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15 minutes ago, kidley said:

There is certainly more deaths from overdosing than there ever was, deaths from o.d is at record levels.

whether there is more people using drugs or not is irrelevant when there is more people overdosing themselves to death. 

isn't, at least, part of the rise in overdoses, that heroin is being cut with fentanyl and other opioids which means the lethal dose is far less than with heroin alone.

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3 hours ago, nikki-red said:

This is a really interesting article. Lots of statistics and info about heroin-assisted treatment clinics etc.

Worth a read.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Heroin 
 

Interesting...But where's the help for those who DON'T take drugs?

 

All banging good for those that do....What about those that don't..?

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Cannot believe these problems have not been sorted after seeing posts from some of Sheffield's self appointed experts.

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15 hours ago, kidley said:

i wont comment on the link below onley to say, i am one of the billions of people who have quit smoking at the fifth attempt and i was a heavy smoker, 50 a day bloke 

 

https://vapingdaily.com/quitting-effects/nicotine-withdrawal-symptoms-timeline/ 

Wow!  Well done, kidley!  Your lungs will be thanking you too.

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17 hours ago, kidley said:

There is certainly more deaths from overdosing than there ever was, deaths from o.d is at record levels.

whether there is more people using drugs or not is irrelevant when there is more people overdosing themselves to death. 

Austerity is responsible for 130,000+ deaths, and the increase in suicides by drug overdose, most common, by paracetamol, I presume.

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5 hours ago, Lex Luthor said:

Austerity is responsible for 130,000+ deaths, 

yeah, ok

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Ultimately, we cannot say — based on the evidence in this study —  that austerity policies caused 120,000 extra deaths.

FactCheck: Did austerity kill 120,000 people?

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-did-austerity-kill-120000-people

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10 minutes ago, alchresearch said:

yeah, ok

FactCheck: Did austerity kill 120,000 people?

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-did-austerity-kill-120000-people

I'm not going to argue with you about how many thousands because, for me, one life gone is too many, never mind about thousands. 

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On 25/01/2020 at 16:24, Halibut said:

Why do you see that as a problem?

The cost alone would make it difficult to work. 

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1 minute ago, lottiecass said:

The cost alone would make it difficult to work. 

Pharmaceutically pure heroin is very cheap.  The cost of the service would be a great deal cheaper than all the expenses of the crime and policing costs associated with addicts having to fund their own addiction.

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1 minute ago, Halibut said:

Pharmaceutically pure heroin is very cheap.  The cost of the service would be a great deal cheaper than all the expenses of the crime and policing costs associated with addicts having to fund their own addiction.

So you think all junkies want to be clean? if you do you are mistaken. Bodies will be needed for this to work, the only people to benefit from this scheme will be addicts and the bodies that run the scheme. Why is it that the heroin substitute programme hasn't worked? its free and easy to obtain. So you think that giving the real thing will make the drug dealers world collapse? 

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1 hour ago, lottiecass said:
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So you think all junkies want to be clean?

No, but if they have the opportunity to get clean gear on prescription, they'll take it and not need to steal to feed their addiction.

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Bodies will be needed for this to work, the only people to benefit from this scheme will be addicts and the bodies that run the scheme.

No again - society as a whole benefits; less crime, addicts that are no longer criminals and able to make a positive contribution.

 

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Why is it that the heroin substitute programme hasn't worked? its free and easy to obtain.

One of the reasons is that methadone is really quite unpleasant compared to heroin and doesn't give the user a high. And it's definitely not always easy to obtain.

 

 

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So you think that giving the real thing will make the drug dealers world collapse? 

Common sense suggests that if the users can get clean gear on prescription, they won't want to get dirty gear from dealers does it not?

 

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