Study Reveals Madrid and Barcelona Air Contains Cocaine May 16, 2009
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The results of a new study conducted in Spain revealed that the air being breathed in the Spanish cities of Madrid and Barcelona contains traces of cocaine, and in smaller proportions, traces of amphetamines, opiates, and LSD.
The study, which will be published in the journal “Analytical Chemistry,” made use of micro-fiber filters that retain air particles for later analysis. Because the filters are located in high drug-use areas of Madrid and Barcelona, the scientists involved stated that the results found in their sample should be generalized to all of the air in these Spanish cities.
The findings of the study are not a cause of alarm, as they do not represent any danger to human health. It was said that the amount of cocaine found in Spanish air is so small it would take over a thousand years of living to breathe a single dose of cocaine.
The Elite Clinic in Spain Offers Free Consultations for Addicts March 11, 2009
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Most people know somebody who has either used cocaine or has a friend or family member who’s tried it. First time users can quickly become addicted to the feeling that they have an increased energy level. The quick high they experience keeps them feeling energetic and able to endure longer physical activities; they really believe they can party till dawn. Many people use it to increase productivity at work and in other areas of their lives.
According to the Elite Clinic in Spain, Cocaine is certainly one of the most abused major stimulant in Europe: it has become the drug of choice and the one most frequently involved in hospital casualty department visits. But as many users already know, the problems are not just health-related. Many people start out as just occasional, recreational users, but then go on to discover, too late, that they have managed to become addicted and often find themselves losing their job, wife and children as a result of their excesses.
The Elite Clinic in Spain knows understands that tackling an addiction is certainly no easy matter, but success is possible, as long as the user is really committed to change in their lives. Many will have tried to quit before, however, sadly on most occasions they will have found themselves drawn back into the habit by friends, at a party, or simply from a desire to re-experience that rush.
At the Elite Clinic in Spain they have achieved a level of experience, confidentiality and trust, which has established them as professionals in their field, having helped many people from all walks of life to stop using cocaine permanently. In recent months they have received clients not only from across Europe but also from the USA.
They utilize the combined approaches of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnotherapy. Their own triple therapy method often succeeds in reconditioning the automated patterns of thinking, feeling and behavior that originally led to the addiction and unlike many other forms of therapy, this method can offer a normally rapid improvement and result in long-term non-use.
At the Elite Clinic they offer a completely free of charge and confidential initial consultation, phone 0034 951 311 591.
Scientists in Spain (CSIC) Find Revolutionary New Way of Monitoring Drug Use Through Sewer Water February 7, 2009
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Scientists at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Barcelona have developed a new method for monitoring the consumption of drugs of abuse in the general population. This method, which was developed using analytical laboratory technology from Applied Biosystems/MDS Analytical Technologies, can measure the levels of substances such as cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis in water from sewage treatment plants to estimate the amounts of various illegal drugs being consumed within specific regions of the country.
The method provides a fully automated, faster and more specific way for estimating drug abuse than has previously been possible, and was published in the May 2008 issue of the scientific journal Analytical Chemistry1.
Traditional methods for estimating drug abuse in the population can be costly and inaccurate, relying on surveys and on social, medical, and criminal statistics. In contrast, this new method uses mass spectrometry, a laboratory technique, to test water from sewage treatment plants and provide accurate, real-time data, extremely quickly and without invading the privacy of members of the public.
The method’s increased speed and efficiency also reduces labor and administrative costs. The use of mass spectrometry-based methods to determine drugs of abuse in sewage and surface waters was developed a few years ago, and this latest development is the first fully automated technique for detecting and measuring multiple compounds simultaneously, offering improved analytical performance and reliability.
This enabled the CSIC scientists in Barcelona to investigate sewage water samples from regions of Barcelona and Valencia for the presence of 19 different compounds simultaneously.
The compounds were from five different classes of drugs: cocaine and related substances, amphetamine-like drugs including ecstasy (MDMA), opiates including heroine and morphine, cannabinoids, and LSD and related products. Eight of these compounds, including heroine and LSD products, had not previously been analyzed in water samples.
