Data Sharing Review

[Brian Morrison]

Michael Simpson wrote:

>> And since when do you get to decide which emollients are available to
>> people whose lives fail to enthuse them with the desire to die old?
>=20
> I don't. I do however think that the continued decrease in real terms
> of the price of alcohol has something to do with the 5 or so teenagers
> that i saw lying on the pavement this morning at ~9.30 intoxicated to
> the point where they can't stand.
> The closest off-sales shop to my addiction team currently has an offer
> of 1.5litres of vodka for =A36.50 in their window. We are in fairly
> major trouble atm wrt alcohol.

I don't disagree with you on that, I'd be happy if the high strength
stuff were more expensive too. Personally I don't drink much of it.

>=20
> wrt to your right to kill yourself Brian, go for it! Just please
> ensure that your relatives *fully* understand that you are aware of
> what you are doing and that you wish to drink yourself to death
> because i for one am sick of fielding calls from them complaining to
> me that i am "refusing" to do anything to "help" their
> son/daughter/husband/father/mother who is drinking too much. The
> explanation that i have talked at length to their
> son/daughter/husband/father/mother and that 1) they are in their right
> mind and 2) are aware of the harm they are doing to themselves and 3)
> would rather carry on without further interference from myself doesn't
> seem to have any impact on the distressed relative who inevitably
> resorts to an official complaint.

Such circumstances are no fun for anyone. I'm not intending to drink
myself to death, there are better ways.

The reason for my comment is that I drink somewhat less than the
currently recommended limit of 28 units a week, itself apparently
plucked out of thin air back in the 80s, yet every time a medic asks me
how much I drink they keep telling me how bad that level is for me and
how I should cut down. As a somewhat awkward cuss, being told I should
cut down when I'm being sensible has exactly the opposite effect on me.
I just feel that this approach from the medics is often counter
productive, I don't understand why they do it.

Wildly OT I suppose, end of rant.

--=20

Brian