AND THAT CONTINUES

" Subutex the connections of the East " title Le Point who reveal that in the Baltic States the consumption of this product “explode” whereas in Georgia, the resold of tablets of $100 the unit are used into intravenous by drug addicts. Affirming that each day smugglers are intercepted at the airport of Tbilissi, the magazine observes that this situation led the ambassador of France to call for an emergency fight against this traffic knowing that an international seminar organized in March in Tbilissi “stigmatized the canted use of the subutex”. According to the newspaper, dismantling in the course of the Parisian network " is a first answer ".

AFP signal that the 12 persons challenged were put in examination as principal or accessory author for all or a part of the following infringements: “infringement with the legislation on narcotics”, “infringement with the legislation on poisonous products”, and swindle with the social security”. Indicating that the three traffickers supposed, in irregular situation are originating from Tunis and Baghdad. The agency reports that the doctors are for their part originating from Morocco and Tunisia for two of them, and exert in the 19^th district of Paris, in Villejuif and Aubervilliers. The agency, which explains that the practicians delivered an ordinance for Subutex or Skénan against 20 euros, and were made refund the consultations by  the social security while providing of false certificates of cover universal disease (CMU) or medical aid of State (AME). The agency specifies that the traficants went, then, in an obliging pharmacy and obtained the product without anything to spend, thanks to the false certificates of CMU or AME. According to the agency, the police officers found at one of the retailers more than 200 tablets of Subutex, more than 100 virgin ordinances and a great number of false certificates of CMU. In addition, in addition, they fell to the cabinet from the one from the doctors on a thousand of photocopies of false certificates from CMU or AME. Affirming, that according with the police force, one of the pharmacies would have delivered since December, 12000 boxes of Subutex and nearly 1000 of Skénan. That is a damage of almost 250,000 euros for the social security. The agency rises that this market functioned since 2004, with a total damage for the social security evaluated with more than 500,000 euros. The agency, which stresses that, this traffic would feed Paris, countries from the Eastern Europe and Finland, notes that the dismantling of the network started in October with the arrest of a man in possession of 32 ordinances of subutex, which had been put in examination and jailed, just like the Parisian general practitioner who delivered the ordinances.

Le Parisien also announces the interpellation of nine doctors and pharmacies, precise that pharmacy having sold 12,000 boxes of Subutex is located in the 12^th district of Paris.

Liberation that also make the point on this business, observe, “The Subutex is more prescribed in France than in the closer countries” which have more recourse to methadone. The newspaper recalls, “Diverted of its use and used by intravenous way, the product causes a strong habituation and frightening side effects”.

And during this time we do not refund any more a great number of medicines for the children or the old people. That is the proof that it was necessary to classify the Subutex with the row of the narcotics.

Why France chose Subutex in contrary to the rest of Europe who use methadone, simply not to do what make a great number of countries “control the drug addicts before giving them their amount”. That avoids the diverted uses and especially that the taxpayer finances a legal drug. But of course, in France, the lobby of the RDR makes pressure so that there is especially control.

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FROM WHO IS MAKING FUN OF THE
HEALTH MINISTER ?

After having already launched two waves of medicine refunding (82 drugs in 2003 then 156 others at March 1, 2006), the Health Minister have decided to lower the refunding rate of 41 others. That must allow the Health Insurance to make some economies.

Then why not to make, n first place, some economies on one of the drugs which digs more the hole of the Social security : the SUBUTEX (one of the twelve most expensive drugs)

SUBUTEX, THE GREAT ILUSSION

Claude Frémont ex-Director of the “Caisse Primaire d'Assurance Maladie» reminds us that:

Subutex was put on the market and declared refundable in 1996, under really unusual liberal conditions in the world. France is a large and beautiful country, once more with before guard. But as regards medical catastrophe, she knows herself there too. Subutex explodes. From 4000 people treated in 1996, it passes to 50.000 in 1997, until of 85.000 estimated users today. A sales turnover of 100 million euros in 2005 for the laboratory *. Subutex is one of the twelve most expensive drugs for the sickness insurance. At 24 euros the box of compressed **, at a rate of one per day, it is nevertheless not cheap. Especially if consumers are refunded at 100%, in most of the cases (...).

At the beginning of 2003, the CNAMTS goes there from its verse, claming about the "overall positive" assessment. And there, I am wary, moved by the experience (...) I send three agents and I stick myself to it. I terrify. On 500 Subutex long-course consumers, at least a hundred often reach dramatic cases. Amounts higher from two to three times the maximum amounts, than they get by attending to 5 or 6 different doctors and as many pharmacists. When that is not enough, they manufacture false prescriptions, on catch ordinances. The investigation takes us months. A data base turns to full mode. Thousands of peeled files, addressed hundreds of mail, tens of heard policy-holders, authorities alerted. Drastic measures to limit breakage, until the refusal of refunding for the most serious cases. Systematic convocations to medical controls, a warning send to doctors and pharmacists, some lied to, some who closed their eyes. I impose to occasional consumers the choice of only one doctor and only one pharmacist. I make approve by the board of directors ten measures framing and of control in conformity with official recommendations posed from the very beginning, but never applied, including the use of a Health record. (...)

While a Seminar, the National medical officer tries to assassinate me. I mean, in words. I made the mistake of touching where it hurts, of discover and of say what many experts said for a long time, starting by the AFSSAPS (French Agency of medical safety of the products of health) in a circular of July 22, 2003: “The broad use of Subutex is at the origin of abuse and diverted use. Up to 30% of the consumers use it in intravenous injections. A parallel circuit with traffic of street, barter or resale, was confirmed by police reports and observations of health professionals. ” (...)

** The box of Subutex is composed by 7 seals at a rate of one per day (when the drug addict respects the amount), that made 4 limp per month X25 €. Calculation is quickly made

* The manufacturer of Subutex is the laboratory Schering plough

The press also reveals this scandal :

Current values of October 20, 2006 : only at the capital, the traffic of Subutex passed of more than 4.000 seals seized in 2004, to 16.000 in 2005. And for the first six months of this year, more than 9.000 seals were already seized!

The Parisian of October 17, 2006 : Since 1996, this derivative of the opium, indexed like a substitution drug, is the subject of important frauds made possible thanks to the contest of corrupted doctors. And we also forget an ignored phenomenon, the international traffic of Subutex starting from France, and more precisely of Paris. This traffic pollutes the life at the district of “Chateau-Rouge” (75018). During the first six months of this year, more than 9.200 seals were discovered on frontier runners which transport them towards Eastern Europe countries (Georgia, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary…) and in Finland. Subutex presents high injection risks and creates a strong dependence. Another effect: this traffic digs the hole of the Social security.

The Parisian one of October 17, 2006 :  

MILDT (Interdepartmental Mission of Fight against Drug and Drug-addiction) was forced to recognize that the expenses generated by the diversions of Subutex may have reached 20 million euros in 2005, according to its President Didier Jayle. A number obviously much lower than the reality, because MILDT always tends to undervalue what it disturbs it.  

However in December 2005, the MILDT recommended the classification of Subutex in the category of the narcotics, which we claim since years.

Unfortunately, the recent project of MILDT to see classifying Subutex on category of narcotic products has come to and end. Confronted by the opposition of an associative lobby, the Health Minister finally announced, on August 15, 2006, that he gave up to this classification.

Swiss drug policy – less heroin, more cocaine,
the results remain damning

Lausanne, June 12, 2006. The French-Swiss Anti-drug Association (Association romande contre la drogue, ARCD) vigorously protests at the scandalous interpretation of a study conducted by two Zurich researchers in connection with the evolution of heroin consumption.  Contrary to what is misleadingly stated, the reduction in the number of heroin addicts is not due to the "liberal drug policy" applied in Switzerland; actually, the situation has not improved, but it is the narcotic products used that have changed.  Less heroin but much more cocaine, such is the disturbing reality of the evolution of drug consumption, not forgetting the ravages of strongly dosed cannabis.

In 1991, the Platzspitz, the first large "open drug scene" in Zurich was about to be closed.  Although the number of heroin addicts has actually dropped since then, as pointed out by Carlos Nordt and Rudolf Stohler in a study concerning the methadone and heroin substitution treatments administered in Zurich (The Lancet,  2 June 2006), it has certainly not been thanks to a "liberal drug policy".  It is simply that the drug consumers switched their preference to cocaine and highly-dosed cannabis rather than heroin, considered a "looser" drug, with the damning results that we see today : 

• no other country in Europe has recorded so high a rate of cannabis consumption among the young (and the very young) as has Switzerland; and what makes things even worse is that the rate of psychoactive substance in this cannabis is 7 to 18 times higher than in the nineties;
• the cocaine epidemic, which appeared shortly after the closing of the "open drug scenes", now concerns over 100,000 consumers; no prevention programme was set up;
• the consumption of synthetic drugs, ecstasy and GHB leading the way, continues to develop;
• the results of this rise in the consumption of drugs are increased violence, depression, psychoses and a fast-rising suicide rate among the young;
• from 1999 to 2005, the number of fatal ODs increased from 181 to 212 throughout Switzerland and from 45 to 63 in the canton of Zurich alone;
• the introduction of a so-called "harm-reduction" policy in the nineties was undertaken to the detriment of prevention, therapy and repression.  Over the past six years, 44 detox and rehabilitation centres (25% of the total number) have disappeared.  The demand for residential therapies is in free fall.

The ARCD would like to point out some facts concerning the prescription of heroin, which went from the testing stage (1994-1996) to that of a treatment claiming to be therapeutic (1999) and refunded by the health insurance companies (2002).  To date, 2,903 drug addicts have gone through the heroin prescription programmes.  Some of them (over 200?) have died.  The sticking rate of participants in the programmes is barely 50 to 70% according to the duration of the treatment.  It is the most marginalized, and hence those who constitute the prime target audience, who drop out of the programmes for lack of support.  Of those who remain, rare are those who go for a therapy aimed at abstinence.  The 2005 annual report of the Koda heroin prescription centre, in Bern, indicates that 3 drug addicts out of 195, last year, managed to detox.  That means that 98% of the participants continue to consume opiates, often in combination with other illegal products.  So this approach has contributed to maintaining their dependence.

The social costs related to the consumption of drugs in Switzerland are evaluated at more than 4 billion francs a year.  Over time, the costs of an abstinence-centred treatment appear much less than those of the substitution programmes.  With heroin prescription, the taxpayers and persons insured with health insurance companies are made to assume expenditure which could be avoided.

The ARCD is calling for the introduction of a new policy to combat illicit drugs based on prevention worthy of the name, a reinforcement of the medical care services, with abstinence as the therapeutic goal, and an appropriate legal response to all infringements, with a firm and systematic repression of narcotic trafficking.

Association Romande Contre la Drogue
Claude Ruey, member of the Swiss Federal Parliament
Jean-Philippe Chenaux
Maximilien Bernhard

Do Didier Jayle the President of MILDT (Interdepartmental Mission of fight against drug and drug-addiction) and his friends who claim the distribution of heroin and the rooms of shot on the Suisse model know his figures?
So yes with a which aim they with the population lie.

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SOROS : WHAT DOES HE PRETEND ?

George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12th, 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and the communist Hungary and in 1947 left the country to live in England, where he graduated from the London Economy School.

The President of Europe Against Drugs (EURAD), Graine Kenny, in a conference celebrated at Oslo, Norway last September, prevented authorities that the free consumption of drugs in his city, proposed by the group “Risk reduction”, will turn Norway into a George SOROS’ strategy prisoner to obtain the global legalization of all drugs. It also describes as dealer those financed by the millionaire George SOROS.

To illustrate city life we can use a metaphor: Today, young people pullulate through a mined field with their eyes blind-folded. Drugs are within reach and they don’t know the consequence of its use.

According to the official numbers spread by the Undersecretary's Office of Prevention and Attendance of Addictions of the Buenos Aires Province: "In the last ten years the amount of young people deaths between 14 and 19 years in all the territory of Buenos Aires has triplicate. And in the 90 percent of cases, as indicated, they were avoidable deaths.

Thus, while infantile mortality falls and life expectancy increases in almost the whole national territory, the rate of teenagers’ mortality grows at chilling levels, as much that, according to the specialists, something like that did not happen since the War of Paraguay, in 1865."

Meanwhile George SOROS, is the public figure that lends its voice to the cacophony of the legalization. The financial support as much as social politician and of the movement pro-legalization doesn’t come from an ample diversity of people and organizations, but from those who follow George SOROS, like Robert Mc Namara and Walter Cronkite.

The Drugs Policies Foundation (DPF) of Washington, the Tides Foundation of San Francisco, the Argentinean Damage Reduction (ARDA) in Santa Fe and the Interchanges Association in Buenos Aires, benefit from the generosity of multimillionaire George SOROS, supporting permissible politics in drug’s use, specially the "reduction of the damage" one.

SOROS and their activists affirm in favour of drugs: "To teach addicts proper administration of illegal drugs, including crack, would reduce its damage."

To teach an addict a "proper drug administration" is like leaving a hungry dog in charge of a slaughter.

Meanwhile, reality shows us that adolescents using drugs, commit suicide, move away from their families, leave their schools and submerge in marginality.

Can the power of money impel the generalized destruction of our children? Can we, as adults, fold before money although the consequence is ominous? Is it intelligent to think about our own pocket, leaving aside our adult duties? Is it possible to think that for some coins, we misinform young people, making them think that drugs are a recreational element?

Buenos Aires, June 4th, 2006

Claudio Izaguirre
President
Anti-drugs Association of the Argentine Republic

It would be amusing of knowing, which in France, among the lobby of those which claim the rooms of injections, the distribution of heroin, the de-penalization of the cannabis to see its legalization also touch money of the foundations or associations of Mr. Sorros.
If people have infos we let us be taking.

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The misguided combat of the drug lobby

This lobby is using public health to attain an exclusively political objective, the legalisation of all drugs.

Things are going badly for the Swiss drug lobby.  Since the historical decision of the National Council not to take up the Narcotics Act revision bill in June 2004, it has suffered defeat upon defeat and, just when it thinks that it can again score a point, it turns out to be but a Pyrrhic victory as we have just seen when they handed in the signatures for the "pro-cannabis” popular initiative - barely 105,000 signatures collected as against the 500,000 initially expected.

This lobby is using public health to attain an exclusively political objective, the legalisation of all drugs.  Its programme includes the introduction of an alleged "harm-reduction” policy, ranging from prescribing heroin for heroin addicts and cocaine for cocaine addicts, to the opening of premises for the injection and inhalation of illegal drugs, and including the provision of automatic syringe-distributing machines in public places, the distribution of "sniff kits" for night birds, the "testing" of ecstasy pills during “techno” evenings and, of course, the legalisation of "drug hemp", from production to consumption.  To be quite clear, those - including the American foundation that co-financed the DroLeg popular initiative in 1988 -  called this intermediate stage on the way to legalising drugs, "harm reduction".

As public budgets cannot be stretched indefinitely, and as choices have to be made, the most tangible effect of the "harm-reduction" measures already implemented has been to weaken the three traditional pillars of the drug policy - prevention, abstinence-centred therapy and repression.  Thus, no prevention or care programme worthy of the name has been set up to combat the cocaine epidemic that started in the nineties.  The number of therapy places centred on abstinence fell abruptly for want of financial means and motivation among drug addicts.  The repression of drug trafficking has been thwarted by the presence of “shooting dens” which are simply a series of off-limit zones for the police where they can no longer intervene to question a drug addict and nab a dealer.  After all, the last thing they would want to do is "stress" the "users" of such a “den” or "social bar".

This "harm-reduction" policy is obviously a failure. This is today obvious from the explosion in the number of fatal overdoses (50 in 2002, 56 in 2003, 58 in 2004, 63 in 2005) in Zurich, a city which nevertheless has several injection sites and drug clinics.  In Switzerland as a whole, the number of drug-induced deaths rose from 167 in 2002 to 212 in 2005.  So here we are back to the figures we had at the end of the eighties, just before the explosion in the number of victims due to "open scenes" whose creation had been tolerated by the narco-ideologists.  So the lobby can no longer infer from these sad annual statistics that its "harm-reduction" policy contributes to reducing drug-induced deaths.  When it puts this increase down to a tendency to consume drugs with other substances, in particular alcohol, and it boasts of the opening of a "social bar" in Lausanne, it becomes perfectly incoherent.

The citizens of this country are not taken in by all this.  In Basle-Rural, last September, they adopted by an overwhelming majority an "anti-cannabis" law which clamps down on the cannabis market.  The elected officials in Bern refused the free sale of cannabis to smokers of "joints".  One can now only hope that the people and the cantons will, as massively as in 1998, reject the new "pro-cannabis" popular initiative, this little sister to DroLeg which would contribute to making drug cannabis still more commonplace and would facilitate access to it for an even more significant number of young people.

Jean-Philippe Chenaux,
Centre Patronal, Lausanne

Thanks to our Swiss friend for this information. The drug lobby in France holds the same speech, de-penalisation of cannabis, creation of shooting centers, heroin distribution, etc... Didier Jayle, the President of MILDT (Interdepartmental Mission of fight against drug and drug-addiction) which claimed in its five-year plan the creation of heroin distribution centers, will later perhaps claim for the creation of a social bar. The numbers above are the proof that liberal drug policies are a failure