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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It Really Makes One Want To Laugh or More Appropriately . . . . Cry:

THE GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WANTS

TO REDUCE DRUG ADDICTION OF

ALL TYPES, YET GOES ON BUYING

7.38 MILLION DOSES OF EXPENSIVE

ADDICTIVE DRUGS EVERY DAY !

Methadone by prescription

To give away “FREE” to nearly 2.6 million mainly involuntary drug addicts who have been prescribed into addiction by psychiatric pushers of pharmaceutical drugs – all paid for by British taxpayers !

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it ?

But that's only because it IS ridiculous and, even though many politicians today know this, it is because, over the last half century, MPs of every colour from across the House do not want to admit that, when they were in power, they also allowed themselves to be conned into believing that this ridiculous prescribing policy could perhaps somehow and at some time deliver an addiction free United Kingdom !

As a result, whilst the present government runs the same ridiculous policy, the present loyal opposition are reluctant to criticise or attempt to have it thrown out, because the Government will tar them with their own brush, as a means of escaping that same criticism of themselves.

So before we get into the pros and cons of this ridiculous and appalling situation, let us be clear that we are not here considering the many none addictive drugs and medicines which can do so much good for our ageing and longer-living population.  Medications produced by ethical members of the pharmaceutical industry to make life easier, healthier and happier for a majority of our people.

We are here concerned only about those drugs such as the benzodiazepines, the opioid pain killers, the “Z” drugs, the anti-psychotics, methadone, Subutex and Suboxone, etc., etc., all of which impose lifelong addiction and / or hypnotic commands on patients' lives for the sole purpose of helping them overcome the often appalling “cold-turkey” effects of withdrawing from the involuntary drug addictions into which they have been iatrogenically precipitated by psychiatric, N.H.S. and G.P. reckless prescribing.

What makes one want to cry rather than laugh, is the fact that whilst Parliament is worried about the loss over two years of £2 BILLION by the Royal Bank of Scotland, or the cost of £2+ BILLION a year for 10 years for the building of a new nuclear power station, or the cost of renewing Trident, etc., Members of Parliament go on hiding the culpability into which they were so naively conned, by going on tacitly approving totally wasteful spending of £11.088 BILLION EVERY SINGLE YEAR on maintaining 2.6 MILLION legal drug addicts instead of curing them.

AND THAT £11+ BILLION A YEAR IS FOR THE LIFETIMES OF THOSE 2.6 MILLION. - PLUS – a similar amount for the lifetimes of those just NOW being prescribed into the same addictive lifestyles, instead of being cured.

This is because MPs are RIGHT NOW STILL BEING CONNED into believing the profit hungry psycho-pharm fraternity who pretend that drug addiction cannot be cured, and who thus ruthlessly condemn any procedure or organisation that CAN cure addiction - because a cured addict is a lost profitable psycho-pharmaceutical client !

Which is not only ridiculous – IT IS CRIMINAL !

Bringing addicts to lasting recovery of the relaxed non-criminal state of abstinence into which they were born, costs an average of £29,000 to £39,000 depending on local property and wages costs – ON A PAYMENT BY RESULTS BASIS.

i.e. on a basis where the fee for their stay is only £9,000 for their bed, board and toiletries if they fail to remain abstinent for a six to 12 month medically validated period of continuous, lasting and proven recovery.

This means that, if the cost of curing each addict averaged £34,000, the £11+ BILLION each year the Exchequer currently pays out to maintain the current number of U.K. prescribed addicts (IF THE NECESSARY PREMISES AND TRAINED STAFF WERE IMMEDIATELY TOMORROW AVAILABLE) would in fact pay for the curing of 326,118 addicts each year, so that all the present 2.6 million addicts could in theory be cured in the next 8 years, with the current addict maintenance cost also falling every year, as the number of such addicts reduces each year.

However, in practice because it would take some two to three years to convert and retrain existing rehab executives and staffs and fully set up the required network of some 300 x 40 bed residential recovery centres, it would take closer to 40 years to clear the present 2.6 Million prescription addicts, when allowing for the fact that up to half of the 2 million older patients would likely die during that timespan.

Fortunately, There Is A Quicker Route To Massive N.H.S Savings.

Of the £11,088,000,000 being annually spent to maintain prescription addicts, the government's National Audit Office reports that £8.46 billion is spent just on the 180,000 of former illegal recreational addicts now on methadone, buprenorphine or other Opioid Substitution Therapy, and that, unlike most of the involuntarily addicted elderly, most of these OST addicts are not in care or nursing facilities.

By initially limiting the curing of addiction to this smaller and more costly group, and assuming it will take three years to fully establish the 300 x 40 bed recovery centres and the trained executives and staff they will need to tackle the 2.4 million of involuntarily addicted mainly older people, it would take less than 8 years to take the current 180,000 out of the OST treatment system and return them to a more normal and productive life.

This would save over £30 BILLION over that 8 year period.  Then, as those OST addict numbers reduced, the residential recovery centres could start turning their attention to the bigger and longer job of recovering the 2.4 million of involuntarily addicted people in nursing or care homes.

In fact it is more than likely, after addiction recovery centres start proving themselves, that some nursing homes would wish to send their executives and staff for the training required to let them start delivering relaxed withdrawal on their already established premises.

In addition, with the size and seriousness of the involuntary addiction problem and its massive costs being increasingly recognised, in that same period it is not optimistic to assume that the Government will move to ensure that the number of patients being prescribed into that condition are drastically curtailed.

IT IS IN FACT THE SHEER SIZE OF THE PRESCRIBED ADDICTION PROBLEM, THE MASSIVE COSTS OF ITS ERADICATION AND THE TIME IT WILL TAKE TO BRING IT TO A HALT, WHICH DOES MOST TO EXPOSE THE MASSIVE PROBLEM IT ACTUALY IS, AND THE NEED FOR URGENT, POSITIVE AND COUNTRYWIDE IMMEDIATE ACTION.

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

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The Routes By Which Mass Killings Enter Into Our Local Communities:

ROUTES PAVED WITH DRUG DOSES,


WHICH GOVERNMENT JUST CANNOT

HANDLE, BECAUSE MPs & OFFICIALS

HAVE FOR YEARS BEEN

BLIND FOLDED AND HAD THEIR EARS

PLUGGED ON THE SUBJECT OF

DRUGS AND ADDICTION

 BY BIG PHARMA & PSYCHIATRY.

In life, there are numerous routes to violence, many of which lead to death, but the increasing number of senseless and often multiple killings all mainly have one thing in common.

After such an event, a local police chief might well inform his township that: “It is now certain that the perpetrator was a member of a local terrorist group and that, according to people who knew him, he was somehow hypnotised into being willing to sacrifice himself to the cause of killing 'infidels' - as described in a leaflet found on him.  Doctors reported he had recently taken a high dose of hashish, a chemical drug cure for “fear of dying” used down the years by assassin group leaders to calm and control their members.”

However, a police chief whose town is involved in a different killing incident might reassure his population that: “I am pleased to say that there is as yet no evidence at all that this was a terrorist attack.  It appears that the perpetrator was suffering from some psychiatric condition, as a result of which he was receiving treatment based on prescription drugs, and his psychiatrist said he was improving” !

Yes. Drugs of every type, including pharmaceutical prescriptions, are more and more cited by keepers of the law as being directly involved in deathly incidents and especially deliberate killings – often on a mass and indiscriminate scale, and also involving suicide missions.

But because of the lies and misleading information so often fed to politicians and Press to justify drink and drug sales, as well as to hide ritual killings and drug fuelled religious crusades, our Ministers and Civil Servants are often the decision-makers who know least about the real truths of life in our streets, pubs, clubs and drink and drug infected living rooms.

The word “assassin” comes from the Arabic word “hashshasin”, meaning “people who take hashish”.  That word in turn comes from the name of a feared medieval Muslim sect who ate or smoked hashish before embarking on missions to murder those they considered their enemies.  Hashish is a drug made from the Hemp plant, and known in the western world as marijuana, cannabis, weed, skunk or nederweed, depending on strength and country of origin.  And this drug is an essential part of any lead assassin's tool kit needed to prepare fanatics for their suicidal killing sprees.

There is today ample proof that this drug (which is the easiest to obtain and the drug most often used by U.K. addicts) is also used by the terrorist assassins in France, Belgium, Germany, here and in other countries, so that any terrorist leader migrating into the western countries does not have to risk bringing his needed useful supply of assassin controlling drugs with him.

Such terrorist murders hit the headlines, but SIMILAR NUMBERS OF MASS KILLINGS ARE ALSO PERPETRATED AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS PRESCRIBED BY PSYCHI-ATRISTS AND OTHER PHYSICIANS TO PERSONS WHICH THEY DESCRIBE (OFTEN FALSELY) AS HAVING A “MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM”.

Such so-called “mental disorders” are used as excuses for prescribing profitable medical drugs to millions of N.H.S. patients every day.

In the U.K. alone, there are some 2.4 million patients in nursing homes and / or “cared for” in their own homes, who receive three or four doses a day of addictive benzodiazepines, habit-forming pain-killers or other anti-psychotic prescription drugs, etc., and over 180,000 former recreational drug users, now receiving every single day a dose of methadone or other Opioid Substitution “Therapy” addictive drug, at a cost reported by the government's own National Audit Office (and paid for by U.K. taxpayers) of over £47,000 per addict per annum for up to 40 years.  (That's £8.46 BILLION pounds each and every year for 40 years !)

Psychiatrists called in to explain these increasing mass slayings, where the perpetrators are described as having a “mental health problem” or as “being treated”, very carefully lay blame for the happening – NOT on the psychiatric drugs which caused it - but instead on the so-called often fictitious “mental disorder” diagnosed by the psychiatrist who prescribed the drugs – a disorder taken from the infamous psychiatric sales catalogue known as the: “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association to help market pharmaceutical prescription drugs.

That manual's nearly 400 “disorders” have been proved across the world as being created mainly by affixing psychiatric “disorder descriptions” or “labels” to hundreds of normal every day living and “growing up” behaviour patterns.

And each of these labels then specifies treatment for the rather normal behaviour they relate to, and that “treatment” is nearly always a course of profitable addictive drugs, their irresistible habit forming effects ensuring that the so-called “mental health” patient will be a consumer for life !

Whilst much of this prescribing is done for the elderly approaching or into Dementia (which prescribed drug usage accelerates), there are increasing tens of thousands of school children being sentenced to lifelong addiction by these practices and, it is when they try to escape from their disastrous prescribed drug habit or miss a dose that they most often go “off the rails” and start “punishing” the people in their environment whom they irrationally feel are in some way the cause of the perpetrator's own miserable and life-ruining “cold turkey” drug controlled condition.

Many psychiatric pharmaceutical drugs thus not only ruin addicts' lives, they also have the power to turn hapless addicts into killers, but such is the powerful control which the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry exercise over politician's thinking, that the psycho-pharm fraternity are able even to stop Ministers and Civil Service Chiefs from talking and listening to worldwide organisations who CAN prevent and cure drug addiction, Dementia and those human emotional conditions which are genuine mental health problems.

Seek the most often and most viciously suppressed “Modern Science of Mental Health” practised over the last 66 years, and you will there find the expanding and now worldwide organisation which can truly handle mental problems and actually begin stopping all the killings fuelled by drugs.

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

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Editors and Programme Producers, the Guardians of Britain's Morale:

MEDIA BOSSES HAVE IT

WITHIN THEIR POWER TO MAKE

 BREXIT COMFORTABLE AND EASY

. . . . OR OTHERWISE.

Media bosses definitely know their readers and audiences, and to capture as many of them as customers as possible, tend to make the news as exciting as possible for as many as possible – because that sells TV licences, newspapers and magazines, etc.

Normal, boring, conservative and only mildly interesting statements don't grab a viewer's, reader's or listener's attention as much as fearful, argumentative, sexual and controversial items do, as a result of which they introduce as much fear and controversy as possible into their news output, their “tweets” and their blog “posts”, in the hope of claiming the largest headlines and thus the largest audiences and sales.

This is neither wrong, exaggerated nor difficult when they are reporting the activities of some politicians, terrorists, gangsters or other criminals,

But when it comes to the pros and cons of getting Britain out of the European Union as cleanly and healthily as possible, it is clear that too many commentators find it easier to make the Brexit situation more exciting and mysteriously controversial because of its uncertainties, than the mundane ”business as usual” considerations of those who voted to “remain” in the E.U.

Mrs May rightly said that “Brexit” means “Brexit”, and the factor which is going to make Britain's exit from the Union into the best result for Britain, is the morale of our nation's population.

People at every level within our society are wondering what is going to happen, when it should be obvious to everybody that what is going to happen is what we MAKE happen. And that what we think now and do or fail to do now, are the factors which create the high level of morale which is needed as we move through the various steps of exiting from the European Union.

Reporters, editors, producers and other political and economic observers in truth have no more idea of what is going to happen than the bosses, the employees, the man in the street and the housewife in her home. And it is those professional observers' own uncertainties which make them attribute similar uncertainty to the bosses, the employees and everybody else.

As a result of which we more and more get the possibility of a self-fulfilling prophesy being generated out of media purveyors' own spectator-like unknowingness and uncertainties.

Coupled with attacks from government opposition parties, these personal doubts and uncertainties from media-makers will inevitably start to affect the morale of decision-makers around the nation and – yes, we will have a self-fulfilling prophesy about how doubtful and uncertain is Britain's position and how we must be increasingly cautious, careful and resistant to any form of risk taking or long term planning or decision-making until “we can be sure about what is going to happen”.

Which brings us back to square one, because the one thing we can be certain of is that: what we MAKE happen is going to be what happens !

During the last world war, it was the positive morale generated by the British Press and radio which kept us going through some of the darkest hours. And today we need a similar Churchillian attitude to any doubt and uncertainty which might arise about our future over the next two or three years.

A successful Brexit is infinitely more important than any Party differences, even for those who voted to remain. Because it is a “brexited” nation that the government which will be elected in 2020 is going to have to make work well – no matter that government's colour or creed.

And a Brexit which works well is very much in the hands of our Press and other media workers, who can help us all by avoiding pessimistic, worrying, doubtful and uncertain comments and speculations, when optimistic certainty and enthusiasm is what triumphs most in life.

No matter who or what you are, ALL personal views of the future cannot possibly be more than pure speculation. So – lovely and responsible opinion-leading editors, producers and journalists – please lead us towards an optimistic Brexited future full of hope for a Britain which remains part of Europe, but which stands successfully outside the European Union.

Especially as protesting or criticising Brexit is not going to stop it happening, but will only make things worse for all of us – including you.

S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed 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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What Is Meant By An Addiction-Free Society ?

IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF

THE “BIO-CHEMICAL SOCIETY”

WE ARE CURRENTLY INTO.

The essence of an addiction-free society is

that no one is threatened by

the behaviour of addicts or dealers,

because no one is using addictive drugs,

and, no one intends to use them.

BUT THE UNFORTUNATE TRUTH IS THAT THIS

IS MOST LIKELY IMPOSSIBLE AND UNOBTAINABLE !

Nevertheless, such a fact should never be allowed to stop us from having a worthwhile goal and trying to reach it. Especially when the ability to get closer and closer to such a goal is itself a valued result. Worth aiming for, because it has the vital effect of benefiting a majority in our society.

SO THE DEFINITION OF AN “EFFECTIVE” ANTI

DRUG ADDICTION POLICY IS THEREFORE ONE

WHICH CONTINUOUSLY MOVES

A SOCIETY OR COMMUNITY

IN THE DIRECTION OF

TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

i.e. ALWAYS TOWARDS A SOCIETY

FREE OF ADDICTIVE DRUGS.

By definition, such a policy must essentially result in less and less overall production and distribution of ALL TYPES of addictive drugs – illicit, licensed AND prescription drugs, plus a continuing reduction in demand for them, coupled with a decrease in the number of citizens of all ages using ALL ADDICTIVE DRUGS, both by choice and involuntarily.

ISN’T THE ABOVE POLICY WORTH FULLY INVESTIGATING ?

TO KNOW MORE ABOUT CREATING A SOCIETY

WHICH AVOIDS and CURES ADDICTION,

AND WHICH TRAINS ADDICTS HOW TO THEMSELVES

ESCAPE FROM THEIR TRAP:

please phone: Int: (0044) or UK (0)1342 810151,

or E-mail: keneck@btinternet.com

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

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Understanding DEMENTIA and How Drugs Accelerate Its Development.

PAIN, SHOCK, LOSS, DRUGS, POISONS,

AND

 ALL THE OTHER FACTORS WHICH 

INJURE

 BODIES AND CREATE EMOTIONAL 

UPSET,

  ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ONSET

AND DEVELOPMENT OF DEMENTIA.

To fully understand the implications of the above heading, it is first necessary to know what Dementia is and what causes it, and this entails a knowledge of both animal and human minds.  But, as might be expected, the achieving of professional competence and experience in all the necessary mental health technology involved requires a full time training course of several months or more, including an appropriate internship.

So what follows is no more than a plain language introduction to the basic factors involved:

Unlike the animal kingdom, human beings possess an “Analytical Mind” - the intelligence factor which clearly renders Man superior to other flesh and blood creatures, and the mind with which we normally conduct our path through life towards our chosen goals.

Throughout our lifetime each of us must, to a greater or lesser degree, often confront physically painful, emotionally tough, life threatening circumstances AND, in order to go on physically surviving, must also find a way to handle and overcome each one of those situations at the time of their occurrence.

Our so-called “unconscious” minds (or more accurately named “Reactive Minds” which we possess along with the flesh and blood animal kingdom) make a detailed record of each such incident and the actions taken, so that those records of “successful survival actions” can be available to trigger the same “successful survival actions” when SIMILAR threatening circumstances are detected in any future situation.  (They are deemed "successful” because the body is still living on !)

Furthermore, the Reactive Mind has the ability to override the current activities, purposes and intentions of the analytical individual in order to immediately implement the earlier taken and recorded “as successful” actions with the purpose of again ensuring the continuing survival of that individual’s body.

In fact, SURVIVAL OF THE FLESH & BLOOD BODY is the over-riding concern of the Reactive Mind to the exclusion of all other activities and intentions, however analytically important to the individual.

Unfortunately the “present time” circumstances which serve to trigger the “successful survival actions” of the past, are seldom if ever an exact duplicate of all of the past circumstances which created the records of those earlier “successful survival actions”.

As a result, to the degree that the present “triggering” circumstances fail to fully duplicate the original past circumstances, the re-enacting of the “successful survival actions” can fail to handle the present circumstances and can thus also increasingly appear to observers as erratic and inappropriate behaviour.

Under normal none threatening living conditions the Reactive Mind does not interfere with the being’s intentions and activities, but will always start towards full shut down of the Analytical Mind and the overriding of current chosen activities as soon as it appears to the Reactive Mind that similar anti-survival threats are occurring, or are about to occur.

As life progresses through the years and decades, so the average person runs into more and more physically painful, mentally stressful, shocking, injurious, toxic, life threatening and loss circumstances and handles them successfully, thus recording and storing more and more possibilities of there being “watchdog triggers” available - intended to ensure that avoidance reactions can and will take place to ensure body survival.

Included amongst the physically painful, mentally stressful, life threatening circumstances are not only cuts, bruises, diseases, bone breaks, dental extractions, burns, scalding, losses, anxiety, shocks, headaches, seasickness, toothaches, headaches, frights, bullying, falls, accidents, operations & attacks, etc., etc., but also greater or lesser poisonings arising from bad food, rancid fats, polluted water, drunkenness, sugar diabetes, other excesses and of course drugs and chemicals of a toxic nature from all sources.

So that by the time individuals are getting into middle-age, many of them have amassed sufficient such incidents to ensure that their Reactive Mind is triggered into taking its evasive / survival actions several times a year, then, as such incidents increase, several times a month, and later increasingly per week, etc.

Because these evasive / survival reactions interrupt the expected activities of normal living they attract the attention of observers amongst their colleagues or in the family, who will progressively consider them as “unusual”, “strange” or “weird” and an increasing cause for concern, and when the symptoms start to be daily apparent, someone will soon start to talk of “Alzheimer’s” and / or “Dementia”, and a psychiatrist or other physician will be consulted.

Very soon thereafter some drug or other medication will likely be prescribed - the definition of a “drug” being:

“Any substance, generally understood to be basically of a toxic or poisonous nature, but which nevertheless, by one means or another, is introduced into the body, with a view to solving a problem by removing the individual from an unwanted physical, mental or personal condition or to attain a desired euphoric goal, and the term 'drug' is usually taken to mean those substances which work by changing the body’s natural chemistry and thus metabolically ENFORCING the condition aimed for.”

(N.B. Drugs are different from other medication insofar as a MEDICINE is a substance taken with a view to removing the individual from an unwanted physical condition, and the term 'medicine' is generally held to apply to those substances which - rather than CHANGING the body’s own natural chemistry - STIMULATE, ASSIST OR REINFORCE THE BODY'S IN-BUILT NATURAL DEFENCES AND SELF-HEALING ABILITIES.)

Most drugs are usually administered on a repeat daily basis, and because of their ESSENTIALLY TOXIC NATURE, the body treats every dose thereof as an attack on its natural chemistry creating more and more “survival” incidents to record and add to the “body survival watchdog” which is the Reactive Mind.

Or, put another way: “To expand and increase the size and activity of the individual’s Reactive Mind, which is the source of the erratic, irrational and inappropriate behaviour we call Dementia”.

In other words, pain-killers and the pain they are supposed to eradicate, along with anxiety and the hypnotic and addictive anti-psychotic drugs such as the “benzos” which are supposed to eradicate the anxiety, all merely ensure the more rapid expansion of the contents of the Reactive Mind and continuously increase the number of occasions on which the Reactive Mind is re-stimulated into acting on earlier “body survival computations” instead of on actual current present time survival requirements.

This is irrationality, and when it is regularly acted upon or voiced by the reactively re-stimulated individual, those present will increasingly see the behaviour which has been given the title of “Dementia”.

Once an individual has reached the stage where their Reactive Mind is more often and for longer periods in charge of their life than is their “normally in control” Analytical Mind, there are still a few steps which might be taken to improve the quality of their existence, but these are far more quickly, effectively and inexpensively applied in adolescence and early adulthood, when each individual can be taught the nature of Dementia, and how the Reactive Mind and its stored recorded incidents, can be beneficially handled by the individual him or her self.

So, whilst a cure for advanced Dementia can be long-winded, difficult, nearly certainly dependent on professional expertise and often irreversible – early prevention and avoidance of that condition is relatively easy and inexpensive to achieve when each person is aware of its nature and cause, and is also trained to know how it may be combated.

The above is an extremely brief introduction to the causes of Dementia and how they may be understood and tackled, but personal “First-Aid” prevention and avoidance skills can be learned on a part time basis in a matter of weeks – giving protection for life.

However, it must be repeated that the achieving of professional competence and qualifications in all the necessary techniques involves a full time training course of several months or more, including an appropriate internship.

There are currently nearly 2.4 MILLION NHS patients in nursing homes or living with family carers who are involuntarily addicted to medical drugs, whose bodies and minds are daily attacked by their prescribed addictive dosages and so inevitably move progressively down the slippery slope towards more and more Reactive behaviour and less and less Analytical successful, healthy and self-determined living.

Free of charge and with no obligation, fuller details can be obtained by contacting the “Society for an Addiction Free Europe” (SAFE) on (01342) 810151, who can also arrange for you to visit the City of London Dianetics® training centre for an even fuller briefing based on DVDs and literature for interested persons to take away for study.

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

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