Why Drug Deaths Are Rising in the UK | The War on Drugs

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  @JanPospisilArt · 4 years ago

  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. <br>The deaths are the point, the cruelty is the point.

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• RA

  @rabidrabbitshuggers · 4 years ago

  I remember when the UK&apos;s rehab system was <b>so good</b> that rich Americans went there for treatment.<br><br>What a difference time makes.

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• DO

  @dooddleya · 4 years ago

  It is actually so crazy to think that politics have to a right to police healthcare and that parties can use healthcare as selling point. Healthcare should not be allowed to be used in politics. It should be a completely different entity and is only allowed to be run by evidenced based science.

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  @michaellondonxxx4860 · 4 years ago

  I’ve had issues with alcohol in my time. &nbsp;NHS treatment is delivered slowly. &nbsp;It takes time to get an appointment. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;I simply disengaged rather than wait for getting a prescription. &nbsp;I was left to get medication via less conventional means. &nbsp; An addict who has a moment of strength to seek treatment needs it NOW, not in two months time. &nbsp;Goodness knows how bad it is for a heroin addict to be failed by the system in this way.

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• SA

  @samanthasmile8150 · 4 years ago

  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

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• JA

  @jakwadd · 4 years ago (edited)

  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!

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• RI

  @rickdiaz427 · 4 years ago

  As always &quot;we would like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs&quot;.

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• SU

  @superkidkidkid1109 · 4 years ago

  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

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• PH

  @philparry9347 · 4 years ago

  I was in the system in the 90&apos;s and they helped me so much &nbsp;, I am now 51 and haven&apos;t taken drugs since 2004 and I would definitely not be here without those services

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• BL

  @Bloke-from-Stoke · 4 years ago

  You can&apos;t treat addiction, you can only mantain it with something else. Addiction is rarely the issue, rather a blanket covering other issues.

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  @stephenbrand5661 · 4 years ago

  Here in the US our &quot;recovery&quot; industry is completely dominated by the abstinence based, faith based 12 Step approach and the results have been predictably terrible and deadly.

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• JE

  @jedediahjehoshaphat · 4 years ago

  Remember kids, if a stranger tries to give u drugs, say yes, because they&apos;re expensive

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