HOW THEY DESTROYED

THE U.K’s MOST WORKABLE SYSTEM

FOR THE COMMISSIONING OF

 

RECOVERY FROM DRUG ADDICTION.

(SOLELY TO MAINTAIN DRUG PROFITS.)

The Government’s Payment by Results (PBR) schemes are now estimated by the National Audit Office to account for over £15 BILLION of public spending.

These are outcome based payment schemes where payment of all or part of the agreed charges DEPENDS ON THE PROVIDER ACTUALLY ACHIEVING RESULTS specified by the national or local government Department contracting for the Provider’s services.

When, in the last quarter of 2010, the then Government recognised that since 1948 the National Health Service had for more than 60 years been paying for rehabilitation of addicted drug addicts - whilst receiving an actual delivery by a majority of Providers of only 3% of cured (i.e. long term abstinent) users, the Rt Hon Oliver Letwin and his team introduced probably the world’s most viable and promising addiction handling policy ever.

At that time, provision of rehabilitation was based overwhelmingly on Opioid Substitution Therapy (methadone and Subutex prescribing) and 12 Steps Mutual Therapy Groups (both residential and in-the-community), plus, in over 45 countries including the U.K., some Self-Help Residential Addiction Recovery Training Centres.

And the first revelation of the new policy was that whilst

(a) 12 Steps had – over periods of years – an apparent 20 to 30% chance of producing lasting abstinence - often with continued weekly application,

(b) N.H.S. O.S.T. prescribing was delivering only 3% of late-life abstinence, whilst,

(c) in three months across at least 45 nations, Self-Help Residential Addiction Recovery Training was delivering 55 to 69+% of former addicts comfortably abstinent for 9 months or more, and that they had been doing so since 1966.

In other words, with CONTINUING ABSTINENCE for its goal, the 2010 introduction of Payment by Results quickly revealed that there were actually little or NO RESULTS from the “flagship” psycho-pharm O.S.T. prescribing at an annual cost of over £47,000 per addict, a BETTER RESULT from much less costly 12 Steps, and a comfortably RELAXED LASTING ABSTINENCE RESULT from Self-Help Residential Addiction Recovery Training - at a ONCE ONLY cost of just over half the ANNUAL O.S.T. cost.

Rationally, what these revelations should of course have achieved, was a massive move away from O.S.T. prescribing and an equally large move towards 12 Steps and the world’s main Providers of Self-Help Residential Addiction Recovery Training – known as NARCONON® - which was established in the Arizona State Prison System in 1966 and which has been expanding across the world ever since.

BUT IT DIDN’T.

Solely because the psycho-pharmaceutical fraternity didn’t want to lose its highly lucrative O.S.T. methadone and buprenorphine prescribing business which it had built up over the previous 62 years, and which was costing the Government between £8.46 and £10.8 BILLIONS per year across all government Departments, for the 40 year life of the average prescribed methadone addict. 

(Figures obtained from the National Audit Bureau & Glasgow University)

Unfortunately the Government were persuaded by psychiatric Professor Sir John Strang’s psycho-pharm supporters that, because Payment by Results was “a relatively new idea”, it ought to be tried out in practice before being widely introduced.

Whilst PbR is of course merely a “payment system”, in the addiction recovery field it absolutely depends on first being able to deliver the LONG TERM ABSTINENCE RESULT required by the Government.   So for his four year “pilot” of Payment by Results, Strang quietly selected rehabilitation centres for his “pilots” which he full well knew could seldom if ever actually deliver a lasting abstinence RESULT.

Which absence of results, after completion of his “pilots”, he pronounced as an abject failure of the Payment by Results system, rather than as a failure of the O.S.T. prescription “management” system he had exclusively favoured and piloted.

It should be noted that he carefully excluded from his “pilots“ the one then 44 year established addiction recovery programme capable of delivering enough addicts to relaxed abstinent results to make a Payment by Results system actually WORK for the nation’s benefit.

Of all the commentators observing and measuring the U.K. addiction scene, the National Audit Bureau’s estimate of the cost of O.S.T. prescribing is the lowest per annum, at over £47,000 per addict per annum – likely for the next 40 years.

But a competent Self-Help three months long Residential Addiction Recovery Training Programme, when delivered on a Payment by Results basis, is priced at a once only fee of £29,000, of which £20,000 remains UNPAID until, as and if, the various desired degrees of relaxed lasting abstinence are achieved and medically approved by physician examination at three, six and nine months from the start of the Programme.

51 years of history across charitably run addiction recovery centres in 45 countries adequately demonstrates that a trained addict who has comfortably abstained for six or nine month is seldom – IF EVER – going to again become an addict.

Obviously, because an addiction recovery training centre is a drug-free environment, any addict in study is going to gain three months of drug free living, or is going to fail, and in either event thus pay for no more than his or her accommodation, bed, board, laundry and toiletry costs, which have to be covered wherever they reside.

But the following three months as well as the next three months prove their relaxed abstinent condition and prove to the Commissioner that the Provider merits staged payments of fees based solely on the abstinence RESULTS achieved at each stage.

To offset the biased result created by Sir John Strang’s previous four year Payment by Results “pilots”, what is now required is a new set of “pilots” over a similar period based on a three months, 51 year tried and tested, Self-Help Residential Addiction Recovery Training Programme.

Insofar as the psycho-pharm fraternity have already spent the last half century trying to get rid of Self-Help Residential Addiction Recovery Training in every possible unfair and underhand way, it is clear that such a new set of pilots will be violently, overtly and covertly resisted in every manner, because the psycho-pharms just do not want our politicians to know the truth.

For turnover and profit reasons, the psycho-pharms do not wish to deliver cures for ILLEGAL addiction – mainly because they also CAN’T !

However, they CAN cure INVOLUNTARY addiction to prescribed medical drugs – but they seldom if ever do so, and they resist having anyone else do it, by neglecting to manufacture and provide the essential small-size drop-down dosages which comfortable withdrawal from medical drugs absolutely necessitates.

As a result, any government moves or proposals to avoid and / or cure either illegal or prescribed addiction will fail if psychiatric or pharmaceutical advice is sought on these subjects, because addiction in any of its forms is their favourite way of capturing and retaining new consumers of drugs and psychiatric services.

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This Report Prepared by S.A.F.E., the

Society for an Addiction Free Existence

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The Power of Promotion.

HOW AND WHY PSYCHIATRISTS

 

ARE MULTIPLYING “ALL OUR”
  

SO-CALLED MENTAL HEALTH

 PROBLEMS SO QUICKLY & WIDELY.

The pseudo-science of psychiatry is fighting for its very existence.

With psychiatrists' so-called “mental health patients” regularly committing murders and suicides as a result of today's psychiatric “treatments”, it is little wonder that more and more psychiatrists are going to prison for crimes against their patients.

And that's not only for the physically and emotionally damaging crimes they call “treatment”.  They are also being prosecuted for sexual and other crimes, including financial and other fraud, intimate sexual fondling, seduction and rape, etc., etc.

Because mis-comprehension, fraud, lust, fear and unresearched and unproven invention are much of what psychiatry is based on.

It pretends to deliver “mental health”, but English dictionaries say “mental” means “appertaining to, of, done by or involving the mind”, but it is totally impossible to find in psychiatric technical and training literature a clear and agreed upon definition and description of the human “mind”, its structure and its functions.

And in fact, one finds in Dr Chris Evans' authoritative “Dictionary of the Mind, Brain and Behaviour”:  “Whilst few psychologists think of “mind” as a spiritual entity separable from the brain and body, most now accept that the richness and reality of mental life cannot be denied and that a place must be found for the word “mind” in comprehensive theories of human behaviour”. (ISBN 0-09-918070-7)

(N.B. Not “a place for the concept of and obvious operational control of the mind”, but merely “a place” for “the word” “mind”.  Because, after all, “mind” is what we psychiatrists are supposed to be the experts on, so we had better at least mention it !)

And that dictionary's definition and description of “psychiatry” ends with: “The trouble with psychiatry today is that it is still without a working theory, not just of the mind, but also the disturbed mind.  Even a definition of mental illness is not easy to come by, so perhaps it is not surprising that to this date psychiatric methods have inevitably been of a hit or miss variety” !

It is obviously fraudulent for any so-called body of knowledge, which pretends to rule on and deliver “mental health”, to even attempt to operate with, advise on or treat the mind, with no knowledge of what a mind is - or even if mind exists !   And if you don't KNOW about the mind and “mental health”, then you have to play psychiatry's favourite game.

YOU INVENT mental disorders in order to give your practitioners something “to treat”, and, in addition to irrationally and unnecessary invading their patients' heads and brains with electric drills, sharp knives, powerful electric shocks and massive drug injections, you thereafter prescribe daily addictive pharmaceutical dosages to keep the patients' anger against their treatment and its practitioners under control.

But when we examine “the human mind”, we are investigating the intellectual component which distinguishes man from the rest of the flesh & blood animal kingdom.  The factor that raises man above all other life forms on the planet.

And the reason that we make no progress in handling Man's (actually very few) REAL mental problems, is because we continue to accept the warped theories and interpretations of psychiatry, which knows nothing of the truth about Mankind, our minds, their anatomy, their functions and how our minds may be protected and healed.

Which brings us back to how and why psychiatrists are multiplying U.K. mental health problems so quickly and widely.

If you want to make more money from selling fish and chips, then one of the things you need to do is to make more fish and chips to sell.

If you want to appear as THE expert on mental health disorders, you need to make sure, by inventing them, that there are more so-called mental health disorders to worry and frighten the public, to divert and confuse politicians and to con our celebrities (including our beloved Royal Family) into naively and earnestly supporting what they are led to believe are victims of increasingly widespread and multitudinous “mental health disorders” which psychiatry then claims “only” psychiatrists can handle with their addictive and / or hypnotic drug prescribing.

Highly profitable pharmaceutical drug prescriptions, paid for by the U.K. taxpayer, which are today's main form of psychiatric mental health “management”.   Ask yourself “how & why” was David Cameron earlier this year conned into recom-mending the chief government psychiatrist Professor John Strang for a knighthood, when the only things of doubtful merit he has achieved are the labelling of more people with “psychiatric versions” of normal behaviour conditions, plus the creation of more iatrogenically created lifelong involuntary U.K. drug addicts than anyone in history.

But from where do all the new “mental disorders” come ?

Simply, from the re-labelling and promotion of numerous and various types of normal behaviour as “mental health problems”.   Childhood is one – labelled as ADHD.

There is no such illness, sickness, disorder, germ, virus or contagion, etc., as “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder"", except in the minds of the small group of American Psychiatric Association senior members who edit their “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders”, for pricing and invoicing psychiatric services to insurers, health authorities and other clients.

And for which that manual - practically without exception – recommends: 'MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL DISORDER SYMPTOMS BY PRESCRIPTION'. i.e. One to 4 times a day – you should addictively drug your clients / patients into compliance.

THINK I'M JOKING OR EXAGGERATING ?

Right now, there are 2.4 MILLION mainly elderly U.K. N.H.S. patients on three times a day addictive dosages being “treated” for nothing more than the addiction they have been prescribed into – the majority of their dosages having originally been prescribed for some long gone spurious mental health disorder.

Additionally, the U.K. has nearly 200,000 addicted patients on once a day Opioid Substitution Therapy prescriptions which the National Audit Office reports cost the Government - across all Departments and for every single OST addict - over £47,000 PER YEAR FOR LIFE, which is usually up to 40 years.   That's currently £9.4 BILLION a year being spent to keep opioid addicts addicted at taxpayer cost.

Then there's the increasing number of schoolchildren on Ritalin, Prozac or another addictive substance for so-called ADHD, ADD or SAD (Social Anxiety Disorder – i.e. shyness), or diagnoses such as Mathematics Disorder, Nicotine Related Disorder, Reading Disorder, Alcohol Related Disorder, Written Expression Disorder or up to well over 365 other psychiatrically promoted DSM-MD-V listed mental disorders – with newly invented disorders being added every year !

 

The younger a child can be psychiatrically hooked onto addictive pharmaceutical drugs, the longer he or she will be a profitable addict.  Profitable to the pharmaceutical production companies who make full use of psychiatrists' ability and willingness to prescribe pharmacology's profitable products.

And here we have why psychiatrists are multiplying as widely and quickly as possible what they claim can likely become “everybody's” mental health problems.

For reasons concerned only with fat fees, salaries, bonuses, profits and dividends, a majority of psychiatrists and most of the pharmaceutical production companies want to sell as many addictive drug doses as possible.  Millions and millions and millions of dosages every single day, paid for by the N.H.S. from taxpayer funds.

How they do it: is by convincing EVERYBODY that “mental health” is a HUGE, problem, likely to be suffered by ALL OF US, for the solution of which we should rely on psychiatry and the self-styled “ethical” pharmaceutical companies and chemists shops, when the truth is that those drug sources create more mental, emotional, behavioural and addictive habit problems than anything else in life.

By falsely re-defining many normal living and growing up patterns and behaviours as “mental health disorders”, they expand their excuses for prescribing more and more addictive drug doses every year.

Billions every year,  Millions every day.  And you wonder why the N.H.S. is “apparently” needing more and more money.

And the answer is that they are curing less and less patients and “managing” more and more patients EVERY YEAR.  With the result that fewer and fewer people are actually being fully cured of anything, and that inevitably THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS ON PRESCRIPTIONS GOES UP EVERY YEAR.

Like all of us, psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies regret and bemoan the death of any prescription patient.  But in their case it is because they lose a goose which lays profitable golden eggs for them.

They regret and resist even more, any proposals to cure the millions of involuntary N.H.S. drug addicted patients of their dependency – even though this would save BILLIONS and BILLIONS of £pounds a year for U.K. taxpayers.

As a result, for more and more involuntarily addicted patients, the only time their psychiatric disorder comes to an end, is on the day they are put into a wooden box.

To avoid all this.  Stop listening to and being seduced by the failed psychiatric version of “mental health”, and instead find out something about “DIANETICS® The Modern Science of Mental Health”, which, although attacked in every way possible by American and German psychiatry for over sixty years, is now increasingly used in more countries and by more practitioners than psychiatry – not because of lying, slanted and exaggerated promotion – but because Dianetics works to deliver more happy and relaxed mentally clear citizens year after year.

For further details free of charge and without obligation, phone (01342) 810151 any day after 11.00am and before 9.00pm.  Or e-mail: keneck@btinternet.com.

SOCIETY for an ADDICTION FREE EUROPE (SAFE)

is a not-for-profit community support group formed in 1975.

Yes Minister,

 

LET'S REALLY GET GOVERNMENT

SPENDING INTO PERSPECTIVE.

At Hinkley Point politicians talk about expenditure in BILLIONS, and rightly worry and fret about it perhaps becoming double the current build estimate of £18 Billions over the next 20 years.

BUT WHERE ARE OUR MINISTERS' SENSE OF PROPORTION ?

Hinkley Point is chicken-feed when compared to other totally wasteful government expenditure occurring right now, and year after year after year, to the detriment of the funding of the whole U.K. National Health Service.

Parliament's own National Audit Office (in respect of ANNUAL expenditure for the maintaining of 200,000 legally prescribed O.S.T. methadone addicts) reports that, on average, across ALL Government Departments, every such legalised addict costs the British taxpayers in excess of £47,000 annually - for likely up to 40 years.

Unless I have my decimal-point in the wrong place,

200,000 X £47,000

= £9.4 BILLION - not once - but EACH & EVERY YEAR for the next 40 years,

a 40 year total of £376,000,000,000 (HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS !)

But what problem is that super-massive spending supposed to be solving ?

Because of its well recognised long term fundamental dangers to both the economy and the society IT IS THE PROBLEM OF THE DAILY DEPENDENCY OF OVER 3 MILLION U.K. CITIZENS ON ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCES.

Addictive and / or hypnotic drugs already supplied to some 5% of our population by criminals, smugglers, psychiatrists, other physicians and pharmaceutical companies.

But the psychiatrists and pharmacologists who are the so-called “experts” dictating the government policies which result in the spending of all these £BILLIONS, pretend that the problem has nothing to do with the 7.4 MILLION doses of pharmaceutical drugs they prescribe and dispense EACH AND EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE YEAR to 2.6 Million of those 3 Million U.K. drug addicts !

Instead, they lay the blame on, and focus government attention wholly on, the 15% (a few hundred thousand) of people who are victims of ILLEGAL drug addiction, by issuing Clinical Guidelines on what they call “Drug Misuse and Dependency” which apply ONLY to that 15%, but which successfully diverts attention away from the 2.6 Million addicts they have created with medical prescriptions, and on whom the massive £BILLIONS are spent EVERY YEAR.

NOT TO CURE THEM.  But to “manage” their addictions to the further benefit of psycho-pharmaceutical turnover and profit.

Of course, those 2.6 Million involuntary addicts are not labelled as “addicts” by the psycho-pharm fraternity.

NO.  THEY ARE CALLED “PATIENTS”.  Because as patients, they can go on, day after day, month after month and year after year receiving daily psycho-pharm “treatment” in the form of more and more addictive pharmaceutical drugs paid for by taxpayers via the N.H.S's already overburdened budget.

BUT, as they are designated as “patients”, any Minister, other Politician, Civil Service Official or Member of the Electorate has not only the right, but the duty, to ask: “for what are all these “patients” being treated” ?

And, the honest answer is: “For their addiction to the medical prescriptions we give them every day in order to handle their somewhat disastrous “cold turkey” withdrawal effects, which we do by every day renewing and re-enforcing their addiction with each succeeding dose”.

Don't ask the physicians if they are curing the patients' addiction - because the honest answer is: “Well we don't fully know how to, and we don't really have the resources, and in any event, the pharmaceutical companies don't actually manufacture the small doses we need to enable us to start treating them with a small-dose step down withdrawal programme”.

In leading the on-going revising of the 2007 Clinical Guidelines Working Group on Drug Misuse and Dependency (in order to validate new drug treatments for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [N.I.C.E.]) - Professor Strang is hoping to create more and more involuntary prescription “patients” / addicts by again ensuring that the Government's funded drug “misuse” addiction rehabilitation programme is based exclusively on the prescribing of addictive medical substitution drugs in place of “street” drugs.

But, because this cannot cure addiction, it will not reduce the number of U.K drug addicts and never will.   Quite the reverse.

It will also not reduce the number of deaths by drug poisoning, which have increased by 39% over the last five years.

And, it will definitely not reduce the burden of pharmaceutical drug expenditure on the N.H.S.  Again quite the reverse.

SO MINISTER, please tell me when is someone going to remove the blindfolds from your eyes and the propaganda headphones from your ears, and allow you to quietly talk with people like S.A.F.E., and thus know the truth about the International Narconon® Programme which has been curing addicts of substance addiction for fifty years at 98 centres in 49 countries on a 13 week residential programme and, if you so desire, on a Payment by Results basis.

The only thing wrong with the U.K. drug addiction scene is lack of communication between the right people in government and people - like the writer - who actually DO KNOW how to recover addicts from addiction without administering drugs, on a lasting relaxed abstinence basis and on a viable and economical cost level.

Because of those communication lines having been cut so expertly by black propaganda and condemningly dishonest P.R., most of what Ministers and their Officials "think" they know about addiction recovery and Narconon - is totally misleading and mainly false.

But the truth is available – not far from Westminster – and if you would like to learn more, feel free to phone on (01342) 810151 or 811099 any weekday after 11.00am and before 9.00pm.

S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed In 1975.

Society for an Addiction Free Europe.

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