Data Sharing Review

[Roger Hayter]

In message <48839CF4.9030708@zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes
>Michael Simpson wrote:
>
>> i am slightly concerned that you may be *seriously* out of touch with
>> the majority of our underclass.
>
>I'm far more concerned that you, as a person who deals with them, are 
>far more out of touch with them than I am.
>
>
>
>> Can i at this time extend an open invitation to you and anyone else
>> that wishes to come on a tour of Easterhouse and Possil with me to see
>> the sort of folk that i am designing for. You have previous mil
>> experience, i'll supply the landie.
>
>Been there, seen it, the tee-shirt got trashed a long time ago.
>
>Apparently you *haven't* seen them, except as bodies to treat.
>
>In the 60's/early-70's docs in your position used to give the junkies
>lots of heroin and/or morphine. It was in very small pills, iirc  10-20
>1/6 grain or 10 mg tablets, in glass tubes the size of thick matches.
>
(snip)

Apparently our American masters have rejected heroin maintenance for 
religious reasons, and anyone who wants to work safely in the addiction 
field has to discover that their clinical judgement concurs with this 
view.  Isn't this a bit off topic though? - I promise not to join in 
again.

-- 
Roger Hayter