MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

REMAIN TRAPPED IN THEIR

SUBSTANCE-USE DISORDERS

Medical doctors who have become addicted to alcohol or drugs soon run into the disconcerting and undeniable fact that doctors, psychiatrists and pharmacologists have no prescription cure for their dependent condition.

Amongst other evidence, a recent - this month - April 2018 Danish University report reveals that fear of dismissal or of loosing their licence keeps G.Ps and other physicians trapped in their addicted condition, because instead of seeking help they attempt self-treatment based mainly on self-prescribing.

To handle Pharmaceutical Medical Drug Addiction, whilst such substance dependent doctors have the possibility of applying the British National Formulary "Small-Dose Step-Down Withdrawal Management Procedure", like everybody else they are frustrated by the deliberate lack of production and easy availability of the necessary range of "small drug doses" VITAL to that procedure.

Confronted with doctors' consequent inability to obey the bidding: "Physician - heal thyself", statisticians from around the world report the startling fact that doctors are more likely to commit suicide than other professionals, and that amongst them, psychiatrists are the most likely to die by their own hand.

Not surprising, when psychiatrists themselves tell us that frustration, despair, hopelessness and fear of failure are likely the main causes of suicides.

Control of one's life, and any activities within it, depends entirely on having the necessary Knowledge, and then on taking Responsibility to apply that data.

Lack of the range of small doses needed to implement Small-Dose Step-Down Addiction Withdrawal, leaves the medical profession with NO OTHER KNOWLEDGE of how to proceed to abstinence, as a result of which, we have seen the expansion over the last 83 years of the 12 Steps system of withdrawal from alcohol and addictive drugs.

More recently - a 52 year old programme of Addiction Recovery Self-Help Training developed in the Arizona State Penitentiary System has been very successfully providing both the Knowledge and the Responsibility factors needed for Control and for the "healing of oneself".

Unfortunately, an excessively authoritative N.H.S. medical system, controlled as it is by powerful psycho-pharmaceutical commercial interests, fights Self-Help Training, and 12 Steps and other residential rehabilitation in order to keep highly profitable Opioid Substitution Prescribing at the forefront of government addiction policies.

But by definition, the U.K. Department of Health's Substitution Prescribing, as laid down in Professor Sir John Strang's National Addiction Centre 313 page "Orange Book", merely substitutes a profitable legal taxpayer paid prescription addiction for an illicit Drug Baron sponsored or otherwise acquired illicit addiction.

IT DOES NOT CURE OR, IN ANY WAY RECOVER OR MOVE, AN ADDICT TOWARDS THE LASTNG RELAXED ABSTINENCE INTO WHICH 99% OF THE POPULATION IS BORN - and to which a majority of addicts fervently desire to return.

And here is the reason for both the doctors' unsuccessful search for a personal cure, AND, the ever expanding creation of more and more addicts in communities throughout our United Kingdom.

To handle this appalling state of affairs, psychiatry's U.K. National Addiction Centre, which deliberately promotes legal prescription addiction, must GO, and be replaced with a National ANTI-Addiction Centre dedicated to the eradication of addiction, and it is quite clear that - to succeed - the Government must introduce legislation to ban the production of pharmaceutical manufacturers' "recommended" addictive drug dose sizes, without parallel production and easy availability of a corresponding small-dose range to facilitate Step-Down Withdrawal Management Procedures.

At the same time (because, on a world basis, Residential Addiction Recovery Self-Help Training Centres are provably ten times more effective than 12 Steps Rehab Centres when it comes to the early procurement of lasting relaxed abstinence) the Government should consider supporting the enrolment for Self-Help Training of U.K. addicts at an increasing number of U.K. locations, in order to speed up Britain's escape from addiction, of the current 10+% of its population already addicted to booze and drugs, both legal and illicit.

What we must never fail to recognise is, that from a personal health, enjoyment of life and productivity viewpoint, a legal taxpayer supplied prescription addict is just as badly or sometimes worse off than an illicit street-drug addict.

And, as Britain prepares to BREXIT the E.U. and go-it-alone, more than ever before we need citizens pulling their full productive weight, unburdened by their own or anyone else's addiction.

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This Briefing Researched and Presented by

S.A.F.E.

the U.K.

Society for an Addiction Free Existence

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