Last October, the Victorian Police underwent a sting on bars in Chapel Street after their investigation led them to discover the importation of illegal drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamines hidden inside bottles of beer from Mexico.

Alleged drug trafficker Anthony Philip Sitar fled and has not been seen by authorities since.  This resulted in the fugitive being added to the international Interpol list.

Sitar has been added to what Interpol are calling Operation INFRA-RED, targeting 500 fugitives worldwide in the hopes of locating at least some of them and bringing these people to justice.

Anthony Sitar’s alleged partners in crime were arrested in October after police seized an astonishing 138 kilograms of methamphetamines and 15 kilograms of cocaine. Police also found 13 firearms.

The Interpol agency believes Mr Sitar is hiding in Mexico.

WARNING: some links and graphics in this article contain content that may not be suitable for children or those with weak stomachs. (Don’t say I didn’t tell you so).

It’s not hard to tell that advertisers, newspeople, and politicians like to scare us. Especially as elections draw near, I am often reminded of Orwell’s Two Minutes Hate. In fact, as the authors of this most recently published study remind us,

“Using fear to motivate behavior is a common persuasion technique. As such, fear appeals have been used to promote a wide variety of consumer products and services ranging from security devices…to mouthwash and deodorant.” (Morales et. al, 2012, p. 384)

Morales and her team represent three excellent research centers; Arizona State, Cornell, and Duke. The three researchers were curious about the role of disgust in marketing, so they performed four studies to test the persuasive influence of disgust as compared with fear and neutral messages. Let’s dig into the research, shall we?

Four studies were performed, and I will detail three here for the sake of space.

Study #1: One hundred and fifty-five undergrads were split into three groups we’ll call the Fear (F), Disgust-and-Fear (DF), and Neutral (N) groups. All three groups were shown an anti-Meth ad with the words, “Actually, doing meth won’t make it easier to hook up.” The Fear group saw the words on an image of a coffin. The Fear and Disgust group saw the words with the image of a teenager with open sores on his face from picking at ‘bugs’ under his skin, and the Neutral group saw the words with an image of two teenagers sitting side by side (pre-testing was done with other students to make sure that these images solicited the desired emotional responses and no others).

After seeing the ad, the students then had to fill out a questionnaire about intended illegal drug use in the coming two months.

Results: The students in both the Fear and the Disgust-and-Fear groups disliked the ads they saw far more frequently than the neutral group. This shows that both fear and disgust messages generated negative feelings in the viewers. However, when asked about intended future illegal drug use, the students in the Disgust-and-Fear group reported much lower intentions to use than both of the other groups.

Study #2: To rule out the possibility that the results of study #1 were from the vividness of pictures instead of the emotional content of the message, the researchers tried a round of testing where the image in all three ads was the same, but the text was different. One hundred and thirty-nine undergrads were split into three groups, F, DF, and N.  All of the participants saw a sun safety ad with a photo of two people sitting on a bench outside.

The F group saw the image with the words, “Don’t be dumb in the sun. An afternoon out in the sun can mean a severe sunburn. A possibility of serious heat stroke. An increased chance of developing fatal skin cancer. Cover up. Wear sunscreen.”

The DF group saw the picture with the words, “Don’t be dumb in the sun. An afternoon in the sun can mean open sores that crust and do not heal for weeks. Scaly red patches that suddenly appear on your skin. Wart-like growths that ooze and bleed. Cover up. Wear sunscreen.”

Lastly, the N group saw the image with the words, “Don’t be dumb in the sun. An afternoon out in the sun can mean joyful laughter and high spirits. Playing with water balloons and licking ice cream cones. Memories of good times to remember for always. Cover up. Wear sunscreen.”

Results: The people in the disgust-and-fear group reported a much higher intention to wear sunscreen, and more concern about getting skin cancer than the other two groups.  I can see why. I’m a sun-worshipper myself, but I’m thinking twice about it after that description!

Study #3: Not just with undergrads! Eighty-two adults were recruited by a market research firm for study three, and participated online. They were separated into two groups randomly. One group was shown five images chosen to elicit disgust before they performed the research task. The other group was shown emotionally neutral images. After this priming, the groups were pooled together again, and then randomly split into two new groups we’ll call A and B.

Group A then watched an advertisement for an Intak water bottle. The advertisement described possible effects of drinking from water bottles that contain BPA such as increased risk of cancer, heart disease, and neurological damage. Then, it assured watchers that Intak water bottles were 100% BPA-free, and reminded them, “Don’t forget to avoid BPA.”

Group B saw a similar advertisement, but it did not mention the harmful risks of BPA ingestion or the fact that Intak bottles were BPA-free. It simply described Intak bottles as one of the safest on the market and ended with, “Don’t forget to buy Intak.”

Results:  The study subjects were asked about their intentions to avoid BPA after viewing the ad. The results for the four groups were as follows:

Overall, it is clear from the results of this work that combining disgust with fear-based messages increases the action intent on the part of the person exposed to the information. The researchers believe this is due to the fact that even though both emotions are negative and elicit avoidance behaviors, fear tends to cause a freezing-up response while disgust triggers a fast action response. The combination of the two in our psyches creates a strong, quick impulse to avoid the object, person, action or idea being vilified.

What does it mean to me as a shopper? I think that we need to be aware of what is behind the messages we are getting from marketers and other propagandists. On one hand, it is good to know what kind of message actually discourages physically and psychologically damaging behavior such as meth use and chemical exposure. As a parent, I think I’ll tuck this little tidbit away for use in future drugs and safe sex talks. I’m sure there’s nothing better than a few photos of venereal disease to encourage second thoughts about unprotected sex. It can also be good to know what it takes to inspire real action against atrocities like the recent massacre in Syria and others around the world.

Still, I want to be on my guard against being bamboozled by my own visceral impulses. When it comes to products, politicians, insurance policies, medical procedures, or investments, I do not want to be ruled by my stomach, but my head. The best I think we can do as consumers is to stay abreast of the research (as we are doing here, good for us!) and keep our eyes open for these ploys in the various media and conversations that surround us.

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‘Jake the Snake’ has lived on the streets of Toronto for over 20 years.  He talks openly about how his life spiraled out of control when he become addicted to crack and heroin.  His story is gripping as he goes into detail about the pain he endured as an 11 year old boy and how drugs offered him some relief from the devastation he endured.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (CBS) — Law enforcement authorities in Montgomery County say it was an anonymous tip that triggered an investigation resulting in the dismantling of a major methamphetamine trafficking operation in the Lansdale area of Montgomery County and the city of Philadelphia.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman says she received an anonymous letter in the mail complaining about the distribution of the illegal drug known as “meth.” Then, she says, what started with undercover buys on the street led to cell phone interceptions that resulted in search warrants being executed at 14 locations where police recovered drugs, paraphernalia and weapons.

Ferman says 32 people have been arrested in what detectives called a “family affair.”

“There were relatives who were involved,” Ferman said. “It was a very close-knit group of both drug dealers and drug users, and they operated very closely together.”

She says the main players are identified as Frank Messina of Hatfield, Pa. and Troy Dudas of Schwenksville. (More info and mug shots on the Montco DA’s web site.)

Court records indicate that Dudas has an extensive criminal record dating back to the mid-’90s.

Ferman called the case a “high priority” because of public safety concerns surrounding the dangerous drug.

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The city of Phoenix produced the “METH: Don’t Even Start” DVD.  These disturbing videos are meant to warn our youth of the dangers of crystal methamphetamine.

While this video seeks to promote a particular website for those who desire treatment, the link is broken.  However, I felt the video clearly demonstrated the gripping affects meth has on those who have used the drug.

If you or a loved one is struggling with drug or alcohol addiction, I invite you to contact one of our supportive staff members at Free by the Sea Drug and Alcohol Recovery Center, located in Ocean Park, Washington on the Long Beach Peninsula.  Our intake specialists can be reached 24/7  at 800-272-9199.

The case marks the first time any oil firm has faced claims in the U.K. from a community in the developing world for environmental damage caused by oil extraction operations, the villagers’ lawyers said.

Shell, the largest international firm operating in Nigeria, admitted liability for two oil spills in August 2011. However, the two sides dispute the amount of oil spilled and the extent of the damage caused, one of the villagers’ London-based lawyers told msnbc.com.

At the crux of the disagreement is whether the spills that devastated the area were due to so-called operational failures on the part of Shell, or if they were the result of sabotage, illegal refining and theft.

A Plague Year
Edward Bloor
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011

Characters
Good Guys
Tom Coleman, a likeable square
Bobby Smalls, fighter against ableism
Arthur Stokes, Tom’s cousin
Wendy Lyle, daughter of a drug counselor

Bad Guys
Reg the Veg, man of many unredeeming qualities
Dorfman, football meathead par excellence
Mr. Lyle, super snob & hypocrite
METH

Hook
There’s a plague coming that you should be ready for. It will turn your town into a zombie-infested war zone.  But it’s not a virus. It’s meth.

Worldview
Popular literature has been said to reflect the fears of real life.  Edward Bloor makes an explicit connection between the zombie-lit craze and the epidemic of Meth use across the United States in his newest work of realistic fiction.

meth kind of does this to you. photo by Heather Buckley on flickr.

There’s nothing scarier than real life for Tom Coleman.  He lives in a small central Pennsylvania town and works at the Food Giant that his father manages (off the clock, natch, but his “wages” go into a college fund).  Then, over the course of a year, meth reaches the citizens of the town.  Robberies go up.  People get more short-tempered and stressed out. There are homeless, dead-eyed, shuffling corpses everywhere Tom looks.  They used to be his friends and neighbors.

Tom and the rest of his drug counseling group decide to take on the plague any way they can.

What is this book’s intention and is it achieved?
The only thing saving this book from being a one-dimensional afterschool special of a book is that Edward Bloor does realistic dread very well, and although his characters spout didactic dialogue they are, in other ways, realistic.

I was pretty square growing up.  I had a friend who took me to parties in high school and I refused to drink (or smoke, of course).  I had an intense period of religiousity in late elementary school and middle school–oddly enough, during the times that I was most into Metallica.  So maybe that makes it easier for me to believe in characters who are teenagers that voluntarily work for their parents after school, go to drug counseling groups to support their sisters, or generally try to be of service to their community.  But I also see teens like this in real life and in news stories, so that’s not so big of a stretch.

What makes reading this a bit of a cringer are the thematic parallels that get hammered home between the Black Plague in Europe and the meth plague of today.  Tom’s English teacher, Mr. Proctor (get it?) is doing a whole unit on this and it’s reflected in the conversations that go on between the kids in the counseling group.  I do like the fact that the group allows the story to open up honest conversation in the narrative, but the whole English class parallel ultimately hurts the story, pushing it farther into we get it already territory.  Meth isn’t a super-new problem, and I think the story would have gotten its scariness across to the reader without comparing it to the Black Plague.

blackened is the end / winter it will send / throwing all you see / into obscurity - james hetfield.

Without that subplot we have a book about a real problem, with all of its attendant societal ripples.  There’s a pervading sense of doom in Tom’s town, related very well through his journal — which is not actually a real-time journal, but a reconstructed journal.  (For the record, I like this conceit, because it allows immediacy without an overuse of too-casual language.)

The feelings ring true.  Tom is nervous because he loves his cousin but his cousin’s family are sketchy.  He doesn’t know how to defend his co-worker from mean-spirited pranks that take advantage of the co-worker’s Down Syndrome, or process the stress he feels coming from his parents about a lack of family finances.  He has a minor rebellion and a very realistic crush that involves a small but humiliating scene at a party in the bigger college town next to his.  So if you can get past the Message, you’ll find a book with a compelling heart.  But if it’s your first Bloor book, I’d say put it down and head straight for Tangerine.

Readalikes

Breathless by Jessica Warman
This is semi-autobiographical realistic fiction set in SW Pennsylvania, involving a girl who is shipped off to boarding school (or gets herself shipped off to boarding school? I can’t remember which), but can’t escape her love for and angst about her severely schizophrenic brother.  She’s also a competitive swimmer and her boyfriend is hot but sanctimonious.

Totally Joe by James Howe
A journal format narrative about fighting bullying in schools (specifically GLBTQ bullying)

Ellen Hopkins, particularly Crank and Glass – the wildly popular poem-novels that touch on issues that Hopkins has faced in real life – her son was addicted to meth and inspired her first books.

Breaking Bad.  Why aren’t you watching this amazing show already??

Disclosures & Digressions
I was kind of hoping this book would be about how meth creates real zombies.  I mean, it is about that, but in a realistic way.  I was hoping the meth users would become actually dead but unable to die because of the drugs.  And they’d have to eat the brains and blood of other meth users to keep themselves alive/drugged up.

*This is a line from the poem “Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg” by Richard Hugo. It’s about a dead mining town. Click and read and weep.

“INDONESIAN authorities who arrested an Australian man on drugs charges in Bali have referred the case to Interpol.

Authorities are convinced Edward Myatt is a mule for a larger drug-smuggling syndicate.

Mr Myatt was arrested on February 27 at Ngurah Rai Airport after he was allegedly caught trying to smuggle 1.1kg of hashish and more than four grams of methamphetamines into Bali in his stomach.

Police yesterday said they planned to hand Mr Myatt over to prosecutors within weeks.

The 54-year-old, who could face the death penalty, will then be transferred from police headquarters in Denpasar to the notorious Kerobokan jail.

Authorities were working with Interpol in an attempt to establish links between Mr Myatt and an international drug-smuggling syndicate.

The head of the Bali drugs squad, Mulyadi, said that investigators did not believe Mr Myatt’s claim that he was working alone.

“We are co-ordinating with Interpol. We have sent his data to them.”

Authorities suspect Mr Myatt, who has visited Bali on at least five other occasions, had made similar drug runs in the past.

Mr Myatt has allegedly told investigators he bought the drugs, which have an estimated street value of $70,000, in Delhi from a man known as “Dr Steve”.

He then separated the drugs into smaller quantities and wrapped them in 72 plastic casings at his hotel before swallowing them and travelling to Bali, he said.

The Ballarat-born man has also allegedly told police he planned to use some of the drugs and sell the rest.

It is expected he will be charged under three separate articles of Indonesia’s anti-drugs laws, including possession, trafficking and distributing narcotics, which could put him in front of a firing squad if he is convicted.

While Mr Myatt was born in Ballarat, it is understood he has lived in the UK for a number of years. He has provided police with addresses in Balwyn, Melbourne and Yorkshire in England.”

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“Good morning ladies and gents, police dog working,” said the pooch’s handler, Graham Rowlstone of the British Transport Police, as the pair strode beneath a soaring glass-and-blue-steel ceiling. “Just making sure it’s nice and safe for you.”

Some travelers and commuters smiled, laughed and said hello to the black lab. A few petted him. But mostly the pair slipped easily through the concourse.

Suddenly, Benson cocked his ears, lifted his tail and picked up the pace. He trotted in front of a nondescript man in a dark blue fleece, sat down and looked up expectantly.

I remember the moment like it was yesterday, though, in reality, it was more like five years ago. I was visiting the doctor for my 6-month checkup when expecting our third child. I sat in the examination room, just to the right of the built-in desk where a nurse sat, pencil in hand, ticking off the appropriate boxes as I answered her irritating questions. You know the kind: the ones that you dearly just want to answer, “YES! I SMOKE, I DRINK, I WALLOW IN THE MUD AND I NEVER BRUSH MY TEETH!” Or, if it’s a form from the elementary school and they ask if you’ll need a translator at your daughter’s parent/teacher conference you want to write in, “Yes, Finnish, please,” or some other such language that no one around you speaks just to be obnoxious and give them pause.

I have never done this. I’ve just imagined it.

Anyway, on this given day at the doctor’s, while imagining interesting answers but giving perfectly acceptable and boring ones, I was bold enough to interrupt the nurse’s rote questions with a little clarifying information. She had asked me, one question before, how much water I drank a day. My answer did not please her. She told me how many glasses I should actually be drinking (as if I didn’t know, being on child #3) and then she moved on, scowling, to the next question. I answered that one – something about whether I’m a druggie or not – and then, as she began the next I said, “Oh, I do do Crystal Lite every day.” (“do do”…I said it like that. Speaking isn’t nearly as polished as writing, is it?)

She stopped talking, her pencil hovering in mid-air, and turned her head to look at me. Her mouth, LITERALLY, dropped open. I had been looking straight ahead, giving her my answers without too much thought, but I quickly became aware of her staring. She’s sitting a foot and a half away and she’s STARING at me. I looked at her, confused.

She continued to stare.

I shifted uncomfortably in my seat.

She continued to stare.

I do not know how much time passed. Enough to make me wonder what on earth was wrong with her. Enough for me to flash back through what I said, considering and pondering, and to think, seriously, “Is she having an attack of some sort?”

I began to splutter something like, “You know, Cr…Crystal Lite…the water question.”

She continued to stare. I am not kidding.

I strove to understand her behavior; to explain my words. “Uhhhh……‘Crystal Lite’? You know…powdered drink mix? Kool Aid!” I almost shouted the word, hoping she could understand the sugary drink reference because, clearly, nothing else was working.

Still nothing. No flash of recognition. No raising of the drooping jaw.

“You asked about water…and I just wanted you to know….” My voice trailed off as she, silent up until this point, finally closed her gaping mouth and swallowed involuntarily.

Finally, “Powdered drink mix?” she managed to get out, doubt clear in her every syllable.

I nodded my head like a crazed mental patient, grasping at this straw of mutual understanding. “Yes! So I do have more water every day! I just forgot to tell you!”

She looked down at her paper, composing herself.

Oh, for a way to understand what was going though her brain. “I j-just thought,” I stammered, “you’d want to know…for…for your answers….”

“So you drink water with this ‘Crystal Lite’?” she was looking at me again, trying to understand, trying to do something I couldn’t figure out but maybe was cover up her impossible-to-explain behavior.

“Yes,” I said, nodding again. “More water than…than I said at first….”

“Okay, then,” she said, and, after presumably marking down my all-important clarification about how much water I drank a day, she moved on to the next question, all professional and normal, and wrote down the exact same answers I’d given the month before, and the month before that, and the month before that as well, ad nauseum.

It took me until my drive home half an hour later(ish) to figure out what her problem had been.

She thought I’d said I did Crystal Meth.

“I do do Crystal Meth,” her brain heard.

“I do do Crystal Lite,” my mouth said.

And she, God love her, sat there, mouth hanging open, wondering how on God’s green earth this woman sitting beside her carrying a baby and looking like a normal, non-meth-head could possibly have just dropped this bomb of information as casually as if saying she drank an extra glass of water a day.

Until it dawned on her that I WAS saying I drank an extra glass of water a day.

I mean, honestly, who hasn’t heard of Crystal Lite?

So that, my friends, is the supreme moment of misunderstanding that will never be topped in my world. I saw her around the doctor’s office a few other times after that. And always, every single time that I saw her, I felt guilty. Like I’d on-purpose answered her questions facetiously as I’d so often imagined doing.

Or, worse, like I was a meth addict.

I continue to answer such questions obnoxiously in my mind. But never once have I said, “I do do Crystal Lite”. Such a thing is far too incriminating to admit.

British emergency services gather during an exercise to test their readiness for a terror attack at London’s disused Aldwych underground station / F. Brinley Bruton

LONDON — The bells of St Clement Danes Church on The Strand chimed on the hour at 10 a.m.  Gray clouds hung low over traffic-filled streets and the cold chilled to the bone.

So a pretty typical February day in central London.

It became untypical at around 11, after two young men walked out of nearby Aldwych underground, or subway, station.  A few minutes later, a public announcement instructed everybody to leave the building. The trickle of commuters leaving the station became a torrent.  Some of them were irate, demanding an explanation from subway workers and police.  Others held their heads or limbs, seemingly wounded and in shock.

Sirens screamed and a helicopter hovered above.  Police vans, ambulances, fire trucks and a large green tent for the wounded clogged the narrow lane outside the station.  Dozens of first responders — fire fighters in helmets and black-and-yellow outfits, ambulance workers, police officers and delighted-looking bomb-sniffing dogs — milled around on the street.

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By paying close attention to what they sense from their environment, addicts have the ability to trace the source of their hardship. Finding the right treatment solution can be a bit extensive but, there are factors and methods to make the search more refined. This alternative procedure for addiction recovery demonstrates to addicts to assess their emotions and control their hardship by getting more in touch with their own senses.

textContent;. Using specialized medications, they take their patients through days worth of withdrawal in a matter of hours. Despite tightened security measures, Florida is still considered to be the drug capital of the US and of all the drugs that are brought into the nation, Methamphetamine is the one that people love the most.

This is how it really works. When addicts become more responsive to their senses (sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, balance, and inner sensations), they gradually recognize that they can not feel their thoughts. This alienation will keep him emotionally remote, and thus result to the feeling of depression resulting to manic behavior and irritability. In the long run, the person takes more than what his body can take and damages his physical and mental conditions. Some rehabilitation facilities concentrate mainly on the patients damaging behavior and fail to provide more attention to exactly what really brings about their depression and distorted thinking.

*Berlin Flores is a health essayist who specializes in crystal meth addiction subjects. He has written many articles on Crystal Meth rehab centers. They learn how to control their thoughts better so that they can prevent the possible body reactions that can bring about their anxiety and depression. He uses his knowledge for helping people to find the best Crystal Meth detox center.

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Florida meth rehab centers are experienced in handling cases of meth abuse and are fully equipped for meth addiction treatment. Finding the right treatment solution can be a bit extensive but, there are factors and methods to make the search more refined. World over, it has been recognized that meth abusers require early meth addiction treatment because this drug has a very damaging effect on their life and often leads to dysfunction on a day to day basis.

Long term use leads to brain damage as the nerve pathways ability to communicate throughout the body start to “die” off. For instance, patients might learn to associate decreases in body temperature with signs of depression or anger. So, after all these severe reality factors, is there anything that you can do to help a loved one out of the clutches of pending disaster?.

In conclusion, there is a vast methamphetamine abuse problem in the U. Why? Because meth is an extremely addictive substance and the chemical reactions it cause offer sudden energy in the body of the addict. They learn that every time they worry, their thoughts send impulses to their brain. In the long run, the person takes more than what his body can take and damages his physical and mental conditions. Some rehabilitation facilities concentrate mainly on the patients damaging behavior and fail to provide more attention to exactly what really brings about their depression and distorted thinking.

If you or someone you know is struggling with the disease of addiction, check out the links below. The fight against this issue is not simple. The fight against this issue is not simple. Once this phase is over, he will undergo an apprenticeship before embarking on his new life.

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I’m a little on edge today. I fully expect DEA agents to descend on my workplace at any moment. You see, I purchased pseudoephedrine TWICE in the past four days – once for Scott and, now, for myself (thanks for sharing your cold, sweetie). I did shop at two different pharmacies, though, so they could be a few days behind on my trail.

Remember the days when you could stuff your shopping cart with Sudafed, and, oh, I don’t know, TREAT YOUR COLD??!!! Now, it’s behind the counter, and you have to slip the pharmacist a hang tag from the cold and allergy aisle and your driver’s license. Then you have to SIGN for it. I’m surprised they don’t take a picture of your miserably congested face, as further documentation.

Of course, you can buy their “new” product, Sudafed PE (PE for Pointless Effort?) – whose main ingredient is phenylephrine HCl. You can even get it generically. WHY? Because it DOESN”T work — not for colds and not for cooking methamphetamines.

Two different slices of America, equally disappointed. Personally, I’d be more afraid of middle-aged women with head colds.