Drugs
4. Using a Prohibited Drug
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Last updated: 21 Jul 2015
- To prove illegal drug use the police must prove that the substance taken by the defendant was a prohibited drug.
- Most convictions for using a prohibited drug rely on the person making an admission at the time of arrest that they used an illegal drug.
- It is an offence to administer drugs to another person such as injecting them with a prohibited substance.
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