The Tyranny of LDN

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Thought I’d share for those interested LDNNow’s

latest blog

The case for politics in

LDN.

First, the systems that provide for research are unable to

respond. The commercial sector needs profit which does not exist for LDN. The

government NIHR etc requires applications from existing researchers or the

pharmaceutical industry. These have been lacking for 30 years, so we can assume

this source is cold too.

So the systems for research are configured to fail to

recognise a drug like LDN with no patent, no profit and a new medical paradigm

for treating so many diseases.

Second, because of the money involved and the need to change

the systems to respond to pressure from patients who demand the research, we

need the politicians to pass edicts that change things and make sure that a

drug like LDN, with such large patient support, can get the research without

competing for a ‘slot’ simply because the patients can choose for

research to be commissioned. We as LDN users are saving over 100 million pounds

a year in the NHS in the UK, and the same in other countries. This means that

the money does not need to be taken from the pot for other research but can be

accounted for in savings already being realised.

However, only politicians can make these changes by

recognising the savings already in existence and order the use of these savings

to fund research. Existing research systems have no provision for allowing

patients to order research. This is why LDN has never been accepted for research

and is opposed for off label prescription. It is nothing to do with the science

of LDN, it is all about a system not fit for purpose and about the need for

change.

Such a change carries the challenge of opposition from

interested bodies who would see this sort of patient power as a threat to drug

industry profits and investments in drug technology in terms of money and

career choices by doctors. But it is the health choices of the patients that

really matters, and currently, the pharmaceutical industry is not responding to

the wishes of the market and needs putting into line. If that is not the job

of politicians then we need to elect different people. The whole point of

politicians is to deal with social issues like these and the fact that out of

patent, orphaned or generic drugs are ignored in favour of expensive and often

risky side effect laden mainstream drugs, is a problem overdue for legislation.

It is the opinion of us patients who are knowledgeable people

about their conditions that no one has the right to tell us we cannot choose

for ourselves. In practice, that is the system we have ‘grown like

topsy’, and we are paying the price in lives, obscene amounts of money,

and in fear that if we upset the pharmaceuticals, they won’t serve us. It

is time to end this tyranny for good.

Jayne Crocker

Chairperson

www.LDNNow.com

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European Parliament by clicking here

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Dr Steele MBE, talking about LDN

LDNNow are a group of individuals dedicated to getting Low

Dose Naltrexone (LDN) accepted into modern medicine and trialled for the myriad

of uses it shows benefit for.

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