I started taking cocaine since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting cocaine addiction. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be used globally for treatment of certain health challenges.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Yes he's Dr.alishrooms shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
From my experience it really works excellently! It doesnt even need to be a full hit. With potent shrooms 2-3 small ones will still make a clear difference. It will be a few hour cosy rumbling moment around rest time, but afterwards its just calm and you feel amazing and gain your freedom. Psilocybin is different dudes, its the only "treatment" I would recommend to someone who genuinely wants to get better. There is no addiction, withdrawal, or negative side effects. It's just pure healing., far more effective than any anti-depressant. You can thank me later,
I was horrifically depressed since childhood. It was relentless. I assumed it would ultimately end me somehow. About twelve years ago I randomly accepted the offer from a friend of a few doses of mushrooms. I did them two consecutive nights alone. First night was pretty mild. The second night? Wow. I saw my depression from every angle, realized much. Next day: depression totally gone. Never came back, never coming back. It's like it's a forest far away I can remember, and could probably find again with enough effort, but it has zero impact on anything in my life or mind. They honestly saved my life and improved it immensely. I never did them again, either. I wish there was a good, organized way to administer them to people who would benefit from them.
What angers me about this is not just that they did this. But that they did this fully knowing it was gonna go this way. The deaths are the point, the cruelty is the point.
I was a home detox nurse for many years, Addaction won the contract from the NHS, we don’t have a home detox service any more, drug related deaths have rocketed. No one wants to have an addiction problem, it doesn’t make a person bad. In my experience it usually comes from self medicating the pain of childhood trauma xxx sending love to anyone affected by our ignorant politicians xxx
You understand the "problem" perfectly Samantha. Like you say, no one wants to be an addict, and you certainly got it right when you mentioned childhood trauma - because it never goes away, and the weirdest thing of all is recognising all the symptoms, but feeling impotent as an adult to do anything whatsoever to deal with them, or even ameliorate/diminish their effects on you. An unhappy and chaotic or destructive childhood ends up being a life sentence. I think dependence for a lot of people becomes something that one feels that one has a handle on (yeah, 'cause I can deal with that when the time comes); the trouble is, it can be put off, or put on the back burner indefinitely, or thereabouts, while the affected person deals with the simpler things in life: like simply surviving till the next day. "The easy way out" also becomes a kind of safety net. A last resort which one knows one can face with ease and courage if that's what it comes to. You're definitely in the right place to influence people in their influential positions. It's those people on long term maintenance scripts and opioid medication that end up the creek without a paddle, because the war on drugs has become a war on pain sufferers. Government policies mean they end up stuck between a rock and a hard place. Inadequate analgesia, but it's better than nothing, no? I'm sorry you can no longer do your job properly. People like you and I need to organise in order to start educating the policy-makers, because they're like prisoners of their own making and ignorance - captives entirely lost and stumbling around in the dark. I bet you're one of the voices of reason where you work, and someone other people listen to and take notice of, no? Thank you for doing the hard work and often under-appreciated and misunderstood work that you do. There was a time when I could well have been one of your patients!
@@jonniebyford thank you kind sir, do you think that for some people, opiates enable them to keep living? I don’t know how old you are , for me, the passing of time has helped x
The only common denominator between all addicts of any social background and distinction is that they are notorious liars. Addiction affects predominantly young healthy criminals. I have been trying to have the discovery of the nature of addiction known for years to end the war on drugs. I would like to help you as a recovering addict and psychologist. Addiction is the psychology of a liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example. Addicts don’t forgive, are needy of attention that steal from others, and have secrets that tell in AA meetings to reveal who they truly are to take off the mask and heal, ending the identity deception. Liars bring up liars, addiction runs in families. Parents hurt their children and children retaliate becoming victims of themselves to conceal the hatred and hurt others. I am alone socially ostracised by liars paying the price for being honest. I can prove my claim that the obvious truth is addiction is the psychology of a liar dropping mortality rates when my theory is known. It is harder to convince a fool that to know the truth is better than to be deceived than to deceive him.
I know but a lot of us just liked to get high, I’m on Naltrexone now and know plenty of people that use the childhood trauma thing as a way to justify there addiction to themselves, I had it all with detox nurses trying to find out why I was a gear addict and plenty would not accept I just loved drugs and getting messed up with a few suggesting I had repressed trauma……..NO I liked getting high, I still like going out getting smashed in the pub and having a few lines at weekends then back to normal life on Monday.
I was in the system in the 90's and they helped me so much , I am now 51 and haven't taken drugs since 2004 and I would definitely not be here without those services
Well done. Like you, I had some much help during the 90s and got clean in 1999, and I have been clean since. If this had happened to me now, not sure if I would be alive today. The biggest drive in addiction has been austerity, I watched co many centres where addicts could go to get help closed down and pushed into city centres.
I work for one of these companies. I went in thinking I’d be helping people and quickly found out the only person I was helping was the CEO.. taking home 150k per year
What a difference tories make, the disabled, drug users, mental health, the nhs, they've attacked them all, if your not able bodied or mentally well your a target for the tories sound familiar it should do it happened in 30s germany they were known as nazis.
Although Vice has become a bit of a hit and miss source of news these days. I applaud them for their coverage drug related news. Often highlighting key issues and problems many people might not have been aware of. Videos like this one are great for highlighting how our government continues to fail us as a nation!
@@stewstock6036 A good portion of vices content has become soft in order to cater to the masses compared to how like this video they used to produce high quality hard hitting news from drugs to warfare etc. Most of this is due to Vices growth as a company but still sucks to see to an extent.
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This is an obvious hit at the right. How is it a failure for the drug deaths to only increase by 2000 in a decade that is brillant. Look at any other country first world or not and it is probably triple that.
Recovering addict on methadone here , this literally makes me sick and anyone supporting these backward politicians should be punished as I was for having an addiction , the stigma is so real for me and every addict in recovery not just in my own country but around the world and we have become used to seeing the money and time from government put into treatment rarely effects the people in recovery in a positive way , I know in my country when you go to get help from a methadone clinic it’s like signing away your freedom and if some doctors think your “just using methadone as a way to not withdrawal when you can’t get a fix” they will kick you out of a program cold turkey , iv seen friends die like this and I hope in the future people who have never been negatively effected by drugs can have empathy for us and help us get change because the government never listened to ex addicts or those in recovery .
Please know that idiots like IDS (& all the other out-of-touch, entitled, spoilt pricks in the Tory Party...) and the tabloids don't speak for all of us. My heart goes out to you. Nobody wakes up one day and thinks "I'm going to become a drug addict!" - it's down to circumstance, substandard government services (such as poor/no access to mental health services, leaving people to self medicate to survive) &, often, really bad luck. I'm truly sorry that you found yourself in that position, but I congratulate you - sincerely and wholeheartedly - on your continued recovery. Fighting addiction takes all the things the naysayers don't have - strength, determination, kindness (often to yourself), self-reflection, and guts. I salute anyone fighting for a better tomorrow. Take care & stay strong x
I agree I live in Canada and it is like signing away your freedom.evem once I got my take home carries it's still a pain in the ass I can't travel I can't take certain medications the are over the counter.dam. I can't even eat at Arby's because of poppy seeds ffs.ntm alot of prescription medication from my family doctor I'm not allowed to take if I wanted my take home doses so stuck inside with crippling anxiety and unmedicated ADHD until I'm off this program.granted it did save my life but for as long as I've had them with no dirty tests you think they would ease up a bit
@@tabbathapearson1143 holy crap it sounds like you have the same clinic/doctor ido , it makes you terrified of getting injured or going in for minor surgeries because you know you won’t be getting proper pain meds too , and having a doctor who is able to get proper medication tell me that my dose atm of methadone should be more than enough for pain for a broken leg ? , you feel like snapping at someone who looks at you wrong in shoppers drug mart because you have to say out Loud that you “need your methadone or suboxone today please” iv had new pharmacists stop treating me with mutual respect after iv asked them for my dose before because of this stigma attached , not to mention I have to drive a city over to get my dose before work because my city’s 24 hour pharmacy wasn’t making enough money and kept getting robbed so they started closeing at night untill 8:00am and didn’t tell anyone so all the usual methadone and suboxone users showed up to a closed store and were all late for work that whole week untill we could switch are pharmacy lmfao , but your right it did save my life your right about that , and the fact that you wrote about having The same experiences as me makes me feel like I’m not 98% alone so thank you ! And I hope it gets better for you my friend
Yup 70mg daily for the past 6 years but down from 110mg daily from 2011...it's a friggin tight rope my friends. I want to do an ibogaine)Ayuhuasca ceremony but they're not on nhs nor do I have the cashola to go the jungle that's thousands I don't have the readies for....
@@sirdelmontecarloheadcase2004 wish you all the best ! , me and my mom always say I wish They invented a brain surgery to stop this addiction , who ever invents that is getting a Nobel prize forsure lmfao
I’ve had issues with alcohol in my time. NHS treatment is delivered slowly. It takes time to get an appointment. You then have a month or two of hoops to jump through with talking to various people, keeping drinking diaries - all before actually getting any treatment. I simply disengaged rather than wait for getting a prescription. I was left to get medication via less conventional means. An addict who has a moment of strength to seek treatment needs it NOW, not in two months time. Goodness knows how bad it is for a heroin addict to be failed by the system in this way.
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That’s an unavoidable side effect of socialized healthcare. There’s always going to be waitlists and time before you can get in anywhere because everyone has healthcare so more people going in for medical treatments and visits.
The only common denominator between all addicts of any social background and distinction is that they are notorious liars. Addiction affects predominantly young healthy criminals. I have been trying to have the discovery of the nature of addiction known for years to end the war on drugs. I would like to help you as a recovering addict and psychologist. Addiction is the psychology of a liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example. Addicts don’t forgive, are needy of attention that steal from others, and have secrets that tell in AA meetings to reveal who they truly are to take off the mask and heal, ending the identity deception. Liars bring up liars, addiction runs in families. Parents hurt their children and children retaliate becoming victims of themselves to conceal the hatred and hurt others. I am alone socially ostracised by liars paying the price for being honest. I can prove my claim that the obvious truth is addiction is the psychology of a liar dropping mortality rates when my theory is known. It is harder to convince a fool that to know the truth is better than to be deceived than to deceive him.
@@Pllayer064 Seems to be An instituted form of narcissistic bullying of the poor disabled, sick anyone not contributing to their system of Big brother.
England needed a COMPLETE OVERHAULED its welfare system decade's ago. Too many people PARACITES on the way too generous system it was a complete joke. Junkies alcoholics people having God k ow how many kids. We are sick to death of paying for them all!!!
Here in the US our "recovery" industry is completely dominated by the abstinence based, faith based 12 Step approach and the results have been predictably terrible and deadly.
As an addict myself, abstinence sure would solve my problems😂 not sure what you’re going on about man, that 12 step program has been proven time and time again to be beneficial
@@WSFM_Rex The fact that you can say that with a straight face and place anecdotal experience over facts... No, no the 12 step program doesn't work. It just scares a few weak minded people into bragging about quitting.
@@WSFM_Rex it works for some, not for majority. Im one of those who didn't find any help from there, quite the contrary actually. I found my life and will to live trough suboxone and different harm reduction things. Slowly fixed my life and found help for my mental health etc while on suboxone.
@@WSFM_Rex As an addict myself here in the UK we also have certain areas that say the 12 step process is the way to go. I disagree fully it's a faith based process abit like a religion and Im not religious that actually set me up worse when I came out of treatment and I was using more than ever. I found my own way in the end and it had zero to do with the silly 12 step process. I've seen many others fail because of that system and lost a close friend who was shown that dumb process. I'm clean for 2 years now but I don't like the way the 12step process is the only option they try to make you go down in some of the rehabs.
@@ilarious5729 I totally agree with you dude. The 12 step faith process is like a religion it didn't help me at all quite the opposite. I found my own way in the end 2 years without now. But the 12 step process works for a tiny percentage as low as 5% from where I'm from. Countries like Switzerland in Europe don't use the 12 step process and have a much much higher rehab and recovery percentage as high as 1 in 3 people. Where as the 12 step you are lucky to get 1 in 10 or more.
How's it going my advice is get reducing asap n plan on coming off n going onto blockers I've been on methadone 8 years n on more than when I started I pick up weekly n I'm stuck I feel like it's j7st as bad as gear I wish u all the best with your journey
Agreed, never a good idea to take a drug that you will be instantly addicted to,will need to Rob,steal or do sex work in order to keep taking it, otherwise you will be violently Ill and then expect other people to save your life ,blame them for people dying?
Kratom is very addictive too, but definitely less dangerous. I used it to get off pills but was soon spending the same amount of money on kratom. When I went to heroin, kratom just wasn’t strong enough to help anymore.
@@Alexacake19 it skips the protein in the brain that makes it harmful and addictive. It’s just as addictive as coffee, stop spreading misinformation. There’s a great Capitol Hill video addressing kratom and all the misinformation that’s passing around about it, might want to check it out if you’re going to try correcting people on the subject.
@@Alexacake19 only people who struggle with Kratom are polyaddicts who can’t stand to feel sober, or people who lack self control period. I’ve done Kratom for many years and the only people who abused it were the kind of people who freak out about not having their coffees or those who have an addictive personality to literally the smallest things
@@jakejake7162 dude I was addicted to kratom for 4 years. I’m not spreading misinformation. It causes physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms. Yes it’s better than heroin. But you can’t say that it’s not harmful at all. I had to wake up in the middle of the night to redose just so I could go back to sleep. the withdrawal symptoms are quite similar to H on a smaller scale. I’m just trying to let people know In case they have been told that kratom is a risk free alternative. It’s not.
Not to dismiss the physical and mental hazards of substance abuse and addiction, it would seem that drug prohibition and the war on drugs produces vastly more harm than the drugs themselves . I would further argue that the intolerance for for the substance user is a moral hazard of such importance that it’s myriad effects have ushered in an inevitable decline and collapse of America and the rest of the west .
@@Dan_1348 what like Thailand where there's like a death sentence for using alone? Still plenty of dope. You can't trust statistics from a poor country for whom image management is paramount.
@@Dan_1348 “ What do all of the countries with the lowest dug use have in common ?” - The Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism of The Collective , maybe ?
@@Dan_1348 In principle I am a staunch advocate for Freedom and Liberty. Drug prohibition and the war on drugs was a start of a slippery slope towards the eventual suppression of all free expressions of individuality. I could also argue that out of Financial and Logistical necessity Medicine and Medical services must be decentralized. I don’t think it is unreasonable to assert that we have this Covid -19 exactly because the war on drugs just isn’t ‘ inclusive ‘ enough .
The War on Drugs series is probably the best series Vice has. It's very unfortunate that the majority of politicians/law makers, do not have your best interests in mind.
The only common denominator between all addicts of any social background and distinction is that they are notorious liars. Addiction affects predominantly young healthy criminals. I have been trying to have the discovery of the nature of addiction known for years to end the war on drugs. I would like to help you as a recovering addict and psychologist. Addiction is the psychology of a liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example. Addicts don’t forgive, are needy of attention that steal from others, and have secrets that tell in AA meetings to reveal who they truly are to take off the mask and heal, ending the identity deception. Liars bring up liars, addiction runs in families. Parents hurt their children and children retaliate becoming victims of themselves to conceal the hatred and hurt others. I am alone socially ostracised by liars paying the price for being honest. I can prove my claim that the obvious truth is addiction is the psychology of a liar dropping mortality rates when my theory is known. It is harder to convince a fool that to know the truth is better than to be deceived than to deceive him.
Piece of advice mate, avoid showing IV drug use if you'd like to help keep relapses and deaths down, it's a MAJOR relapse trigger for people, so yeah not including that is just good sense 👍
@Beater Bike Channel For you maybe. But like op said, for a lot of former and current IV drug users it can be a massive trigger and cause relapse. You would film and show someone slicing their wrists open....
The only common denominator between all addicts of any social background and distinction is that they are notorious liars. Addiction affects predominantly young healthy criminals. I have been trying to have the discovery of the nature of addiction known for years to end the war on drugs. I would like to help you as a recovering addict and psychologist. Addiction is the psychology of a liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example. Addicts don’t forgive, are needy of attention that steal from others, and have secrets that tell in AA meetings to reveal who they truly are to take off the mask and heal, ending the identity deception. Liars bring up liars, addiction runs in families. Parents hurt their children and children retaliate becoming victims of themselves to conceal the hatred and hurt others. I am alone socially ostracised by liars paying the price for being honest. I can prove my claim that the obvious truth is addiction is the psychology of a liar dropping mortality rates when my theory is known. It is harder to convince a fool that to know the truth is better than to be deceived than to deceive him. X
@@michelangelope830 yeah I have a lot of experience working on the field too. You're 100% right. Just...using the word liar like that, maybe you should look at how the work has affected you. Also, anyone who has worked in the field knows this already? So that's not really a new theory or idea that needs to get out there. You sure you're a licensed psychologist mate?
@@nightpandas7178 Addict is a synonym for liar as addiction is the psychology of a liar. Surely if addiction is still told in universities to be a brain disease humanity need to know the truth.
They’re watching a documentary on drugs… what would they except ? Any good therapist will tell you that your triggers are your one to manage, not people to tip toe around
I think its insane how governments and the thought only a FEW have are making so many live by their rule. It is really sickening. I dont want anyone to do drugs or be addicted, but this is the world we live in and you CAN NOT tell others how to treat their OWN bodies. Makes me want to rage.
The only common denominator between all addicts of any social background and distinction is that they are notorious liars. Addiction affects predominantly young healthy criminals. I have been trying to have the discovery of the nature of addiction known for years to end the war on drugs. I would like to help you as a recovering addict and psychologist. Addiction is the psychology of a liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example. Addicts don’t forgive, are needy of attention that steal from others, and have secrets that tell in AA meetings to reveal who they truly are to take off the mask and heal, ending the identity deception. Liars bring up liars, addiction runs in families. Parents hurt their children and children retaliate becoming victims of themselves to conceal the hatred and hurt others. I am alone socially ostracised by liars paying the price for being honest. I can prove my claim that the obvious truth is addiction is the psychology of a liar dropping mortality rates when my theory is known. It is harder to convince a fool that to know the truth is better than to be deceived than to deceive him. X
The only common denominator between all addicts of any social background and distinction is that they are notorious liars. Addiction affects predominantly young healthy criminals. I have been trying to have the discovery of the nature of addiction known for years to end the war on drugs. I would like to help you as a recovering addict and psychologist. Addiction is the psychology of a liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example. Addicts don’t forgive, are needy of attention that steal from others, and have secrets that tell in AA meetings to reveal who they truly are to take off the mask and heal, ending the identity deception. Liars bring up liars, addiction runs in families. Parents hurt their children and children retaliate becoming victims of themselves to conceal the hatred and hurt others. I am alone socially ostracised by liars paying the price for being honest. I can prove my claim that the obvious truth is addiction is the psychology of a liar dropping mortality rates when my theory is known. It is harder to convince a fool that to know the truth is better than to be deceived than to deceive him.
The sad thing is the blind hatred for heroine addicts when I lived in a youth hostel heroine addicts where bullied by dozens of people and the staff could not stop it so they are rejected and people advise you not to be friends with them in case you are guilty by association.
@melancholy I know this is late as I've only just come across your comment I hope and pray you stayed strong and got your script sorted theirs no way they should be able to leave you ill when you been doing so well trust me I know how hard staying clean is getting off it is the easy part compered to staying off it that's the real test and some doctors and drug workers seem to wanna make it harder I've had so many problems over the years with them but don't give up you have come to far i wish you the best
I am ashamed to say that I voted conservative, and now I’d like to know if they have achieved anything at all while being in power this century. There must be something
@@bennathan7353 I think democrats have done way worse and sadly because I'm black my family tells me I have to align with liberal views. Even though they never do what they promise.
Would love to see one done on our NHS healthcare system. It's falling apart. Trelisk hospital in Truro has people in corridors and outside in lines of ambulances with members of the public delivering tea and coffee.
The only common denominator between all addicts of any social background and distinction is that they are notorious liars. Addiction affects predominantly young healthy criminals. I have been trying to have the discovery of the nature of addiction known for years to end the war on drugs. I would like to help you as a recovering addict and psychologist. Addiction is the psychology of a liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example. Addicts don’t forgive, are needy of attention that steal from others, and have secrets that tell in AA meetings to reveal who they truly are to take off the mask and heal, ending the identity deception. Liars bring up liars, addiction runs in families. Parents hurt their children and children retaliate becoming victims of themselves to conceal the hatred and hurt others. I am alone socially ostracised by liars paying the price for being honest. I can prove my claim that the obvious truth is addiction is the psychology of a liar dropping mortality rates when my theory is known. It is harder to convince a fool that to know the truth is better than to be deceived than to deceive him. X
Drug abuse will NEVER go away!!! It just won’t.. People will always like to take drugs!! But then before you realize that you even have an actual addition it’s already too late and it becomes a full blown part of everyday life. The only way most will stop is when they get sick and tired of being sick and tired.. Or if they OD. In either case the person will only stop when they themselves are truly ready!!.
Real. It hasn’t mattered for me, and won’t matter for my pals, despite the deep times we still held our jobs and promised to be better - it is a year on and you just won’t fucking change. Change is fully personal, I haven’t even fully done it and I know that !
All drugs should be legal. Atleast that gives way for treating the people that need it instead of only policing and causes the substances to be pure rather than diluted.
I have been in the NHS treatment programmes for almost 10 years. AWFUL. I finally got sober through AA and private medical treatment. It's a shocking system
I don't know if any has realised that today, in the UK nearly every social service has been handed over to Charities, and private concerns . 2022. Privitization has happened all ready! People don't see what these Conservatives are doing .
Ian Duncan Smith was more concerned about his wallet than treating anybody with any addiction. But would he feel the same if it was one of his family or his children... Absolutely not not not not not not not... Sorry i may have to stop saying the word NOT as i maybe addicted to it.
“There hasnt been a wave of super deadly new drugs coming to the market”... Well,as a lone example,I present Etizolam,or as its known “street valium”. Very cheap,and is featured in i think 1/3 drug deaths in scotland
For me some people are lost for a time, sometimes months sometimes decades, however keeping them of street drugs is the answer to helping them be alive to be one day saved.
Im still in the system. In 2011 Turning point began a horizon scheme. Never been sectioned before -or since- but I went nuts with a reduction I couldn't handle. A good key worker took charge and got my'script back. I am still there but at the lowest level of meth for 10 years. Maybe I'll never be free but I am working and have a semblance of a life. If my 'script was taken away 2mo I would like to think that I would tough it out. I doubt it would be like that. M'done costs nothing and when you work you pay for it! Its a good political football: Immigrants, jobless and the junkies. If we sort this out we will be great again. It comes from the old playbook. Sad.
So you're telling me after 11 years the program is working? lmao clearly not working if you're still an addict. You're just addicted to the "scripts" now and the government is your new dealer.
@@AC-vs9kq you don't have a clue about treatment or addiction recovery then do you fella. Everybody's recovery is different and have different issues to solve. Educate yourself.
@Jack Deedman keep making steps forward brother, no matter how big or small, just keep on that journey to recovery and ignore the uneducated who have a lot of opinions but absolutely no clue.
@@tonybutcher4550 go on and keep calling 10 years of addiction to "scripts" recovery... clearly they're still and addicit.. just of a different drug now. Problem solved I guess..
@@AC-vs9kq you not heard the saying once an addict always an addict lol. I am 20 yrs clean and I am still an addict. Not a day goes by I don't think about my past drug use and I have never seen the world the same since that first use. This is not the army, you cannot order people to get clean... Instead you show them a better way to live, build their self esteem and self confidence, deal with the shame and guilt, deal with the issues that lead to that addiction. And that takes time and alot of councilling. People have different things going on so every recovery is different and takes different amount of time but I don't think you ever recover truly. As for swapping one drug for another that's bullshit they are both opiods, the difference is methadone is easier to reduce on and is safer. It also stabilises the addict so the can get. Back into work while working on there recovery. As long as they keep moving forwards the timescale is irrelevant. To get a person who has become an addict and is at their lowest and has nothing, family has disowned them and they hate themselve, to the point of living a normal, happy and productive life can take many years even 20+ so your comments show your ignorance
I got my degree whilst on methadone and I'm about to start my masters.If I'd have been kicked off methadone half ay through there's no way I'd have ever ever done that.
I remember this time. My drug agency basically told people who were using would have their meth methadone stop. I started on my maintenance script since 98, when I was 18. Im 43, and have been heroin free for 3 years. Im still on methadone but have dropped from 120ml to 19ml. Im alive because of harm reduction. Im reasonably healthy, no blood borne viruses. I have a life now and looking forward to getting off my methadone.
@@patkearney9320 Thank you. Im a big fan of Irish music. I love the Scratch, Mr Irish Bastard, Sir Reg. You guys really have some awesome musicians. Music really helped my recovery tbh. Much better than drugs.
I can tell you why drug related deaths are on the rise in the UK. The working class and their communities where destroyed, industry closed, factories shut, mines shut, the high street boarded up. The areas where this all existed where then left with nothing. No regeneration, no investment, no retraining, nothing. Communities then started to fracture, traditions started to slip, respect and pride seemed pointless as there was nothing to feel respect for or pride in. These wasteland areas of the uk had nothing but booze and boredom. The people became angry, they wanted fun or to fight. This situation was then the perfect breading ground for the drug business. Globalisation was what we were offered, fast, cheaper but we were never told how much it would really cost the UK. Gone are the ship yards, the steel works, the aerospace, the automotive, the mines, engineering, cotton mills, exports. Hello to reality tv, bargain booze, multiculturalism, inflation, unaffordable housing, street crime, homelessness, the breakdown of the family structure, the list goes on.
I’ve worked in pharmacy for five years and never seen a single patient come off of methadone or buprenorphine. When asking colleagues with 20+ years experience, I’ve heard of only one patient successfully reducing and completely coming off of methadone. You rarely see a dose reduction either.
I guess I'm a freak then. I was on subutex for 8 years and after reducing by 2mgs a month for 9 months I've been off it for 4 years. That last 2mgs was the hardest but I stayed with family, ate healthy and was on the treadmill 3 times a day to sweat out what was in my system. In the beginning there was alot of 🤢 and pain like my bones were trying to jump out of my skin and restless legs but on the whole it was nowhere near as bad as withdrawal from other things. Afterwards I kept thinking to myself if I had known that it was possible I would have done it sooner.
I quit because I wanted to be free . I thought going on subs would free me from drugs but all I really did was trade one drug for another. And I had less freedom with subs then other drugs. I had to make sure I attended the chemist daily within set hours, I had to make sure I had my script every month on time. If I travelled anywhere I had to make sure either I booked in with a chemist in each town I went through or I had to try to get takeaways . I had to set my daily routine around a drug and while in the beginning that was fine . I actually had a ritual around it. Would place an order for a steak burger, go get my dose , collect my order ,buy a slushie and then eat my food at the park. After a cigarette I would go on with whatever else I had to do. The dose became the thing everything else revolved around. Carried on like that for so many wasted hours over so many years. It's chemical handcuffs.
I'm sorry I wrote so much but I felt the need to tell you there can be light at the end of the tunnel. A person just has to want more then being tied to a harsh taskmaster. Because IMO as soon as we touch any drug we are giving up our freedom. We become a slave essentially to our addictions , it calls (withdrawals/cravings) we come running . We sell our souls to the dealer. Nothing and no one should have that control.
Another example of how detached from reality our politicians are. We need serious reform in this country if these issues are ever going to get resolved.
I personally know people who have been on methadone for years and it’s helped them lead a somewhat normal life with job family etc. Addiction is an illness and if it needs treating for 6 months or 6 years so be it.
In my time it was the opposite they would keep you on methadone for ages with no soul work and whenever you asked to lower the amount they would question you heavily .
Drug treatment centers only made me a worse addict I went to some of the nicest ones in Orange county to the tippy top of Hollywood hills with private chefs and your own pool on in your lil backyard area and it was so fucked up all about that insurance pay out that they wanted and worked around sure they had the tools to help but about 75% of patients ended up relapsing and going out to doing drugs again for months and then back into another rehab a vicious cycle. What really helped to get me clean was honestly moving away from the city to the mountains and living a whole new fresh life away from drugs and your friends.
I personally saw how well the use of methadone helped people regain control of their lives and lead them to having a happy and productive lives. It's mind boggling that a system which, while not perfect, was hugely beneficial for so many. IDS is responsible for so much evil in the UK, I hope history judges him accordingly. I used to work for a charity, so I've seen this bidding process first. The whole race to the bottom thing is exactly right, but it's not just service users who face difficulties because of this. The poor, usually badly paid, staff hear the brunt of the service used anger and frustration as well as crippling work loads.
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Very sad policies in the UK. When we thought progress was being made, ten steps back.. I am a recovering addict. I believe that addicts will not stop until they're ready. You can build prisons and separate family members but all it's doing Is more damage.
That doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I have known quite a few people over the yrs. The most used routes are reduction to a low dose (10-20mls) methadone then swap to subutex which can be reduced to almost nothing(0.4) ml tablets I think or low dose of meth then withdrawl detox in a clinical environment. I know alot of people who have detoxed in prison then just gone back to using when they get out as they never worked on the issues or causes of the addiction while in Prison and never had the right support on release. Unfortunately there is no easy way or Highly effective way to detox and many people have many attempts at recovery before success.
@@tonybutcher4550 I've seen massive cuts to services and detox beds, but not taken off methadone. They might reduce someone on 100+ mg especially if they're taking other depressants like alcohol or valium. Methadone is dirt cheap, cheaper than subutex by far. Yet they are incentivised to swop people to subutex which doesn't make sense financially, but does in terms of functionality and safety. The whole system -every system/institution- in this country is totally inefficient
Politics = the elite doing business, and not in the interest of the greater good as we're meant to believe. I would be very surprised if anyone was simply taken off methadone or forced off it against their will unless they've missed more than 3 consecutive days pick up, which in that case they do. Infact I think that's against human rights. In the early 2000's prisoners were allowed to take methadone if they was prescribed it on the street. That come about because of a ruling from the European Court of human rights that stated you are allowed the same healthcare in prison as outside. So personally I think its media BS
@@kinny369 I just realised you meant someone being kicked off their script. Sorry been one of those days lol. But to be honest I can't remember seeing/knowing anyone kicked off their script unless they haven't been to pick up 3 days in a row. Even when they keep using on top there is no threat to their script. I thought you meant you never seen anyone come off their script sorry. And yeah the whole subject is sometimes politicised for peoples agendas. Which doesn't help.
Treatment providers, be they third sector or NHS trusts are typically given three year tenders for a region/county at a time. Usually the pricing for each new tender is reduced with increasingly demanding KPI's. Just the fact that every 3 years service delivery is changed to a different provider, often using different pathways, usually takes at least a year to bed in with staff and is always disruptive to the well being of service users. Ian Duncan Smith is a Dickensian villian, shame on him, his supporters and the fools who vote for his party and it's policies!
I’m glad voice make mostly unbiased news articles and aren’t trying to push you a general thought/way of thinking by distracting you with mainstream media. My friend died last year from an OD and it was crazy to think he was part of that number. Although he wasn’t dependent on heroin, I feel as though there is a flaw within the UKs drug policy’s and a change needs to be made soon
Every time I hear Iain Dunkin Doughnuts being interviewed I shout at the radio. "Why are you still interviewing this man? He has been wrong about absolutely everything!"
I’m in treatment in the north of Uk, s. Yorkshire, and the NHS treatment service was closed and a charity opened instead. Thank god for that charity, otherwise I’d be fucked…. But since this happened, I’ve known 3 people, as we say “who went over”, or, overdoses and die, and many more end up in jail for various reasons, maybe not 100% because of these policies, but they definitely had a hand in their deaths in sentences, in one way or another…. The stigma is terrible. We weren’t born this way, we were made this way. Every single one of us are here for a reason, normally some god awful tragedy and we’re trying to hide from something. People look at us, probably in a similar way as to how slaves we treated in the past - sub-human. Like it doesn’t even matter about us, because we don’t count. And that’s the truth.
@know Nothing I've been around 30 addicts my life : 10 went cold turkey and went on to live productive lives,10 others are DEAD,and the other 10 are still using. An addict can be any of these 3 groups if they want it bad enough..
We are killing our most vulnerable with policy that does not acknowledge the human condition and its fundamental, and entwined, reliance upon addiction to allay trauma. I'm ashamed we haven't progressed in ways Portugal has acknowledged is necessary for civil harmony and the betterment of addicts health and their rehabilitation. It's disgraceful we do not support people to improve and transform, instead allowing them to use dirty drugs leading to further catastrophic health issues, descending into crime and annihilating relationships and communities. By not changing drug policy, we remain inhumane to the suffering. It's no more than a genocide carried out in support of the stigma of 'dirty junkies'. Addicts need help, not isolation.
I’ve been a huge fan of Vice for years. I find it absolutely insane that they’re not doing any videos on what is happening to our country right now. Nothing on the supply chain nothing on the absence of our vice president, nothing on the democratic party fueling racial division. Horrible journalism. What a disappointment.
Exactly right, they are such one sided liberal loving lunatics it makes me mick. The definition of partison politics. Liberal Democrat policies have never been good for the country or the people
Bruh people need to make education about how to take drugs safely and the side effects. People don’t know how much to take, how much they’re taking, what they’re drug is mixed with, how it can help them, how easy it is to get addicted, how it can affect their phychological health. But no according to politicians we need to make education less accessible so people will be to scared to take stuff (they won’t, they’re take it and take too much)
Methadone here in Canada is 6 dollars a bottle.Methadone is very cheap to make so they must be making an 800%profit of it. It’s literally Pennie’s a bottle.That’s 42 dollars a week for treatment which really adds up after a year
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Can any Brits tell me if the problem got worse when the UK decided to pull all over the counter no RX required Codeine tablets off the shelves in 2018. I KNOW it was a culture shock for many people. I'd love to hear some feedback. Cheers from America, Land of Fascist Drug Warriors and Prohibition.
There’s a similar, related institutional callousness in psychiatric medication. Each round of attempts at new medication takes months to orchestrate through the NHS, and privately attained prescriptions can’t be automatically transferred. The system either leaves mental patients (often with concomitant addiction problems) for months without access to a new medication, or paying exorbitant prices privately.
Why is there no voice for people who suffer in horrible pain of what their life is like being deprived medicine. Poor people suffering in physical pain is not even acknowledged.
I spoke to a senior psychologist who works closely with addiction/pain management & is a prescriber of alot of opiates. I asked him recently had he heard of or any information on the Project twenty21 & he had not heard anything about it! That imo shows where the focus is.
I a medical doctor, GP in one European country. I do have patients on Methadone therapy for several year. Out of 7 of them, no one ever came of Methadone. Four out of seven are extremely functional, have fullfilling lives. Three are making trouble selling methadone amongs themselves and earn a living by selling it doing nothing. I think there should be given a good adequate psychotherapy and after that patients should be weaned off methadone. Often there is no plan from addiction specialist I must reffer them by law, just give them Methadone. Perhaps after the patients have been give psychotherapy for 2 yrs and expected to be weaned off they should be required to do some public works to pay for Methadone. Perhaps we should focus on not getting people hooked on drugs. Some prevention.
This Man, Ian Ducan smith, as a total disregard for Human life. He is the Real "Angel of death". I was very lucky, leaving the UK in 2009, where i was for 4 years on Subutex, and having a very normal life. Working, playing taxes, have fun on free Time, traveling. When in 2010, i heard that, man i started thinking in some friend that i have in the UK, that were also on harm reduction medecine. Unfortunably, 2 of them died in 2012,because OD on street Heroin. I was devastated at the Time, and still very, very Angry with that Huge POS. RIP Jr and Mh.
In the early 2000's our little town with a population of 13,000 was riddled with addicts, OD's and deaths. I suppose the government didn't count our constituency with it's statistics.
The UK's policy on treating addictions is to jail the addicts and punish them for having an illness that they never wanted to begin with. Addicts are addicts because they're traumatised and retraumatising them by throwing them in jails and institutions is never going to get them well. Help them process the trauma they've suffered which drives their obsession to escape from and they may have a chance of recovering. Adding to their trauma only fuels the illness and causes them to want to escape further.
I used to smoke heroin and crack cocaine for years. Im 3* years clean off heroin and 6ish months off crack...All I can say is dont ruin your life. Even now I rattle off my Esprinor every day while I wait for the chemist to open, not worth it!
1) Poverty 2) Broken upbringings 3) Easy access via Internet or peer pressure to get the skag 4) Unemployment 5) Worthlessness The five issues compounding this in my opinion
