The ACMD,

translated by the Home Office as:

 

"Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs,"

 

should more accurately be described as:

 

"All Committed to Mounting Drug-usage"

WHY ?

This Advisory Council membership is comprised of: six Pharmaceutical Practitioners, five Psychiatrists, two pseudo "addiction recovery" "experts", two Physicians and a mixed bag of nine Professors, Social Scientists, Criminal Justice Officials, Research Fellows, Physicians, Observers, Writers and Commentators.

But whilst this makes a total of 24 Members, because regular attendance at Council meetings is closer to half that number, this effectively leaves the policy-making and decision-making to the commercially interested 13 Psychiatrists, Pharmacologist and pseudo "Addiction Recovery" experts.

The gross assumption is made that the people knowing most about addiction are Psychiatrists and Pharmaceutical Producers, and if we are talking only about the creation of addiction this is true - because Psychiatrists do more to prescribe addictive drugs & Pharmaceutical Companies do more to supply addictive drugs than any Drug Baron or other commercial fraternity in the United Kingdom.

And instead of admitting that they do this as part of their deliberate strategy for low cost marketing of addictive drugs, they blame the victims of their greed (namely the involuntary addicts THEY CREATE) as is revealed in their Council title specifying "MISUSE" of drugs.

But when a Drug Baron or a friendly Pusher cons a new addiction victim into "trying" cannabis, skunk, crack or heroin, that victim cannot be MIS-USING, because he or she is straightforwardly USING in order to get the "Chill-Out" or the "High" they have been promised.

Furthermore, when a G.P. writes a 7 day 3 times a day prescription for Valium, one of the other benzodiazepines, a pain-killer, an anti-depressant or an anti-psychotic, etc., or a daily prescription for methadone, Subutex, naloxone or Suboxone, etc., the victim of those addictive prescriptions cannot be MIS-USING because he is doing exactly as instructed - so that when we find the word "MISUSE" in any heading or title, we know the addict is being inaccurately and unfairly blamed for his or her condition.

As a result, we have a carefully chosen mainly commercially biased group of "advisors" who are set on blaming the addicts for their addiction (and all the other drug problems), now advising the Government - not just on policy - but also on prevention and "cure" of drug and alcohol addiction, even though they have seldom if ever actually cured - or even TRIED to cure - someone.

But let us take just the 13 main Council Members who between them have well over one hundred years experience of trying to prevent and "treat" substance addiction in all its forms.

Have they or those they "advise" solved the U.K. addiction problems ?

Have they h**l. Quite the reverse.

Check the numbers from the National Office of Statistics and the National Audit Bureau for the 47 years since the Council was formed in 1971, and you will find that whilst Home Office, Police, Customs & Excise and other departmental policies and activities have partly succeeded in preventing a major expansion of addiction to illicit Drug Baron smuggled and high-jacked supplies, in the legally prescribed addiction sector there has been only a continuous expansion of involuntary addiction to medical drugs at N.H.S. cost and Taxpayer expense.

Excluding chronic alcoholism, over that period, whilst illicit drug addiction runs today at over one million addicts, right now there are over Four Million involuntarily addicted patients in Care, Nursing, Rest Homes and their own homes, costing the N.H.S. the Exchequer and of course the Taxpayer, well over £12 Million a day - every day. That's £4.38 Billion a year - and rising !

In addition to that total increasing every month, the Secretary of State for Health (Jeremy Hunt) has only recently proposed new legislation to commit our 5 to 25 years old scholarly population of "Children and Young People" to a Psychiatric nurse in every school and to "Transformation of Mental Health Provision" which will see a major part of our youth committed to daily ADHD type addictive drugs and other damaging psychiatric "treatments" - dispensed at school.

All because, last year, the President of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) arrogantly threatened to move pharmaceutical production out of Britain if the Government did not start spending an extra £20 BILLION on funding drug supplies for the N.H.S.

In other words, whilst Hunt's "transformation" appears to be concerned with the regularly increasing number of "mental health disorders" being trumped-up and invented by psychiatrists to justify increased prescribing of daily addictive drug doses, it actually has little to do with health, but is to avoid job losses and unemployment in those areas in which pharmaceutical factories are located.

So. We are asked to go on encouraging the addiction which State sponsored prescribing creates, in order to avoid the unemployment which ruthless pharmaceutical leaders threaten, ignoring the fact that, because Hunt's current policies are directed at 5 to 25 years olds, millions of our youth - throughout their adult lives - will be far less productive because of continuing addiction and even eventually unemployable.

We don't need or want an industry which deliberately addicts our pensioners, our youth and eventually everybody, for turnover, profit, dividend and bonus reasons, and which deliberately threatens the jobs of loyal and dedicated workers just to get their own greedy way.

We don't need or want a government which does not understand the first thing about the personal, individual, community and countrywide ravages inflicted by ALL forms of drug and alcohol addiction, with sufficient impact over a few decades to eventually destroy our economy, our society and our nation.

Instead of legislating our population into addiction, Mr Hunt and Mrs May should be legislating the pharmaceutical industry into conformity with humane goals, more modest profits and an abandonment of animal based psychiatric "treatments".

But can this possibly happen with a chairman who has a record like that of Annette Dale-Perera in charge of the ACMD Recovery Committee, which claims to advise the Government on "How people can best be supported to recover from dependence on drugs and alcohol", and "How best to prevent drug and alcohol misuse and the harms it causes."

A visit to Annette's "BIO" reveals her own statement of her career, as follow:

"I have worked in substance misuse since being a volunteer at Leeds Addiction Centre in 1982. I was a practitioner for 6 years working in community services and therapeutic communities. I was a research fellow for 6 years at the Centre for Drugs and Health Behaviour, University of London, I was Director of Policy at SCODA / DrugScope for 6 years, Director of Quality at the National Treatment Agency on Substance Misuse (NTA) for 7 years, and Strategic Director of Addiction and Offender Care for CNWL NHS Foundation Trust for 5 years until November 2014.

I have been a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs since 2010 and co-chair of the Recovery Committee.

I was a Commissioner on the UK Drug Policy Forum for 6 years.

I have authored and co-authored over 50 research, policy, practice and national guidance documents in these roles."

Because in a 36 year career from 1982 to 2018, Annette says she has worked for 44 years in 7 different posts, we must praise her dedication to hard work. And the video she has posted of her talk to the Society for the Study of Addiction annual conference, plus her over 50 document output of research, policy, practice and national guidance appears at first sight to be equally commendable.

But what has she actually been saying, writing and doing AND WHAT HAS SHE ACTUALLY ACHIEVED in terms of Recovery to Lasting Relaxed Abstinence ?

On the evidence she supplies, the sum total of her productivity is ambiguity, waffle, obfuscation, equivocal statements and vague allusions to results of doubtful value or character.

The only sane and logical definition for "recovery" is based on: "A lasting return to the natural state of relaxed abstinence into which 99% of the population is born".

And in light of her 36 year dedication to Opioid Substitution Therapy, which confirms that Dale-Perera and her committee is not aiming for lasting relaxed abstinence and achieving it, there is no way her advice can possibly have any value to the Home Secretary or anyone else, and she should be removed to allow the appointment of someone else who, like the writer of this article, can regularly deliver lasting relaxed abstinence in 70 to 75% of cases in a matter of 13 weeks on a C.Q.C. approved programme.

When it comes to "recovery", one can recognise the impotency of the ACMD from the delay it took for them to enter the subject of recovery into their operation, PLUS the near uselessness of the subjects on which the Recovery Committee is expected to report AND the long background experience of the Recovery Committee Members in non-cure N.T.A. work, S.S.A. participation and commissioning.

Their inclusion of the title "Recovery Committee" is pure unadulterated P.R. - used solely and only to give the impression that the ACMD might possibly be doing something about recovering people to lasting relaxed abstinence, when nothing could be further from the truth than their over-arching O.S.T. bias.

Their 13 Psychiatrists, Pharmacologists and so called Recovery Committee Members who (because - instead of curing - they all have as a goal the "treatment" or "management" of addicts with other addictive drugs such as methadone, Subutex, naloxone, Suboxone and Valium, etc.,) will of course NEVER EVER succeed in curing their patients' addiction, because they are merely substituting a legally prescribed addiction for an illicit one.

This was actually revealed to politicians but not understood by them when Professor Sir John Strang, between 2010 and 2014 pretended to "pilot" rehabilitation on a "Payment by Results" basis, by arranging his three and a half years of "piloting" only with "rehabs" which operate on a 12 Steps system and / or on Opioid Substitution Therapy.

Because he deliberately did not include any piloting Provider regularly capable of delivering lasting recovery to relaxed abstinence, he was able to announce that "Payment by Results" did not work in the addiction rehabilitation sector.

But the real truth was that the procedures laid down in his 313 page Department of Health "Orange Book" of "Guidelines on clinical management of Drug misuse and dependence" DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DELIVER LASTING ABSTINENCE, and knowing this, he used this failure of his NAC technology to pretend that it was the "Payment by Results" system which didn't work, when the payment system was never even tested - because Strang's "pilot Providers never actually delivered any abstinent results meriting payment !

To be of any value to the Government, the ACMD should be re-named: 
"The Advisory Council on the Eradication of Substance Addiction of All Types".

Its Membership should then be drawn only from Providers (of Recovery orientated rehabilitation and training) which have a proven record of delivering LASTING RECOVERY to the natural state of relaxed abstinence into which their addicted subjects / patients were born.

Addiction is NEVER accidental.

It arises solely because both Drug Barons and Pharmaceutical Producers want regular daily sales and consumption of their addictive products, demand for which is driven by the addiction itself rather than by expensive marketing, promotion and advertising, AND guaranteed payment for which comes from our taxpayers via the U.K. National Health Service.

(Recognise that basic psycho-pharmaceutical strategy is to blame the Drug Barons, and then take over - as State supported O.S.T. addicts - the addicted consumers the Barons have created.)

But it takes informed courageous legislation which handles the ruthless and greedy excesses of both illicit and prescription pharmaceutical drug producers - not the Health Secretary's currently proposed wimp-like surrender to greedy commercial demands - designed to addict us all !

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This Article Researched and Published

by S.A.F.E. - the U.K.

Society for an Addiction Free Existence

A not-for-profit community support group founded in 1974

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