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Drug policy change to save lives
This from the BBC News website:
Drug policy change to save lives Police in North Yorkshire will no longer be called to reports of a drug overdose - in an attempt to save more lives. The new approach has been introduced to make sure people who need help call medical services without fearing a criminal investigation. Previously the ambulance service would often call the police to drug related incidents. Now officers said they would only attend in exceptional circumstances. 'Real tragedy' Cathie Gilles, North Yorkshire's drug and alcohol development manager, said many drug users delayed calling 999 in the event of an overdose because of police fears. She said: "Our key aim is to make sure that we prevent such deaths where possible. "They are a real tragedy because in many cases these deaths could have been prevented." Det Con Paul Johnson said officers would attend if there were child protection or suspicious circumstances. |
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
Another way of preventing overdoses would be selling the drugs at set purity with no contaminates and instructions as to safe use. This would prevent the damage happening in the first place.
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
An admirable approach. This will certainly save many lives.
FuBai: your idea is, while good in essence, not likely to happen too soon. 100% ambulance discretion is still a very important step forwards, even if just on a local level. |
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
It's like taking one step to left after many steps have been taken backwards already. A novel idea but when put in perspective, FuBai's point rings echoes.
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
its good, but a better step would have addicts of registered presciptions for dia-morphine of known purity. so they can have there lives back and things can be maintained or along side needle exchange having narcan to adminster incase of an od.
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
Isn't heroin substitution already applied in the UK for treatment-resistant addicts?
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
I am on the verge of advocating the Swiss heroin system above full legalisation. It's proven to cut the number of addicts and crimes without increasing availability to the casual user. It may well be a way of solving almost all of the problems of both systems, although it still sacrifices individual freedom to some extent. As for the UK system I think that there is a provision that allows heroin substitution but it is not common practice.
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
the swiss, german and netherland´s model was applied to a small number of participiants only.
As the study´s aim wasn´t to stop and cure the addiction, but to show the aspects of legal heroin substitution, on heavily addicted people. It´s a joke, how governments cut down the rights of treatment on the best way the medicine and society could possibly provide, to their laws, ideologiy and goverment-seats. So this step is a very impotant shift in thinking, although on a level wich compares to swapping one´s misery to distress, and it -and this takes me wonders- makes one person´s live more important than obeying rules and is a leap into empathy within these people´s situation and their way of thoughts in this situation. PS: I always thought medics secrecy should be taken a seriously as possible. Last edited by stoneinfocus; 10-12-2007 at 15:15. |
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Yes, unfortunately only 0.5% of addicts in treatment recieve a diamorphine prescription. These are generally the ones that haves failed multiple methadone programs over a number of years.
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Re: Drug policy change to save lives
This isnt too bad of an idea.
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I think it is a fantastic idea. It should only be available to a select few and the patient should be monitored very carefully. Daily supervised injections from a licensed doctor does not sound like a bad idea, following regular lab testing to check levels of use. (i.e. The addict is not 'topping up' with street heroin).
I think cost is a big issue. I think a 30mg dose of diamorphine HCL costs the NHS is excess of 20 pounds, Whereas as methadone costs mere pennies. It is very much a cost issue aswell as a political one. |
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See an interesting article I posted a while back about a young woman on a diamorphine prescription. It turned her whole life around. http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...ght=heroin+nhs |
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