"WRONG TARGET" Mr HEALTH MINISTER !

THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CAN NEVER

IMPROVE WHILST YOU GO ON MISSING THE

REAL REASONS FOR ITS FAILINGS.

You are either stupid, a criminal, or a misguided amateur, and most observers believe the latter, because you and other Ministers have been so beautifully and professionally conned by the world's P.R. and marketing propaganda experts.

Cost of premises, ambulances, nursing staff, doctors, surgeons, furnishings, beds, equipment, utilities, management and administration, etc., have all been blamed for the N.H.S. “needing” more money. But you have only to carefully examine the two wealthiest industries in the world – and why they are so profitable – to recognise the source of our economy's medical financing problems.

The nationwide addictive habit known as “boozing” overloads our A&E Services with dirty, smelly, noisy and undeserving clients every weekend of the year, whilst the increasing prescribing, throughout every year, of Billions of doses of addictive substances to millions of patients, daily drains the Department of Health purse to the point where other vital N.H.S. services have to be robbed in order to pay the pharmaceutical companies for their over-prescribed products !

The real and true problem is: “ADDICTION”, and far from being an “accident”, an unfortunate “side-effect”, a result of “MIS-use” or “AB-use”, its widening growth and usage is part of a deliberate marketing plot calculated to make U.K. Taxpayers pay for the inevitable transgressions of those millions of citizens greedily manipulated by profitable psycho-pharm policies into LASTING ADDICTION.

You can never become addicted to a drug which you never ever take. Simply because it is the consuming of a drug which creates dependency on that drug.

And nobody creates more noise, more loud demand, more crime and more havoc than drug addicts desperate for their next dose !   Especially when the group of professional advisers, who wrote those addicts' original addictive prescriptions, is also the same lying group advising the Government on drug and alcohol addiction.

And look how beautifully simple their scheming is.

Some years ago, with the help of also manipulated ex U.S. President Nixon, they convinced the world to “Make War On Drugs”, and sold the idea to politicians around the world that addiction to illicit heroin is a crime, whilst even stronger more devastating addiction to prescription methadone is a valuable addiction “management” tool we should all be happy to pay for out of our taxes.

Look at that again - and think about it.

They have convinced governments the world over that addiction to a smuggled drug such as heroin is a vicious crime to be attacked in every way possible, BUT that addiction to the same drug, or some substitute such as methadone - WHEN PRESCRIBED BY A PSYCHIATRIST OR OTHER PHYSICIAN – is a valuable “treatment” for exactly the same condition. i.e. lasting life debilitating, costly and similar criminality prompting drug addiction.

And even though every single one of the near 200,000 N.H.S. supplied methadone drug addicts costs the British Taxpayer in excess of £47,000 per year for life (an ever-escalating annual total currently at over £9.4 BILLION) the psycho-pharm fraternity has our naively non-medical politicians falsely convinced that “because psychiatrists pretend addiction is basically incurable” the only way to handle the addiction problem is to make it “legal” – as long as it is prescribed pharmaceutical addiction paid for by the U.K. Taxpayer!

But it doesn't end there.

Sitting in nursing homes, care homes and in their own homes, we additionally have some three million mainly elderly citizens involuntarily addicted to three times a day doses of prescription drugs such as Valium and the other benzodiazepines, the “C” drugs and the “Z” drugs, etc.   All paid for by British Taxpayers.

And for what condition are these millions of patients receiving this multi-daily, expensive and continuous so-called addictive “treatment” ?

FOR NOTHING OTHER THAN MEDICALLY INDUCED DRUG ADDICTION !

This is how it works.

It doesn't matter what the reason is why a 7 day, 3 times a day, prescription is originally written for a patient.  Anxiety, bereavement, loss, shock, depression, etc.  It only matters that - when taken - 21 doses of one of the benzos or other addictive medical drugs will turn a majority of the individuals in our population into an involuntary prescription drug addict.

This means that that addict is daily taking an addictive substance which has two main properties:

1) It quickly relieves the patient's current craving for that drug, and,

2) A few hours later, it re-creates that same irresistible craving for that substance by triggering the same “cold turkey” withdrawal symptoms.

This is the prime example of a “vicious circle”, and the main unique sales proposition which the ruthless marketing of addictive products depends on to create and maintain irresistible demand – whether those products are illicit or legal.

Whatever the diagnostic justification for the addicts' original prescriptions, it is obvious that, when investigated, in 95+% of involuntary addiction cases, that reason no longer exists, and that the only problem the patient presently has is his or her residual and apparently inescapable addiction to a medical drug !

Which the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain both very quietly admit in their joint B.N.F. “drug prescription bible” - can all be cured - if only they were to provide the essential “step-down” small dose units on which such cures depend.

However, because the psycho-pharms never want to lose this easy addiction driven business, rather than promoting such cures, they resist them.

And because these involuntarily addicted dependants' supplies are paid for by our taxpayers, and because they are long-term daily re-addicted and confused drug addicts, these often vegetative patients apathetically fail to campaign for and demand the cures which could so easily be implemented - given the political will to do so.

BUT GOVERNMENT SHOULD DEMAND THEM.

Not only because countless £Billions of Taxpayer contributed funds are being deliberately diverted to totally unnecessary addictive drug supply, but also because that addiction acts like an ever expanding, heavier and heavier ball and chain which slows and reduces the U.K's productivity and international influence.

Dementia can be prevented and avoided. Depression and other drug “managed” and “treated” so-called mental disorders can all be cured.

But no profit-focussed addictive pharmaceutical drug producer or their prestige focussed psychiatric drug pushers are going to let such turnover reducing activities occur, if they can avoid it. It is therefore going to take tough legislation to force the pharmaceutical producers who create addiction, to also start producing the cures.

Which once again puts out political amateurs up against the highly experienced political lobbying experts who have been winning these battles for decades.  Amateurs who must stay within the bounds of decency, fairness, justice and law and Experts who do not all have those words in their dictionary.

SO IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE - IF COMMERCIAL GREED

EVER ALLOWS US TO EVEN GET STARTED !

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S.A.F.E.

the

SOCIETY for an ADDITION FREE EXISTENCE

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Shouldn't We Now Start Training Addicts In Lasting Abstinence, Instead Of Just Going On Prescribing Addictive Killer Drugs as “Habit Management” ?

A QUICK, INEXPENSIVE & EASY 

WAY OF TRAINING INDIVIDUALS 

TO PERMANENTLY ESCAPE FROM 

DRUG ADDICTION WAS 

DEVELOPED IN 1966.

IT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT NEARLY 

ONE HUNDRED CENTRES

(Including Prison Units)

IN 49 COUNTRIES.

Why then are so many U.K. addiction rehabilitation workers, 

university researchers and local and national politicians 

DELIBERATELY having the existence of that hugely 

successful self-help addiction recovery training system

hidden from them, or having it falsely condemned ?

Is it in order to justify psycho-pharm pretend research into

 “treatment” of addiction BY DRUG PRESCRIBING ?

Because the reason is definitely NOT because of “RESIDENTIAL SELF-HELP ADDICTION RECOVERY TRAINING” failing to work.

QUITE THE REVERSE.

It is because giving addicts personal knowledge and responsibility for THE CONTROL OF THEIR OWN LIVES takes away their dependency on psychiatric rehabilitation professionals and on prescription habit management “treatments”, and it is that “prescription” component and that on-going “rehabilitation” which certain “addiction workers”, and particularly the pharmaceutical companies backing them, want to see maintained, because they mean psychiatric “fees” for many and huge “profits” for the drug producers. 

And we are NOT here talking about the rehab centre staffs who put in long caring hours to help addicts through their withdrawal and detox problems.  We are talking about the desire of some pharmaceutical drug producers, and their psychiatric allies, to go on profitably producing and prescribing methadone, buprenorphine, disulfiram, naltrexone and Suboxone, etc., and ridiculously pretending that “habit management for life” is “just as good as a cure”.

It was some 45 years ago, in the early 1970s, that a worried government, seeing addictive heroin usage increasing, asked psychiatrists and the pharmaceutical industry for help, in the absurd belief that, because they knew all about drug production and prescribing, they would also know how to to cure addiction.

(Which is just as bad as the equally absurd belief that the manufacturers of the sharpest knives and scalpels will be the best surgeons.)

AS A RESULT, THE PSYCHO-PHARMS DID NOT OFFER AN ADDICTION CURE, AND NEVER HAVE.   In fact they falsely claimed that addiction is incurable and that, as a result, “advised” that the best thing was to “manage” the addict's habit by providing him or her with free supplies of the addictive pain-killer: “diamorphine” (i.e. medical grade heroin).

Problem was, it quickly became clear that, because the effects of a heroin dose last only for 8 hours, three doses a day were required to “manage” each addict, and with the first dose at 8.00am, the next at 4.00pm and the last at midnight, there was a major dispensing problem, because you can never trust addicts with more than one dose at a time, as many will fail to resist taking an extra unscheduled dose, and are thus likely to become an over-dose emergency case and even die.

So the psycho-pharms instead proposed a 1937 German drug “methadone” because,   a) its effects last 24 hours,  b) it thus needs only one dose a day to be dispensed, and   c) one daily dose procedure is less costly and time consuming than three doses.

However, they failed to stress that because the methadone was stronger and longer lasting than heroin, it was also much more dangerous and addictive.

In fact to combat this unwelcome fact, they proposed that, after “maintaining / stabilising” the addict on methadone for a short period, the managing psychiatrist or doctor should put the addict onto “a small-dose step-down programme” over a period of several months, until the prescribed daily dose was small enough for the addict to completely stop using.

Unfortunately, over the years, the government's National Treatment Agency was only ever able to report a 3% withdrawal rate from methadone addiction.

And even that rate of withdrawal is the same as the natural withdrawal rate due to the development of tolerance.

We must therefore face the fact that, if the Government has been conned into accepting the psycho-pharm LIE that “addiction cannot be cured”, then we must continue to pay from Taxpayer funds the more than £47,000 the Government's National Audit Office reports it costs across all government Departments to maintain each and every methadone prescribed addict EVERY YEAR for the rest of their lives !

With approaching 200,000 such prescription addicts, that's a total cost EVERY YEAR of £9.4 BILLION !

And this starts to approach the same amount of money the N.H.S. are over-spending EVERY YEAR.

In fact when you take account of the other 2.4 Million of mainly older NHS patients in their own homes or in care-homes, and add in the £72 Million pounds worth of addictive drugs they are prescribed and dosed with EVERY DAY, you are looking at another £2.6 BILLION EVERY YEAR of wasted Taxpayer funds to add to the above £9.4 BILLION.

A total of £12 BILLION spent every year – NOT ON CURING PATIENTS OF ANYTHING, but spent solely on maintaining them all in a nearly vegetative state of daily addiction.

Yes.  £12 BILLION just on daily maintaining 2.4 Million involuntary addicts plus 200,000 much more costly former illicit addicts.

But this only takes account of the profitable 2.6 BILLION doses a year of pharmaceutical drugs that those 2.4 Million patients consume.  It is without taking account of their food and accommodation costs and the taxpayer paid benefits many of them receive.

Nor are we talking here of the not quite as massive NHS spending on legitimate and effective medication which is another separate set of costs.

We are talking only about £12 BILLION every year of N.H.S. spending JUST ON THE MAINTENANCE OF N.H.S. SPONSORED AND SUPPORTED DRUG ADDICTION.

AND THIS IS THE SOURCE OF ALL N.H.S. OVER-SPENDFING because it CURES NOTHING and is thus ALL WASTE.

It converts our National Health Service into a “National Wealth Service” serving the pharmaceutical industry and the psychiatric profession which pushes and prescribes that industry's products for payment by U.K. Taxpayers.

REMEMBER, WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT RESTRICTING ANY SUPPLIES OF GENERAL MEDICATION.

We are pointing out that supplies of addictive and / or hypnotic pharmaceutical drugs continuously maintain addiction in patients, cure no illness, disease, sickness or habit, achieve nothing else, and yet EACH MONTH cost the N.H.S. and the Taxpayer more than an extra £ONE BILLION POUNDS.

THAT is where the Department of Health, the National Health Service and Public Health England, etc., should be putting their attention.

Especially because the massive savings available would enable the Secretary of State for Health to better recruit and reward Junior Doctors, and to provide so many more resources to other sectors of our Health Service – AND STILL MAKE SAVINGS FOR TAXPAYERS.

But Ministers and Officials don't, and in many ways they can't, because they have for too long been quietly controlled by psychiatric and pharmaceutical advisers both inside and outside of Government.

The totally unnecessary massive spending on addictive and / or hypnotic pharmaceutical drugs which those “advisers” create, is the root cause of all the National Health Service's financial problems, because, in addition to curing nothing, that wasteful spending robs every other part of the N.H.S. and A&E Services of the resources essential to their effective and efficient operation – for the sake of “profit”.

£33,000,000 A DAY !

YES - THIRTY-THREE MILLION POUNDS A DAY – EVERY DAY !

One would expect that a live-wire Secretary of State for Health would have spotted this daily haemorrhaging of cash, because his post is concerned mainly with financial matters.

In fact he might have spotted it BUT, because he is skilled neither in doctoring nor in medication, he does not see the difference between a patient with a medical problem and an addict with a prescription problem, and instead continues to believe the profitable lies his friendly psychiatric and pharmaceutical advisers tell him !

Interestingly enough, some American States are now treating drug dealers who supply heroin doses which end up in a drug-overdose death as murder suspects.

But in the U.K., over the last five years, between 5 and 12 deaths per thousand as a result of prescribed methadone have been recorded. With between 200,000 and 250,000 a year of N.H.S. patients on methadone in that period, that's somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 British addict deaths PER YEAR whilst IN N.H.S. TREATMENT !

That's more than deaths from heroin overdosing, but whilst the heroin deaths might increasingly be regarded as murders, the methadone deaths are probably better regarded as psychiatric executions in pursuit of pharmaceutical profits.

BUT A PROVEN PROGRAMME OF SELF-HELP ADDITION RECOVERY TRAINING, EFFECTIVE IN PROCURING LASTING ABSTINENCE IN 69+% OF CASES, HAS BEEN WIDELY KNOWN TO CURE BOTH HEROIN AND METHADONE ADDICTION, AT NEARLY 100 CENTRES IN 49 COUNTRIES, STARTING IN 1966 – 50 YEARS AGO !

As a result, those thousands of psycho-pharm methadone poisonings must now be regarded as a callous sacrifice of British addicts lives - solely to enhance psychiatric fee incomes and pharmaceutical profits.

IS THIS REALLY BRITAIN TODAY ?

If the Rt Honourable Jeremy Hunt would like to know more of the truth about huge N.H.S. abortive costs, waste and death prescribing, he can always ring to invite one of our executives for discussion on 01342 810151 any day between 11.00am and 9.00pm.

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

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How To Rid Yourself Of Drug Addiction: Part ONE:

CHOOSING THE RIGHT WAY

TO HANDLE YOUR HABIT AND

TO SUIT YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

Although, in order to maximise sales of their own addictive products, psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies have been telling government, for over 80 years, that substance addiction is basically incurable, the fact remains that since the 1930s, around the world, millions of drink and drug addicts are known to have successfully escaped from the addiction trap by one of three main ways.

To fully appreciate the above statement, it is necessary to recognise that psycho-pharmaceutical so-called “treatment” in the form of OST (Opioid Substitution Therapy) is NOT a cure for addiction !  It is merely a system of moving a drug addict from an illegal supply of drugs to a legal supply, in the vain hope of taking the addict out of a life of crime by giving him free supplies, paid for by the U.K. taxpayer, and costing the N.H.S. £8.46 BILLION EVERY YEAR !

However the famous and authoritative “BIG ISSUE in the North” August 1999 report titled: “Drugs at the Sharp End” provided adequate proof that OST methadone and buprenorphine “treatments” seldom if ever work to procure crime reduction or lasting relaxed abstinence, and some time later the National Treatment Agency (now Public Health England) admitted that OST worked long-term in only 3% of cases – interestingly the same success rate as natural withdrawal with advancing age.

THE THREE MAIN WAYS TO WITHDRAW AND THUS START CURING ONESELF OF SUBSTANCE ADDICTION ARE:

12 STEPS:

The system of mutual support established in 1935 by a group of alcoholic American business men and professionals, plagued with drinking problems sufficiently serious to be ruining their businesses and their family life.

Known originally as “A.A.” (Alcoholics Anonymous) 12 Steps has since expanded to successfully encompass those suffering from Heroin and Cocaine addictions, and all these forms of “anonymous” groups can now be found in most towns and cities around the western world and, in addition, many residential rehabilitation centres deliver 12 Steps on a professional basis over a period of weeks or months before sending a “cleaner” but usually not yet fully cured addict out to continue at his or her local 12 Steps group.

It is reported that some 20 to 30% of 12 Steps practitioners succeed, usually in a period of nine to 36 months or longer, during which time they will successfully and with guts and mutually supported determination, stop using and “one day at a time” fight the effects of “cold-turkey”, or gradually reduce their addictive consumption.

Although 12 Step Groups are basically free of cost, 12 Step Residential Rehabs charge fees dependent mainly upon the quality of the accommodation, service and meals, etc. As a consequence, professionals and business men tend initially to go to a rehab, whilst those of lesser financial means tend to rely solely upon their local group activities.

Whilst reliance on a “higher power” is included in most 12 Steps programmes, no further technical physical or mental steps are indicated, so that the high possibility of reverting to drug usage caused by the presence of metabolites and toxic drug residues in the body, along also with irrational drug influenced decisions in the mind, are in no way dealt with. 

SMALL DOSE STEP DOWN WITHDRAWAL:

This is the system of very gradual dose size reduction recommended by the authors of the “British National Formulary”, published jointly by the “British Medical Association” and the “Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain”.

A system which unquestionably works – particularly for involuntarily addicted patients on prescription drugs whose dosing can be professionally controlled over the often long period of time required to ensure the patient's comfort during the whole withdrawal process, which can be from three to nine months or even longer.

Unfortunately, the different additive and / or hypnotic drugs necessitating this type of withdrawal come in a variety of dosage formats – tablets, pills, capsules and liquids – and all in different manufacturer recommended dose sizes.

In the early stages of small step down withdrawal, the necessary size of the smaller doses can be achieved by cutting large tablets or pills into halves, quarters or even eighths of their original size, but for elderly patients this can be totally impractical beyond quarters and, of course, is not possible at all with most forms of capsule, especially when liquid filled.

Because for patient comfort, the optimum amount of step-down should not exceed 2.5 to 5% of the current dosage, the range of small doses which need to be available can go all the way down to 1% 2.5%, 5%, and 10% of the producer's normally manufactured and recommended dose sizes and, because in many instances, they claim that smaller sizes are more difficult or costly to manufacture, producers endeavour as far as possible to avoid providing and stocking them on a regular basis.

However, in addition, producers are well aware that a patient using 1,095 doses a year of their benzodiazepine or other 3 times a day drug medication will be a lost profitable consumer if they are encouraged to successfully withdraw.  One can therefore from a commercial viewpoint understand a lack of enthusiasm or degree of reluctance on the part of their marketing people to even contemplate offering the above indicated smaller doses.

And, again in addition, regular and easy availability of such small doses would allow General Practitioners to initially prescribe smaller doses, and thus avoid more of the involuntary addiction they know larger doses can so easily create.

Here again, those pharmacists who describe and offer small dose step down withdrawal principles make no comment on the eradication of metabolites and toxic drug residues from the withdrawn addict's body. Nor do their psychiatric colleagues offer any way of correcting irrational computations and weird decisions made during drug overwhelmed events or drug deprived and desperate cold turkey periods.

Thus leaving the withdrawn addict wide open to a resumption of his or her former addiction.

SUPPORTED IMMEDIATE DRUG-FREE WITHDRAWAL:

In some eastern countries, a drug addict (but not a severe alcoholic) is withdrawn simply by locking him or her in a room long enough to suffer through all the grossly uncomfortable “cold turkey” effects of unsupported withdrawal.

Those eastern “service providers” know that whilst deprived drug addicts may well FEEL they are dying, this is never actually the case, and that confronting “cold turkey withdrawal” head-on is considered to be the best way to ensure they will never again choose to use such drugs.

On the other hand, "sympathetic" pharmaceutical drugs marketing departments say they hate to see addicts suffering, when they have available another “helpful” drug which can see the addict through all those nasty “cold turkey” miseries, which, if the addict accepts that, will most likely leave him or her with a new addiction to the pharmaceutical drug prescribed to “help” them through their withdrawal.

So a totally “drug-free”, but nevertheless “supported” withdrawal has since 1966 been used to help the addict to far more comfortably confront the rigours of so-called “cold turkey”, without the possibility of generating a new addiction.

A system of simple locational and body “assists” or exercises applied by a trained staff member at any and all times of the day and night as required, coupled with sufficient water based supplement drinking and minimum eating of mainly green salad vegetables, will in 3 days to 3 weeks see the individual through a withdrawal struggle no more severe than the feelings associated with a dose of influenza.  But whilst 'flu can kill, drug-free withdrawal doesn't.

The period of withdrawal varies according to how long the addict has been using drugs, according to which drugs and which dose sizes have been used, and how often they have been used, and a majority don't take longer than 3 to 10 days.

The product of supported immediate drug-free withdrawal is an individual who is no longer using drugs, but who may still need to be stabilised in the here and now, which can be achieved with further “Assists”, a form of mental and emotional “First-Aid”.

On the physical level, he or she will also need to get rid of the metabolites, hormones and toxic drug residues, etc., stored or lodged in the fatty tissues of the body which, can under hot weather conditions, hard physical work, prolonged exercise or other sweating, be broken down and be released back into the blood-stream thus restimulating an addictive demand for the drug(s).

On the emotional level, the withdrawn addict's mind also needs to have “flushed out” the irrational decisions and weird concepts picked up during drug controlled events and / or during desperate drug deprived cold-turkey periods.

This however starts us into Part Two of “How To Rid Yourself Of Drug Addiction”, which is better dealt with in a separate post.

S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Founded in 1975.

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The Professor's Actions Speak Louder Than His Words.

FROM THE “U.K. DRUG POLICY COMMISSION” WEBSITE:

PROFESSOR JOHN STRANG: (Former Member of the Commission)

* John Strang is the Director of the National Addiction Centre (Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London) where he leads the multidisciplinary research activities including treatment studies, investigations of non-treatment samples, studies of overdose risk and analyses of public policy.

* He is also Clinical Director of the Drug, Alcohol & Smoking Cessation Services of the London & Maudsley NHS Trust and a member of the EMCDDA Scientific Committee, specifically responsible for methodological issues.

* He has worked in the addictions field for 25 years, in statutory and non-statutory settings, as trainee and trainer, as clinician as well as researcher, and in policy formation as well as practitioner capacity.

* In his capacity as Consultant Advisor to the Department of Health, he chaired the Working Group which prepared the “Orange Guidelines” published in 1999 by the UK Departments of Health, and chaired the NTA / DH Working Group (2002 / 2003) which prepared guidelines for the recommended new specialist modality for future injectable heroin and methadone prescribing in the UK. [i.e. prescribed addictive drug usage.]

(End of the UKDPC Biography)

Strang is acknowledged by others as also a tireless worker in the pharmaceutical marketing field, and as a leading authority consulted by Government in respect of research, drug addiction policy & prescribing.

For 20 years, he has posed as, and also been wrongly assumed by many to be, THE U.K. authority on addiction, and recently continued (in the running of his failed Payment by Results “Pilots”) to strongly and exclusively promote the prescribing of useless, failed and addictive medical substances as “treatment” to “rehabilitate” addicts.

But, the carefully hidden truth is that HE ACTUALLY IS the U.K. authority on the CREATION (not the cure) OF LIFELONG ADDICTION of millions of U.K. N.H.S. patients and thousands of illicit recreational drug users.

Such pushing of addictive drugs to impossibly “treat” addictive drug use is why his methods, whilst selling psychiatric services and pharmaceutical products IN DAILY HIGH VOLUME, claim a less than 3% success rate in actually bringing addicts to abstinence – coincidentally the same rate as natural quitting with ageing !

Whilst around the world, some 98 self help recovery training centres (inc. prison units) in 49 countries have for 50 years brought 55 to 69+% of addicts to lasting relaxed abstinence, Strang’s Opioid Substitution Therapies DO NOT and CANNOT ever actually cure, because their intention is to “manage” continuing addiction on a basis which creates profitable daily sales of pharmaceutical drug products to MILLIONS of addicts - ALL PAID FOR BY U.K. TAXPAYERS !

IN SPITE OF THE ABOVE BIOGRAPHY OF IMPORTANT SOUNDING APPOINTMENTS, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT JOHN STRANG, HIS PSYCHIATRIC METHODS OR HIS MEDICATIONS HAVE EVER DIRECTLY CURED ANY ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCE USER OF CONTINUING ADDICTIVE USAGE.  AND THIS IS BECAUSE THAT IS NOT HIS GOAL.

As indicated repeatedly (by Jim Dobbin, MP, former Chairman of the All Party Group on Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction, and just as often by Barry Haslam, a long-term sufferer from John Strang's methods and medication, and never denied by Professor C. Heather Ashton, Britain's great practical campaigner against involuntary addiction) John Strang's main goal is NOT the curing of addiction to illegal or legal drugs, but is the promotion of prescription drugs of an addictive and hypnotic nature to the hugely profitable benefit of the pharmaceutical industry which Strang serves far more than he serves our Government or our peoples.

AND NOW, OF ALL THINGS, WE HEAR THAT 10, DOWNING STREET PROPOSED STRANG FOR A KNIGHTHOOD IN THE MOST RECENT BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST ! ! !

If our recently retired Prime Minister, for whom I have always had the greatest respect, personally and freely chose to honour the psychiatric professor who, nearly single-handedly, created more U.K. drug addicts than Roger Howard, DrugScope, the UKDPC, the NTA, the ACMD and Mike Trace put together - then David Cameron is regrettably headed for a similar miserable post P.M. reputation to that now enjoyed by Tony Blair as reward for his mistakes.

The Strang award is listed as being, amongst other doubtful achievements: “FOR SERVICES TO ADDICTIONS”.

But that only makes sense if David Cameron wanted an increasingly addicted population, which I cannot believe.

So then it raises the question of: “What did Psychiatric Professor John Stanley Strang actually DO FOR David Cameron ?”, and here again, my faith in David leads me to believe that he was seriously misled by some psychiatric or pharmaceutical biased or paid adviser amongst his senior staff members.

And if that is the case, then it is essential that psychiatrically and pharmaceutically biased or bought officials or other advisers in a position to influence the Prime Minister be kept well away from 10, Downing Street, because Theresa May's own straightforward character deserves honest advice and information upon which to base her vital decisions.

S.A.F.E. is a not-for-profit community support group formed in 1975

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Some of Number 10's Current Most Awkward Spending Choices:

CONTINUE POINTLESS METHADONE,

OR

 

COMMIT TO HINKLEY NOW ALSO

POINT-LESS NUCLEAR POWER

OR

SAVE £BILLIONS BY ADOPTING A SAFER

ALTERNATIVE FOR BOTH.

At first sight, two sets of unrelated expenditure, except that they are both unnecessarily massively funded by the U.K. Taxpayer.

If estimates are right, and it IS going to cost only as little as £18+BILLION to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset, how does consideration of this massive expenditure and long term commitment stack up against the even more massive and long term commitment of £8.46 BILLION the U.K. Government's National Audit Office reports we spend EACH & EVERY YEAR across various State Departments - on maintaining 180,000 U.K. N.H.S. prescription addicts on methadone and other Opioid Substitution so-called “Therapies”.

A so-called “treatment” system which “manages” but never cures a heroin user of addiction – a user who will live for an average of 40 years at an annual overall cost of over £47,000 per legal methadone addict – all at U.K. Taxpayer expense, and approaching nearly £2 MILLION POUNDS for each and every one of those 180,000 methadone prescribed lifetimes ! (i.e. £338.4 BILLION over the next 40 years !)

This costly and ineffective “addict management” process might just be endured if there was no alternative, but for 50 years in 49 countries, 55 to 69+% of addicts have been curing themselves with a self-help residential addiction recovery training programme at 98 Centres (inc. prison units) for a ONCE ONLY fee of £29,000 to £39,000. But this programme is constantly black-balled out of existence by psycho-pharmaceutical vested interests who want their daily supplying of profitable Opioid Substitution “Therapy” (such as methadone and buprenorphine) to continue for ever.

On the power generation side. with locally installed windmills and domestic solar panels, heat pumps and thermo-dynamic panels, etc., etc., all increasingly proving themselves as viable non-carbon and non-nuclear energy sources, the new British Cabinet are right to be taking the time for an up-to-date review of energy policies.

Not least because LOCAL DOMESTIC energy production has advanced in leaps and bounds since Hinkley “C” was first mooted 20 years ago, so that:

1) the providing of thousands of now proven smaller locally located energy producing installations in our homes would spread employment benefits ACROSS THE COUNTRY, all based on local U.K. investors and equipment production rather than on French, Chinese or other input, and,

2) instead of waiting one or two more decades for a new nuclear plant to start delivering its energy at guaranteed exorbitant prices, with terrifyingly massive Chernobyl type security and waste disposal problems - an expansion of heat pump and thermo-dynamic panel provision could start next year, and these systems don't even rely on the sun shining or the wind blowing in order to deliver 24/7 every week of the year, day and night, winter and summer alike !

N.B. Increased widespread employment opportunities are what we would also need for recently rescued former drug addicts seeking to enter a productive life in their local community to the benefit of themselves, their families and the whole British economy.

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

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Self-Help Addiction Recovery Training

 

LEARNING TO CURE

 

YOURSELF OF

 

DRINK & DRUG

 

ADDICTION.

BASED ON 50 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS.

As you may well have noticed, you can't live somebody else's life for them, and equally, nobody else can live your life for you.

So that, whether we like it or not, life is a do-it-for-yourself activity.

This means that becoming addicted to drink or drugs is also mainly a do-it-for-yourself activity AND ALSO that escaping from addiction is something you must do-for-yourself, provided you know how to go about it.

A self-help residential programme of addiction recovery training for lasting relaxed abstinence is vastly different from other addiction rehab systems because, instead of offering “treatment”, it “TRAINS” addicts in HOW TO CURE THEMSELVES.

And it is the many differences in a self-help training programme which make all the difference to the results which such programmes obtain first time through in from 55 to 69+% of cases.

The FIRST Difference: between a self-help training programme and other forms of rehabilitation is found in such programme's view of the individual addict who is regarded as an “addiction victim” and designated as a “STUDENT” rather than as a “patient”, a “client”, a “bum”, a “criminal”, a misuser, an abuser or a “service user”.

An “addicted patient” for psychiatrists and pharmaceutical producers is a client with an addictive demand who should be “treated” by doing something “TO” him or her in order to have that addict as a consumer of substitute addictive medication for as long as U.K., taxpayers via the NHS, will go on paying for prescribed supplies of drugs such as methadone and Subutex, etc.

The definition of a “criminal drug user” varies from country to country and from time to time, but the intention and effect of the “criminal” label is to punish what any particular jurisdiction currently regards as a crime – which in practice across the world can mean anything from being given a caution or being sentenced to a fine, imprisonment, a whip lashing or even execution !

And interestingly, the above “criminal” view of addiction is usually concerned only with smuggled, stolen, illegal and designer drugs, and so does not include the vast majority of addictive substances such as licensed ALCOHOL and prescribed MEDICAL drugs – each of which are vastly bigger problems than smuggled, stolen, illegal and designer drugs.

The defining of an addict as a “student” recognises four things:

a) That 70 to 75% of all drink and drug addicts who have been using for more than 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 years or 30 years desperately want to quit, and although they have thus tried and failed on numerous occasions (often daily) to do so, they nevertheless have no lack of willingness to stop. Their problem is simply and actually “finding out HOW to stop”.

b) That – (because life is obviously and inescapably a “do-it-for-yourself” activity) – addiction is NOT just about a chemical substance but is a condition permitted by the individual's lack of a real understanding of life, mainly brought about by misinformation & lies from vested commercial interests in the massive alcohol and medical supply businesses, as well as from criminal sources.

 

c) That an addict is no longer in total charge of his or her life and so wishes to again take control, and,

d) That, to again take control of his or her life, an addict needs training in self-help addiction recovery techniques, with which they can concurrently procure lasting relaxed abstinence for themselves, and thus thereafter be able to easily apply what they have learned - for life.

 

So the first vital difference is that a self-help programme does not “treat” drug addicts, nor does it transfer addicts from one addictive substance to another as in so called Opioid Substitution Therapy where addicts are moved from illegal heroin to legally prescribed but more addictive methadone or Subutex, thus basically ensuring they remain as prescription drug addicts for life.

Self-help instead TRAINS THEM to cure themselves !

GIVE A MAN A FISH, AND YOU FEED HIM FOR A DAY.

BUT, TEACH HIM HOW TO FISH, AND YOU FEED HIM FOR LIFE.

This is the difference between treatment in most rehabs and training in self-help addiction recovery.

Give a heroin addict methadone and you satisfy his habit for that one day. But teach him HOW to take control of and get rid of his habit, and you give him the gift of recovery of the natural state of relaxed abstinence into which he was born, and which he can then maintain.

Which brings us to self-help's very different recognition of “WHY” addiction occurs.

SECOND Difference: Psychiatrists, psychologists, politicians, social workers and police, etc., assign a large variety of reasons as to why an individual becomes an addict. They ignore completely the fact that the UK's largest group of addicts (over 2 million) are NHS patients prescribed into involuntary addiction by the medical profession, and instead blame “peer pressure”, wanting a “thrill” or a “high”, irresponsibility, lawlessness, recklessness, criminal inclination, misuse and numerous other “possible” causes.

But for centuries medicine, alcohol and drugs have been used to solve problems, and that is still the reason for their usage today. For certain heart problems we take aspirin, for a headache or toothache we take paracetamol or some other pain killer, for the problem of travel sickness we take another tablet, for the problem of shock or family loss we are prescribed Valium or another “benzo” drug, and to solve shyness or anxiety many take spirit alcohol or another chemical stimulant, etc.

And it is the misinformation and even downright lies which are used to make the guy (who has what he “considers” a problem) use an addictive drug in order to solve it.

In fact, Mary Wakefield the deputy editor of the “Spectator” once commented that the pharmaceutical industry has grown into possibly the largest industry in the world by manufacturing “A Pill for Every Ill”.

“Drugs solve problems” - or so we are told from an early age, not only by psycho-pharms, but also by Grandma, Dad & Mum, our local doctor and even the local pub barman.

It is therefore not at all surprising to find self-help students finding and recognising for themselves that they decided or agreed to take an addictive substance IN ORDER TO SOLVE WHAT THEY THEMSELVES (and usually them alone) CONSIDERED A PROBLEM OF SURVIVAL IN THEIR DAILY LIFE OR ENVIRONMENT.

In other words: DRUGS ARE A SOLUTION – NOT A PROBLEM.

But strangely enough, most “treatment” forms of addiction rehabilitation, EXCEPT self-help, basically consider drugs as “a problem” which doctors believe can only be solved with some form of medication.

A solution is simply an action adopted by individuals to handle some problematic situation in their life.

Those readers with the benefit of self-help training will know that a solution comes under the heading of “a self-determined change”. i.e. It is not something forced on the individual.

So the second difference is that self-help training recognises that the initial cause of addiction is not a search for thrills, or highs, or misuse, or abuse, but that the cause is the desire of an individual to solve what he or she considers a worrying personal problem by employing a solution which he or she is wrongly advised or led to believe involves using an addictive substance.

So they are a VICTIM of both the addictive drug and the misleading information given them in order to persuade them to try a few doses.

In other words, they make a disastrous decision to use an addictive substance based on a lie or on some misunderstanding, and become addicted because it is addictive drugs themselves which are what impose and enforce addiction on the user.

This is obvious, because NO-ONE CAN EVER BECOME ADDICTED TO A DRUG WHICH ONE NEVER EVER USES !

THIRD Difference: From the above we see that the goals of self-help training are:

1) knowledge of recovery techniques,

2) resurrection of personal responsibility, and

3) the regaining of relaxed control of one's life - leading to self-determination

    of one's life.

But for other addiction rehabilitation systems the goal is often to be able to struggle through each difficult day - one day at a time - without taking the drug to which they are addicted, just by courageously fighting their craving.

Whilst this can eventually bravely lead some to increasingly relaxed abstinence, because other rehab systems make no attempt to remove the individual's store of drug toxins and metabolites lodged in the fatty tissues of the body, there is always the possibility of re-stimulation from the breakdown of such deposits, their release into the blood stream, a consequent re-triggering of desire for the drug, and a return to addiction. Release of such addictive deposits is triggered by increases in body temperature usually caused by physical work, exercise and / or weather hot enough to lead to sweating.

Which brings us to an examination of the technicalities and nomenclature involved in recovery from addiction.

FOURTH Difference: When self-help training says: “detoxification”, we mean flushing from the addict's body ALL drug residues, metabolites, hormones and other toxic deposits built up by addiction and life in general.

When a psychiatrist, doctor or pharmacists says: “detoxification”, they misleadingly mean the stopping of the regular taking of any further doses of a particular addictive substance. (What self-help regards as: “withdrawal”.)

 

So, when an addict is given medication to stop him taking heroin, that is the psycho-pharm idea of a “heroin detox”. The addict is no longer adding to the store of toxic heroin metabolites in his body, but nevertheless he still retains whatever damagingly poisonous store of them he has already built-up.

However, IF in order to stop the heroin intake he is prescribed methadone or Subutex, etc., (which is normally the case), IN ADDITION TO his existing store of heroin metabolites, he then starts to build up a further store of methadone metabolites or Subutex metabolites, etc., any or all of which (including the original heroin) – by engaging in hard physical work, energetic sport or just warmer than normal summer weather conditions – can by sweating be released from the body's fatty tissues, re-enter the bloodstream and lead to a return to a former state of addictive desire.

“Recovered” and “rehabilitated” are other words which for self-help trainees have different meanings from those which other addiction rehabilitation systems assign them.

For us: “recovered” means returning to the natural state of lasting relaxed abstinence into which 99% of the population is born. To fully understand why this is different – try ringing a local rehab and asking what THEY mean by “recovered” ! Or ring your local MP and ask what he or she (mis)understands by “recovered”.

Self-help training goals (and achievements) are seen by many as sky-high when compared to the goals of most other rehabs.

FURTHER Differences:

Because of the fundamentally basic differences between the self-help “TRAINING” approach and psycho-pharm “TREATMENT” approaches the reasons why self-help is totally different becomes apparent in every aspect of an addict's journey through his or her programme.

Self-help training “withdrawal” procedures are DRUG-FREE. Many other withdrawals are not. In LASTING RELAXED ABSTINENCE terms self-help programme results run at a 55 to 69+% success rate, normally reached in 11 to 13 weeks.

 

Methadone achieves only 3% abstinence after decades of prescribed usage. Twelve Steps does better at 20 to 30% achieved in 9 to 36 months or longer.

And even the cost of delivering self-help training residential recovery is different from other residential rehabilitation operations, because of our willingness and ability to offer the choice of “Payment by Results” as an alternative to the usual full up-front fee for attendance on course rather than for an agreed result.

Depending on local property and wages costs, which can vary from one part of the UK to another, the current self-help programme fee for the newest Centre in the expensive south of London counties is £29,000 on a Payment by Results basis. But other residential rehabs cost from £12,000 to £39,000 or more, for treatment periods far shorter than self-helps 12 weeks and with full payment due irrespective of the result.

And of course results of 20 to 30% abstinence are nowhere near as valuable as the self-help training results of 55 to 69+% of lasting relaxed abstinence and recovery – first time through the programme.

There is also another important difference.

Psycho-pharm treatment prescribing considers ALL addicts as nearly impossible to cure, as a result of which they say they should ALL be put on Subutex or methadone Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST).

On the other hand, self-help training centres know from 50 years experience of training addicts to cure themselves, that 70 to 75% of addicts who have been using for months or years WANT TO QUIT, have tried at numerous times (often daily) to do so and yet, having again failed, STILL WANT TO STOP.

THEIR PROBLEM IS THEREFORE NOT WILLINGNESS,

IT IS LACK OF RECOVERY KNOW-HOW.

The other 25 to 30% are resistive cases who for the three well known main reasons have no desire or intention whatsoever to quit. These are the horses you can lead to water, but who will not drink. So, with no willingness, how can they ever be trained ?

The other 70 to 75% of addicts need, want AND DESERVE Self-Help Training Technology. And the rest of the society also needs them to have it, because addicts are the 5% of the UK population which impinge most heavily on the lives of the other 95%.

It is therefore encouraging to observe that internationally more citizens and a majority of policy-makers are now recognising the direction in which addiction inevitably takes our families and society, and have seen that the most important first step is to REDUCE THE DEMAND which can arise from within a family from vested interest and criminal advice leading to poor parenting.

Westminster, Brussels, Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, Cardiff and other parliaments are now increasingly aware that amongst the problems which drug and alcohol addicts cause are the following:

* Addicts and drunks cause most accidents at work.

* Addicts mug and rob old people.

* Addicts and drunks cause most road accidents.

* Addicts sell drugs to children (and others).

* Addict increase the numbers of prostitutes and toy boys

    in our towns and cities.

* Addicts disrupt our schools, the education of our children

    and the life of our communities.

* Addicts bankrupt businesses and destroy jobs.

* Addicts break into and burgle people's homes.

* Addicts spread HIV, AIDS and hepatitis.

* Addicts and drunks commit the most crimes,

and,

ADDICTS ARE UNDOUBTEDLY THE REAL CURRENT THREAT TO

OUR LIVES AND TO EVERYBODY'S FUTURE.

AND THIS INCLUDES ADDICTS ON ILLEGAL, LICENSED

AND PRESCRIBED DRUGS.

This is because their addiction controls them, and

THIS AFFECTS EVERYBODY – EVERYONE'S FAMILY, EVERYONE'S

INCOME, EVERY JOB, EVERYONE'S HEALTH AND EVERY ONE'S

HOME – INCLUDING YOURS.

The above is about addicts in general and the increasing damage which they do to all walks of society and to our whole economy.

They are also the reasons why (although we might believe it is not our fault or our problem) WE MUST ALL DO OUR UTMOST TO POSITIVELY HELP ADDICTS reduce their numbers and their dependency on those of us who do not use drugs.

Because we have the truth staring us in the face, we can be sure it is no use relying on government alone to solve the substance addiction problems which are daily causing anxiety, crime, violence, terrorism, damage, accidents, injuries, disease and even death.

Every one of us is needed to solve this problem because, in the final analysis, it is OUR problem, even if our family and children have so far managed to avoid actual drug usage and the direct results of addictive behaviour.

SO, IT IS SINCERELY HOPED YOU AND YOURS WILL NEVER HAVE

TO DIRECTLY FACE ADDICTION, AND HOPED ALSO THAT YOU WILL RECOGNISE THAT SUCH AN ESCAPE WILL MAINLY COME ABOUT BECAUSE YOU HELPED STAMP OUT ADDICTIVE DRUGS

BY HELPING VICTIMS OF ADDICTION TO RECOVER !

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For further information, you may wish to contact:

Elisabeth M. Reichert, Field Staff Member

for Narconon United Kingdom,

e-mail elisabeth.3@btinternet.com, or phone 0775 263 0319.

who can arrange for you to inspect (without obligation),

and talk to the staff and students at,

the NARCONON UNITED KINGDOM Training Centre,

at HEATHFIELD, East Sussex, TN21 0DJ.