Navy officials confirmed that sixteen Sailors from the amphibious transport dock New Orleans tested positive for using illegal synthetic drugs. Cmdr. Tamsen Reese, a Naval Surface Forces spokeswoman in Coronado, California, said all crew members of the ship underwent sweep urinalysis test in late July upon the order of New Orleans’ commanding officer, Cmdr. Dennis [...]
The Navy Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention (NADAP) Office has released the new Synthetic Drug Testing Operating Guide. Dorice Favorite, director of NADAP, shared: “The operating guide provides commands easy access to the procedures of synthetic drug testing… It is important that the samples are collected, documented and processed correctly. The operating guide will help [...]
Sixty-four Sailors based in San Diego have been found to be engaged in spice-related activities, and will soon receive the boot, in keeping with the Navy’s zero-tolerance policy when it came to spice (also known as synthetic marijuana). Forty-nine of the Sailors identified through two Navy investigations into the use and distribution of synthetic marijuana [...]
Yet another midshipman has been expelled from the Naval Academy, as a result of a 10-month investigation into the use of the designer drug spice by midshipmen. The expulsion of this particular midshipman has brought the number of midshipmen expelled due to spice-related violations to 16. It also marked the closure of the investigation surrounding [...]
Two influential senators have expressed concern about the impact that spice use among service members may have on troop readiness. A feature on the Navy Times shared details regarding a letter sent by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Diane Feinstein of California to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The senators wrote: “We share the concern [...]
In a previous post we shared the expulsion of 7 midshipmen from the Naval Academy due to the use and alleged peddling of the designer drug known as Spice. It was also noted that the Navy is concerned about the increasing rate of use of Spice, not just among midshipmen but among active-duty Sailors. A [...]
