What's
New in Drugs
Course
Number:
CR-533
Course Length: 1/2 Day (4 Hours)
Law enforcement officers
and many other professionals encounter illegal drugs, abused legal
drugs, drug paraphernalia and concealed drugs frequently during
routine enforcement and supervisory activities. Few challenges
to law enforcement, alcohol/drug treatment and counseling professionals
are as varied as attempting to keep up with the innovations of
the drug user and seller. Unless one is actively engaged in drug
work, as in a drug task force or assigned other drug duties, it
is difficult at best to be alert for the changing trends, substances,
abuses, tools, and compartments associated with the drug culture.
This workshop focuses on the new and the different as encountered
throughout the nation, and particularly the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Topics include legal and illegal drugs used and abused, recognition
of various illegal substances, changes in the paraphernalia used
with various drugs, hidden compartments and officer safety issues.
