Detox or long term stabilization

[brownbear67]

The merry joys of Christmas are upon us again!!!

Thanks for you positive comments, helps to get some connection.

A blind train driver stops every five or so minutes and in a hour or two he may get half the train in the station, this is a bit like drug services, they get little bits right, but never quite to full picture. No disrespect to blind train driver by the way 

I have been working in Drug services 12 years now, before that I was actively involved in all aspects of skulduggery, and debauchery, to explicit in nature to list online, lol

Having found myself in the headlights of speeding cars like nervous rabbits on the M1 motorway I decided to experiment with the employment field, this was about 20 years ago, having become very disillusioned with the clocker, 9-5 mortgage, paying, capitalist, witch doctors, I decided to join the ranks of givers in the care field and there I have found fortitude and meaning, in bringing Joy to others and at times laughter in keywork too!! I keep myself grounded at key worker level because I know that’s where you can make a real difference, rather than others I have seen climb to tree to become members of another system!!

There are other people in drug service just like me but we need to keep our heads down for fear of being sectioned!!

No serious there are many givers and real careers, but there efforts to change services amount to little these days as you all know Gov legislation, written by those with little to no knowledge of helping people, dictates the future path.

I have many dear and close people that are in the madness of active addiction, very close to me, out there on the road dodging shrapnel from the world, and may I always be strength to them and others.

Someone asked me about the war on Drugs, is it being won, lol, it was not a Christmas joke, but I nearly feel over laughing.

There is no war on drugs I said, but there is a drugs war and those in very high places like in all wars have vested interest and profit margins to think off.

Happy festivities Jules, Derek d j , sapphire , Usandyou!! Lol I mean usandthem, op8s and Ang , I am off work now for a week and will be off to visit some wondering souls in a few detoxes over Christmas to spread the cheer and joy. have a good one.

[usandthem]

So true BrownBear,

 Sorry all I had to do it. Couldn't resist again. ( RANT )  

 I think a detox is absolutely fine if it is the full wish of the User ONLY. If it is my decision and I decide alone that a detox is right for me, then that can only be a good thing and could may lead to something of a success, if I deem abstinence as a success. On the other hand if it is the service providers wish for me to detox then that is never going to sit well with me and I will flat out refuse and become rebellious.

 It is like this. You sit down in your own house and choose to watch your favorite program on TV (nothing like a detox by the way) so you turn it to that channel and watch it. But instead, you are sitting in your own house and in walks somebody who you only met in town the other day, they tell you that you can not watch your favorite program and they change the channel to watch their favorite channel. How would you feel? What are you going to tell them? Are you going to tell them that its Ok?!

What makes it worse is that some users feel they have nowhere to turn or they do not know the channels when bullied into reduction, or just can't navigate to the important helplines. I fear that some keys know this only to well and play them, fully knowing some users won't complain. It is a cold place if drug treatment is taking us along this unrighteous path. They have a responsibility to care for their clients. Under trained key-workers are a liability as they can only grasp orders from above and can not relate to their clients well being. Although there are good keys out there like Brownbear69, not all are like this and some may even fear the wrath of their service administrators to keep them on their wicked money saving career path.  It becomes a target hitting game for some keys. The service have brainwashed them into treating clients as numbers IN SERVICE and OUT and who can get the most recovery champions to keep the ideology alive by becoming the new volunteers (Full training provided of course; once your CRB check has been cleared). They are all played off, of course, by the service management and local commissioners, and as we go up the chain it gets ever more slippery.

I have seen loads of alcoholics popping up lately and this is to do with the reduction measures bought in by CRI. What the service only see is what they want to. They don't see the destruction going on outside of appointments - and what their reduction measures are doing to each and every future champion. Turning to the black market more due to reduction measures bought in by CRI. More ODs will hit when the heroin becomes purer due to reduction measures bought in by CRI. More crime as users turn away from the service that only wants them to stop taking their life saving medication. More prisoners when users turn away from the service that wants them to jump through hoops and become a volunteer of some questionable organizations.

Commissioners that never reach out to speak to users in service but are happy to keep writing cheques to the service for volunteer theme days and pro-active recovery champion led peer groups annual pathway to abstinence or support the community days. Although it is all recreational, it does nothing for the users motivation or morale. It is tinkering with a long running medical service that doesn't need tweaking in any way shape form. They should leave drug provision as it is. Pick up your medication twice a week and spend 5 minutes saying hello to your key-worker or be tested once a fortnight. Since why should we not be left alone to sort out our own social affairs. Are we to be treated like children because we are bonded by the state because of an addictive illness?! Bizarre!

Anyhow Peace to all im about to get very drunk on some QC Sherry Medium and some Baileys Creme.   John

[froude]

Answer to Derek's Crimbo Questions (feels like im on Alliance wants to be a millionaire lol)

Seriously   1.NO GP's in my town perscribe,treatment,so its    D.S.P
               2.cant remember the question ,sorry (that'll be the weed)
               3.What i would do with crack heads is treat them with cocaine and lots of aftercare.

Personally as an ex crackhead and smackhead,there is treatment for opiate abuser's but nothing for crackheads,as crack is not physical and more in the head,im probably thinking intense therapy for the brain ,in the early part of treatment give them cocaine,and offer them loads of intense aftercare.

My personal view on crack is the same as L.S.D,its in the head,and only in the head.All this talk of crack is gonna make me go out and sell all my little girls Peppa Pig collection(only joking ) All the best have a good Christmas and New Year Froude.

Thankyou to everyone on the Alliance this year ,the forum users and Staff,with out you this would'nt be the best site for all us scally's.BIG THANKS from the Froud Family.

[angiesims AKA true grit :)]

Wish they could all be like you BrownBear  have a great xmas too. Visiting over xmas people going through detox, says it all. What a great key you are! Wish Leeds was the same. Your forgotten about til January the 3rd at the very least! Useandthem I could not even begin to word it like you do. So true. Froude you make me PMSL! Too funny. This forum is better than any CDT. The help I've received just by supportive words has been more valuable than you all realize. The support and advice I've seen on other people's threads has been heartwarming also. I hope each and every one of you have a fantastic xmas