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wallycorker

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At times I do think that we really do live in a quite crazy country!

Most of the visitors to this forum are fully aware of the problems that non-insulin-dependent diabetics have in getting test strips prescribed on the NHS.

Yet, I read in the Sunday Times this weekend that "Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has called for the HNS to give out heroin on prescription to addicts for whom other forms of treatment have failed". Yes - heroin! What a crazy world we live in! We really do need to get more of these politicians fighting on behalf of the way that diabetics are treated and the advice they receive.

If anyone hasn't already done so please support my e-petition on 10 Downing Street regarding the advice that we receive and the prescribing of test strips.

The petition can be found via the link below:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Diabetes-Advice/

One or two people have helped me significantly by asking friends and family to also support the petition. That seems to have been particularly useful where people are regular users of Facebook and similar sites. I really do want to ensure that the petition gets enough support to ensure that the Goverment are certain to make a response.

John
 
So all I need to do is convince my GP that I am a heroin addict, sell the stuff on the street corner and buy all the BG test strips I want on the proceeds? :wink:

Thanks Jack Straw, I'm off to the surgery now.

Best wishes
MaryChristine
 
MaryChristine :lol: what a super idea, wonder if I could raise enough over a period of time to buy a treadmill?
wallycorker I raise my glass to you [unfortunately at my expense] :lol: Enjoy your guests.
Val
 
I have to disagree with the majority of posters on this point, my husband is a retired police officer who used to work in London and from his experience if this happened then a massive amount of crime committed by drug addicts would be cut.
But I have just signed your petition John, been meaning to for ages but not got round to it.
 
Jo123 said:
I have to disagree with the majority of posters on this point, my husband is a retired police officer who used to work in London and from his experience if this happened then a massive amount of crime committed by drug addicts would be cut.
But I have just signed your petition John, been meaning to for ages but not got round to it.
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Thanks for that Joanne - I'm very grateful.

I hope that others will continue to follow in your footsteps.

The petition can be found here if people would like to do so:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Diabetes-Advice/

I'm desperate to get enough support to make certain that 10 Downing Street need to reply formally. I think we need 500 supporters to ensure that takes place - you were the 354th. Progress is slow but I hope that we will get there.

Best wishes - John
 
Jo123 said:
I have to disagree with the majority of posters on this point, my husband is a retired police officer who used to work in London and from his experience if this happened then a massive amount of crime committed by drug addicts would be cut.
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Hi again Jo - Your husband may very well be right and I suppose that if the Government handed out loads of cash to bank robbers, burglars and suchlike that might help to cut crime figures also. However, I'm not certain that the powers that be would get much support from the rest of us law-abiding citizens. :?

John
 
Jo123 said:
I have to disagree with the majority of posters on this point, my husband is a retired police officer who used to work in London and from his experience if this happened then a massive amount of crime committed by drug addicts would be cut.
But I have just signed your petition John, been meaning to for ages but not got round to it.
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Make it one prescription available only.
One large enough to ensure, when administered all in one dose, that they will never require a second. Less crime, less addicts.
 
One large enough to ensure, when administered all in one dose, that they will never require a second. Less crime, less addicts.
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How wonderful.
I really despair of humanity when i read comments like that.

Heroin addicts are not addicts through choice, that's the definition of an addict.
Heroin is usually used to control women who have been trafficked for the sex trade.

Try actually speaking to some 'useless' addicts.
I help out at several shelters, I've met a doctor, two lawyers, and hundreds of european women who were promised work, and now can't think beyond the next dose.

Personally, I'd much rather try to help them than you. At least they are human.
Yes, we need strips, yes we need to get it sorted out.

But that attitude is disgusting, uncalled for, and so lacking in compassion.... I really am ashamed to be part of the same species.

Would you still have that attitude if your child / partner was addicted?
Everyone is loved by someone.
What makes it any different ?
 
Well excuse me, but the very FIRST time they took the drug / substance in question, it was very much thier own choice.

Your examples of doctors and lawyers who are addicted are simply people who should have used their supposed intellect BEFORE they even tried the drugs.

I make no apologies for having no sympathy for idiots, nor am I offended or chagrined by the outraged comments of do-gooders like yourselves.

Instead of pandering to addicts, offenders and the like, it's time to make them accountable for their own actions.
 
Do-gooders.....

Just because people have made some dammed stupid descisions, doesn't mean they don't deserve to live.

You advocate murder. That is malice, not responsibility.
 
Any other groups you would like to see bumped off Viv :?:



You haven't got a clue about how some of these people became addicted. I hope you never walk in their shoes or the shoes of their nearest and dearest.

Type 2's who are overweight at diagnosis are accused of inflicting the condition on themselves,
by lifestyle choices. Is this another category that you have little sympathy for? Perhaps they should be given an insulin shot to end it all?

How about Alcoholics, are they on the list as well?
 
It's been suggested that this will help lower crime! But would it!

Logic would say, that by providing this to an individual on the NHS, then that individual will not have to bash a granny to get the cash to pay for his supplier.. Fair comment this side most probably work from the individual aspect of the user...

But if you extend this logic past the individual, then you have to consider several other factors... The individual oridginal supply from a ilegal source (drug dealer/pusher) who is earning money out of the transactions.. Now the NHS has removed one of the dealer/pusher clients, the dealer/pusher has lost some of his/her income! what do we recgon the dealer going to do? I very much doubt he/she is going to take a wage cut nor find legit employement (there again they may already have legit employement)... It's a sure bet that the dealer/pusher is going to hunt out another client to replace the one that they lost!!!

So you end up in a revolving door, with ever increaseing demands on the NHS, crime rates not droping, as the next victum raises up through the ladder to there supply from the NHS..

It the same arguement with legalising all drugs, it may prevent an individual drug user becoming a crimal to a certain extent... But how are the dealers/pusher gangs going to replemish there income?

My opinion is that most things tried have and will continal to fail, because ideas such as this one, only deal with one aspect of a much bigger picture, until they start to deal with the whole picture at one go, the chipping away at corners will always fail...

Bit like rehab... spend a lot of time and money to help an individual break there habit... But then return them to there oridginal envirnoment, same friends etc... to where there problems started, no wonder there is only a small success rate....
 
I have walked in the shoes of the nearest and dearest, so your admonishments carry no weight here.

Please remember that whilst you sit astride your high-horse firing off politically correct outrage in every direction, I am entitled to my opinion...I am entitled to express it...and I shall not be brow beated by holier than thou moralists.
 
Your opinion of me carries no weight with me. I also will continue to post as I also have the right to express myself. My post is not a politically correct version. It is how I see things and I make no excuses for that either. I always express my views and am not a crowd pleaser.
 
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