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With the beginning of spring often comes a ramp-up in the number of people looking to purchase a new property. Whether it’s because the realise their existing castle isn’t big enough any more after a winter being cooped up with the family, or nature’s annual fresh-start brings out our own feelings of finding somewhere new, […]
It’s unlikely you would buy a house without first getting a pre-purchase Building and Pest inspection and report. So why would you risk buying a house without knowing whether it was contaminated by methamphetamine residue? Methamphetamine is known by various street names including ‘speed’, ‘base’, ‘meth’, ‘ice’, ‘crystal’ or ‘crystal meth’, ‘amphetamines’, ‘whiz’ and ‘goey’. […]
We’ve previously looked at the issue of drug use in Queensland schools as use, especially amongst high school students, continues to climb according to a recent report from Education Queensland. More than 3,000 state school students have been either expelled or suspended after being caught with illegal drugs in the past three years. Misconduct with […]
A timely reminder for tenants, landlords, and home buyers A recent case highlights why a) you should test any rental or property purchase prior to signing on the dotted line, b) why landlords should be regularly testing their properties for ice, and c) why you should check whether your home and contents insurance covers contamination […]
17 April 2017 – Source: NZ Herald Australia’s ice epidemic has trickled from the streets into corporate offices as the deadly drug makes its way into the veins of high-earning business men and women. White-collar workers now make up a quarter of the country’s ice addicts even users who work the health and medical sectors, […]
It’s no secret that the use of ice in Australia’s rural regions is rapidly growing to plague-like proportions and the shearing industry is not immune to its insidious reach. Disturbing stories of shearers and roustabouts turning up for work high on drugs, behaving aggressively, and harming sheep deliberately or through poor shearing coincide with new […]
We’ve just introduced a valuable new feature on the Narcotect website. It’s a free online directory listing businesses offering methamphetamine-related onsite testing, clean-up and remediation services, as well as sample testing laboratories. Initial, presumptive testing using the Narcotect D4D surface test kit is only the first stage when conducting tests for meth residue. If […]
Dr Nicole Lee of Curtin University’s National Drug Research Institute and director of 360Edge, told ABC Adelaide’s Morning program, “One of the problems in the reporting [on ice] at the moment is it is really focused on the really negative outcomes. “Twenty-five per cent of people who use methamphetamine fairly regularly will experience some type […]
The drug ‘speed’ has been a long-time favourite amongst long-distance drivers for many years and it’s no secret that this illegal stimulant has been used by some truck drivers to keep them awake during long haul journeys. Well ‘speed’ is just another form of methamphetamine, or ‘ice’ as it’s commonly called. If you’ve ever used […]
A family moving into their new home began developing unusual health problems within a short time of living in the house. They had unknowingly moved into a former meth laboratory and their illnesses were a result of contamination from the cocktail of highly toxic and dangerous chemicals used in the manufacture of the drug. Unfortunately, […]
According to this news story, published yesterday, the Victoria State Government have forked out over $400,000 of tax-payers money over the past three years on testing and cleaning public housing properties contaminated by methamphetamine use. However, this sum was spent on only 6 properties meaning an average of over $65,000 per property. If the Housing […]
Source: NZ Herald You’re moving your family into a new rental home. You’ve paid the bond, 4-weeks rent, and letting fee up front, and then you discover that the house may be contaminated by ice from previous occupants. And when you get it tested, the results show that the contamination is above the recommended safe […]
If you missed it last night, you should watch this hard-hitting report by Ray Martin on the increasing problems caused by methamphetamine in our community, especially in rural Australia. Meth use in rural regions has increased 150% since 2007 compared with only 16% in metropolitan areas. This has lead to an exponential increase in drug-related crime […]
Source: ABC News There is more evidence of a worsening ice scourge, with a Newcastle biohazard cleaning service saying it now gets daily clean-up and testing requests relating to meth lab activity. Health and government officials have been concerned about a so-called ice scourge for several years. It has kept biohazard forensic cleaners such as […]
Source: The West Australian He is one of Australia’s most experienced journalists but even veteran newsman Ray Martin was shocked by how widespread ice use has become in regional Australia. “I understood it was a serious problem, I have done a couple of stories about ice in the city but I hadn’t been bush to look […]
Author: Julia Corderoy – Source: news.com.au WHEN purchasing a new home, would you take out a building and pest inspection? What about a meth inspection? Methamphetamine use is on the rise in Australia and the health consequences of contamination in the home can be serious. According to a study by the Medical Journal of Australia […]
A family house in Dinsdale is one of 36 Hamilton, New Zealand’s, state houses that are uninhabitable due to methamphetamine contamination. The problem is not unique to Hamilton with state landlord Housing New Zealand reporting similar cases of ice contamination across the country as the nation’s love affair with methamphetamine continues unabated. Figures to September 30, 2016, show […]
It’s a commonly held misconception that the drug, ice, is mostly found in lower socio-economic areas, that it’s a drug mostly used by down-and-outs, or ‘meth-heads’ as they’re often referred to. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Meth users are just as likely to be living in the most expensive suburbs, mixing […]
Landlords are being hit with huge clean up bills when tenants use their properties as meth labs. A simple clean-up, including pre-clean and post-clean lab tests will set you back between $3,000 and $5,000 if the property has been contaminated by ice users. That is, your tenants have been smoking the drug in various areas […]