How come the NHS is withdrawing a £2.50 drug to combat dementia but drug addicts can get methadone needles ect,God i feel angry and ashamed of the gov in the UK.
2006-10-11 10:53:28 · 13 answers · asked by Francis7 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
We have just learned that our local hospital is to close and be replaced with a diagnostic centre ie no beds no wards it has been there in one form or another since 1876.Gov does not live in the real world.
2006-10-11 22:39:46 · update #1
To steve and mel I do see your point but isnt the Gov excluding and depriving the elderly of care?
2006-10-11 22:45:21 · update #2
Worked for the NHS and related 35yrs had enough someone elses turn to fight for the services needed.But Thanks to all for their oppinions.
2006-10-12 11:18:06 · update #3
Cause people with dementia dont go out robbing and stealing to pay for their habit if they dont have the drugs they need.
I'm with you on this one but the government runs on statistics unfortunately. Personally I'd find the 2-50 myself if anybody close to me needed it.
2006-10-11 11:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I cannot say why this is being withdrawn but I would like to pont out that drug addicts are people too. Why shouldn't they be treated on the NHS? Fair enough, they do not always get off the drugs but some do and go on to be successful. If you treat a 20 year old heroin addict you give them another 60 years of healthy life. not to mention the benefit on the economy due to reduction in shoplifting etc and making some areas nicer places to live.
Where I live there is a primary care facility specifically for socially excluded people such as drug addicts, asylum seekers and prostitutes. This takes them out of regular facilities and allows users to be treated by somebody who understands their problems. This facility will be closed down soon and plans to relocate it to a disused supermarket nearby have been withdrawn due to the outcries of not in my backyard from residents. You might think fair enough but this alot of the addicts and prsotitutes live in this area and now they cannot get treatment crime rates in the area will undoubtedly rise.
Do not be ashamed of this country because drug users get treatment, it would be alot worse of they didn't.
2006-10-12 04:59:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because unfortunately drug addicts create more social problems than somebody with dementia, thus costing the government more money overall. Drug addicts are usually involved with the police service, the probation service, social services, community mental health teams, alcohol and drug rehabilitation services, outreach services, the DSS, housing services and the National Health service. In comparison they use up more funding than most socially excluded groups. So, I guess there theory is that if they can get them clean they will require less intervention and thus save the government money. Dementia on the otherhand is terminal and can not be cured.
2006-10-11 18:01:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I work in the dam NHS and to be honest the public have got the complete wrong end of the stick (or should i say the papers/news are majorly miss informing you) when it comes to monies spent on drugs and all the troubles with budgets...
if the NHS got its head out of its ar*e and stopped merging and unmerging Trusts and their subsequent budgets we would be fine... but instead we have a right honerable ar*ehole in charge of things in the house of commons who is making it increasingly hard stressfull and impossible to keep to budgets and patients happy...
Oh and as for the comment on druggies.. nope your wrong... all non essential outreach centres and services were the first things to be cut... and that includes the needle exchange!!!
Sorry if it seems im blowing off... but if your stressed botu it all imagine what we feel like working for them not knowing if we are getting our notice every morning!!!
2006-10-12 11:20:14 · answer #4 · answered by Cat ( " , ) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frank I agree with you 100%. Thousands of people in the area that I live are currently campaigning to keep our local hospital open. They are even talking about only opening our A&E 9am-5pm? So basically you have to plan to injure yourself during working hours. God help us if our kids get sick in the night!!
As for drug addicts- my area of town is mainly council houses and alot of our neighbouring streets are full of addicts. It annoys me because old people who get dementia do not ask for it, they do not snort it or inject it or smoke it. They should be the priority here not the hopeless wasters who made a consious decision to make themselves ill. I am a smoker and if I get sick in the future because of that then I am just as bad- let me die and save a child with luchemia or a person with dementia.
Our government needs to get real!
2006-10-12 10:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by Banny Grasher 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ect is wrong it is etc et cetera now that cleared up.
Our Government that you are angry with should make you even more angry when I tell you we were in Afghanistan and didn't pour toxins on the plants that produce 80% of the worlds heroin.
If we did that they would have no economy. We would have to build their country and subsidise them for the foreseeable future. So our Government see as a cheaper option to let heroin flood our streets.
2006-10-11 18:10:34 · answer #6 · answered by SunGod 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't object to anyone receiving treatment - unlike the government. Just 2 days ago there were news reports that they are investing so many more millions(billions?) into research and I wondered why when they say they can't afford to use the discoveries on the people who need them! We can afford wars we don't want, and they'll continue to find money for peers and all sorts, but when it comes to living up to their promises about improving health, education etc, forget it.
2006-10-11 18:09:49 · answer #7 · answered by diquarry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The goverment in the UK needs to get its prioritys right..they'de rather have a load of junkies sponging off the state then fixing a real Disease...my daughter has Heart Problems and has needed warfarin since birth now she has left school and working she has to pay for prescriptions she would die without it. but a person that has thyroid problems,diabetes etc get them free dont make sense.....
2006-10-12 02:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by daz2chat 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you prefer hundreds of more HIV and Hep c addicts running round, perhaps infecting others - hence the needles
2006-10-11 18:01:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know where your coming from, but like 1 answered earlier, it's better than an outbreak in heppatitis and hiv, but still understanding your point, but m8 we'll be bashing heads against a brick wall!
2006-10-11 18:05:58 · answer #10 · answered by diamonds 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋