住宅物业的甲基苯丙胺污染仍然是公众的严重公共卫生问题。包括环境卫生官员(EHO)以及测试和修复技术人员在内的外部利益相关者正在调查是否因制造或吸烟过程而发生污染。更具体地说,当警方通知时,地方议会EHO负责管理秘密药物实验室,并回应公众查询。然而,这些受污染的财产的全部范围没有被任何单一的利益相关者看到,这使得量化这些情况非常具有挑战性。评估公众对EHO的甲基苯丙胺相关查询的患病率,这项研究调查并采访了来自澳大利亚各地的官员.结果发现公众查询很少,只有百分之六的受访者在上月收到查询,这表明人们正在从其他来源寻求信息。有趣的是,有案例研究场景也提到了意识和信息流的问题。对棘手案件的关注,警方通知,还强调了实地考察。这项研究的结果为如何管理与甲基苯丙胺相关的案件提供了一个基准,并强调了对EHO可用的可信赖信息的需求,政府,行业成员,和公众在一个统一的位置。
Methamphetamine contamination of residential properties remains a serious public health concern for members of the public. External stakeholders including Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) and testing and remediation technicians are engaged on investigating whether contamination has occurred from manufacturing or smoking processes. More specifically, local council EHOs are responsible for managing clandestine drug laboratories when notified by police and also for responding to public enquiries. However, the full scope of these contaminated properties is not seen by any single stakeholder, making it very challenging to quantify these situations. To evaluate the prevalence of methamphetamine related enquiries from the general public to EHOs, this study surveyed and interviewed officers from around Australia. It was found that public enquiries were infrequent with only 6% of respondents having received enquiries in the last month, which indicates that people are seeking information from other sources. Interestingly, there were case study scenarios that also mentioned issues with awareness and the flow of information. Concerns regarding difficult cases, police notifications, and site visits were also highlighted. The results of this study provide a benchmark of how methamphetamine related cases are managed and highlight the need for trustworthy information that is available to EHOs, governments, industry members, and the public in a unified location.