The news that Middlemore Hospital has had to deal with
party-goers who have taken ‘legal Highs’ called Red Rocket, just goes to show
that the battle against these substances is far from over. As fast as the law
makes these drugs illegal and expensive to get through the legal pathways to
sales, it seems that the manufacturers and sellers of these nasties will
continue almost unabated in their quest to make a dollar. Well it’s time for
the law to make it even more difficult, this time at the ‘pointy end’ of the
law enforcing process---in the courts.
Charge the people who clog our free hospital EDs and force
the users to take responsibility for their decisions. While we are at it, do
the same for those who drink and drive causing similar mayhem in our hospitals
and communities. Let’s stop pussy footing around and have a form of ‘user pay
for bad decisions,’ policy, while at the same time make the present laws even
tougher for the purveyors of these dangerous substances; dangerous for the
individuals and for those who have to care for them in the ‘aftermath.’
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