Parenting orders - are they practical?

I was all for blaming parents for their unruly children. I used to believe that no matter what, a parent should be able to control a child. Surely by grounding the kid and stopping their pocket money a parent had the upper hand?

I found out the hard way that I was sorely mistaken.

A year ago my 14 year old daughter was in one of the top classes at her school. She had been forecast to get good results in her GCSEs and she was generally well behaved. Then she starting mixing with the wrong crowd. Over the space of a month she turned abusive, came home late and started drinking and smoking cannabis.

Obviously I did what any good parent would do. I talked to her. When that failed I grounded her and stopped her pocket money. That seemed to work for a while but eventually I would let her out and she would do it all over again. Even without money she would still get booze and drugs from her so called friends. This turned into a battle, but I knew eventually I would win and she would come to her senses.

I was wrong again. My daughter upped the anti.

After another grounding she went out and did not come home. Eventually I found out she was staying at a friends house. I went round there to pick her up and she refused to get in the car. I tried to drag her into it but she started swearing and screaming. I realised that I could not get her in the car without seriously hurting her, so I went home to call the police.

Over two hours later (near midnight) I called the police again as I had not heard back from them. It was then that I realised that I was on my own. The police informed me that they had been round to see my daughter, checked that she was safe and told me that they did not have the power to bring her home. I was astounded and as you can guess, extremely worried about my daughter and very stressed.

At that point I rang the social services and they told me they could do nothing, but they would go round to check on my 14 year old daughter in 28 days. So there I was, totally and utterly unable to protect my daughter or control her actions. By the way, the house she was staying at was the house she was getting her drugs from. I'm sure the police knew this but that did not seem to them to make it an unsafe place for my daughter to be.

I ended up in hospital with chest pains, which turned out to be down to stress. Luckily after two weeks my daughter came home with her tail between her legs. But she knows that she can walk out and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

A year on, and her behaviour has improved and it looks like she may pass her exams. But by God it has been a hard year.

So when the government say blame the parents, they need to consider what situation parents have been put in by ridiculous legislation. They have taken all of the rights away from adults and given them to the kids, and they then expect us to control them.

This is not all down to poor parenting, some of it is down to poor governmental policy. It is time to give parents the support they need instead of blaming them. Don't get me wrong there are some bad parents but some are just struggling to control their children with no help from the authorities.

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Labour gimmick number twenty seven. Drugs.

You've got to admire our Labour government for their endless stream of headline grabbing gimmick policies. The latest is to cut the benefits of persistent drug users. I'm no expert but I think I can spot a couple of flaws in the idea. For a start the major problem associated with drugs is the amount of crime committed to get the necessary funds to buy them. How the hell will cutting benefits improve this problem? Surely if a drug user has less money in their pocket then they are going to have to commit more crime to get their fix. The cost of drug-related crime in England and Wales is estimated at more than £13bn. About one in five people arrested is a heroin addict.

Another problem could be deciding at what point you cut benefits and then deciding when to restore them. The government are claiming that drug use is at an all time low. I don't know where they are getting these figures from, or what drugs they are including in them. The UK now has the highest number of Heroin users in Europe and the second highest number of cocaine snorters. I feel a little bit of creative maths has been employed by the Labour spin machine - again. Addiction rates in the UK are double those in France, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. There has been a 111% rise in the number of people jailed for all drug-related offences between 1994 and 2005.

And as for the classic policy of seizing assets of suspected drug pushers without charge? They are having a bubble - surely it's against their human rights, and as we all know, criminals in the UK have more human rights than the rest of us. Instead of coming out with yet more gimmicks, the government should concentrate on the reason why only 3% of those going on the 12 week rehabilitation course come off clean.

This is what I like to see. Fantastic use of tar and feathers.

This is how locals on the streets of Ulster dealt with a alleged drugs dealer when the police failed to act.

Frankie Gallagher of the Ulster Political Research Group said: "The UDA told the local community to go to the police about this. The community responded in the way it did because it had no confidence in the police."

Full story and more great pictures HERE

Of course we should not condone this sort of thing - or should we?

Afghanistan has broken opium production records again

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is to publish annual survey today. It will show that Afghanistan has broken opium production records again. Just what exactly are the billions being spent over there actually achieving? Helmand province, where our troops are operating, is expected to be named as the world's largest drug-producing area. Just great.

Gen Khodaidad, Afghanistan's acting minister of counter narcotics, said: "Unfortunately we have failed, in security we have failed and in drug issue we have failed, we have not done a good job in Helmand. "This year we must change the strategy, how to fight, how to work in Helmand to improve the security and tackle the poppy in Helmand province."

The justice system is blamed for failing to prosecute drug barons and corrupt government officials. Our troops are fighting hard and doing their best, but they are not getting the political support they need and deserve. Until they do, our men and women are giving up their lives for little return.

Iain Duncan Smith - £20 Married Couples Allowance.

After criticising Iain Duncan Smith's daft proposal of adding 7p to a pint of beer yesterday, today I would like to congratulate him on getting one of his policy proposals right. David Cameron's wish to "Mend Society" is something not to be sniffed at and IDS's proposal of giving married couples a £20 tax break can only help our declining society. It is a fact that a larger proportion of our juvenile delinquents, under achievers, drug users and criminals come from single parent homes. The statistics are not a hard and fast, many people from single parent families turn out alright, but they are disadvantaged when compared to those from two parent families.

Iain has also proposed an increase in benefits of £32 for married couples to bring them into line with single parents. It is about time, A single parent with 2 children working 16 hours a week receives £487 per week thanks to tax credit payments. Unbelievably a two-parent family, with one of them working, also with 2 children is required to work 116 hours to get the same income. This situation is ridiculous and no matter what Labour may say, it can only have a negative effect on the need to have stable family units.

Well done Iain, let's hope David Cameron takes this policy on board and that the Conservatives get into power. Strong family units with one of the parents able to work without being disadvantaged, should give the next generation of kids a better future than the one they face at present. I would hope that this proposal also extends to same sex marriages now that civil partnerships are becoming more popular.

We cannot continue to throw money at single parents, it has been tried, and it does not work.

7p on a pint? IDS, you are having a laugh.

I'm all for David Cameron wanting to "Mend Society", God knows it needs it. I cannot however agree with Iain Duncan Smith's brainwave of adding 7p to a pint of beer. If he thinks that will reduce the number of people binge drinking then he is not in touch with reality. I could still go out and have a skin full i.e. 10 pints and it will only cost me an extra 70p - wow. If the price of beer goes up 7p then I will only be able to buy 30 pints for the same money that I could have previously bought 31 pints, not exactly a deterrent is it? Iain's suggestion is not worth the paper it is written on, and if that is the best he can do, then he is wasting conservative party time and money. Binge drinking is a British phenomenon and a choice made by adults, instead of trying to force everyone to stop, we should be cracking down on the few idiots that spoil it all by behaving antisocially.

As for reclassifying Cannabis back from class C to class B, it's all a bit late and will only lead to further confusion - even the police don't understand the actions to be taken in most cases. What I would suggest is make the Cannabis legal (I'm anti-drugs but can't think of a better solution) and hammer anyone caught supplying the stuff to under 18's, or under 16's depending on how Liberal you want to be. If Cannabis is legalised it will be regulated and therefore safer for adults to use. I know from experience that kids and drugs do not mix.

David Cameron - Responsibility

As for enforcing Parental responsibility, that is impossible under current legislation. Recent events have made me fully aware that I have absolutely no legal powers to protect or discipline my children.

My 14 year old daughter and all her friends smoke grass. There is not a damn thing I can do about it, because the Police can't do a damn thing about it (or won't). She left home two weeks ago and went to stay at a friends house. I went to bring her home and she refused to get in the car. I realised that the only way I could get her in the car was to knock her unconscious. Obviously I would not want to do this to my daughter but also I would have been arrested. I called the Police hoping they would bring her home. Two hours later the Police rang back to tell me there was nothing they could do. I rang social services to see if they could help, they told me that they couldn't help but would (after 28 days) send someone around to the house that my daughter was staying at to see if was suitable.

The reason my daughter left home?

I tried to stop her taking drugs.

Luckily she returned home after 13 days with her tail between her legs. The question is what can I do if she decides to walk out again? Sadly the answer is nothing.

I'm sure when I was a child the Police would have taken me home, legal or not. Now the Police are worried about being sued by 14 year old girls. The right’s of the many have been taken away to protect the few, that is why our society is crumbling.

I could go out now and start a car crime spree, safe in the knowledge that I would not be caught. I could smash my way into several cars and steal whatever I liked because the Police would not come out to investigate. The only way to cut crime is to adopt the Zero Tolerance approach that New York took (click on New York you will be amazed at the figures). You investigate and charge people for the small crimes. If people are locked up for minor crimes they are not free to carry out the major ones. That lets criminals know from the start that crime will not be tolerated.

If people were worried about being sent to prison for their first offence they would think twice. Now kids know that they have to run up a list of offences at least in double figures to warrant any serious action to be taken against them. We have made excuses for far too long for people coming from broken homes and deprived backgrounds. People know the difference between right and wrong no matter what their circumstances may be.

I come from a broken marriage does that mean I have more of a right to commit crime than someone who doesn’t?

It’s time to give back trust to the Police, Teachers and Parents. The law has always been in place for those who abuse that trust.

Heroin on the NHS - Cannabis back to Class B?

The Problem

The UK Drug Policy Commission has issued a report stating that the UK has the highest level of drug use and the second highest number of drug-related deaths in Europe . Drug addiction rates in the UK are double those in France, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands.

The UK illegal drugs market is worth about £5bn/year, drug-related crime is estimated at more than £13bn. About one in five people arrested is a heroin addict. There has been a 111% rise in drug-related offences between 1994 and 2005. This is not surprising when you consider that the heroin street price has dropped, falling from £70 a gram in 2000 to £54 in 2005.

The Commission said: "Tougher enforcement should theoretically make illegal drugs more expensive and harder to get. The prices of the principal drugs in Britain have declined for most of the last 10 years and there is no indication that tougher enforcement has succeeded in making drugs less accessible."

More addicts are being treated than ever before, but the UK Drug Policy Commission said that: “the benefits were limited, and there was little evidence education schemes had had an impact.”

Cannabis

Jan Berry, Chairman of The Police Federation of England and Wales has said the Federation believe cannabis is the number one illicit gateway drug.

“Cannabis is a problematic drug not least because of growing evidence of links to psychotic illness in young people and contemporary attitudes to the drug as being ‘soft’.

We expressed our concern over a year ago over on whether the correct decision had been made to reclassify the drug from a Class B to a Class C, as we felt it would create confusion among the public on the legality of possession.

This has already presented problems for police officers throughout the country who are tasked with enforcing this confusing law and we would therefore support the reinstating of cannabis to a Class B drug category”.

According to a study by Queen's University Belfast, teenagers as young as 14 are using cannabis every day. Dr Patrick McCrystal said: "These young people are telling us that by the age of 15 they have moved beyond experimental or recreational use of an illegal drug to more sustained usage." Of daily cannabis smokers, a quarter reported being in trouble with the police on more than 10 occasions while almost one fifth had been summoned to court in the year prior to the survey.

The solution?

Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, has called for an increase in the prescription of diamorphine (also known as heroin) on the NHS.

The British Medical Association say Afghanistan's opium-poppy harvest should be used to tackle an NHS shortage of diamorphine. Diamorphine is also used to relieve pain after operations and for the terminally ill. Due to a shortage doctors are having to rely on less effective drugs.

Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, said: "If we actually were harvesting this drug from Afghanistan rather than destroying it, we'd be benefiting the population of Afghanistan as well as helping patients and not putting people at risk. There must be ways of harvesting it and making sure that the harvest safely reaches the drug industry which would then refine it into diamorphine. It should be possible, and really government and the international groups that are in Afghanistan should be looking at this and saying how can we convert it from being an illicit crop to a legal crop that is medicinally useful."

Dr Jonathan Fielden, a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in Reading, said: "The biggest difficulty will be changing the views of those countries, particularly the US, where this drug is banned. That will take a great cultural change to let them realise that a very cheap drug, easily produced, beneficial to patients, can be brought back in and used, rather than being seen as a drug of abuse."

The Afghan authorities and the UK government are against using the poppy crop to produce medicines and are stepping up their efforts to destroy new crops. Diamorphine is still in limited supply more than two years after the government was warned there were serious shortages. The amount being used in the NHS is a fraction of what it was before the current problems with supplies began.

So, should we make Heroin available on the NHS, would it take away the cool factor and reduce drug related crime? I would like to think so, the Police and drug experts seem to think it would. This is something that could easily go on trial in one town or city and the crime figures would give an immediate indication of it’s effectiveness.

As for Cannabis - the drug is believed to be up to ten times as potent as it was only ten years ago. Medical experts are growing increasingly concerned about the link between Cannabis and Mental Illness. The Police want it’s reclassification reversed back to a class B drug and I think it was a serious act of incompetence by the Government to reclassify it in the first place. God alone knows how much damage it has caused or what mental health problems our teenagers are going to have in the future.

What do you think?

Scotland benefits while we pay out

This is a letter published in the Shropshire Star. The letter is by Stuart Parr of Wonko's World

Scotland benefits while we pay out

On April 1st the cost of prescriptions in England went up to £6.85 per item. On the same day in Wales the charges were abolished.
In Scotland 92% of prescriptions are dispensed free of charge and MSPs only narrowly rejected a bill to abolish them completely in 2005. It is only a matter of time before they are abolished north of the border.

In Scotland pensioners are entitled to free public transport throughout the country at all times and Northern Irish pensioners have just been given the right to travel on public transport throughout Ulster and the Republic of Ireland free of charge at any time.

In Scotland the elderly are entitled to free personal care in the care home of their choice without having to go through means testing or selling their homes.

In Scotland cancer sufferers get the newest and most expensive treatments. The same applies to those suffering from dementia.
In England the same drugs are refused because the cost of the treatment is more than the value the English NHS puts on a life.

In England we will shortly be required to pay to have a satellite spy box fitted to our cars and pay per mile to drive on our roads. The same law won’t apply to Scotland and Wales so they will be able to drive in England as well as in their own countries without paying the road pricing tax.
The transport minister was elected in Scotland yet his department doesn’t have a say in what happens to transport in Scotland.

Taking into account the above and the many other services our neighbours receive it would be understandable for an Englishman to feel left out but there is no need because we get something that our neighbours don’t - the bill.

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The Police Federation of England and Wales say: Cannabis is the number one gateway drug.

This is what Jan Berry, Chairman of The Police Federation of England and Wales has to say about the reclassification of Cannabis:

“Cannabis is a problematic drug not least because of growing evidence of links to psychotic illness in young people and contemporary attitudes to the drug as being ‘soft’.

We expressed our concern over a year ago over on whether the correct decision had been made to reclassify the drug from a Class B to a Class C, as we felt it would create confusion among the public on the legality of possession.

This has already presented problems for police officers throughout the country who are tasked with enforcing this confusing law and we would therefore support the reinstating of cannabis to a Class B drug category”.

The Police Federation of England and Wales:

Is opposed to the reclassification of cannabis as we believe it to be the number one illicit gateway drug.

Feel that the term ‘reclassification’ is however all too often wrongly confused with ‘decriminalisation’.

Policing is all about prioritisation: cannabis does not need to be reclassified to be re-prioritised. The resulting message to young people has been vague and confusing, doing little to deglamorise the drug.

Believe it is essential the government follow a holistic drug policy; substantial investment must be made into drug rehabilitation programmes. If not, drug addicts leaving prison are highly likely to return to a life of crime.

We believe in a three-pronged attack on the drugs menace combining better education, speedy rehabilitation and firm enforcement of the law.

The public, particularly those young people who are so often the target for drugs suppliers, must be better educated about the damage drugs can cause. We therefore strongly advocate the introduction of a national drug information programme to educate the public - particularly young people and children.

We support the sentencing of drug users with Drug Testing and Treatment Orders (DTTO) yet the recent Street Crime Initiative demonstrated that current rehabilitation provision is insufficient. The socio-economic cost of crime far exceeds the cost of rehabilitation. Funding must therefore be found, ring-fenced and targeted in order to cut the cycle of drug taking and crime.

Feel there must continue to be a multi-agency approach to combating drugs, with greater international cooperation in reducing supply into the country.

The number of teenage Cannabis users has increased since reclassification. Considering reports that the drug is now stronger than ever before, the reclassification should be reversed.

Heroin on the NHS?

Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, has called for an increase in the prescription of diamorphine (also known as heroin) on the NHS.

The British Medical Association say Afghanistan's opium-poppy harvest should be used to tackle an NHS shortage of diamorphine.

Diamorphine is used to relieve pain after operations and for the terminally ill. Due to a shortage doctors are having to rely on less effective drugs.

Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, said: "If we actually were harvesting this drug from Afghanistan rather than destroying it, we'd be benefiting the population of Afghanistan as well as helping patients and not putting people at risk. There must be ways of harvesting it and making sure that the harvest safely reaches the drug industry which would then refine it into diamorphine. It should be possible, and really government and the international groups that are in Afghanistan should be looking at this and saying how can we convert it from being an illicit crop to a legal crop that is medicinally useful."

Dr Jonathan Fielden, a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in Reading, said: "The biggest difficulty will be changing the views of those countries, particularly the US, where this drug is banned. That will take a great cultural change to let them realise that a very cheap drug, easily produced, beneficial to patients, can be brought back in and used, rather than being seen as a drug of abuse."

The Afghan authorities and the UK government are against using the poppy crop to produce medicines and are stepping up their efforts to destroy new crops.

Diamorphine is still in limited supply more than two years after the government was warned there were serious shortages. The amount being used in the NHS is a fraction of what it was before the current problems with supplies began.

Q. Should the Afghan poppy crop be used to produce diamorphine and prescribed on the NHS to Heroin addicts?

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£10 - NICE one?

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has suggested drug addicts receiving treatment should be given shopping vouchers to encourage them to kick their habit. Evidence from international trials has shown the use of shopping vouchers can cut drug abuse by hardened addicts.
It is proposed to give £10 vouchers out at NHS treatment programmes to addicts who are tested clear of drugs.
Clinical psychologist Mr Stephen Pilling from University College London, has estimated 50,000 addicts in England and Wales could recieve the vouchers.
Mr Pilling said: "I think the group, having thought it through carefully, have firmly come to the view that it provides a much better and positive way to relate to drug users than sometimes we have done in the past."

Following some public unease about how NHS money should be spent in recent years. NICE are to be legally challenged by groups angry about restrictions on drugs for Alzheimer's Disease.

Mike Trace, chief executive of the Rehabilitation of Addicted Prisoners Trust said: "If you just rely on rewards for abstinence and you're not treating people's complex problems, you're not going to change the behaviour."

The Mother of a long term crack cocaine user said: "I'd rather money was spent on drug treatment centres, where people could be helped immediately. That's where the money should go - not giving them vouchers for food, clothes or shopping."

Q. Should the NHS start handing out shopping vouchers to drug addicts as an incentive to keep clean?

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NHS Poppy Appeal

The British Medical Association say Afghanistan's opium-poppy harvest should be used to tackle an NHS shortage of diamorphine (also known as heroin).

Rather than destroying the poppy crop it could be used to produce diamorphine for the NHS. Diamorphine is used to relieve pain after operations and for the terminally ill. Due to a shortage doctors are having to rely on less effective drugs.

Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the BMA, said: "If we actually were harvesting this drug from Afghanistan rather than destroying it, we'd be benefiting the population of Afghanistan as well as helping patients and not putting people at risk. There must be ways of harvesting it and making sure that the harvest safely reaches the drug industry which would then refine it into diamorphine. It should be possible, and really government and the international groups that are in Afghanistan should be looking at this and saying how can we convert it from being an illicit crop to a legal crop that is medicinally useful."

Dr Jonathan Fielden, a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in Reading, said:"The biggest difficulty will be changing the views of those countries, particularly the US, where this drug is banned. That will take a great cultural change to let them realise that a very cheap drug, easily produced, beneficial to patients, can be brought back in and used, rather than being seen as a drug of abuse."

The Afghan authorities and the UK government are against using the poppy crop to produce medicines and are stepping up their efforts to destroy new crops.

That sounds about right for this government. It's easier to burn the crops than do something useful with them.

Cold Turkey - we pay

Compensation is to be paid to former prisoners because they were forced to stop taking drugs in jail.
DrugScope a drugs charity said 198 former inmates who used heroin were about to settle out of court with the Prison Service after suing the Home Office.
The former inmates allege the "cold turkey" withdrawal treatment they were forced to undergo amounted to assault.
David Davis the Shadow home secretary said the case set a "disastrous" precedent and accused Home Secretary John Reid of failing to protect the public.
"Drugs are a scourge on society and completely undermine all our other efforts to fight crime. By doing this Mr Reid would be letting down the taxpayer, the victims of these offenders and the drug addicts themselves. The precedent would be disastrous.
"Former Conservative prisons minister Ann Widdecombe said the settlement was "an insult to every victim and every law abiding person".
The former inmates are suing under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Q. Should we move away from the European Convention on Human Rights?

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