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By *entscotscpl OP Couple
over a year ago

falkirk ish

while handing in a prescription at the chemists ,i was told it will be 20 mins before it is ready i waited 25 mins i asked for my script , then to be informed it will be another 15 mins before it is ready

only then i realised there was a que of people waiting on thier green stuff (methadone) why should i have to wait on the smack heads getting thier fix before i get my script for antacid pills

if it was down to me i would give them meds to put them all down they do not deserve to be kept by the NHS DO THEY OR DONT THEY ?

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east

Yes I believe they do deserve the help ...no1 is the same and we dont know what caused these people to become addicted ..i feel sorry for alot of them..yes there are some I dont who have had or been offered help and returned to old ways or refused the help but alot of them I believe want off drugs...just my opinion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are too many different reasons for people to be introduced to drugs...so yes in some circumstances i do believe they deserve the help that they are offered....others as _unkie says. just don't want the help they are offered....i believe everyone deserves one chance thou...Mrs jaffa Xx

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

No one knows the circumstaces that these People are in

And I do believe that everyone deserves a 2nd chance at regaining control of their lifes .

For most they grab that chance with both hands for others they just won't accept the help that's offerd .

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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago

Falkirk

Having been married to a drugs councillor in a previous life I agree they do need help but she always said methadone was a waste of time and money. It's just a substitute that people become addicted to. It doesn't solve the addiction it merely shifts it to a legal drug. It takes a lot of time, effort and money to help a drug user properly and the government will never get a grip of it properly so in afraid you'd be better of getting the chemist to collect the script for you and picking it up another day

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By *eeflower69Woman
over a year ago

edinburgh

I think that drugs should be made legal and taxed, then the taxes can be used to help the people who really want to get off.

Drugs being illegal hasn't stopped people using/abusing them.

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By *awty_MissDynomiteNo1Woman
over a year ago

No idea, I'm lost. Damn Sat nav!

"Having been married to a drugs councillor in a previous life I agree they do need help but she always said methadone was a waste of time and money. It's just a substitute that people become addicted to. It doesn't solve the addiction it merely shifts it to a legal drug. It takes a lot of time, effort and money to help a drug user properly and the government will never get a grip of it properly so in afraid you'd be better of getting the chemist to collect the script for you and picking it up another day

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The methadone program combined by counselling has helped many people to get clean but as I said not everyone accepts the help being offerd .

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

Nice to see there is so much compassion!!! Astounding....

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By *ola cubesMan
over a year ago

coatbridge

Methadone is a terrible drug far more addictive and expensive and I can see ops point chemists here have a waiting area for methadone users with seats and a television while Joe bloggs has to stand waiting on them being seen too shops like to clear them first as I dosnt help their normal sales to have them loitering

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

nope i dont think they do deserve it

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By *ilandlarryCouple
over a year ago

more north lincs than mids!

Some of them definitely deserve it. My cousin was a drug addict. He isn't fully "there" if you get what I mean. He has drifted from one job to the next never really getting anywhere in life. He is most certainly one who is easily led.

He was successful at kicking his habit using the methadone program and all the other help that is available out there. I can pretty much put all my money on saying that had he not had that help then he wouldn't be here.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Less than 2% of drug addicts who are on methadone programmes have become clean. The figures are terrible and the cost absolutely staggering. They got into it so let them get out of it themselves.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. Less than 2% of drug addicts who are on methadone programmes have become clean. The figures are terrible and the cost absolutely staggering. They got into it so let them get out of it themselves."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *b430Man
over a year ago

Tayside

"while handing in a prescription at the chemists ,i was told it will be 20 mins before it is ready i waited 25 mins i asked for my script , then to be informed it will be another 15 mins before it is ready

only then i realised there was a que of people waiting on thier green stuff (methadone) why should i have to wait on the smack heads getting thier fix before i get my script for antacid pills

if it was down to me i would give them meds to put them all down they do not deserve to be kept by the NHS DO THEY OR DONT THEY ? "

So you walked in off the street to hand in a prescription that the Chemist wasn't expecting and are complaining about people who were in a Q waiting to get the medicine the Chemist was expecting to give them?

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By *eatherWoman
over a year ago

glasgow

methedone is as much an addiction as the drugs people are trying to come off

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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago

Falkirk

"Some of them definitely deserve it. My cousin was a drug addict. He isn't fully "there" if you get what I mean. He has drifted from one job to the next never really getting anywhere in life. He is most certainly one who is easily led.

It's always good to here a success story but unfortunately they are few and far between. I wish him well and hope he continues his recovery. But the main point you made was he had all the other help. He was lucky he had that help on offer and a family to support him.

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

I have strong views on these addicts. They made the choice to smoke, snort, inject...all for what? Peer pressure? cause it seemed a cool thing to do? These drugs werent forcibly administered. They were taken willingly..... and now the NHS has to give them something just as addictive which only serves to give them a free fix?

..Hmmmmmm no, that shouldnt wash with the powers that be, or the Taxpayer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Police love Methadone. Instead of having to hunt high and low for the junkies they just wait at the chemist for them to come and get their script. A policeman in Niddrie told me that once. But of course they must be helped. Obese folk cost the NHS just as much money. Amd drink costs the NHS more than anything. Are you saying we should stop treating d*unks?

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Lets start by not giving the d*unk extra bru money to get him his next 2litre bottle of Diamond White and Buckie.

The fact the social pay the d*unk more benefit than Mr Clean still astounds me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im not just on about alcoholics. A&E is overrun with the consequences of alcohol injuries. Self inflicted just like druggies

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

No excuses...the same no excuses as for domestic violence, drink driving ....and being a smackhead...so no, they should not get NHS supplied free methadone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well i wouldnt give them methadone i would give them nothing let them go cold turkey . I know thats a selfish remark personally thats what i believe . My gran got mugged aff a junkie put her in hospital with a broken hip . So personally i cant stand them .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They told you 20 Mins, you patiently waited your 25 Mins

Then to be told to wait another 15 mins due to them being preoccupied prioritising the demand from drug addicts is a piss take. You waited....they can wait too!

They unnecessarily wasted an additional 20 mins of ur Time! In my opinion If they wanna help drug addicts good for them but they can do it in their own time and not at the expense of well to do peoples time and money. Id rather my time and taxes contribute towards helping more deserving causes. We all have places to be and things to do. Why should good people be inconvenienced because someone fucked their life up with drugs, with complete disregard to the impact it would have on themselves and everyone else in society

Id be raging too if it was me! More so than I already am and it's just a forum post lol

Anyway im away for a 10 bag. Anyone wanna go halfers?

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By *eatherWoman
over a year ago

glasgow

2 words come to mind here COLD TURKEY and a few more words besides but if i put them down i would likely be barred from the site

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By *eatherWoman
over a year ago

glasgow

i consider myself a very kind considerate and caring person but after seeing the devastation drugs cause i am so so so angry and yes i know drink causes that as well but this STUPID methadone programme is costing thousands and for what

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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago

Falkirk

Right, so, methadone and drug users aside, lets get back to the original post about bad service lol

Do what you should always do when you get bad service - vote with your feet!!! Take your business elsewhere!

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By *ola cubesMan
over a year ago

coatbridge

"Right, so, methadone and drug users aside, lets get back to the original post about bad service lol

Do what you should always do when you get bad service - vote with your feet!!! Take your business elsewhere!

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not that simple ive used plenty of chemists and they all prioratise these people first you can see why they want them out their doors as fast as possible too. and of course they deserve the help we have all been in situations in life we shouldnt have just this problem is far more secere i think its isreal or some balkan country that used to have methodone treatment the same as us but gave it up as to expensive what did they change too an actual drug centre where they go and get heroine in a controlled dose bringing them back down slowly a far more humane way of treating people than substituting with a drug that is so much more addictive and causes other illnesses later on in life

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think that methadone people should have to see a nurse to get their drugs in an annexe or somewhere away from kids etc that may be waiting with their mums for prescriptions. And this nurse should only be employed for methadone people only, taking the strain off the other staff in chemists. As for methadone itself, scrap it, it doesn't have a big success rate. Let the junkies rot. No one forced them to take it, why should I pay my taxes to help them get over something self inflicted. No one has helped me for my insomnia and lack of food intake because my mum died. I have to listen to junkies playing music, fighting in the close, see their dog shitting in the street and them not clean it up, and pressing my buzzer at 2 in the morning asking for money.

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By *b430Man
over a year ago

Tayside

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No one has helped me for my insomnia and lack of food intake because my mum died. "

Have you asked for help?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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No one has helped me for my insomnia and lack of food intake because my mum died.

Have you asked for help?

Yes, i have spoken to my doctor about my insomnia, my hair loss and my loss of appetite. Stress related nothing they can do.

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By *b430Man
over a year ago

Tayside

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No one has helped me for my insomnia and lack of food intake because my mum died.

Have you asked for help?

Yes, i have spoken to my doctor about my insomnia, my hair loss and my loss of appetite. Stress related nothing they can do."

"Nothing they can do" is different to "No one has helped me"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They could help me by referring me to clinics, but wont. My sister has been referred. So i should have written 'nothing they can do'.

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By *b430Man
over a year ago

Tayside

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So i should have written 'nothing they can do'."

You did

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By *ombowieMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

only then i realised there was a que of people waiting on thier green stuff (methadone) why should i have to wait on the smack heads getting thier fix guess before i get my script for antacidpills

if it was down to me i would give them meds to put them all down they do not deserve to be kept by the NHS DO THEY OR DONT THEY ? "
guess that's what happens when you live on the dark side of the moon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The chemist does not give fags to smokers or cans of special brew to alcoholics, these people drain the NHS, give abuse when they don't get served quick enough, and think the world owes them something, I agree that some of them can't help it but most can, we never asked them to get hooked on drugs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my house was broken into by a druggie the day after i collected my script from the chemist best thing about it he was behind me in the chemist the day before. He done it the next day while i took my kids to school and my ex wife was in the shower he had only took the meds nothing else lucky for us he got caught for it so sorry i dont have any time for them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My sister is a pharmacist so deals with methadone every day. The mark up on it is unbelievable, the chemist buys it very very cheap and the government pay the chemist a fortune per addict. The system doesnt work as rightly pointed out by others its a million times more addictive!!!

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By *z ThongzWoman
over a year ago

Lanarkshire

Its so very easy to stand in judgement when the drug hasnt affected your life.

yes lets put them all down , along with the folks who drink every night after work and beat the living day lights out their partner , along with the gamblers who gamble away all their money and their kids are starving , along with the folks who make it easily accessible to buy and are living the high life off the proceeds and not giving a monkees about who they sell it to, yes thats what we should do , blow them all up.

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By *illow PimpMan
over a year ago

Midlothian

"Its so very easy to stand in judgement when the drug hasnt affected your life.

Ever thought of going in to politics ?

I'm sure that's a cracking manifesto

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By *r and Mrs SnogalotCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

My ex husband was in the forces, deployed to Iraq in 1991

came home and developed a drinking problem as it was the only way he could block out what he had seen and done. His habit and fists led to the eventual demise of our marriage. He is now very lonely and doesn't know his own children.

My best friend became addicted to drugs when in a very controlling relationship cut of all ties with friends and families and died through a heroin overdose at the tender age if 17.

I wish there was a programme that could have given both the support they needed.

Shy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's not junkies Fault , it's drug dealers I wish the police would remove , that would stop the hurt that some family's go through ,,,

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By *ot - CoupleCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

"The chemist does not give fags to smokers or cans of special brew to alcoholics, these people drain the NHS, give abuse when they don't get served quick enough, and think the world owes them something, I agree that some of them can't help it but most can, we never asked them to get hooked on drugs. "
The chemist gives patches to smokers who want to quite and for alcoholics there is medication.

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