Thursday, February 25, 2016

We Need to Reform issues

  1. 1)      We need to look at the idea of following Americas lead and making the minimum drinking age 21, so as to burden Crime and NHS less
  2. 2)      We need to supply schools and youth organisations with Naloxone and the relevant training.  I would hope and pray that it would never need to be used, but if doing this saves 1 life then it is fully worth doing.  Furthermore we need to be realistic about the fact that peer pressure leads to younger and heavier drug use in the world we live in today.
  3. 3)      We need to reform our education around the subject of drink and drugs, as early as year 6 or 7.
  4. 4)      We need to re-debate minimum unit pricing of alcohol
  5. 5)      We need to address how alcohol is advertised and where in Supermarkets, for example in one set aisle not as soon as you walk in the door, besides food or at till points
  6. 6)      We need to label alcohol the same way we label boxes of cigarettes
  7. 7)      I want to see new technology attempt to reduce drink driving.  My suggestion is that on a car key fob we introduce a tiny breathalyser.  To open the car you blow a sample and if it is under safe limit the car opens.  If you are over the limit the car does not open.  If then the car is opened via another sample that is not in sync with the amount of time for the drink level to come back down to a safe level a GPS signal is sent to local traffic Police who can track the vehicle and carry out checks.
  8. 8)      We need to establish and fund Recovery Communities, 1 in at least each region of the United Kingdom if not every town or city, to build a solid backbone of recovery within the United Kingdom.
  9. 9)      Instead of cutting funding for services, we need to re-distribute taxes made via addictive manners, such as prescriptions, gambling and drinking, into  not only the recovery sector but also into mental health services.


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