Drug Rehab Ignored As UK's Addicts Get Extra Drugs For Good Behavior
British government has published a study showing that a record number of drug users in treatment, but critics are up in arms because, as crazy as it sounds, the "treatment" may include extra medicine "good behavior". The practice within the services of socialized medicine in the United Kingdom, has attracted criticism from various sectors who believe that a better approach to drug addiction is rehab.
Journal study, conducted by the National Treatment (NTA), which is at the head of a government of 500 million pounds a year (just over $ 1 billion) program to treat addiction clinics says many users of high performance with low doses of methadone to replace heroin, or with antidepressant drugs to provide urine tests clean from heroin and cocaine. Current British government policies "addiction, stress management, which keeps drug addicts instead of getting through alternative rehabilitation programs for drug addicts. While some addicts were subjected to life, the recovery of drug rehabilitation programs, not the figures have been reported.
The study found that almost one third of the 191 clinics surveyed said they considered the patients treated with methadone for more methadone heroin addiction, if their urine samples were clear of crack and cocaine. Less common rewards for good behavior of drug users of antidepressants, cash and vouchers and, in some cases, access to drug treatment programs. We hope that includes the provision of drug rehabilitation with good long-term follow-up care in a drug user can manage his passion for good.
The NTA has admitted that the drugs proposed for nothing but does not need clinic is unethical, and said he wants to see certain practices "expelled from the system," a BBC news. And Health Minister Dawn Primarolo said the practice raises "serious problems". While insisting that the NTA did not accept that the problem was on the scale suggested, she said it was "unacceptable" and should not happen.
Meanwhile, the opposition Conservative Party said the drug, the government Labor policy has been "a disaster" and said that giving addicts methadone does not get them out of heroin â € "only keeps a substitute drug addict. Only abstinence-based residential drug rehabilitation programs have been able to get addicts clean said.
alcohol policies, the United Kingdom were also attacked recently. Over the past 20 years, per capita alcohol consumption in Britain rose by over 30%, resulting in large increases in alcoholic liver cirrhosis, violence, alcohol and crime and alcohol abuse among the increasingly serious young. It is estimated that alcohol abuse causes at least 22,000 premature deaths each year in Britain, and is estimated to cost taxpayers £ 20 billion (about U.S. $ 40 million).
not want to participate in a political debate, but it seems likely sooner rather than later, the British public is about to leave the Labor government of a new government that takes a strong stance on alcohol and drug abuse, and significantly increases the availability of a alcohol-sensitive and drug rehabilitation program, instead of maintaining addicts addicted.
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