Among those who have fought hardest to open up for heroin-using the heaviest drug addicts are veteran Thorvald Stoltenberg.
Also at the convention this weekend he has taken an active role as a promoter. He has through the weekend spent time persuading delegates and county.
Saturday he received approval and support from the national congress.
– I am very happy, said a visibly touched Stoltenberg after the vote.
– This is important for those concerned, I also hope it will mean a movement in drug policy, continued veteran.
Says Nini would have been happy
Thorvald Stoltenberg has had a longstanding commitment to Norwegian ruspoilitikk, not least in connection with her daughter Nini struggled substance abuse for years. Nini Stoltenberg died in 2014.
– She had been happy. From the first day I became aware that she was sick, we worked together. After she died, I worked on, and I’m not going to give me, Stoltenberg said.
He now believes heroin assisted treatment can be Norwegian policy.
– I hope the other parties will take this to serious treatment. What happens next is now widely depending on the Workers’ Party. If the party continues to stand as strong can be Norwegian politics, he said.
Also Labor veteran Gro Harlem Brundtland is positive.
– I think there is a basis for making a Such an effort now, says Brundtland Aftenposten.
Got the support of Tajik
Newly appointed Labor deputy Hadia Tajik had spoken out in favor of liberalization in advance of the vote.
– It is not about to give up some, it’s about saving lives, said Tajik.
She led the editorial committee and presented the recommendation of the committee majority to open for heroin trials.
Left has already built a proposal in Parliament, about heroin treatment. Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre says he will consult in Parliament, to see if the two parties can come together in the case.
– I think our intention is quite similar, says Minister.
– I’m glad congress ended with providing support to this. It is really a modest proposal controlled trials, says Støre told Aftenposten.
– Some experts are critical and believe that this involves giving up the goal of abstinence. What do you say to the criticism?
– I understand the commitment of abstinence but if you go around in these environments so I did as Minister of Health, one sees that this target is far away. Many of these people have health problems that they ought to be treated, said Minister.
A minority said no
A minority would say no, but the majority supported the setting from Tajik and majority editorial committee.
– The minority believes we go beyond a limit. How do we ensure that the threshold for providing the heroin becomes sufficiently high, warned Truls Vasvik before the vote.
– This is a such an ethical dilemma that we can not say yes and we must have a clear answer, he continued.
A clear majority said still yes.
Health Political spokesman was positive
Health Political spokesman Torgeir Micaelsen, who has led Helseutvalget was positive before the matter was clarified in the saddle .
– I think it is right to try, although I can also live with a different result. Remember that it is not politicians who should decide who gets it shall clinicians do. We talk about some of those who have the hardest and live painful lives. And we know that the treatment we have offered so far is not working for them. Then we need to try something new, says Micaelsen.
SV and Left are positive
Heroin-assisted treatment is in a few countries established services for people with severe heroin addiction.
There is an offer to replace illicit street heroin with legal, medical manufactured heroin.
The purpose is to put the patient able to reduce or preferably discontinue use of illicit heroin.
The proposal Labor had endorsed involves initially commencement of trial of heroin treatment.
SV and Left open in their programs for heroin assisted treatment. KrF clearly says no.
So goes the text:
– A small group of people with a prolonged and severe drug addiction does not find the effect of ordinary MAR drugs. This is also a very vulnerable group. They have high mortality, major health problems and are often marginalized, ostracized in society, and is involved in drug related crime. For this group, we believe health also must offer heroin-assisted health care.
– There must be a medical evaluation that underlie the drugs used in health care to addicts to other patient groups, not a political one. Commencement of heroin assisted treatment must take place in a controlled study, it says in the text that has been adopted.
Recommended adopted by health selection
Torgeir Micaelsen led committee if setting entered to boot heroin trials treatment. The Committee noted that a small group does not have the benefit of assistance provided through the system of physician-assisted treatment (MAT).
– This is a very vulnerable group. They have high mortality, major health problems and are often ostracized and marginalized in society, according to the setting.
Helseutvalget also believes that there must be a medical assessment basis for the type of help intoxicants holders will receive, not one politically.
After prolonged resistance in the party said Labor’s parliamentary last year agreed to research on this, now they take it thus a step further.
Oslo Labor has already gone into that addicts get heroin of health care.
Gerhardsen Ap should say no
Mina Gerhard who is the leader in drug rehabilitation cooperative body Actis and former Undersecretary of Labor had urged Ap- congress to say no to heroin assisted treatment.
– In the Norwegian debate are we talking about the distribution of heroin to help the heaviest users. But research shows that this group has little benefit from such treatment, says Gerhardsen.
She shows that heroin has a shorter duration and that users must therefore meet two to three times a day for refills.– This requires a time control and discipline among users who are often destroyed after years of drug abuse, argues Gerhardsen.
The Secretary General Actis also shows that heroinassisert treatment is approximately ten times as expensive as other LAR as f. ex metodon.
She thinks it nor is no point in going in for research on heroin distribution in Norway.
– We have 20 years experience in such programs in other countries so we know how this works ig not work, says Gerhardsen.
See also: When Arild Knutsen was last drug treatment, he was expelled after a crush on a girl at the institution. In 2014, he gets to share a room with his girlfriend.
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