Pubdate: Thu, 16 Jan 2014
Source: Guardian, The (CN PI)
Copyright: 2014 John W. A. Curtis
Contact:  http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/174
Author: John W. A. Curtis

PERSON ON METH NOT DRUG FREE?

Editor:

I am opposed to increasing the methadone treatment here on P. E. I. I
appeared before a government committee on prescription drugs and
demanded a provincial ombudsman investigate babies born hooked on
methadone. I challenged the erroneous statement that a person on
methadone is drug free. If a person on methadone was drug free then
babies wouldn't be born hooked on methadone.

The Ghiz government has inspectors to investigate the over-
prescribing of prescription drugs but no inspector to investigate
prescribing methadone during pregnancies. Babies born hooked on
methadone are simply irrelevant. I had called for the closure of both
the Hillsborough Hospital and Mount Herbert and build a youth
addiction facility. Drug addicts will be able to trade an illegal
addiction for a legal addiction and be on methadone for years.

I am writing a complaint to the P. E. I. Auditor General to
investigate taxpayers paying to treat babies born hooked on methadone
and doctors prescribing methadone for more than two years.

John W. A. Curtis, Summerside  
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