Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Sleeping Pills and Pain Killers



Field work field work.. Although not much sample can be collected... and the hot warm air from the sea.. There's plenty of things to learn and lots of story to be heard..

One of them was an incident where the subject stopped drug for nearly one year was arrested by the cop and was sent to more than 20 days of jail. Urine test was conducted on the him after 7 days of his custody by the police, they conducted a urine test on him and he was found positive for morphine.. As far as I'm concern the trace of morphine for heavy user is 2-4 days.. it can be less than that for recreational user. He claimed that he took nothing during his time in jail. He was asked to pay thousands of ringgit for his release. Coming from a poor family, that amount seems to unaffordable.

After did some digging, we found out that he was on medication prescribe by the Doctor on his hand injury. Among the drugs prescribe is sleeping pills since he has insomia (sleeping disorder)..
We personally did urine test to him with the remaining testing kit.. Ouchh. It really shows that he was positive for morphine and benzodiazapine. The double bands formation on the kit shows negative result while single band indicate positive consumption..

I was suspecting that the pain killer contain morphine or its derivatives since morphine has been widely used in the pain killer production. But i couldn't connect the sleeping pill with the benzo's positive result. Until i browse through the internet and found out that the active ingredients of the sleeping pills is benzo.

We advised him to bring along a letter by the doctor indicating that he was under this prescribed medicine and he needs to carry the photocopy of this letter wherever he goes.. This is true for all the controlled drugs user. A letter from the doctor is as important as your identification card since this can be a counter proved is u are arrested.

4 comments:

ShZamirah said...

good info babe...few weeks back I sakit gigi n ambik pain killer sbb mlsss gila nk jmp dentist (takut actually hehehe) ala ada 1 painkiller utk toothache tu apa ntah nma dia, quiet well-known gak. then when my bf found out i dah mkn dkt 8 biji, dia jerit kat i, dia kata klu buat drug test kompom positif! aiiyaaakkkk....dia suh i pakai sonsodine ja...well actually sonsodine tu helps, iklan dia kat tv tu tak tipu langsung. so skg nie i nak kena dptkan surat tu or not aa?? eee takoott la plak...

Red Chopsticks said...

sis..tak yah nya smpai cmtu..hehehe..just stay away from the pain killer stuff sbb we never know kan..hehehe..sensodine?la brus gigi ja?wat lawak..ka tablet tu brand sensodine?

sYukCurz said...

wa... dis is just an information or storyline from ur department ek? ahaha.. oke2 pasni aku kasi si irfan makan painkiller byk2 b4 g club. ahahaa.. *jahat x? =p

Red Chopsticks said...

real story la weh..pucat muka subject tu bla tgk test positive...hehehe hg nih..sat dia overdose..ha menggelupur kt lantai muntah2..haaaa..hg angkut la dia blk..eeeee