How to reduce drug related crime?

[alchresearch 215]

A doctor called John Marks?

 

Nope, he's the subject of the article.

 

The author was Johann Hari.

 

Widnes and Wirral may be fairly close geographically but they're worlds apart.

 

In his story he gets Widnes, Wirral and Liverpool mixed up. He refers to the Liverpool docks and HIV for some reason, which have no connection to the Wirral or further upstream in Widnes.

Edited July 18, 2018 by alchresearch

[Padders 2,872]

Just watched a good programme on channel 5 tonight about a tough prison in Nevada..

If that does"nt reduce crime, nothing will.

[Longcol 604]

 

Widnes and Wirral may be fairly close geographically but they're worlds apart.

 

 

Widnes and Birkenhead exhibit some marked similarities - however as far as the majority of the rest of the Wirral goes it's like comparing Stocksbridge to Whirlow.

[El Cid 220]

So is the story (mostly) true or just total nonsense?

 

Paula Grey, public health officer for North Cheshire Health Authority, said that his Widnes clinic's contract to treat local patients had been taken away because it was too expensive to buy heroin. There were also "inevitable fears" that the drugs could "leak out" of the clinic.

 

Former Widnes patients of Dr Marks said they had been devastated by the decision. Maureen Laverty said she had been prescribed heroin for five years. "I got a job as a nursery nurse, settled down with a partner and had a baby," she said.

 

"Now we are being told that we must move to methadone. I just can't do it. I'm in a desperate situation. There are people I know who are going back to prostitution and crime because of what has happened."

 

The last authoritative academic survey found that although more addicts on methadone were trying to give up drugs completely than patients receiving prescribed heroin, the methadone users were three times more likely to "top up" with drugs bought illegally.

 

Home Office civil servants, meanwhile, concede in private that they are becoming increasingly alarmed at the number of people who are dying from misusing methadone.

 

Official government statistics showed there were 532 deaths from drug use in the region from 2014 to 2016. This is up from 283 deaths from 2004 to 2006, 10 years previously.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/let-gps-prescribe-heroin-says-former-top-drugs-adviser-1593877.html

[Phanerothyme 12]

Like this - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heroin-prescription-treatment-middlesbrough-hat-results-crime-homelessness-drugs-a9680551.html?fbclid=IwAR3MiPuibyYFVrbFrcnZ8x_fAYv_tmQdbX3WcfGswaMuRfpjXYZx02ZVuPs

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‘Very promising’: UK’s first full heroin-prescribing scheme extended after reductions in crime and homelessness

 

‘Prison, increased sentencing, police crackdowns and all other efforts to break that cycle have failed,’ says police and crime commissioner

 

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The UK’s first fully-fledged scheme to provide heroin users with a safe and legal supply of the drug has been extended for a further year, after showing “very promising results”.

Heroin-assisted treatment has been used successfully for decades in Switzerland, based in part on Britain’s long-forgotten model of heroin prescribing, and despite “impressive” UK trials, government funding for post-pilot schemes was removed in 2015.

 

But in Cleveland and Glasgow, police and local health experts have pushed in recent years for the creation of two of the UK’s first fully-fledged centres, both of which are now up and running, providing access to medical-grade diamorphine twice per day and to wider social support.

Edited August 21, 2020 by nikki-red
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[melthebell 864]

7 hours ago, Phanerothyme said:

Like this - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/heroin-prescription-treatment-middlesbrough-hat-results-crime-homelessness-drugs-a9680551.html?fbclid=IwAR3MiPuibyYFVrbFrcnZ8x_fAYv_tmQdbX3WcfGswaMuRfpjXYZx02ZVuPs

 

On the other hand, spice use has got worse and the 'product' has got worse since the government cracked down on it's use, banning it

Edited August 21, 2020 by melthebell

[Phanerothyme 12]

Spice - a drug that came into existence as a direct result of cannabis prohibition.

 

[Guest]

Only way is education. Only way.  

[melthebell 864]

9 hours ago, Phanerothyme said:

Spice - a drug that came into existence as a direct result of cannabis prohibition.

 

And then got turned into Britains most dangerous drug by its subsequent bannings

 

[saywhatnow 33]

1 hour ago, melthebell said:

And then got turned into Britains most dangerous drug by its subsequent bannings

 

Which in turn drew it away from the cannabis smokers market as it became stronger and stronger and towards those wanting to escape withdrawal from harder drugs.