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MAPS: !! Barroness Greenfield and useless statistics
Russell asked:
Can anyone tell me who this woman is, or used to be
before her elevation?
http://www.politicallinks.co.uk/politics/BIOG/LD_BIOGS/2528.stm
Know your enemy!
Or better http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Baroness+Greenfield+
From: "Dave Foulger" <davefoulger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ukcia-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [UKCIA] Barroness Greenfield and useless statistics
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:58:42 -0000
Barroness Greenfield says in 'Cannabis and the Brain'
http://www.bobo.pp.fi/cluff/gfield2.html
' for example, in Holland, where there has been a relaxed policy to cannabis
use, Dr Ernest Bunning from the Ministry for Health, concludes "..the place
that cannabis takes in their lives (the users' lives) becomes so dominant
that they don't have space for the other important things in life. They
crawl out of bed in the morning, go grab a joint, don't work, smoke another
joint. They don't know what to do with their lives". 80% of heroin seized in
the UK has passed through Holland, and there has been a 50% increase in
heroin addiction from 1988-1997'
Ah, this 50% increase in Dutch heroin addicts statistic again, I've seen
this one used before in a House of Commons debate. Of course such statistics
without comparisons are useless. It's very difficult to get these type of
statistics out of the UK government but I have found this
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Mr. Lloyd: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many
(a) registered addicts and (b) non- registered addicts of (i) cocaine and
(ii) heroin there were in the UK in each of the last 10 years. [15538]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The term 'registered addict' has no generally agreed
definition in the United Kingdom.
The Home Office previously collected and published information relating to
individuals notified to the Addicts Index. Since the Addicts Index closed at
the end of April 1997, there are no current figures from that source.
However, the Department of Health publishes information on the number of
persons presenting to drug misuse services for treatment in Great Britain
who are reported to the Drug Misuse Databases; this includes persons with a
main drug of misuse of heroin or cocaine. Figures are only available for the
period April-September 1993 onwards, and are given in Table 1.
Table 1--Number of persons presenting for treatment at drug agencies, with
heroin or cocaine reported as the main drug, during six-month periods ending
30 September 1993 to 30 September 2000, in Great Britain
Main drug of misuse
Six-month period ending Heroin Cocaine
30 September 1993 8,643 512
31 March 1994 9,746 737
30 September 1994 11,191 783
31 March 1995 12,282 903
30 September 1995 13,400 1,074
31 March 1996 14,488 1,015
30 September 1996 16,621 894
31 March 1997 18,285 1,053
30 September 1997 14,749 959
31 March 1998 16,390 1,178
30 September 1998 18,994 1,709
31 March 1999 20,027 1,693
30 September 1999 21,389 2,153
31 March 2000 23,824 2,121
30 September 2000 24,759 2,116
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Source:
Department of Health series of Statistical Bulletins; the most recent is
"Statistics from the Regional Drug Misuse Databases for six months ending
September 2000".
This to me looks like it could indicate about a 200% increase in heroin
addicts in the UK since 1993. Makes the Dutch 50% increase seem like a
justification of their policies.
Dave
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