Guest guest Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Just a quick update – thanks to everyone’s support/efforts, with your help, we have now got over 3,000 signatures on our petition to No 10 Downing Street. At the moment we have 3,002 signatures. Considering there’s an estimate of 3,000 people in the UK that take LDN I think we’ve done pretty well – and this is mostly without any media exposure. Out of all petitions in the health category (598), we are still in the top 10 and out of all petitions on the No 10 Downing Street website which is 4,431, we are in the top 40. Hopefully now that we at LDNNow are starting to gain ground with the media the number of people to sign this petition will start to increase, but as you are well aware, there’s no guarantees. I would also like to thank those who supported the last article in my local press – comments go a long way as to how journalists work in the UK and who knows? Maybe this will gain national exposure – we can only keep trying. However, we still need your help to gain more signatures so please do ask your friends/family etc to sign the petition if they are a British citizen – they don’t have to live in the UK, they can sign as expats. We are having an LDNNow Day on Sept 12th which will involve a number of people across the UK to park their bums somewhere (preferably their local supermarket/shopping centre) to raise awareness about LDN and hopefully get them to support our campaign with adding their signatures to the petition to the Govt to fund trials for LDN. The savings for the Govt will be tremendous ie 1 in 100 people get diagnosed with RA and this is currently costing the Govt £2bn/year. We know there’s at least 100,000 people diagnosed with MS in the UK and approximately 1.3m people with cancer. These are just 3 examples, not to mention other auto immune diseases like UC/Crohns, Autism, HIV/Aids, etc. We are now in the process of getting posters done for people to display at their leisure/sports centres, pubs, libraries, marinas etc so if any of you in the UK would like a couple, please email me off line and we can send them to you. They will be available mid August. The LDNNow day allows us about 10 weeks before our petition expires and hopefully the International LDN Awareness Week will keep the sustainability of LDN awareness going in the public eye. Again, many thanks to those who supported and took the time to comment on my local article in the paper and hopefully another press article will shortly follow. Best, Jayne We need trials for LDN, please support this campaign if you are a British citizen http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/LowDNaltrexone/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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