WITHDRAWAL
ADVISORY SERVICES & HELP (WASH)
It
has taken 68 years for the psychiatric and pharmaceutical fraternity
to convert some 2.4 Million of our population into profitably
prescribed daily pill-popping patients, and keep them that way.
Whether
they are on continuous medication to ‘manage’
sickness, disease, anxiety, dementia, pain, a habit or behaviour, etc., except
for pain-killers, the factor which keeps them demanding their daily
supplies is seldom, if
ever,
the problem for which their drugs were originally prescribed.
In
well over 90+% of cases that problem disappeared in the first month
or so of “treatment” and did so because, in the same way that
bruises, cuts, scratches, burns, fevers, pimples, indigestion,
headaches, colds, sunburn, and a host of other physical ailments and
injuries naturally
heal or cure themselves, so also do losses, anxieties, worries,
shocks, rage, fears and other depressing emotional conditions also
naturally diminish and fade away – except
in circumstances where some suppressive factor such
as addiction
imposes itself on the individual’s life.
Human
minds and bodies are designed to be naturally self-repairing and,
when allowed to do so without interference but with good
understanding, make an incredibly brilliant job of it.
In
the same way that we use “First Aid” to keep an injury clean and
protected to minimise additional physical
harm factors and to allow our natural healing powers to operate, so
also are there mental
first aid factors in the form of “Emotional Assists” which anyone
can learn to apply to themselves and to others.
But
to give nature time to take its course, one has to be ready to
maintain a “stiff
upper lip”
or “grin
and bear it”
for a short while. This is because pain
is a vital form of communication between the person and his or her
body,
and the 'residual pain' from an injury or the 'temporary anxiety' from a
loss, are nature’s way of reporting the progress of healing and
ensuring that we do not overstress that body part or emotional area
until healing is complete.
“But
why should you EVER have to “suffer” even for a short while”
say the overly “kind” and “pseudo sympathetic” MEDICATION
SALESMEN, “when
we can make life so nice for you with our ever growing “choice”
of prescriptions”.
And
what they offer amongst other “immediate benefits” (i.e.
quick-fixes), are symptom based pain-killers, sleeping pills,
tranquillisers, soporifics, stimulants and other prescription
medication – a majority of which can be habit forming or addictive
and often also have hypnotic qualities which can permit command
factors in the environment to exercise control over our decisions and
actions.
In
effect, instead of permitting and encouraging natural self-healing,
they seek to take control of our bodies, minds and emotions during
the early stages of healing, by cutting off our communications
to-and-from our injuries and whilst there is little doubt that in
some cases this can “appear” to be of comfort, it is not of help
to the actual healing process.
Unfortunately,
what many of their prescriptions do, is to eliminate some of the
useful natural pain and minor discomfort in the early healing stages
immediately following injury or loss. Valuable sensations designed
to inform us
of healing progress or lack thereof in respect of our injuries or
emotional disorders.
And,
because many of those prescriptions are poison based, they can at the
same time create conditions for far worse problems to arise in the
not too distant future.
From
the point of view of a self-healing body or mind, interfering
with what that body and mind is trying to do to promote its natural
healing, is the
unnecessary imposing of
some profit making chemical control factor on its operation which,
(especially when the prescribed substance is addictive and hypnotic),
can become increasingly and permanently suppressive in regard to the
individual’s future lifestyle, progress, happiness and survival
potential.
TOO
EARLY an application of a painkiller or tranquilliser (which,
like so many such substances are addictive and / or hypnotic)
leads
to
a permanent addictive demand for and usage of that substance, because
the crushing “cold turkey” effects of withdrawal from the drug
can often be much greater than the temporary minor pains and
discomforts which the body and mind ask us to confront and bear with,
as
part of
the initial stages of natural healing.
Pharmaceuticals
and their psychiatric marketeers know that addiction
to any substance is the best possible factor ensuring
that the user will be a permanent consumer of that substance.
And they also know that the main continuation factor (rather
than being a desire for a “high”)
is the user’s decidedly unpleasant experience of, and fear of, the
cold turkey effects they all suffer whenever they try to stop. But,
instead of blaming their profit orientated product, the psycho-pharms
prefer to falsely blame the user for seeking the “high”.
Of
course, patients naturally try to stop using, because of the many and
varied side-effects which can be created by even minimum usage of any
toxic or unnatural poisonous substance. Such side-effects can
include diarrhoea, vomiting, drowsiness, constipation, insomnia,
cramps, aches, dizziness, exhaustion, loss of sleep, anxiety and many
other factors varying from user to user.
But
when they try slamming on the brakes in the hope of safely stopping
their increasingly debilitating addiction, the
resultant cold turkey effects
can be far more devastating than the drug created side-effects they
are trying to get rid of.
As
a result they then unfortunately and uncomfortably have to try to
learn to live with such side-effects as
well as
their daily drug dosages.
From
the above, it will be seen that the real problem in regard
to
helping the millions of involuntary addicts quit their habit and
avoid the side-effects of their “medication”
is the fact that the pharmaceutical industry (which
is well equipped to sponsor and help gradual withdrawal procedures)
is the very same commercial operation which has as its main goal the
procurement of increasing usage of as many as possible of their
addictive products by an increasing number of people year after year.
Consequently,
so-called “self-regulation” by the psycho-pharms is NEVER ever
going to produce a better result than the time wasting, smarmy,
“medication-sustaining” justifying and excusing lip-service to
which politicians have been subjected over the last 68 years by
big-pharma marketing men.
These
manipulative ploys have included, amongst others:
a) the
whole countrywide 65 years of “never-ever-intended-to-cure”
Opioid
Substitution Therapy (methadone, etc.),
b) the
five years incestuous “National Treatment Outcome Research Study”
of psychiatric “treatments” - conducted by psychiatrists
themselves WITHOUT
final useful report of the failure of such psychiatric
“cure-by-treatment”
results - and,
c) the
recent failed 4 year psychiatric “piloting” of “Payment by
Results” in the drug recovery sector, which has deliberately
aborted implementation of the Coalition’s brilliant 2010 and still
current Drugs Strategy, simply because treating drug addiction WITH
drugs doesn’t
cure and never can
!
As
a result of these persistent psycho-pharm efforts to avoid any
reduction in the increasingly vast numbers of U.K. citizen’s
addicted to their products, it is vital that “Reduction
of Involuntary Addiction”
is (for obvious reasons) conducted as a separate government
initiative which does not involve psychiatrists and only peripherally
involves pharmacists – under
TIGHT regulation and legislation.
Proposals
are therefore set out as follows
for
the formation by the Government of:
INVOLUNTARY
MEDICATION ADDICTION
WITHDRAWAL
ADVISORY
SERVICES
& HELP
TEAMS,
(W.A.S.H.
TEAMS)
a
special national & local recovery department for involuntarily
addicted patients – totally independent of psychiatry and
pharmacology.
Obviously,
together, every involuntary addict who stops taking an average of
over 1,095 expensive medical drug doses a year will create a saving
more than enough to pay for the whole WASH Teams scheme.
HOW
TO ESCAPE FROM THE U.K’S PRESENT EXCESSIVE WASTEFULL OVER-USAGE OF
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS:
Over
the last 60 plus years of so-called “patient management” by
long-term prescription medication, the pharmaceutical companies, and
their psychiatric and medical marketing arms have developed the
pill-popping treatments of our NHS into a nearly unstoppable “health
service” methodology, whereby just abruptly stopping the
prescribing of any drug to the millions of its present users is
calculated to cause chaotic protest, and thus ensure that demand for
their products continues.
BUT,
the
definition of an “EFFECTIVE DRUGS POLICY” is one which
continuously
moves
a society or community in
the direction of
TOTAL ABSTINENCE
- i.e. it is not a society totally without drugs, but is a society
whose policy is to continuously move our communities towards
becoming a society FREE
OF ADDICTION and addictive drug supply and consumption.
And
the action needed to progress towards that is NOT just to stop dead
all the current prescribing of existing patients under such
management ‘treatment’.
INSTEAD,
THERE ARE THREE MAIN STEPS:
1) Stop
expanding the current list of patients being prescribed medical
substances in
respect ONLY of symptoms.
i.e. allow no new consumers of such substances to be prescribed by
any psychiatrists or other physicians until
laboratory testing and full CAUSE diagnosis has been completed
and sufficient time for any initial physical or mental trauma has
elapsed, to permit the
natural healing processes
to start taking effect.
In
other words, stop increasing the total of N.H.S. patients solely on
palliative pharmaceutical treatment based on prescribing for the
handling of symptoms rather than seeking the underlying cause of the
symptom(s) - such as allergies, dietary deficiencies and excesses,
or undiagnosed injuries or infections, etc. Depending on the nature
of their patient’s trauma this will likely be a non-prescribing
period of from 1 to 4 weeks.
2) To
handle the existing 2.4 million involuntarily addicted NHS patients
each costing U.K. taxpayers an average of some £1,095 per year,
recruit
and train a total nationwide force of say 2,000 Involuntary
Medication Addiction Withdrawal Advisory Services & Help
“Recovery Managers”, spread across every local county area.
Each
authorised and trained (amongst other duties) to determine the sizes
of and to supply “step-down” dosages of the medications to which
their clients are already daily addicted, each Recovery Manager
costing around £1,500 to recruit, pay and train over a two week
period.
3) Provide
each IMAWASH Recovery Manager with a small motor vehicle and a local
client group of 32 N.H.S. addicts to manage towards, and to bring to
full, abstinence, over
an average period of 20 weeks per patient, thus allowing each
Recovery Manager to withdraw 80 current addicts per year, over a
period of 48 working weeks. (N.B.
80 recovered addicts together thereafter save £87,600 per year for
each abstinent year they live.)
Whilst
(inclusive
of G.P. consultation, dispensing, admin & collection time, etc.)
the current cost to the Exchequer of providing and delivering 3 to 4
doses a day of those drugs to which patients have become
involuntarily addicted can likely be higher, for the examples given
here, we have taken an all inclusive cost of only £1.00 per dose and
only 3 doses a day. i.e. a minimum cost to the N.H.S. of £1,095 per
year per patient, which includes not only the actual drug supply but
also their 7 to 21 day interviewing, prescribing, dispensing and
collecting time and effort, etc.
On
the other hand, up to 20 weeks of an average of two to three times a
week 30 minute visits to each withdrawing patient (i.e.
16 visits a day per Manager inclusive of travel time)
by a trained IMAWASH Manager will cost under £500 per cured addict,
even if the IMAWASH Recovery Manager follows up on a once a month
basis for three months after
each patient is fully withdrawn.
With
a)
an annual total cost per IMAWASH Recovery Manager of £40,000
(£26,000 of which is salary), b)
a current U.K. involuntarily addicted client list of over 2,400,000,
and with c)
each IMAWASH Manager also creating pure savings
of over £47,600 per year by d)
each withdrawing 80 clients a year, we would need e)
2,000 trained IMAWASH Managers to cure the present list of
involuntary addicts in 16 years. (This
long length of time is a clear indication of the size of the
problem.)
Whilst
doing this, those 2,000 Recovery Managers would together SAVE the
U.K. Taxpayers (over
and above the £40,000 it costs to fund each manager's work area)
£47,600 per year so that in the whole 16 years (assuming
no new patients become involuntarily addicted)
there would be a saving of over £1.5223 BILLION.
In
other words, the indicated WASH involuntarily addicted recovery
programme, whilst curing N.H.S. patients, will not only pay the full
cost of running its own department and programme, but will also make
a healthy additional contribution to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer’s Treasury.
HOW
MANY OTHER N.H.S. SPONSORED INITIATIVES CAN DO THAT ? And what
should we do with that huge level of savings each year ?
And
the answer is provided by the Government's own National Audit Bureau,
which tells us that EVERY SINGLE ONE of the country's N.H.S. supplied
prescription methadone and other OST users costs the Chancellor of
the Exchequer (and thus the U.K. Taxpayers) over £47,000 per annum
per methadone addict for an average of 40 years. (Other
university studies show that p.a. sum to be closer to £60,000.)
Of
the nearly 200,000 currently prescribed methadone and other O.S.T.
users, we know
from statistics of the last 50 years that the Narconon®
self-help residential addiction recovery training programme, when
presented with enrolment groups of 4 addicts, can help 65+% cure
themselves on a 13 week residential programme costing £39,000 per
addict on a Payment
by Results
full 12 months lasting abstinence basis (and
only £9,000 per addict B&B+toiletry
charge
if no period of abstinence whatsoever is achieved in 26 weeks, i.e.
twice through the programme).
As
a result, on a Payment by Results basis the above 16 year £1.53
Billion saving could
pay for the curing of 39,000 current methadone users, thus saving the
Chancellor another £114,562 each year for 16 years.
This
progression based on saving £47,000 per addict at a cost of only
£39,000 per addict will see the present total of methadone (OST)
addicts reduced from the current 200,000 to zero in 16 years - funded
by IMAWASH Recovery Managers.
And
at that point, the Government could then afford to additionally start
curing the illicitly
addicted
users of amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, crack, ecstasy, heroin and
skunk, etc.
The
main point of this paper is to emphasize that it very provably costs
the Chancellor of the Exchequer (and UK Taxpayers) much
much more
TO MAINTAIN both legal involuntary and illicit recreational addicts
in their addictions - than it does TO PERMANENTLY CURE them on a
Payment by Results residential self-help addiction recovery training
basis.
The
years it will take to reach a nearly addiction free society is an
indication of the size and seriousness of the current problem, and
the necessity for starting now to implement policies based on
training
addicts to responsibly help themselves
instead of the current psycho-pharmaceutically profitable lifelong
addictive prescribing of daily dosages in the name of “habit
management”.
Currently,
that half of our population directly responsible for our Gross
National Product, actually carries the 7% of the U.K. population who
are addicted, and who are thus a none productive burden on the rest.
Returning
only 5 of that 7% to the natural state of relaxed abstinence into
which 99% of the population is born – will revolutionise our
economy, and help avoid further austerity.
BUT
DO NOT FORGET:
THAT
THERE IS ONE THING STOPPING THIS !
Because
the pharmaceutical industry 1) does not want to lose its over
2,400,000 profitable involuntary addicts to which it supplies some
7.2
Million doses of addictive medication EACH AND EVERY DAY,
and 2) because it does not want to lose its 200,000 profitable
methadone and other O.S.T. addicts to which it supplies a further
200,000 doses of addictive medication EACH AND EVERY DAY,
pharmaceutical companies are EXTREMELY reluctant to widely and
cheaply supply the small enough “step- down” dosages of the
opioid painkillers, benzodiazepines, “z” drugs and others needed
to make the above economic withdrawal from involuntary drug addiction
into a workable and working national programme.
Obviously
we would be stupid to expect the psycho-pharms to voluntarily
kill off the geese which lay them golden eggs in terms of daily
involuntary addiction consumption and methadone daily dose
consumption.
As
a result, it will require some very simple and straightforward new
legislation to ensure that they toe-the-line and thus make possible a
U.K. economy which is no longer the European nation with more
addiction than other E.U. member countries.
Whilst
there is ALWAYS some minor discomfort in a reduction or step-down
system of withdrawal from medical drug dependency, we know that the
vast majority of patients can, with
proper management,
tolerate and succeed with 14 day step down reductions of not
more than
7.5% of their current daily dosages. However, a relative few will
have a back-off from confronting reductions greater than 5% or even
2.5%, and will therefore need to be handled on those lower percentage
dosage reductions.
Therefore,
very approximately we are looking at 20 x 7 day reductions of 5%, or
14 x 10 day reductions of 7.5%.
Taking
100 as the established multi-daily dosage, this can be done by
insisting that a manufacturer or distributor may in future only be
licensed to produce a 100 mg tablet, PROVIDED he also produces a 50,
a 25, a 10, a 5 and a 2.5 mg tablet, and these dose sizes equally
apply to both powder and liquid capsules.
This
short range of only five step-down dose sizes allows the dispensing
to the patient of the whole range of dosages from 100mg, to 97.5, to
95, to 92.5, to 90, to 87.5, to 85, and on down to 10, 7.5, 5 and
2.5mgs. In fact, when in tablet form, a 100mg tablet can be cut in
half or into quarters, but the 10, 5 and 2.5 mg sizes are needed to
compete the whole step-down range based on 5% and 2.5% reductions.
Encapsulated
doses are not divisible and so necessitate production of all five
step-down dose sizes, but simple liquid dosages should be capable of
being measured out and dispensed at every dosage level, inclusive of
injected liquid doses.
(Where
the established multi-daily dose is other than 100, the same
principle would be followed based on the established originally
recommended dose size.)
All
it requires is the earnest cooperation, or lawful coercion of the
pharmaceutical industry to solve the problem of addiction to their
products, which alone – create every day, every week, every month
and every year, the increasing dependency of more and more of our
citizens, and thus the ruination of our economy and society.
KINDLY
THEREFORE RECOGNISE:
No-one
can become addicted to a drug or medication they never take, because
it is the drugs themselves which cause & maintain addiction.
NOTHING
ELSE !
And
remember, we mainly decide to try or take drugs only because
we
are wrongly advised or persuaded, or
are
otherwise led to believe that they will solve a personal problem.
ONLY
ADDICTS DAILY USE DRUGS. NONE USERS DON'T !
So
DEMAND REDUCTION relies, not on “prevention” but entirely on
making cures available . . . .
and
that can be done on a Payment by Results basis in 65+% of cases.
For
further information you may wish to phone (01342) 810151 or 811099,
any
weekday after 11.00am and before 9,00pm.
Society
for
an
Addiction
Free
Europe,
S.A.F.E.
a
not-for-profit group formed in 1975.
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