Comments on: Real Hope for Addicts http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/14/real-hope-for-addicts/ Bill Muehlenberg's commentary on issues of the day... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: g weedall http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/14/real-hope-for-addicts/comment-page-1/#comment-2471 g weedall Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:38:17 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/10/14/real-hope-for-addicts/#comment-2471 This is an interesting article, and it has comfirmed some of my private views about OSTP [opiate substitute treatment programmes] in the correctional sphere. I heard a prisoner on OSTP declaring "the first thing I'll do when I get out is go to Footscray and find a hit" This to me was really a declaration of failure of OSTP to treat addiction. Indeed those on opiate substitution still seem to "hang" for their daily dose, just as illicit drug users may do. Dare I say it without being shot down in flames, is OSTP mainly about legal management & control of drug addicts by state endorsed pharmacology? G Weedall This is an interesting article, and it has comfirmed some of my private views about OSTP [opiate substitute treatment programmes] in the correctional sphere.

I heard a prisoner on OSTP declaring “the first thing I’ll do when I get out is go to Footscray and find a hit” This to me was really a declaration of failure of OSTP to treat addiction. Indeed those on opiate substitution still seem to “hang” for their daily dose, just as illicit drug users may do.

Dare I say it without being shot down in flames, is OSTP mainly about legal management & control of drug addicts by state endorsed pharmacology?

G Weedall

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