The MCTFT Distance Learning program offers a variety of courses suitable for law enforcement and the public via satellite downlink. Listed below are our upcoming and past telecourses.  Click on a course title for more information, or browse the telecourse descriptions.  Register to receive downlink coordinates for upcoming telecourses, or contact us to order VHS copies of selected telecourses.

Upcoming Telecourses

03.10.2004 Real View Mirror: Looking at Yourself, Leaving the Drug Culture Behind "Harm Reduction is Really Harm Promotion"
03.10.2004 Real View Mirror: Looking at Yourself, Leaving the Drug Culture Behind "Drug Victimization"
03.18.2004 Youth and Drugs
 

http://www.mctft.com/DL/dl.php - for all courses and information and to register

Past Courses: (can be ordered on VHS)

03.04.2004

GHB, Rave & Club Drugs

MCTFT

 


 

This hour-long training telecast will explore the illicit world of GHB (Gamma-hydroxybutyrate) drug trafficking, use and abuse.

GHB is classified as a sedative-hypnotic and/or a central nervous system depressant. It produces euphoria, intoxication and hallucinations with alcohol like effects. Because it produces such a rapid progression from drowsiness to sleep, it is often used as a "date-rape" drug.

Instructors on this telecast will be Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Scott Albrecht of the Tampa District Office and retired Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Narcotics Detective Trinka Porrata who founded Project GHB.

Scott Albrecht will focus on GHB trafficking, "date-rape" case studies, and GHB on the Internet. Trinka Porrata will focus on use, abuse, addiction and the pharmacological effects of the drug and what law enforcement officers need to know to recognize the indicators that a suspect is high on GHB.

In addition, we will also include a segment on Rave and Club Drugs — particularly Ecstasy — how to recognize the indicators and hear one mother's story of how an experiment with Ecstasy cost her high school son his life.