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Name: Gary on Nov 29, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Matthew Collins on Nov 29, 2010Comments: Prescribe injectable and smokable diamorphine. Heroin addiction will always be around, ALWAYS. Make it safe and take it away from the criminals. The current 'treatment' is no treatment, it sends users to their deaths on a daily basis.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Gavin Marshall on Nov 29, 2010Comments: im a full supporter of this cause, i believe it would help many lifes that a blighted by heroin addictionWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Jo on Nov 29, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Nov 29, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Jordan Clark on Nov 29, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Leon Bamford on Nov 30, 2010Comments: methadone dosent work has got like a 8% succsess rate why not prescrible diamorphine ampules especially for us who have worked our adult life it cant be any more a burdern on nhs plus would cut crime to do with heroinWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Jat Keown on Nov 30, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Mo Brown on Nov 30, 2010Comments: RIGHT THERE WITH YOU ON THIS ONE -> "Prescribe injectable and smokable diamorphine. Heroin addiction will always be around, ALWAYS. Make it safe and take it away from the criminals. The current 'treatment' is no treatment, it sends users to their deaths on a daily basis. ."Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Tina Brophy on Nov 30, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Stephen Floyd on Dec 1, 2010Comments: the treatment around for the last 30 years doesnt work.unless you have the money for private prescriptions for morphine or drugs that would keep the person well and not having to steal or use dirty drugs that kill you.......ie.its only a small % that rob and steal that give users a bad name.Alot more are people like me who work have a family but have an illness called addiction. Many thanksWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Andrew on Dec 1, 2010Comments: stapleford clinic leads the way in the treatment of addictions.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Alex Walker on Dec 1, 2010Comments: Look, methadone prescribing is one treatment. And it is infinitely better than nothing. But it falls short in so many ways for so many people and is only suitable for some. It seems like we are light-years behind other European countries in our treatment of addicts. If diamorphine & other opiate options were prescribed, easily, in suitable amounts, without having to meet a list of failures and requirements, it would de-glamourize heroin, lead to less addicts, and users would find it EASIER to quit because it takes away the fear and panic. Doing this would solve so many problems. All sorts of crimes made to fund drug habits would decrease, jails & courts would stop being crammed full of addicts arrested for buying heroin illegally. And not to mention the way addicts could take part in society properly, with enough money to live & eat well, without always worrying about being sick/scoring.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Martin Darc on Dec 1, 2010Comments: Out of the 30 or so people I know whom have been on methadone scripts it has worked for 1! Addcist will continue to use unclean unsafe gear and as a result people are dieing and ending up in A+E, it's about time proper treatment was made avaliable!Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 1, 2010Comments: Get addicts the medications required, and stop prescribibg this syntetic Meths which will only get people to do heroing on top as is not a subsitute of Heroin, The goverment is paying millions to provide meth and people are getting rich on this, LEt's stop all this drug traffic and give heroin to addicts supervised and unders prescription. This is the way forward, Not just for the economic but for all, MarioWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Sandbwoy on Dec 1, 2010Comments: Although I have never been on a script of my own, I have thought about it many times. The reason I have never gone for it is because the treatment available just does not work for me. I have bought both methadone and subutex / suboxone from other users on occassions but could not bring myself to get a script of my own due to the fact that I know this just wouldn't work for me. Suboxone are the worst, most evil things ever and should be banned. This is not acceptable treatment for people who are suffering from painful addictions. As other people have said, prescribing diamorphine in both injectable and smokeable forms would could out many problems. Sort it out!Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Ved on Dec 2, 2010Comments: user 8 years. been on methadone for last 5yrs. started on 50mg/mls then slowly reduced by 5mls to 25mg/ml all of which was my choice. never been to rehab but i regularly detox by myself i.e. go for about 5 days just taking methadone. i do this AT LEAST once every fortnight. This cycle has created depression. I dont go out or socialise at all. Become a loner. Iv developed physical health problems i.e. chest and kidney due to smoking the street shit. ive develped mental health problems and sought treatment however they just wanna put me on v. powerful meds with serious sideaffects - and thats ok apparently. I have sporting talents and some qualifications in computing although i dropped out of uni when my addiction started. im very open and honest. last year i stopped using AT ALL for 10 months bcos got scared of health probs. didnt get taken sriously by my criminal and currupt GP. a real hypocrite too. so started again as iv been for the last 5 years on methadone relapsing once a week. my biggest problem is that i cant do anything i consider normal however i have noticed that if i use i can do sports, go to cinema, read a book, write a letter, talk to people etc but no one seems to believe this. street h is only 15-35% pure if ur lucky. never been to prison. never had to steal. only pawed my own stuff from my house. police cautions for stupid things ruined my prospects. being into martial arts i always ponered on a career in police, army, security or sports and fitness. Used to be obsessed with keeping healthy and fit before gear. I never dared to voice my opinion b4 in believing diamorphine would work for me. I was scared of being condemned, made to feel small, stupid and guilty. My parents are scared im going to be like this for the rest of their life. My parents and my sister are all highly educated and i consider my up bringing to be middle class i.e. not in terms of money but in terms of values and culture. Only business men are wealthy. Scientists, artists, philosophers, musicians, teachers/professors etc are not. i know i should have known better but it was escapist and im now paying for it with my life. it is possible to do it in other ways but realistically only 10% manage to do so. i consider my mental health issues to be my biggest obstacle but i could never get psychotherapy on nhs. if i could look forward to the life i used to have it would boost will power 10 fold but my life has been destroyed and circumstance have changed drastically. it is about picking up the pieces for me and trying to put together some form of normal living. not into politics but i am liberal, democratic and socialist.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Brian Edward on Dec 2, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 2, 2010Comments: Let's have diamorphine as prescribed at least as a teast,I will be up 4 it.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 3, 2010Comments: I would like diamorphine prescribed instead of methadone, as i would work so much better for the user and cut the need for crime.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Michael Kinser on Dec 3, 2010Comments: Addicts need to be helped when there is a crisis on like this - diamorphine ampules or sevrodol or zomorph should be readily availeable to help raise the tolerance level back up or is it just better to watch these people die when the strong heroin returnsWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Oliver Atkins on Dec 3, 2010Comments: i'm sick of all the tartrates and sweetners used in sugar 3 methadone, sick of not being trusted can,t the gov c that in holland cannabis is so uncool as it's the same where heroin is prescribed prober...that generation after generation stop taking the drug as it's certainly no fun walking to chemist every day nor i imaginehaving to justify n fill forms eachn every time i want h as the way it is in switzalnd. if choose to be on opiates my choice but the hypocrisy is that fags n booze r legal. the gov could make a killing on tax n get us out the national debt in half a yearWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Ian Turnbull on Dec 3, 2010Comments: after 32+ years paying my taxes and trying to get help to which none was offeed i am now a 60yr old still without proper help. thin and wasted i'm told i'm living a estyle choice - this angers me i should not hae to live this way.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 3, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Sarah B on Dec 3, 2010Comments: I just feel it's the ONLY and obvious thing to do. Crime rate will drop, HIV/AIDS will drop, addicts can concentrate on other areas of there life, like working, for many for the first time in years, having another purpose in life, family etc, the list is endless. Also, if large amounts of Heroin was taken off the streets, because people could get prescribed, that would massively reduce the numbers of any "new" addicts, if they could prescribe the addicts now, we wouldn't be creating many new ones. In the longer term, it would give addicts a chance at a "normal" life, which also changes how you feel abut using drugs. As said, if we were prescribing the addicts now, and not creating as many new ones, then a few years down the line we would surely see a big decrease in numbers. Also, methadone/subutex clearly don't work to how they should, you find more people using on top of there methadone/subutex scripts, than you find people stabilized on there scripts, it's not hard to work out, and see where the problems are. How about MP's/officials actually talking and listening to some of us, you'll never find ANY doctor that knows more about addiction than an addict.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Danny Wills on Dec 3, 2010Comments: i have been a heroin user for nearly 16 years have had several prescriptions and yet i am still a user surely there is a better way than just methadone or subutexWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Bran Smth on Dec 3, 2010Comments: iv heroin user with countless health problems due to lethal cut street heroinWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Louise on Dec 3, 2010Comments: i think its quite fair to say present methods of 'help' arnt workingWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Gledwood on Dec 4, 2010Comments: give injectable diamorphine to anyone who needs it, which will be a v high proportion of longterm addicts. i could be clean now were it not for this methadone that just leaves me suicidally depressed and wanting heroin. not a treatment i would ever prescribe to anyone if i were a dr. i thought patients were meant to have a say in their treatment, why not so with heroin addiction?Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Catherine Swat on Dec 4, 2010Comments: please pay attention to this....it is insane that addicts are treated like criminals...if you had lived the childhoods of some of these users then YOU wuld want to take a drug to numb things...clean,cheap heroin should be available to all addicts and a little help belonging and contributing to society.take away the criminal gangs and things will change for the better.it is apparent that NOT all users are theives...there are many who are normal workers who have to buy their medication from criminals. dangerous. ive tried every anti-depressant out there and heroin is the only thing that makes me feel normal. its possible to live a long healthy life on clean heroin.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Seema on Dec 4, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Joedi Bladon on Dec 4, 2010Comments: why cant we have a needle parkWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Lorraine Summers on Dec 4, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Marc Summers on Dec 4, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: David on Dec 5, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 7, 2010Comments: Methadon has its place, but diamorphine prescription would make far more sense in many cases, as well as bringhing in much needed tax revenue, taking the trade away from criminal gangs and eliminating most of the dangers associated with illicit use and injection instantly. Diverting money from the Taliban also would have to be an advantage.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Nathan Bacon on Dec 8, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Stephen Grimes on Dec 9, 2010Comments: Time to sort this mess out.I'm sick of being underprescribed and when i ask for more (because i feel utterly dreadful for most of the day) i am refused,Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Stephen Grimes on Dec 9, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 11, 2010Comments: Ive just had enough, been on Merthadone since I left school on and off .I'm now gonna be 32, and have been using on top now on and off for nearly 16yrs, .I have changed and swaped to various other medicines, Dihydrocodine, Subatex,Suboxine, and Methadone .I still managed to use on all of them and the damage street heroin is doing is worse than the actual Diamorphine its self, and its almost as though we have no longer have a choice and to STILL use, have also done re-habilitation tried everything, so I feel that this could be an option for me to try something else, and that this should ONLY be an option for those who have tried all other medications and have failed.I have tried everything need help with this also lets get ridd of the mafia, and the drug dealers lets pay lidget taxes on the drug, as prescribed all legal, pure and monitured and above board ,many thanks.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Rachel Flandrak on Dec 13, 2010Comments: It seems that when a war is declared whether on Iraq, Afghanistan or 'on drugs' the situation worsens. Historically prohibition such as in 1920's America lead to the birth of the mafia. From a personal point of view to seek help for a heroin addiction leads to being offered the possibility of gaining an alternative addiction through being scripted for methadone. This however is not the same as using heroin but offers the possibility of using heroin at the same time, leaving the addict with not just one addiction but two! No wonder the success rate of methadone detox stands at a lowly 4%. It would surely make better sense to stablise the addict on a regular, clean supply of diamorphine which could then be reduced slowly over time. I have always worked and paid tax, bought my own home and raised my son. Sensible prescribing would allow others to do the same and become useful members of society. Since all else appears to be failing it has to be worth a try.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Dave Mc on Dec 16, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: James Thomas on Dec 17, 2010Comments: I am a disabled person. I've spent my whole adult life seeking treatment for heroin addiction. I cannot staibilise on maintainence prescriptions because they do not give me the feeling of comfort or solace that I crave for when I need heroin. I might last a couple of weeks at best, and then I am trying to juggle it with illicit heroin use. When I am using I am often forced into criminal behaviour I would absolutely avoid, given the chance. There is nothing about me which enjoys exposure to criminals, thieves, violence, but I have to sell drugs to find my habit. I risk prison, injury, death, I lose my family, friends, have lost jobs, even quit jobs, lost my home...all as a result of desperately trying but failing to conform and stay on the merrygoround of current treatment servicea. I have been clean for quite a few months also and experienced happiness in that time. The problem is that my addiction will not go away, it is always there to rear its ugly head and assume full control again. I have spent thousands trying to find a socially acceptable solution, but now I realise that those solutions are not long term answers; not viable or lasting changes. Do I deserve to be on the bottom of the pile because of my addiction, in spite of the fact I have tried so many alternatives? I am an intelligent and compassionate person with a great deal to offer society if I am comfortable and medicated when necessary. I absolutely advocate prescription of diamorphine for those addicts who require it. It has long been published on the National Treatment Agency website that the government recommend an increase in the number of diamorphine maintenance prescriptions, yet finding a doctor licensed and then, WILLING to prescribe it is an entirely different kettle of fish. Please remedy this situation. NOW. It would change my life for the better.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Nick T-B on Dec 17, 2010Comments: Legalise all drugs. CONTROL THEM!Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Anthony Smith on Dec 17, 2010Comments: Its been happenning in Switserland since 1997,controlled admin of dia -morphine.A forward thinking country.Crime down by 70%.People stable a cant help but think without crime this country would be jobless.Police,prisons ,probation and all the aftershoots that derive from this buisness.Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Paul Sedgwick on Dec 21, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Hans on Dec 22, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Thomas Pirovano on Dec 22, 2010Comments:Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Gary Macdonald on Dec 29, 2010Comments: its time something new was tried as everyone knows what the government are doing the now is not working even slightlyWould you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag
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Name: Benjamin Baker on Dec 29, 2010Comments: Dr. Clive Froggett, former goverment health advisor and consultant for the NHS, and also Margarett Thatchers GP, has been fighting to legalise diamorphine as he was a former heroin addict, and now working as a drugs counsiler, he can see the benefits this will have, quote "the trials have been done in Switzerland, and the results are astonishing. Crime has fell dramatically, and newcomers of the drug has fallen by 80%. The war on drugs is costing an estimated 30 Billion anually, it does'nt work". we need to make this radical change. NOW!!!!Would you pay for a diamorphine script if you had access to it on the NHS?:Flag