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Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour [UK]
#7696972 - 11/29/07 09:55 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour November 29, 2007 - Daily Mail
Nurses should be given powers to prescribe cocaine on the Health Service to addicts, Government drug experts ruled yesterday.
A small number of doctors have already been quietly licensed to give the Class-A drug – which costs £50 per gramme at street prices – to chronic users.
Now the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs wants to go further by giving NHS nurses and pharmacists permission to hand out cocaine.
The user has to take the drug in front of a doctor or nurse – raising the prospect of a medical professional having to watch an addict snort a line of the powder.
There are currently 10,000 individuals receiving treatment in the UK for cocaine use, though not all will be classed as addicts.
The justification for giving an addict free cocaine – paid for by the taxpayer – is that it will help to reduce crime, as they will not have to steal to pay for the drug.
But this is likely to cause controversy because cocaine problems are often associated with high-earners.
Yesterday, advisory council chairman Professor Sir Michael Rawlins said city workers were snorting lines of the drug.
It comes only a week after the revelation that addicts were receiving free heroin on the NHS in a £2.5million pilot scheme.
Critics have questioned the decision to plough so much money into treating drug addicts when law-abiding citizens were being denied much-needed drugs for a range of illnesses.
Alzheimer's patients newly diagnosed and with mild symptoms no longer qualify for medication – despite a cost of only £2.50 each day.
Drugs for some types of cancer, arthritis, bone disease and the prevention of blindness in older people are also being restricted, leading to claims of postcode prescribing and bitter court challenges.
Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: "If Gordon Brown signs up to this it would show yet again that Labour merely seek to manage drug addiction rather than end it.
"We would stop – not swap – drug addiction by focusing the drugs budget on expanding the use of abstinence-based drug rehabilitation programmes. This method has proved far more successful at getting people off drugs than the Government's white flag approach."
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers are being mugged either way by drug users, either directly for their wallet, or indirectly by the taxman.
"The NHS should not be providing cocaine at our expense, especially when thousands of law-abiding patients are denied life-saving treatment. This madness should stop."
Michael Summers, vice chairman of the Patients' Association, said that the move could send out the wrong messages to drug addicts.
"It should not be possible for nurses to have this power," he said.
"It could lead to more nurses being put in vulnerable positions where addicts are putting pressure on them to give them drugs."
Currently, three UK doctors haveabstilicences to give cocaine to addicts.
It is available in extreme cases, where other treatments have failed.
A spokesman for the advisory council said: "We were invited by the Home Office to give a view on the prescribing of controlled drugs – specifically diamorphine, cocaine and dipipanone – for addicts for the management of their addiction.
"Under current legislation, these can only be prescribed for addicts for the management of their addiction by doctors under licence from the Home Office.
"Following consideration, the council's view is that the Misuse of Drugs (Supply to Addicts) Regulations 1997 should be amended to allow Nurse and Pharmacist Supplementary Prescribers to apply for a Home Office licence to prescribe diamorphine, cocaine or dipipanone for addicts for the management of addiction."
A Home Office spokesman said: "We have no intention of allowing nurse and pharmacist prescribers to apply for licences to treat drug users with cocaine."
Ministers have the power to overrule the advisory council, which is an agency of the Home Office, but have sided with the organisation over a number of controversial matters – including the original decision to downgrade cannabis to Class C in January 2004.
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Re: Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour [UK] [Re: veggie]
#7697042 - 11/29/07 10:21 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour [UK] [Re: veggie]
#7697258 - 11/29/07 11:49 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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damn if snorting coke makes you look that good (girl in the pic)
then all girls should snort cocaine
and guys should too
sex sells
this pic is definitely sending a message
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Jack86
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Re: Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour [UK] [Re: usg543]
#7697539 - 11/30/07 02:42 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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cocaine isent even a problem in the uk, the govement are so fucking head under the sand with everything. they would give away free coke, but for a dyeing old woman smoking some pot she gets arrested and threatend to be locked up.
fuck this country, fucking wankers
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Re: Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour [UK] [Re: Jack86]
#7697602 - 11/30/07 03:55 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Pot smokers don't cause as much trouble as cokeheads. That's why.
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Re: Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour [UK] [Re: Jack86]
#7698100 - 11/30/07 09:31 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Umm, you very wrong there cocaine is definetly a 'problem' in the UK.
I'm saying it use is extremely widespread. I live in a small town and theres as much coke here as there is weed - which is a lot!
UK is a big market because we pay the most out of all of Europe for our coke.
Anyway on the subject matter, I'm off to my doc to get a few lines of pure coke! Fuck yeah
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Re: Let nurses give free cocaine to addicts, experts tell Labour [UK] [Re: Ego Death]
#7702580 - 12/01/07 12:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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what i was meaning, its hardly smack is it, imo its crazy giving it away to so called "addicts". think its pertherctic if im honest.
this countrys a fucking dive
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