are they taking the p*** or what? its not april is it
2006-11-22 00:47:41 · 14 answers · asked by button moon 5 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
no i do not mean meth, i mean actual heroin, they are talking about it to lower the risk of crime because thats how people pay for it normally, watch the bloody news before you judge my question
2006-11-22 00:53:27 · update #1
i dont read the daily mail
thanks rrm (i think it was that), if they didnt take the first hit though, they wouldnt need to bloody steal and rob, sensible answer thanks
2006-11-22 01:00:46 · update #2
i know what you mean.
we pay our ni for the nhs and these people get free heroin when there are people waiting for transplants, children dying, people laying on trolleys in corridors waiting for beds all due to under funding when the money is being spent on druggies.
i know these people have a 'problem' but no one made them start using, they made a choice (albeit a bad one) and why should we fund their habit when there are much better things for the money to go on.
2006-11-22 01:01:37 · answer #1 · answered by lola 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The approach to drug dependency needs to change as its clear for all to see that our current system is just not working. Drug dependency is currently treated as a criminal issue and this must change to a health issue. If heroin was prescribed on the NHS we'd be sure that the substance given to the patient were the genuine article and not something else. The patient would be in the care of all the right people who could help the patient kick the habit. Also, this would drastically reduce crime rated and put the dealers out of business.
Compared to Iran our attitude to the issue is draconian. Iran has an awful problem with heroin abuse and in recent years has drastically changed the system they employ, including the use of 'shooting up clinics,' where the patient can inject in a sterile environment, therby eradicating the risk of infection and other desieses such as aids.
What the Constable has suggested is correct and quite frankly common sense.
2006-11-22 09:51:34 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Slug 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Heroin has been available from the NHS under trials for several years now, and the results show that it's very effective. Drug-related crime is severely reduced, health problems are much reduced, and the overall cost to the taxpayer is also severely reduced. Historically, it's only been the past 40 years or so that heroin hasn't been prescribed and/or supplied by doctors and the NHS. This approach has also been used in Scandinavia for many years, and as a result drug-related crime has fallen by a massive extent.
2006-11-22 08:59:19 · answer #3 · answered by Captain Flaps 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's one of the arguments put forward for legalising these drugs, most of the petty crime in the UK is drug related, and making it available on the NHS would ensure that people did not have to commit a crime to get it, would put the dealers out of business and cut crime that way, and it would ensure that those people taking it got a drug the constituents of which were known and they were not adulterated with brick dust, strychnine, etc as does sometimes happen. The NHS does use heroin as a drug in treatment of chronic pain from cancers.
2006-11-22 09:00:32 · answer #4 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the suggestion by someone in the position he is in, should concentrate on the serious Gun Crime that is infecting his city ,rather than support low life Smack Heads.
This is disgusting and should not even be considered.
These addicts are responsible for a lot of major crime involving attacks on the elderly and innocent people going about their business,they should be locked up somewhere and made to do cold turkey until they are fit to go back into society.
Instead of spending most of their time raiding Cannabis users,spend the cash on ridding the streets of Heroin and the like.
2006-11-22 09:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by mentor 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You haven't listened properly.
It is one senior police officers personal opinion that if we were to give addicts heroin then there would be an immediate down turn in acquisition crime as they wouldn't have rob and steal to fund there addiction.
He's right, there would be alot less street robbery and burglary, however, it would have a huge effect on the anti drugs messages sent out. On the one hand we would tell kids that it's bad to take drugs but then we also fund the addicts habit for them.
it's totally unworkable.
2006-11-22 08:58:05 · answer #6 · answered by RRM 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
some people can get cannabis on the nhs... its a good painkiller, like heroin... most drugs are illegal when they are unsubscribed... dont get in such a fuss..
Look at morphine... thats a really dangerous thing when its not subscribed... the subscriptions will be carefully measured out. Calm down.
2006-11-22 08:51:03 · answer #7 · answered by Doucheball 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Don,t Panic -- Anything goes now the Lunatics are in charge of the Asylum -- It will be compulsory soon .
2006-11-22 12:45:02 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heroin should be prescribed to drug addicts to tackle crime, the deputy chief constable of Nottinghamshire has said at a drugs conference.
2006-11-22 08:56:15 · answer #9 · answered by Polo 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Heroin is a brand name and it's always been available on the NHS.
That doesn't mean it's going to be free for whoever wants it, give them some credit!
Go back to your Daily Mail
2006-11-22 08:57:20 · answer #10 · answered by voodoobluesman 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋