[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[JF Mezei]

FrankS wrote:

> However, there are studies that show insulin-dependent diabetes
> patients can and do go into remission and can terminate their insulin
> injections. 


Prescription reewalls exist to prevent abuses. If your doctor
overcharges for a simple check to ensure you still need the same dosage
of insulin, that is another problem.

With regards to free needle programme for drug users, the current
government in Canada (a Bush Jr afficionado) tried to kill such a
programme in Vancouver at the supreme court and all of the evidence
showed that this programmed was beneficial and ended up saving money for
the government.

You need to realise that such programmes don't just hand out needles for
free. There are councilors who monitor drug users, provide council and
gently nudge them to check in to a drug rehab programme, and more
importantly, will spot drug overdoses and call ambulance before it is
too late to save the person from a deadly drug overdose.

So those programmes are made to appear to drug users as free needles
with no questions asked on how they got their drugs, but behind the
scenes, they are quite sophisticated.