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Thursday, 6 December 2007

Brendan Nelson on drugs …

Harm minimisation? A need for new strategy in the war on drugs? Whatever can Brendan Nelson have been thinking? (click to enlarge)

 

 

9 Comments

  1. sean downes
    Posted Thursday, 6 December 2007 at 3:42 pm | Permalink

    Wow! It sounds like Brendan has me-too’ed the Greens Drug Policy! Whod’a thunk?

  2. Tony Papafilis
    Posted Friday, 7 December 2007 at 1:18 pm | Permalink

    Sustaining heroin addicts is a form of abuse. Why not help them to quit cold turkey? Who gains from addicts in jail being tied over on methadone until they get out? It does seem like the justice industry wants the problems to continue to keep their jobs.

  3. Lucy
    Posted Thursday, 6 December 2007 at 7:57 pm | Permalink

    Dude. Call the Liberal thought police, Dr Nelson is a DIRTY, SOFT ON DRUGS, CHARDONNAY-SIPPING, BLEEDING HEART UNION BOSS. And he’s the one the conservatives voted FOR. Imagine what Turnbull’s drug policy must be like.

    Tony Abbott must be horrified.

  4. altakoi
    Posted Friday, 7 December 2007 at 1:02 pm | Permalink

    Re Newster

    I think you might want to read my comment again. I am pro-harm minimisation for the reasons stated based on evidence I know well.

    Kisses, sweetie

  5. alston unwin
    Posted Thursday, 6 December 2007 at 1:49 pm | Permalink

    I don’t know what Nelson was thinking but he is correct. The modernism that pushes harm minimization is in itself an indication that we have lost the war. No I do not have clever ideas but harm minimization does not work.

  6. altakoi
    Posted Thursday, 6 December 2007 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    Harm minimisation does work- at reducing harm. It is not a way to reduce use of drugs, but if people are going to do this and that then it makes sense not to compound this issue with criminality, HIV and lack of treatment.

  7. Newter
    Posted Friday, 7 December 2007 at 2:21 am | Permalink

    “Alston Unwin” and “Altakoi”, if you could actually express reasonable ideas succinctly, I am sure you would do so. But what real, that is, evidence-based, opposition can there be to harm minimization strategies? Please try to become informed!

  8. Marion Wilson
    Posted Friday, 7 December 2007 at 9:39 am | Permalink

    Harm minimumisation works at keeping an addict alive and safe from injection caused diseased. For as long as an addict remains alive there is hope for them and for those who care. What is the thought process of those who prefer dead or diseased addicts?

  9. Mike
    Posted Friday, 7 December 2007 at 12:28 pm | Permalink

    Did you know the heroin trials worked?
    Now The Netherlands, Spain, England, Canada, Switzerland, Portugal and Germany prescribe heroin to long term addicts. Outcome: Less crime, more addicts quit, more addicts work, less new users because less dealers!