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We really are getting somewhere to get these trials done at the request of

our medical profession. Please folks add your signature to this petition.

Many thanks!

The Tyranny of LDN <http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ldnnow/blog/2744>

(Low Dose Naltrexone) Aug 10. 2010 | Comments (0

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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.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ldnnow/blog

Jayne Crocker

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about LDN

LDNNow are a political/pressure 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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