methadone

[tommysize1]

substitutes for heroin like methadone and blockers such as subutex cost the british tax payer ****loads no doubt and guess what? its a complete waste of time.

cold turkey is the only way ive ever know anyone to beat a heroin addiction.

keeping them on methadone is just retarded.

i was gonna make an e-petition or something but someone else has already made one in roughly the same vein as what im saying.
after so many signatures someone in government has to look at it. so sign up if you agree

search e-petitions
then click on the government looking one.
then search methadone
click on:addictive substance abuse-criminality-prison sentences



i dont agree with everything the guy says but whatever its not like the government arent gonna refine it if they do look at it

[Ashley11]

i don't think putting people in prison would work

[tommysize1]

locking them away in a room for a month or 2 is the only way ive seen work.

doesnt have to be a prison.

[Ashley11]

but why? They weren't addicted to heroin when they started but they still did. What does locking them up do that changes them apart from making them feel even worse because they now have a criminal record?

Say a person takes heroin in December for the first time. They then get addicted. They are caught and locked up. They then lose their addiction inside prison and are released 3 months later. If they started in December with no addiction why would they not start again when they got out of prison?

[tommysize1]

the people i knew started taking it cos of peer pressure i guess.
ive been offered it a few times by older mates when i was like 16-18 but said no cos i didnt want their life.
i mean the majority of em were early 20's and they were still at home, jobless and hangin out with 16 yr olds.

only 1 of my mates my own age got on smack.
he lost his job for stealing.
i still have his PS2 i bought off him for £40 so he could get some crack.
his parents aent him off to wales with his cousin to get clean.
he came back clean. was in the process of joining the army.
a week before he was to leave to be in the army he died from an overdose of valium.

so yeah. getting them clean doesnt necessarily fix them.

but surely its better to actively give them a decent chance of changing their life rather than let them carry on stealing and being ****heads on methadone. they contribute nothing in that state.

government cant fix everything.
family have to be clued up and willing to help too.