*Ø* Blogmanac | ACT Health Minister backs synthetic heroin trial
"The ACT [Australian Capital Territory] Health Minister will today urge other states and territories to back a national prescription trial of a synthetic form of heroin, known as hydromorphone.
"Simon Corbell will call on his state and territory counterparts at a ministerial drug council meeting to back the trial as an alternative treatment for heroin addicts ..."
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Let's hope people listen to Mr Corbell, although it makes much more sense to use heroin rather than hydromorphone.
Currently in Australia, and most countries, I believe, the best medical treatment available for people dependent on Bayer Pharmaceuticals' great product, heroin, is methadone. "Liquid handcuffs", as it's known here (aka 'done', rhymes with phone) is a terrible solution which leaves addicts at the mercy of the state as it is far harder to withdraw from than smack.
It's past time that Australians viewed addiction as a medical problem, not a character flaw. Prescription heroin could clear our prisons of 80-90% of inmates, and maybe people in our cities could go back to not locking their cars and houses – as it was 25 years ago before George Bush Senior's CIA, the Mafia and US-backed Middle Eastern warlords started flooding the world with junk. [As is well documented by people such as Alfred McCoy in his seminal work, (The Politics of Heroin), warlords trade heroin to pay to Western armaments salesmen.
"The ACT [Australian Capital Territory] Health Minister will today urge other states and territories to back a national prescription trial of a synthetic form of heroin, known as hydromorphone.
"Simon Corbell will call on his state and territory counterparts at a ministerial drug council meeting to back the trial as an alternative treatment for heroin addicts ..."
Source
Let's hope people listen to Mr Corbell, although it makes much more sense to use heroin rather than hydromorphone.
Currently in Australia, and most countries, I believe, the best medical treatment available for people dependent on Bayer Pharmaceuticals' great product, heroin, is methadone. "Liquid handcuffs", as it's known here (aka 'done', rhymes with phone) is a terrible solution which leaves addicts at the mercy of the state as it is far harder to withdraw from than smack.
It's past time that Australians viewed addiction as a medical problem, not a character flaw. Prescription heroin could clear our prisons of 80-90% of inmates, and maybe people in our cities could go back to not locking their cars and houses – as it was 25 years ago before George Bush Senior's CIA, the Mafia and US-backed Middle Eastern warlords started flooding the world with junk. [As is well documented by people such as Alfred McCoy in his seminal work, (The Politics of Heroin), warlords trade heroin to pay to Western armaments salesmen.
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