LDN, Healthcare, Human Rights and the Market

First, healthcare as the day to day best practice medicine as applied by doctors and nurses at ground level. There is an unwritten understanding and expectation that doctors put patients best interests first. This is what actually happens, but it also leads to a litigation-fear driven approach to treatment choices rather than one based entirely on medical knowhow, and makes a fool of progress with generic drugs.

Second, the market forces have become enslaved to a process of high technology seeking consequential high returns and ignoring low cost , low unit profit opportunities. With LDN, the market demands LDN, so it is economically bizarre that no-one is profiting from this demand.

But, there is a reason, and it is because of the licences. Drug licences are so expensive that generic drugs cannot earn enough to pay for them.This is a system fault, and because it affects health care, it becomes our moral obligation to do some joined up thinking and make sure public money gets used whenever this system fault occurs, but only when there is lots of evidence from doctors that the generic drug has found a new and promising use. This approach will save billions of pounds sterling in drug costs too.

For LDN, the evidence from hundreds of doctors is already available and now growing very fast and LDN can be used to manage so many terrible conditions, as observed in tens of thousands of ‘anecdotal’ reports and observations. The eye witness evidence exists in great measure.

I therefore have to contend that it is actually a moral obligation for government to act on this, and by implication, to state that failure to act is a crime against human rights. I say that because LDN promises quality of life to many who are disabled and life itself to many who would otherwise be dead now, if the eye witness evidence is to be believed.

The moral situation question research to prove or disprove these claims regarding LDN. The politics of the market forces requires state intervention on human rights grounds. Two years ago, it was maybe not yet time for this, but now, in 2009, small trials are occurring and the evidence is growing but this is all the work of individuals. Full, conclusive trials are beyond the resources of individuals. The evidence and demands of the users in the world plus these pilot trials have now shown us that LDN must be researched for licence now.

I demand to be offered LDN by my doctor, or at least to be able to choose to use it through the NHS because I know it works for me. We know too much about LDN now to put it back in the bottle, the time has come and from now on, this apathy can only be judged as a crime, a scandal, and an inaction that contravenes human rights to life.

Please go to www.ldnnow.com and sign the petition to the Govt so Low Dose Naltrexone can be offered as front line treatment. Thank you.