Pig wanker. He should masturbate pigs. For artificial insemination purposes. Being Franglaified, GnV is I'm sure only too keen to support your local French traditions like the yearly hunt for truffles. The best truffle hunting dogs go for loadsa bloody money, don't even think of buying something from the Perigord, undisputed masters of the truffle-hunting-dog-breeding art. So, you go for the next best thing, which is pigs, obviously. Having established which of his stock is producing the best truffle hunting snouts he will naturally want to breed selectively from that line, so careful management of said pigs, and their breeding is critical. Hence the pig wanking. You mustn't laugh, it's a noble art round those parts, oh yes. Can get awarded legion d'honneur type stuff and all sorts for yer skills with a pig I can tell you. Should seriously consider it.
It's a skill right enough but you start off simple, simple cuff restraints or something. You work up to the stuff in the link, that's what gives it the longevity. Like Rob says there'll be workshops near you, and some very good beginner websites. Wish I'd practiced more of it when I had the chance. Difficult, sure, but fascinating stuff. Lots of potential with even very basic knotting, cuff restraints again, spreading using the headboard or underside of the bed etc. Cost of a rope. ;)
rope work will give you hours of fun for bugger all money! Spreader bars with decent leather cuffs are not expensive either.
Care to examine my was-a-double-crown-is-now-becoming-a-bald-spot Nola? You should get a pretty good view if I rest my head just <<< there I think?
( You may need to quote for the <<< to make more sense? ;) )
*falls off chair in amazement*
LOLWUT? :shock: Direct action and hunt sabs? Why Star, I've misjudged you all this time. You surprise me. Nice surprise don't get me wrong, but surprise all the same. Good for you putting your money where your conviction is.
*applauds*
Common sense prevails ( albeit temporarily it would seem ) as Govt bows to public pressure and ongoing legal challenges. As someone who signed Brian May's petition endorsed by the among other things this pleases me greatly! :mrgreen:
Reading and reading this again I think I may have missed your point Rob so apologies if that is so but this already happens in the treatment centres here, I'm not sure where your argument is. My experience of the local addiction unit that treats alcohol addiction as well as addictions to other substances is that they have a whole host of treatments running alongside the drug maintenance. They're not just handing out methadone willy-nilly to addicts and then packing them on their way.
Each individual addict is assigned a key worker responsible for one-to-one work tailoring exactly the kind of individual package of measures you describe. This may include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, talking cure type therapies like counselling, relaxation exercises for those who find they're triggered by stress, social groups for the newly clean ex-addict who having got clean finds they're socially isolated because their circle prior to detox consisted only of other addicts they're trying to stay away from, all kinds of things. This runs in parallel with the GP they liaise with who'll have more experience of the particular needs of their patient as far as other treatments like anti-depressants or whatever go that might also be useful, and outreach services that can provide clean needles and harm reduction help where appropriate. It's pretty well integrated in Leeds, and I don't think Leeds is even remotely unique in that respect. The idea that these centres are just massive drug dispensaries for addicts is a million miles from the truth in my experience of them.
I guess the point is given all of the above, why is it that Portugal seems to be doing so much better than us? If the treatments are similar in these regards how are they having more success with their problem users than we are. The answer I think is that too many of ours are being steered away from effective treatment of the sort we have available in spades by the emphasis on a criminal justice solution, and that's what decriminalisation seeks to address. That's your difference.
The specialist addiction units treatment of this sort requires already exist Star. Where do you think addicts pick up their methadone and buprenorphine at the moment? From Rob's 200 000 users ( among them what once would have been called registered addicts before the rquirement to register addicts by GPs was dropped ) already in contact to some extent with them out of an estimated total number of problem users of around 300 000. Put more people through treatment than sure costs will increase accordingly but seems these agencies are already fully geared up to treat large numbers of users. I see no issue here.
Found some for you Star, though it's a lengthy read at 30 odd pages:
Not had chance to read it fully yet, except to find a figure of 100 000 problem drug users pre-decriminalisation in Portugal being bandied about in a number of other reports referencing the report linked to ^up there^ like . Rob's NTA stats say we have 300 000 problem users of heroin / cocaine, allowing for a little margin for error seems my previous post extrapolating from drug related deaths wasn't very far wrong at all.
Go you!
