uh, a lot of those treatments came about because of the UN's drug policies. Fucking geniuses.
“A particular form of ill-treatment and possibly torture of drug users is the denial of opiate substitution treatment,” the report says, noting that this is considered a human rights violation when done in jails and prisons. “Similar reasoning should apply to the non-custodial context,” it says, meaning that provision of such treatment should be required when desired by patients and where evidence suggests it would help. Some countries — like Russia — completely ban the use of maintenance treatments, despite the fact that they have been shown to cut overdose deaths dramatically. American prisons also routinely deny access to maintenance medications, citing concerns about inmates selling them, which puts them in violation of these human rights.
mrflowers00;11390795 said:it's cause no one gives a shit about the mentally ill or drug addicts
Foreigner;11388853 said:I hope in 50 years the future generation is able to look back on the war on drugs and just shake their heads, much like how we look back on lobotomies and spraying children with DDT in disbelief.
The grief and human suffering that the DEA (and its UN offshoot) have caused is enormous.
beagleboy;11394212 said:Attn central NY suboxone adicts!
This one time i went to Oswego County Hospital Mental Helath facility Bunner St.
I had been abusing my Suboxone ( script for 12mg/day. I was doing 2x that/daily ) and then all of a sudden my prescribing physician goes on vacation for 2 weeks. I went to Bunner st, and i didnt have ANY withdrawls. I am a Scientologist ( I love Tom Cruise. Katie is a drug addict and has started to post on this website ) and the staff still treated me with kid gloves when I told them of my predictiment.
I had previously when Prescribing Physician went on anothe rvacation for a few weeks suffered from the worst withdrawls EVER.
Mendez also cites denial of access to pain treatment as a torturous practice in health care settings. According to the WHO, 83% of the world’s population has little or no access to treatment for severe pain with the most effective medications like morphine, even at the end of life. Poor and middle income countries house half the world’s cancer patients and 95% of all new HIV cases, but only use 6% of the world’s supply of morphine. “Failure to ensure access to controlled medicines for the relief of pain and suffering threatens fundamental rights to health and to protection against cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” the report says.
slimvictor;11392325 said:My feelings exactly.
I would add that we may see the end of the drug war as similar to women getting the right to vote, people of all skin colors getting to go to the same schools, and gay people being allowed to marry. Like those, it is an issue of fundamental human freedom. Nature, or God, or someone put me on this earth, so how dare the government say that certain plants/chemicals that nature/God/Zeus put here are illegal? Pathetic.
slimvictor;11392325 said:My feelings exactly.
I would add that we may see the end of the drug war as similar to women getting the right to vote, people of all skin colors getting to go to the same schools, and gay people being allowed to marry. Like those, it is an issue of fundamental human freedom. Nature, or God, or someone put me on this earth, so how dare the government say that certain plants/chemicals that nature/God/Zeus put here are illegal? Pathetic.