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Prescibed heroin is safer for the addict, free for the addict, and it mean that the addict is in constantly under the eye of a doctor who can also provide clean needles and safe places to inject. This would also help prevent a lot of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.
It's so blatently obvious.
I rather doubt it.
Of, or pertaining to, the psyche.
Obviously not, by the looks of it.
We as a society. And it is similar, yes. Alcohol and benzo's both work on the GABA receptors in the brain. Benzo's ease alcohol withdrawals.
Yes.
No, you clearly aren't reading and understanding.
What? The pharm price is the price in the BNF.
We agree on something then.
And it doesn't remove the problem of addiction in the first place.
How would one qualify for free heroin? Would we have to prove and existing addiction, or simply turn up on a wet Tuesday afternoon and ask for it?
i don't profess to have all the answers either. the last time this conversation did the rounds on here bong made me stop and think ...would i agree to crack being available at the chemists shop ...thats a hard one and my gut feeling and all my experience with drugs says no.
it's not easy to deal with this problem but a problem it has become.
we desperately need to change to something.
It can't get much worse though can it.
It would stop the state treating addicts as criminals, and mean that ordinary, well behaved tax paying individuals, wouldn't get treated as criminals either.
Save you money, I'll tell you why most people do drugs. They're bloody good fun.
People will always do drugs.
No is saying they should.
The same way we prescribe methadone maybe?
It would bring them into contact with doctors who would be far better at providing help than you average smak dealer.
Doctors are there to help those who are ill. Addiction is an illness.
Still cheaper and purer than street heroin.
That's not answering the question though, it's the obvious.
Actually, Skive did. Read the thread. So only current users would qualify?
What would be the purpose of the prescription (other than providing a cleaner supply of their drug of choice)? Would there be any therapeutic benefit, and would we still support drug rehab programmes?
Exactly.
What's also obvious is that there would be programmes to help them fight their addiction if they choose to. There's no point in trying to get an addict to quit if they simply don't want to.
We shouldn't be providing a recreational drug for free unless the addict wants to quit.
Cost
Yes I can and just have.
Then they'll still be out there commiting more crimes to give to mmore money to organised crime for more dirty skag, for them to use in more dirty needles to spread more diseases.
I think I know which is the lesser of the two evils.
You didn't, Skive did, you were either too ignorant or too lazy to do so.
Though I am slightly surprised.
Did he? Where?
Details would have to be worked out, but yes, we would still provide rehabs and yes there would be therapeutic benefit, as there is with methadone.
I'm in the middle of cooking dinner.
You made up an arbitrary figure for 1g of heroin at £80, and then quote the wholesale price of diamorph from the BNF. QED? I don't think so.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing :rolleyes:
And I'll thank you not to tell me what I do and do not know about heroin use :rolleyes:
And don't try and blind us with science. Treating withdrawals and treating addiction are two totally different things :rolleyes:
There:
Taken from here!
You still didn't prove anything, dinner or not. Enjoy your meal.