Mind Set Central

Have You Been Drinking Lemsip , Madam?

The number of precriptions given to people has doubled in the past twenty years. (ref. Nursing Times) and The Independent underlines this statement with the headline ‘ Britain Turning To Prescription Drugs.’

And now a new Drug-Drive Law is being rolled out in the UK which will effect drivers on prescription and over the counter medications.  It has been decided that even those drugs which  allow people to function are to be looked at from a ‘legal limit’ perspective.

British Medical Association boss Vivienne Nathanson writes:

“At the moment we do not know enough about how drugs affect driving to be able to set limits. We need to identify the drugs most commonly found in accidents, including therapeutic drugs, then carry out research. Once we have a base we are targeting, we would then be in favour of testing for drugs.”

Discriminating and targetting against the sick  and the aged is an old trick by bullying governments down the eons – and picking on those who are most likely to be on one form of medication or another is an easy way for the authorities to empty the roads and raise capital funds for important projects such as military campaigns.

The report fails to declare whether the officials testing drivers who will be pulled over would be prescription – free themselves.

AOL report here