amnesiaseizure
Bluelighter
Charlie's spot on here all. From the results I've seen first hand from the RIOTT (Randomised Injectable Opiate Treatment Trials) a great deal of good has come out of them and the results speak for themselves. Why the hell we sunstitute a fairly benign drug for an even more addictive one with even more physical sire effects is pure political bullshit. What on earth is so wrong with heroin anyway?? It gives you contipation (curable with laxatives), it does indeed dull your emotions and to an extent your ambition (debatable) and that's about it off the top of my head - feel free to add to this. On the other hand, methadone prolongs the QT interval of the heart, often leads to depression and gives you no high whatsoever. I know when I used to use heroin H I would be very functional, have a good state of mind and be more sociable than before. Yes, I probably do have an underlying mental health issue but none of the drugs the doc gave me helped much with any of that.
The people I saw an met with regularly at the RIOTT clinic were genreally doing very well - one had been though uni, one was holding down a job and all looked a hell of lot better that when they first started. I just don't see the logic of taking the heroin away from them when that's the medicine they clearly find the most effective to deal with whatever it is they are having to deal with. IMO, they're self medicating and being charged an extortionate amount to do so.Add to that the chance of arrest, muggings and having to meet up with folk who care more about the money that their health and it's a recipe for disaster - all of which is completely self evident.
No, spending a life on heroin is not ideal. But neither is having to cope with memories of abuse, the loss of loved ones, ailing heath and anxiety that never seems to go away however much 'therapy' you through at it. Some people simply need a drug that can get them through the worst of it and then be in a position to deal with those issues within the health service they'd already be a part of by being administered clean safe heroin each day.
Looking back at how all the drugs laws came into affect its pretty clear that it was always a political move and not one based on the health of those affected. Makes me sick it does. I know without a shadow of a doubt that if I were to receive 60mg of diamorphine per day it would do a me a hell of a lot more good than the 20mg of citalopram I currently do. Id be more active, more sociable and look forward to the day far more. Yeah I be a bit bunged up in thearse departmnt but nothing that lactulose wouldn't sort out. I may even loose a part of my creativity but this is debatable due to the amount of running about one has to do in order to score each day for the gear.
So that'd my tuppence worth. All I knw is that the British drugs system is fucked and that there has to be a better alternative. For me, we gotta start with readily available diamorphine prescribing.
People are dying every bloody day due to the legislation currently in place.
Glad to hear your getting good gear! 
There has been a big improvement with the gear in Dublin at last, but the gear is still not as good as it was before the drought, but hopefully its heading that way!![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
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but thats proll coz the sun is shining 
im going to go out with my lil white dog and have a nice afternoon.. (when i have finished my smoke of sub-standard price inflated heroin - diamorphine-skag-smack -kit bs- devils dandruff/talcum power. what ever u want to call it.