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.
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