Cafe Scientifique – Methamphetamines & other drugs

Dr Jack Drummond is a Tauranga local. He has had an interestesting career:
General Practitioner (44 years)
Anaesthetist (30 years)
Police Medical Officer ( 46 years)
National Coordinator of Forensic Medicine N.Z. Police (11 years)
Lecture programme including Injuries and general forensic medicine (11 years)
Review of Coronial deaths (10 years)
Expert witness on forensic topics for N.Z. Police (10 years+)
Elected member Midcentral District Health Board for 12 years (2001-2014) and Chairman of Hospital Advisory Committee Palmerston North Hospital
Jack currently holds the postions of
National Coordinator of Forensic Medicine N.Z. Police (2005-Current)
General Practitioner Otumoetai Doctors (2002-current)
Medical Officer Palliative Care Waipuna Hospice ( Medical Director2002-2012)
N.Z representative Australasian College of Pathologists
Jack’s Cafe Scientifique presentation will educate us on the very topical subject of methamphetamine and other modern day drugs:
The basic physiology and pathological effects of Methamphetamine and other Stimulants
Manufacture and distribution in New Zealand
Gang involvement
Synthetic Canniboids and “Legal Highs”
Cannabis

Please register your attendence on Eventbrite but no need to print your ticket. Registration is only so we can cater for the numbers attending. The $5 door fee covers venue and nibbles.
Doors open at 6:30pm for 7pm start.