Wow breaking bad has some fucked up shit. I just watched jessies girl overdose in front of Walter while Walter just looked at her
you think that makes a big difference over oral? you plug even with extended release pills?
It's true, and actually it's respectable that you were honest and up front. Frankly if I was a psyciatrist and a person came straight out to me that they have had a prior problem with drug abuse it wouldn't scare me from them, it would put my trust in them, and allow me to work with amphetamines and what not in a much better way. If you get a patient that lies about their past and got a script from me- it would be awful. I don't think because you've had drug problems in the past you should therefore be banned all together from "abusable" medications as in some cases they are actually very good for therapeutic use, and if a person can prove they are more responsible with their medication it's a start.
And I have always viewed Sweden as a Progressive country....I totally agree with you, but here in Sweden practically no doctor or psych would agree with you (publicly anyway). It is almost fascinating that the view on drug users can be so darn old-fashioned in such a developed country as Sweden. There's no big difference between how drug addicts are treated here and how witches were treated in the medieval ages. 'cept maybe the witches were killed, here we just send the addicts to prison for years, deny them medical care and stigmatize them in society.
Telling a doctor here about any kind of drug use, even if it was just a few times during the teens, is the dumbest thing you can do if you want medical attention. It has even gone so far that patients in treatment for addiction (e.g. subutex program) who tests positive on a urine test gets kicked out from treatment! Or that people diagnosed with ADHD who also have admitted drug use are permanently cut off the stimulants. Even though the non-stimulants give no relief. I also read not long ago about a woman who turned up at the ER with extreme opiate withdrawal who got nothing but a ibuprofen and a few condesending remarks and then had to sit in the waiting room soiling herself. The lunacy bear no bounds over here it seems.
And yeah, did I mention that amphetamine medication is only RX'd on a case to case basis and a formal request needs to be filled out and send to the Swedish Medical Agency by the treating doctor with proof of that every other ADHD-medicine out there has been tested and not proven effective. All that just because of the scary name "amphetamine" and no scientific reason at all.
Atleast I hope some of the doctors over here see the lunacy going on, but they still have to play along with the charade because hefty penalties awaits the doctor who prescribes controlled substances too far over the average rate. And in socialist Sweden where people cannot think on their own is it ALWAYS the doctors fault if a patient kills himself with prescribed meds or even merely winds up addicted to them. Patients here are so dumb that it never can be their own fault if they screw up. So I don't blame the doctors. I blame the political system and the legislators.
When it comes to drugs and harm reduction, it's one of the worst countries in Europe. Possibly the worst. We have 1 needle exchange located in the most southern part of the country. That's it. Someone was at least thinking in the right direction when last year 11 november they revised the laws about buying/having needles and syringes. Up untill then buying them was a no go at pharmacies. Well, that sounded good, untill the Swedish counterpart to FDA (läkemedelsverket) decided to add that if in case of suspected drug abuse, no needles and syringes can be sold. So basically now we are able to buy them legally, though the pharmacies won't sell them still unless you have a prescription or manage to bullshit them somehow (many riddiculous reasons I read that people try to sell). Well, some will sell thankfully due to abolishment of state control of all pharmacies. Thank god for those only looking for profit in this case. Still, at least 50% or so of pharmacies are still owned by the state, and the people that work there have always denied my purchases. Importing rigs is a criminal offense also still, unless you have a valid medical reason to use them yourself, which is also riddiculous since there would be no reason at all to import medical supplies to sweden if you are sick here, medicine and treatment cost a total of ~300 euro a year tops. After that the state pays everything.And I have always viewed Sweden as a Progressive country....
The whole system over there sounds outdated, flawed and frankly immortal. Sending a heroin addict away in major withdrawal with only ibuprofen is just insane. In the UK you'd be given at least a tablet or two of bupe but you'd also be registered as a drug abuser on the system which is a downfall to some extent, but doesn't really affect much, it's really so that if you need major surgery they know they will need to use higher doses of IV morphing or whatever.
And the doctors fault regarding addiction I can understand. When I was 15 I was over prescribed diazepam and codeine - luckily I didn't pick up a habit with benzos at that time, but I did hardcore with the codeine. I was never told about the addictive qualities of codeine and wasn't even told until about a year later, when he told me I was an addict. I was like, lol, wtf?