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Friday, May 07, 2010


Another post in successive days! Woohoo me! I guess this is sort of the journalling we're supposed to do for our Health Enhancement Program (load of crap). lol

Anyway, heads up, it's gonna be a pictureless post again. Haha

So I had my GP visit today. I got to go to a community health clinic in a really dodgy suburb. It was pretty interesting; it sort of opened my eyes to a different side of community. And my GP's name so happened to be Dr Paul McCartney. LOL

So once I arrived, Paul explained to me that the clinic mainly deals with druggies with overcoming their addictions and stuff. And they also dealt with semi-psychotic people. Anyhoos, their philosophy is they prescribe substitute pills with similar effects as recreational drugs to the patient to replace heroin/marijuana/cannabis and then try to slowly cut down the dosage of the pills. The logic to this is the patient does'nt have to inject themselves (less STIs), it's cheaper and the doctor can control the amount of pills the patient's taking.

So I got to sit in about 10 consultations? about 7 drug addicts, a psychotic woman, a guy who depends on pain killers, and a diabetic guy with 5 times the regular amount of sugar in his blood but refuses to take insulin injections.

All the drug addicts basically knew they had to stop, but they just couldn't. Most of them have been taking drugs for more than half their lives. Heck, 1 dude's been taking it for over 30 years, and he's only 44. lol

One guy took heroin so much, he has 2 ulcerated holes in his groin, bruises all over his leg, blood accumulation in his soles and metal plates in his neck because the bone in his neck has basically dissolved. And he still found it hard to cut down his heroin usage. Another dude's been coping well with the substitue pills and has been cutting down over the last 5 years - one more year and he would be free of drugs. And he's so enthusiastic about being completely clean after more than half his life being dependant.

The psychotic patient had voices in her head. And had thoughts that were'nt hers. freakyyyyy haha

So yea, AWESOME EYE OPENING EXPERIENCE.

Lesson fo the day: DONT' EVER TRY DRUGS. just in case, you get hooked. :)

haha I sound like a naggy parent. bah

monkeyatschul

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