rolled bank notes. • Amphetamine packages of ‘foils’, plastic bags or small balloons. • Runny nose, sniffing, dilated pupils, excessive sweating, increased talkativeness, non-stop movement, jiggling about, repetitive movement, nervousness, anxiety, agitation. • Addiction can occur very quickly in people who use the drug often. • High doses and frequent heavy use can create an ‘amphetamine psychosis’ characterised by paranoid delusions, hallucinations and bizarre, aggressive or violent behaviour. • Amphetamine abuse may increase the risk of heart attacks, through increasing heart rate and blood pressure. It can also cause artery spasms and lessens the flow of blood to the heart. Heroin Smack, Skag, Dope, H, Junk, Hammer, Gear, Harry, Slow, China white, Dragon Depressant Heroin can range from a fine white powder to offwhite granules or pieces of brown ‘rock’. Generally packaged in ‘foils’ or small, coloured balloons. Heroin is most commonly injected into a vein. It is also smoked (‘chasing the dragon’) or added to cannabis or tobacco cigarettes, or snorted. • Syringes and heroin packages of ‘foils’ or small balloons. • Constricted pupils, drowsiness, slurred, slow speech, reduced coordination, slow breathing rat, decreased heart rate and blood pressure. • Users often go ‘on the nod’ an alternative wakeful and drowsy state. • Syringes used to inject can spread diseases such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. Extreme care should be taken when handling syringes. • Mixing heroin with other depressant drugs (such as alcohol) increases the depressive effects and can result in an increased risk of respiratory depression, coma and death. Ketamine Special K, K, Ket, Kitkat, Super K Depressant When sold illegally, ketamine is usually a white crystalline powder. It can also be made into tablets and pills, or dissolved in a liquid Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected. It is also sometimes smoked with other substances such as cannabis or tobacco. • Constricted/small pupils, drowsiness, inability to move, temporary paralysis, semiconsciousness, lack of coordination. • Hallucinations and distorted perception including visual, auditory, physical, time, space. • Anxiety, agitation, paranoia, feelings of panic. • Because ketamine is a dissociative it can cause the user to lose control of their body and perform actions that they are unaware of. They can fall over, get up and walk around, fall into water. • At high doses, ketamine is a depressant and can dangerously reduce a person’s heart rate and respiratory function, particularly if mixed with other depressant drugs (such as alcohol). For further information on these and other drugs and their effects go to the Australian Drug Foundation DrugInfo website, www.druginfo.adf.org.au. Last updated 2 August 2012 FOR EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION
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