Data Sharing Review

[Peter Fairbrother]

Roger Hayter wrote:
> 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.  

It wasn't just the Americans then, although now it's their influence 
which continues the farce.


Isn't this a bit off topic though? - I promise not to join in again.

Perhaps so - but in part we are discussing a crypto-related example, 
which can properly lead anywhere and still be on-topic.

-- Peter Fairbrother