Drug addicts must quit under radical new strategy

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Addicts will be expected to quit drugs completely under the most radical review of government strategy to tackle the problem in more than a decade. Funding could be withdrawn from drug services if they fail to get addicts off heroin and cocaine altogether, The Times has learnt. People with drug and alcohol dependency could lose benefits if they refuse treatment. Theresa May will anounce the strategy later this year after winning a Whitehall battle to keep control of policy on drug issues. The Home Secretary fought off attempts by Iain Duncan Smith, who argued that tackling drugs should be led by his Work and Pensions department because of the link between addiction and the benefits culture.
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Tory Cunts

The Times (£) leads with the news that drug treatment providers will be incentivised to get addicts off drugs and drug substitutes altogether. The overall aim is to get 200,000 people drug-free.

The prevailing policy under previous governments was to minimise the harm to the person and society of an addiction but not to end that addiction. This policy has led to a massive increase in the prescription of 'safe drugs' like Methadone but as an increasing number of reports demonstrate, heroin substitutes like Methadone now account for one-third of drug-related deaths in Scotland.

“We are looking to have greater emphasis on recovery rather than simply on treatment itself,” Home Office Minister James Brokenshire told The Times. “The aim is to get people clear of addiction.” He said that Methadone should be used by doctors and treatment agencies as a pathway towards complete freedom from addiction and not as a safer form of new addiction.

Policy Exchange research earlier this year noted that one-in-six prisoners are receiving drug substitutes. That, noted the research's author Max Chambers, is equivalent to "an estimated 73,000 prisoners over the course of a year whose drug habits are effectively being maintained by the state." He urged that freedom from addiction should become a condition of parole.
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Conservative is becoming more pejorative than liberal as time goes on
 
this makes me want to strangle the idiot that thought it up. hey, why not just chip everyone at birth so they will be a perfect machine for the greater good of the government?
 
Craving is obviously a part of human life in so many different ways, our brains work with how we live to have ticking timeclocks for all sorts of cravings that respond to our environment.

Go ahead, write some more fairy tales on pieces of paper, life will still go on even as the government pretends they are the godhead of universal karma!

voxmystic said:
this makes me want to strangle the idiot that thought it up. hey, why not just chip everyone at birth so they will be a perfect machine for the greater good of the government?
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I thank the United States for my birth, but politicians like to crash and burn this world for their interests. Thankfully there is a pulsation of life and death that happens with time and there will be new, but hopefully more aware, opponents to practicality in the name of personal will to replace us.

I think that a good prediction for the war on drugs continuation date is until most of the public realizes that we are in a waning phase and these politics really are just such bizzare confusion, cover up, or self gain. /tangent
 
thats the the most ignorant thing ive ever heard...what r they going to do next put all addicts in C. Camps and dispose of us?
 
What line in that post is getting you guys all upset?


It seems to just be saying they'd like to put greater focus on recovery as opposed to just treatment. What's wrong with that?

Being an addict isn't a good thing.
 
Carl Landrover said:
What line in that post is getting you guys all upset?


It seems to just be saying they'd like to put greater focus on recovery as opposed to just treatment. What's wrong with that?

Being an addict isn't a good thing.
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Forced recovery is both an idea and a lie lol.
 
The idea that they are just sayin to EVERYBODY, carl, that they have to get off methadone now, and if you dont get off, we will cut off your benefits that give it to you, so you have to get off anyways, is the reason everybody is pissed.

They are basically givin the option of forced detox in a rehab or forced detox at home. There aint smoe kidn of magical timeline that you take methadone for X amoutn of time and are "cured". the point of MAINTENANCE is that you are on it...you take it to maintain....it aint just some kind of prescription antibiotic that you take for 28 days and then you cured. obviously you know that but apparently these folks dont.

the idea that you can FORCE "freedom from addiction" onto a person is insane.


Headlines about 6 months from now in the UK:

Recent Surge in Heroin Use Puzzles Officials

Admissions to Area Hospitals for Overdose Rising Dramatically

Massive Nationwide Crime Spike Unexplained, Say Police

Drug Arrests and Prison Sentences Triple, Continue to Rise
 
Sounds like a "brilliant idea" they had in the UK during the 1960's i read about. The powers that be then decided that withdrawing Methadone for heroin addicts and instead giving them IV methedrine aka pharmaceutical methamphetamine would be much better! I don't know how long that ill fated experiment went on but I read that people who were switched from methadone to methamohetamine during the time were in terrible shape,as is obviuos that giving anyone addcited to heroin,methamphetamine instead of methadone is so stupid I do not understand what the hell the people who thought up that stupid idea were on? Acid perhaps ?..lol..they had to be crazy in the head on acid when they came up with an idea like that,and the results were disasterous as anyone knows....shame when politicians and people with no idea of addcition are making up new strategies like that to "cure" addcition...they were obviuosly in need of some mental "curing" for there extreme stupidity...
 
it has nothing to do with morals and everything to do with cutting funding, they know people on methadone wont give it up (they couldn't care less)- its just a way to strip their benefits, something they are doing to a far greater group than just drug users. the tories have inherited a huge amount of debt and they are known for cutting spending-go figure

if you get robbed insurance (private company) pays out or you take the loss on an individual everyman level, government pays for shit...
 
Forcing an addict into treatment against their will is doomed to fail.

An addict can only get clean when they are ready, and when they want to.
 
The government gives you guys free methadone?! That stuff is like 50% of rent in Florida.

How do I apply to be a British person? Is there a website?
 
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