Drug Addicts get free massage

[paulr48]

Why?

There are plenty of people out there with illness that massage would help yet they wont get this free so why druggies?

Lock them up in a cell and make them do cold turkey.

[Ian the Beancounter]

My mother-in-law is approaching 80, and she's been housebound for years with severe osteoporosis and the results of having had a stroke. Her vertebrae are gradually crumbling away. She can't even have a shower unless my wife does it for her, and she certainly couldn't get out of her front door without help. My wife does all her shopping and visits 3 times a day to make her meals, or she wouldn't eat.

Meanwhile, we spend money on inadequate imbeciles who can't control themselves and deliberately get themselves into trouble.

This country has just got its priorities so wrong, it's laughable.
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[don060541]

Well glad to see you agree with something ITB, no what you mean,

My mother was like that, went into a home £495.oo
per week, and they expect us pensioners to live off
£200, a week.

Water rates down here £1300 per year ????????????????????????????????????????????????

[simplysimon]

Ian,
Your Mother in Law might get the munchies if you rolled her a spliff.

[Ian the Beancounter]

[simplysimon]

Most druggies were born troubled. I don't think even an imbecile would deliberately get him/her self into trouble.

When the system is inept. Self-medication for pain can be a wonderful thing.

Drugs were growing out of the ground long before man had ever even thought of having an illness system.

[don060541]

Bloody 'ell! Where do you live? Mine are only around £200 per annum.

Unfortunatly Devon we pay for the beeches to be cleaned, so they say, you would not think so if you went on the beech where i live,

Looked to sell and move back up north but the houses had caught up to ours, so could not afford to,

People up north a lot friendlier than down here,

Moved because of work, but you live and learn

[Ian the Beancounter]

[don060541]

South devon unfortunatly agree with you woolacombe is nice, used to cover all that area in my job,

Problem is it,s like everywhere it,s looking shabby,

lack of funds to renovate, We had 12 hotels when i first moved here 26 yrs ago, there is one now,

All the rest turned into flats and apartements,

They call it Gods waitnig room,

[Ian the Beancounter]

[Andrew]

[don060541]

Indeedy. Whilst I can understand the reasoning of encouraging people to get help I can't help thinking that the free massage thing was just bound to attract criticism. Perhaps the money may have been better spent on outreach work. As the fella says in the article it is in all our interests to get people off addictive drugs.


Must say i have to agree on this one Andrew, it,s the big men we need to target,

If they cant get it, there would not be addicts,

Sadly it,s a losing battle they fight, get rid of some and others are ready to take their place,

[Sun Tzu]

Don,

Andrew Andrew isn't criticizing it. he's just saying it should have been covered up.

[don060541]

I was agreeing with the last line, Sun about getting them off drugs,

And like i said a losing battle,

[Dog with Internet Access]

Once again an interesting innovative approach to a serious issue is slagged off by know nowts.
Any measure that helps this problem is to be applauded.