NCJ Number
141016
Journal
International Journal on Drug Policy Volume: 3 Issue: 3 Dated: (1992) Pages: 116-117
Date Published
1992
Length
2 pages
Annotation
A series of three brief articles looks at the case of a physician who treated her daughter with marijuana for mental illness, drug testing in Canada, and injecting drug use worldwide.
Abstract
The physician was charged with marijuana possession. Refusing legal representation, she freely admitted supplying marijuana to her 31-year-old daughter for medical treatment. The physician indicated in court that marijuana produced an immediate improvement in her daughter. The court discharged the case, representing a moral victory for the physician, but charges were later refiled. With respect to drug testing, the Ontario Law Reform Commission passed legislation to ban drug testing in the workplace, arguing that such testing constitutes a significant invasion of employee privacy. The Commission further determined that behavioral evaluation of employees in conjunction with employee assistance programs are more effective in detecting and rehabilitating workers with substance abuse problems. An evaluation of the epidemiology of injecting drug use presented at the Eighth International Conference on AIDS determined that drug injection occurs on a global scale, is increasing rapidly in Russia and Eastern Europe, and has continued to increase despite the association between intravenous drug use and HIV.