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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

following along with the grace and tiff reality tv/digicam concept:

so i went to my pharm lecture today and it was "drug trafficking in the kingston area" with a police detective guest speaker... it was really interesting actually. did you know that kingston is the speed capital of canada? we're rife with drugs b/c of all the prisons... apparently all the brothers of the jailed drug overlord guys come to kingston. hooray!

also, there's apparently a big morphine problem here... and guess where the methadone clinic is? you guessed it, at the street health centre across the street!! the detective actually said "it's across from sepp's ski shop on montreal street." i think that was the best part - hearing my own street being named off during class... it's like a celebrity now! (you know, when i heard that we had a lecture on drugs in kingston, i joking told grace that montreal st. would be mentioned...) so yeah, slightly shady...

then he goes on to say that he doesn't believe in methadone clinics, b/c they don't work in reality. in theory, methadone is used to wean people off opioid narcotics like morphine and heroin. methadone itself is an opioid narcotic, so it doesn't block the effects of morphine, but instead it doesn't give the same high as those other drugs, allowing for the user to slowly stop using opioids. however, the det. said that people use those other drugs and then go to the clinics for a cheap high (to prevent withdrawal symptoms, i suppose) in between. plus, lotsa people deal heroin and morphine right outside the health centre b/c all their potential clients would be right there! all right outside my window! so when i walken home from lecture and saw those groups of people congregating outside the clinic... well... i saw things in a kinda new light...

on an unrelated note: come visit me in kingston! it's a great place! (i mean, it's the least you can do for my upcoming 20th (eep!) birthday and all... you can stay at my apartment! you'll love the view! ;) sigh. it's times like these where i'm glad that we have 2 locked doors between the street and our apartment... thankfully, i feel totally safe. sadly, it's probably more safe than living in the ghetto, where nobody locks their doors and there are always shady-looking people stalking around... we just get mullets!)

ooh! tiffany's happy of the day: speaking of pharm, i got a 92.5% on the midterm!!!!!! that's 2 midterms in the 90s so far!!! (which will hopefully offset the potentially failing biol 200 midterm and the upcoming orgo...) now i just need to find out the marks for 205, 200, and stats.

posted @ 4:08:00 p.m.

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