I'm suprised I thought Canada was a clever and logical place ,but then Sweden has a great substance misuse service and they don't even have needle exchange ,an it takes a year to get a sub or meth script.
But in the UK you just have to turn up once a day for a dose of diazepam. No lock up. When will the world realize addiction is a mental illness as well as physical. Only nicotine and opiates are inherently adictive as far as I know . I'm on meth now but I hope to be off it soon. God bless my sibling from another family
Like I said, you can have a good taper if you initiate it with your psychiatrist/whatever doctor you visited who scripted it to you in the first place. You can also make the bad decision of going to such places, or ignorant doctors throwing you into such places in case of benzo addiction. I haven't heard of many people going to regular detox facilities for a benzo issue, people who abuse benzos is kinda rare here, if you got a script, you normally are quite the case
We got needle exchanges/where they willl give you kits with sterilized everything (securicup, bacteriostatic water, alcohol pads, quality BT brand 27 1/2 G syringes and a quality filter inside the securicup, it's not as good as when they have SteriFilts (which allow you to shoot up pills, anything like wheel filters), but almost as good, sure was no issue when I was on the needle cuz of Dilaudid/HM Contin. The only thing that sucks is that suddenly, all pharmacies used to have the little black and red symbol on their door saying they had a needle exchange...not anymore, no pharmacy I know of in my town, except one, has injection kits now, and its the one where methadone is served (thats how it works here), so when i was still on methadone, I couldn't get syringes there. My only option was the ER, where you gotta wait for the fucking triage, which can be horrendously long, only one nurse, they got 2 offices for nurses, but I've only seen one triage bureau opened at all times, except once. Anyway, sitting there, trying not to fart cos you have the shits because you're nervous/excited/in mild withdrawal to get your kits (kits have 4 syringes and 4 of everything I mentioned, I normally took 2) in a small 12 benches max triage area. Sometimes I'd get lucky and there would be no one at triage, then they just give it to you, take your age and ask you if its the first time and thats it. Still a lot more annoying than walking to the closest pharmacy. They're clamping down unofficially on pharm abusers (no heroin in my province, or almost none), I'm sure there will be a day when there will be some though, it's part of the reason why there's still troops in Afghanistan even if there should not be...
Also, I forgot to tell my Swedish friend here, we used to be like you guys in Scandinavia until that crazy legoman head Conservative Party leader Adolf Harper became Prime Minister, he said something as to the effect that Canada wouldn't be recognizable once he was done...well hopefully he gets kicked out in elections this october. The last time we had elections, he was in a minority government (read up on british parliamentarism if you don't know what that means, but basically they are in power, got most seats, but less seats than all other parties combined, so they can't do much, which was good, but he was held in contempt of Parliament in 2011, a punishable offense, because it starts new snap elections right away. Where proof of fraud was rampant too...not my prime minister....not with 37% of votes getting him a majority.
Also, Provinces have many responsabilities here, we're a decentralized country,still, (Confederation, not a Federation) for the most part. Health is a Provincial issue, so is Education, Transport, Sports and some other things, although the federal government also has depts in those areas which makes for some Ottawa/provinces barking at each other one of the most popular sport in the country, of course way after Hockey. You guys love hockey too, you're awesome.Mats Sundin has always only played for canadian teams and was a great player, too bad he never played for a team good enough to win the cup, unlike Nicklas Lidstrom, Tomas Holmstrom, Nicklas Wallin, Henrik Zetterberg...(go Wings go!).