Drug addiction used to be deemed a medical issue and was part of the NHS medical model.
In the early 2000's the dim brained government decided to change this from a medical model to a criminal justice model.
8 offences were selected. If a person was arrested for any of those 8 offences, they would have to have a drug assessment in police custody. The drug worker would then write a report to the court and that was used as a guide for the judge in sentencing.
at the same time the government developed the NTDMS, The national treatment database monitoring system. I spent more wasted time filling in that shit than I spent with clients.
oh! look what a great job we are doing as a government, we are sticking more people in prison and at the same time we are monitoring every time a drug addict farts. Wow wee!
they still got the same sentence.
forward 20 years
our prisons are overflowing with revolving door drug addicts.
They get a 6 month sentence for stealing a bottle of whiskey from a supermarket.
They get released from prison and have to attend a probabtion meeting that same day.
The first thing a person wants to do when they leave prison is to get high.
the majority of offenders released, never make it to their probation appointment and get recalled to prison within a week or two for failing to meet the terms of their prison release.
round and round and round they go. costing the tax payer an absolute fortune, in the name of tough on crime rhetoric
In 2004 it cost £400 per week to keep a man in prison, at the same time it cost £500 to send a man to rehab.
Early on in my professional life, I worked in a psychiatric secure ward, meaning that the patients could not leave.
I seemed to get drawn in to the world of my patients, luckily I had constant clinical supervision.
one patient was well known for telling huge lies about his life. He told me had had been a professional drummer in a well known band and that they had a few famous records that could be heard of Youtube.
I was naive and still learning my trade craft. I looked up the bands name and searched youtube.
I was really hurt when my supervisor told me this story was untrue.
She said "you seem to forget that all the people in here suffer from extreme forms of mental illness.
So I say to you:
you seem to forget that you are dealing with a machine and not a human.
As I am getting nearer to dreath, I have recently looked into what that entails.
I looked at the legal side of burials here in the UK.
Funeral Directors have set themselves up as the go to death service. A monopoly on death as it were. Oak coffins, Marble head stones, the team of horse drawn carriages, the church service, the flowers, the crematorium service, cost an arm and a leg.
Although families, in the period of of grief rush to their nearest Funeral Directors there is no need.
Looking through the coffin brochures to make you feel guilty and the salesman or woman pointing out the best deals and best mark up prices.
for me this is taking advantage of the bereavement process.
We in the UK can be buried anywhere, we do not have to ask permission unless someone else owns the land.
You can be buried in your garden under the apple tree if thats what you wish for.
There are companies who have challenged this monopoly and offer cheap burials in beautiful countryside settings.
I have been to two recently. One person had their cremated remains buried on a hill in Surrey. Just a small group of family and close friends attended. we all told stories about our relationship with them. It was a lovely day.
The second one, the person was buried in a wicker coffin that the wife had bought on Amazon for £150. Again they were buried on a hillside in Surrey.
The alternative was to spend £5,000 and upwards to bury your loved one for profit
Take drug addiction as an example here in the UK.
Drug addiction used to be deemed a medical issue and was part of the NHS medical model.
In the early 2000's the dim brained government decided to change this from a medical model to a criminal justice model.
8 offences were selected. If a person was arrested for any of those 8 offences, they would have to have a drug assessment in police custody. The drug worker would then write a report to the court and that was used as a guide for the judge in sentencing.
at the same time the government developed the NTDMS, The national treatment database monitoring system. I spent more wasted time filling in that shit than I spent with clients.
oh! look what a great job we are doing as a government, we are sticking more people in prison and at the same time we are monitoring every time a drug addict farts. Wow wee!
they still got the same sentence.
forward 20 years
our prisons are overflowing with revolving door drug addicts.
They get a 6 month sentence for stealing a bottle of whiskey from a supermarket.
They get released from prison and have to attend a probabtion meeting that same day.
The first thing a person wants to do when they leave prison is to get high.
the majority of offenders released, never make it to their probation appointment and get recalled to prison within a week or two for failing to meet the terms of their prison release.
round and round and round they go. costing the tax payer an absolute fortune, in the name of tough on crime rhetoric
In 2004 it cost £400 per week to keep a man in prison, at the same time it cost £500 to send a man to rehab.
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