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Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 15:55:02 GMT
Helen, Wirral
Can you tell me what if any support have you put in place after these 3 people leave?

Created: Tuesday 21-Feb-2006 15:52:06 GMT
Elaine, Folkestone
I did take heroin since since the age of 27 and took it for 8 years and then started taking methadone for the last 11 years and wanting to get off it but it is impossible compared to getting off heroin and benzodiazepams which i have done.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 15:49:28 GMT
Helen, Wirral
I'm quite dissapointed that you call your programme COLD TURKEY, as the 3 people are sedated. That is not cold turkey. I have lots of experience with people withdrawing and my personal view is the softer the turkey the easier it is to go back.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:20:00 GMT
Steve, Stoke on Trent
I have been a heroin addict now for 12 years and am TOTALLY unimpressed with the services offered to addicts in my area. I myself did the 5 day detox program at Harrogate in September of 2002. I thought this was it, I would never again be addicted to heroin. How wrong was I! I started taking the gear when I was about 17. was finding that after a several day binge on speed, smoking huge amounts of cannabis through all manner of bongs etc, was not enough to bring me down. All I had to do was pay a tenner for a bag of gear and I was away with the fairies in minutes. Eventually I was using gear every day and not for the original reason. This was the start of a life of regrets. By the time I hit 23, I'd lost a job I loved and was totally skint & on my arse. In the June of 99, I was remanded for an armed robbery and sentenced to 4 & a half years for this & a burglary. I spent the first month rattling like a bag of spanners ... As soon as I had recovered & came out the other side I realised how good it felt to be clean, so I threw myself at the prison gym & was released 3 years later 4stone heavier. Even tho I told myself a million times that I was never going through that again, I used the second day after my release ... The government needs to do something, so that those who REALLY want to come off everything CAN. Without having to wait 6 months for their referal to go through! I also believe that anyone who goes through a detox should be given counselling for at least 2 years after.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 15:39:33 GMT
sarah, nuneaton
I was addicted to speed and cocaine for 15 years. I tried various rehab programmes and none of them worked for me. I overdosed to within one inch of my life when i was 21 and that didn't stop me using!!! It was only when i was truly ready and sick of the sight and smell of the stuff that i stopped. I have now been clean for a decade. I have two children a happy marriage and a career. For anybody out there, please don't give up giving up, life is very precious, i nearly lost mine but now my life could not be better.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 15:41:00 GMT
Sara, London
An incredibly offensive, exploitative programme. An inadequate treatment option being delivered to highly vulnerable people presented by a salivating newsreader and an ambitious psychologist. It is improper of Channel 4 to have commissioned and made this programme in this way and dressed it up as education. It's nothing but tabloid TV.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 15:33:37 GMT
Daniella, London
I think it is shocking that you haven't yet explained why these three people have chosen such a painful way to detox, as apposed to a standard 4–6 week detox as offered by most treatment centres. It needs to be mentioned just how dangerous detox from these drugs can be, in particular from benzodiazepines. Further more, why has there been no discussion as to the huge amounts of support these recovering addicts will need after the drugs are out of their system? After all, any real recovery from this kind of addiction begins once detox ends. Addicts need to learn new coping mechanisms and life skills once they no longer have drugs to manage their feelings. After numbing emotions for so many years, it needs to be stressed that trauma that may have occurred before their addiction, or as a direct result of their using, may be too much to cope with. Finally I feel that the programme went in for cheap sensationalist content, deliberately going for shock value over sensitivity. These people have had an incredibly rough ride, are extremely vulnerable and ought not be exploited for Channel Four's ratings.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 15:28:11 GMT
Carrie, Soton
I am sorry if this has already been answered and ive missed it. But a mother doing heroin in a house with 2 children is that not a case for social services?

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 15:18:25 GMT
David, London
I hope that the remainder of the programmes concentrates much more on what support the patients need and will receive after the 5 day detox. I don't feel the programme has made apparent what getting off opiates actually entails other than the initial detox, and has been somewhat misleading so far. Long term aftercare and counselling will be vital to the success of their continued abstinence.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:57:37 GMT
Jackie, Kings Lynn
I have been working the the parents and carers of drug misusers for three years and in that time have not met any family whose loved one has stayed clean after being detoxed in the manner which you are showing on the current TV programme. The only method that really works is by the user receiving treatment from local treatment agencies. It might be a slower process, but it is tried and tested and shows that with the right amount of support ie Key Workers within the Treatment Agencies and family and friends, a substance misuser has a better chance of staying clean for longer. What you are showing via your programme is a quick fix and I am wondering how you are going to deal with the psychological dependancy that long term addiction brings. Also, these three people are not going 'cold turkey', they are receiving medication to take away some of the side effects of withdrawal and would they have been as willing to take part in your programme if they had not been offered £3,000 worth of private detox. I think not. I wait with bated breath to see how the programme develops. You have a great deal of work to do to turn this into something that is real and not just another reality programme for the mass media.

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Created: Tuesday 21-Feb-2006 15:01:30 GMT
Vicky, Lancashire
When I first saw the advert for this show I thought it was a terrible idea – almost Big Brother for Addicts. I stand corrected. All these patients have nearly had me in tears hearing their stories and seeing how sincere their words are. I pray for all three to beat heroin even when the cameras are off them and I pray for anyone who has an addiction that they may too beat it when they feel they are strong enough. Thank you so much for showing this programme.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:56:49 GMT
Tim, Manchester
I was wondering what provision the production company of this programme has made for treatment of the three people featured AFTER they have been detoxed. I sincerely hope that this issue has been addressed, for if it hasn't, i feel the producers may very well be setting the participants up to fail as detox merely treats the symptom and not the illness...

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:55:58 GMT
Georgie, Essex
I watched your programe this morning with interest. Two years ago I was given lottery funding to research into the drug rehab methods used in Italy. Their programes are a minimum of three years residential. However, they are situated in large self sufficient comunities in the country. The 'guests' spend their time learning skills or following educational courses to lead to a new way of life. When the programe is completed they are found jobs and accommodation to enable them to integrate back into society. The courts have the power to offer offenders of drug related crimes a place in the comunity ... I am hoping to set up such a scheme here in England if I am able to get funding.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:56:51 GMT
Jon, Manchester
I am addicted to drugs supplied by a medic for a specific purpose but neither the medical profession and the drug companies offer any support to people like me and nor is Channel 4. I have watched the first two programmes with some interest to see if it could help me but the focus of your programme and all of the services offered by the NHS and other support agencies is on illicit drug users ... I want to come off the drugs completely but there are no obvious services for me. Neither my GP nor the pain clinic have offered any support in withdrawing, in fact at one point I was told that I shouldn't be suffering from any withdrawal symptoms ... The NHS seems to ignore the problem of patients being addicted to prescription drugs as it easier for the GPs to keep dishing out drugs rather than the expensive process of admitting there is a problem with prescribing and patients addictions. It would surprise me greatly if you acknowledged the fact that there are people like me, after all it is easy to ignore a problem if you don't acknowledge it.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:18:37 GMT
lisa, middlesbrough/cleveland
i myself have done numerous cold turkeys thinking that if i put myself through this pain i'll never do it again but u do and it's a vicious circle ur just going through the motions all the time and eventully u do say that's it. i mean i'm working now and have my family back. well apart from 1 daughter who just had enough but i'm working on that ... basically the show is just not showing enough about aftercare, mental health, the list goes on. good luck to the 3 but basically think give it a yr at the most then back to which i really hope they don't as it gets u in the end and no programme can help only urself can do that.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:20:02 GMT
chaz, sheffield
hi, i am an 18 year old girl who is addicted to methadone and heroin. i have done several detoxes and i went to a residential rehab last july and i was clean for two weeks and went back on it. i do want out of this life but it is too hard with people and drugs about and to change your life over a week is crazy so i was wondering if the 3 brave addicts in your clinic will get help after they leave the detox as it's an awful thing to live through and doing cold turkey is really hard but keeping off the drug and restarting a new way of life is difficult and hard to get used to. will they get after care? counselling?

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:16:11 GMT
Karena, Stourport on Severn
I cannot understand why this programme is called Going Cold Turkey. The people involved are being sedated preventing Cold Turkey. I have experienced both my step son and daughter going through Cold Turkey without sedation or medication and it's not as easy as the programme suggests. I am not against this project because I think that any thing that can get a person's life back on track after using Heroin is great. In reality Cold Turkey is far harsher than portrayed in this programme. I don't believe the government puts into place enough help for those who want to detox, however I believe that it's not the coming off it's staying off.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:09:44 GMT
john, dumfries
i have been using heroin for six years and am now on a methadone programme but i still use heroin on occasions. i am on 50ml of methadone. i don't want to be on drugs or any substitute i want to be a clean living person and go somewhere in life but i feel i am stuck in this town surrounded by drug users who don't want to come off and just accept that's the way their life is and i don't want that but i can't get the help to move on and get off this methadone. i want off it quickly like the guys on your programme going cold turkey if only i had the chance to do something like that but i feel as long as i am stuck in this small town i am going nowhere. i will keep using on top of my methadone and never get out of this vicous circle!

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:59:56 GMT
Simon, Ipswich
I am very concerned that Detox 5 could be seen as 'the' way to detoxify from Heroin. The country has excellent free services geared up to porperly manage withdrawals both in hospital and in the community. With the right medication no patient needs to be sedated, nor experience substantial withdrawals. Withdrawal is only a small part of the recovery process and sending someone home after five days is not indicative of good clinical outcomes. I urge anyone who has, or knows someone who has, a Heroin addiction to contact their local FREE NHS or Voluntary services, get those details from the NTA or the Drugs Helpline.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 14:06:49 GMT
lisa, middlesbrough/cleveland
ive been on methodone now for 9 yrs and like the girl in the programme i look healthy, basically u wouldn't be able to tell i was an addict for 12yrs, i'd like to comment on methodone as it's alot harder to come off as it's more pure and i'm now on 20mls and doing well and i've come off it numerous occasions and the naltrexone they gonna b given made me suicidal like many others who have used it. bad move if they want to stay clean. y use it as it's all in the head as if they wanna use u just stop taking it for 3 days so like i said it's no good if out it made me crack up and that's when i landed back in this position.

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Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:51:32 GMT
Andrew, Birmingham
I think doing the detox five programme doen't really work, as I've had plenty of mates doing the detox five programme and relapsed soon after coming out of the programme.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:46:18 GMT
Dawn, Lincoln
Although it is good to highlight the problem of drug addiction i hope Channel 4 are going to be responsible and point out that this treatment isn't for everyone. It would be interesting to ask Dr. Beanie if they have ever looked into how many ex patients have stayed clean. Are there any statistics to prove this treatment works? I think not. I think detox5 give false hope to many, four times my sister hoped this treatment would work for her! 6 months after her last visit to the Harrogate clinic she died from a heroin overdose.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:25:07 GMT
Jason, Hackney
I lost four years of my own life to heroin. Following the usual cliche (wrong group of friends, family history etc), I became a heroin addict when I was 18. I never went as far as injecting as somewhere in the back of my mind, I was safe with the knowledge that you can't be a proper junky until you start using needles. My parents practiced really tough love, and so coming near the end of my addiction, I was homeless, weighed 9 stone (I am now 13) and was constantly getting arrested for petty crimes. The final straw was when I was areested at home. Pride and dignity are very important things with the chinese, so the look of dissapointment my father gave me that day will stick with me till the end. I had an option which is unfortunately not available to everyone. My mother had some money put aside and so decided to send me abroad. This was my last chance. It was tough trying to kick when none of my relatives actually knew about my addiction and all I could do was suffer in silence. I was fortunate not to experience the full ferocity of withdrawal as I discovered some codeine tablets that belonged to my uncle. From my previous knowledge of medicines and their properties (I dropped out of college before studying medicine), I knew that codeine contained opiates and so would take the edge off the withdrawal. I have been clean now since Jul-10th-2000. I hope the people on your program succeed in their goal. I leave with this saying that stuck with me when I was going through my own hell. "only you alone can do it, but you can't do it alone"

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:20:45 GMT
L, Edinburgh
Having been addicted to Heroin for three years and previously had anorexia/bulimia, been addicted to shopping, canabis, and cocaine, I went to detox 5 in October past. I had been waiting 7 months on the NHS for help (and having to wait 9 months in total), begging the local drugs services and my GP for help. In the end, I went to Detox 5, funded by BUPA as I have health insurance through my job. I certainly wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise. It wasn't exactly cold turkey, far from it actually! Yes you feel some of the effects but I have done cold turkey and it is horrific compared to Detox 5. There is no aftercare other than a follow up phone call once a week (which you have to have in order for them to send your Naltrexone) for 12 weeks. There is no counselling and that's where they fail. I lasted 5 weeks and relapsed as my partner was still using. We've both finally got on a treatment program on the NHS for Subutex which is going well and are getting the counselling we need to go with the detox treatment. I'd also like to add, throughout my addiction/s, I have held down the same job (a good one), hid it from my friends, family and employers and have never stolen from anyone either. Not all junkies are lowlifes and until you've actually been there yourself, you have no idea what it feels like to go through withdrawal. I don't agree with stealing etc. to fund a habit, but I totally understand how people end up turning to crime to pay. There are times you are so desperate just to get that monkey off your back, you'll do anything for a bag. Even with a good wage coming in, I never had enough money. You just keep needing more and more just to stop yourself from being ill. Can you imagine needing £10 every 6 hours? That's the reality of a heroin addiction! And if there's two of you? I will never judge a person again after seeing what I've seen through the eyes of an addict! Good luck to the three people on the detox, I just hope that due to C4 filming, they get the aftercare Detox 5 fails to provide. Getting off Heroin is the easy bit (if you could call it that). Staying off is when the work really starts. That's when people really need help.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:24:26 GMT
christine, manchester
Most addicts will have most likely at some point in time heard of this poem, it's a very true, and v. hard hitting poem about heroin. it will hopefully stop all of our next generation from thinking that drugs are cool and harmless, this poem has a strong message to all who don't know enough about drugs.
So now little man you've grown tired of grass, cocaine, speed, lsd and hash, let me introduce you to lady HEROIN......
Well honey before you start fooling with me, let me just tell you how it's gonna be,
for i will seduce you and make me your slave, i've sent many much stronger than you to their grave,
you think you could never become a disgrace, and end up addicted to poppy seed waste,
you'll rob and you'll steal for my narcotic charms, and be filled with contentment once i'm in your arms,
the sweats the chills your guts tied in a knot, your trembling nerves screaming out just one more shot.
The cramps the shivers the withdrawal pains, can only be cured by my little brown grains.
There's no other way and there's no need to look coz deep down inside you know that you're hooked
and once again as foretold you'd rob your granny if she had some gold,
you'd give up your morals your conciance and heart and you will be mine till death do us part.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:13:34 GMT
Kay, Sheffield
My sister was a heroin addict when i was 14/15 year old, i remember she used to steal from our house and even dummied a break in at home, which was her. My parents eventually had enough and couldn't take any more so they kicked her out. I can remember it was the most stressful time of our lives, we couldn't sleep, my parents looked ill. This went on for a year or so when my sister's partner at that time, had an overdose and died. I think that must have been the turning point for her, and she went and got some help, with all our support behind her. She checked into detox 5, in the lovely town of harrogate. It's after you're out when the hard work starts. She had to completley change her lifestyle and get a new circle of friends, ones who weren't drug addicts. She also went back to college too. You have to want to do it yourself and she was determined, she was so lucky to have the support of her GP and a councillor as well. A family friend went into detox 5, mainly because of his family, not for himself ... he'd been out of detox5 for less than 24hrs when he had his fix of heroin ... what a waste of a valuable place that could've been for someone who was willing to stop. My sister has now been off heroin for 6 years. All our family are so proud of her. She has a flat of her own, a wonderful boyfriend and an excellent job ... it can be done, she's a shining example!

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:08:27 GMT
christine, manchester
hi, i've been a heavy user for the last 8 years, it cost me my home my son and my safety. After working as a street girl i got into a car where i was attacked by a man with a stun gun. i was v.lucky to escape. i had to play dead and go floppy for him to release his grip. when he did i kicked the door open and tried to run, but he got me by my hair, i pulled away and he lost grip of me. This is when i knew, if i was to carry on like this i would soon be dead. This inspired me to seek help off my local community drug team in salford. i put in a referral form for myself to go into detox 5 in Harrogate. i have been told i will need a 14 day detox as my drug intake was so high, but hopefully with the help and support of the detox 5 staff i will myself become clean soon. I think the staff there are very helpful and unlike most drug workers they treated me as a normal person, they didn't talk down to me or treat me like i was bad, but talked to me on my own level. i look forward to meeting them in person when i go into their clinic.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 13:01:50 GMT
Billy, Livingston
I am a heroin addict who wants to come off, but getting into somewhere like detox 5 is too expensive and doctors are only likely to subsidise you if you are on a methadone script, which i am not willing to go on as most addicts end up with 2 habits. how can i get help with financing without being on methadone first? I want my life back as i have lost my home, car, job and my girlfriend through heroin. But unless i commit a crime and get a dtto then there is very little help out there without waiting for months to get help from the cdps, i could be dead by then!

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:57:46 GMT
alex, london
I saw the first episode last night and was really disappointed. I have a friend who was addicted to heroin for ten years. Her experience of withdrawing was one of the most hideous experiences of both her and my life. She had both vomiting and diahorrea at the same time, had unbearable cold sweats, couldn't be touched as her skin was so sensitive and painful, feelings of suicide (anything to end the torture) the list goes on. To show your patients sedated and asleep at the 1-2 day stage gives a massively unrealistic view of what withdrawing from heroin is like. The majoity of detox/rehab centres in this country will not sedeate you as they feel you have to experince the withdrawal. On the whole i found the episode misleading and a little sick. I also question the efficacy of the treatment. 5 days falls hugley short of the in some cases 18 month treatment other addicts receve. Lastly the titles displaying words like 'tears' is quite frankly a joke. If the producers are trying to educate people about the reality of heroin addiction they have failed and may even convince people that detoxing is not as bad as they thought ... quote Amanda yeaterday when asked how she felt on day 2 "not that bad".

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:28:43 GMT
laura, edinburgh
my sister in law has a very badly wripped pelvis and it affects one of her legs. she has been in a lot of pain for a least 3yrs or more now. At first she was given something to take the pain away but then she got referred to a different doctor and they give her something else. over the yrs her dose has been increased higher and higher. she has had that many different tablets from a lot of different doctors. Nothing seems to take away the pain now and she has now became a addicted to all these different tablets she has to take morphene every day now. she does not deserve to be punished like this! it should be the doctors. The ones that have not done there jobs properly!! It breaks my heart because she has never ever had any sort of drug related problems. She is a mother of 3 great kids and she would do anything for them she loves them all so much.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:45:30 GMT
Craig, Aberdeen
Detoxing is said to be the easy part in curing an addict and it's big business for private companies. It is when they are placed back into their own social circles/community that many relapse. What are you doing to ensure that this doesn't happen?

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:41:41 GMT
kelly + claire, walsall
We want to send all our best wishes to the 3 people doing their detox. as we are just 2 of many in walsall doing our detox we know a lot more. we are in a rehabilitation centre coming off heroin and crack cocaine.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:37:39 GMT
claire, walsall
I am fully sympathetic as i was an addict myself. take my hat off to those people in the detox clinic. i do hope that they come out the other side and stay clean but they need outreach support waiting for them to come home. it's not only phyical but mental issues to conquer as well. good luck xx

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Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:20:34 GMT
janet, Bury
my ex husband died in december last year 2005. He had been an heroin addict for 14 years. He has left behind him two sons aged 18yrs and 14yrs. I tried to get him off but he had gone too far. He not only destoyed his life but our lives, especially my sons, too. I watched your programme last night and the 3 people that are doing the detox I hope they beat this i really do. it was too late for my ex husband. I really feel for their famlies it is a nightmare what they have gone through. My sons are going through hell. I wish them and their famlies well. I myself have never taken drugs.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:27:47 GMT
Louise, Midlands
A mixed reaction for me I'm afraid. Brilliant to bring the work of the nurses to the forefront of our thoughts – could you sit there with someone detoxing? Not for the faint-hearted. Overall though, I feel I need to wish these people luck – not for their Cold Turkey but for what happens when the programme has finished, when the TV crew and producers are looking for the next audience-grabbing thing, when the real journey to recovery begins. What hasn't been addressed here is the fact that addiction is not solely about taking your substance of choice but it is a chemically imbalanced way of thinking. What work will be done to support them through those first steps to recovery? 12-step recovery? NA?

Created: Tuesday 21-Feb-2006 12:27:07 GMT
Emma, Bristol
I really hope that all the paricipants make it cold turkey. I am in admiration of them for not only making the decision to quit but also to do so on tv. I wish them all the very best of luck! Congratulations for Channel 4 to facing a challenging topic – hopefully it will make people think twice before taking such a life destroying drug.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:25:12 GMT
kelly, walsall
I have got a lot of respect for the 3 people in the clinic for going cold turkey. I was an addict for 5 yrs i lost everything. when you come clean you need support and on going care.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 12:09:06 GMT
mary, leebank in birmingham
i'm a fifteen year old who hasn't always had an easy life. i have grown up around drugs but only cannabis. from the age of twelve i smoked cannabis but when i was 14 i took heroin. now i'm addicted. i'm nearly 15 i don't know what to do rehab hasn't worked for me could you give me some advice.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 11:46:52 GMT
Robert, Weybridge
You do realise that by calling the programme 'going cold turkey' you are lying to the viewing public. What these three people are doing is not going cold turkey at all. Going cold turkey means to come off heroin without the aid of anything, and, although it's very admirable what these three people are doing, these people are drugged up to their eyeballs and then given Naltrexone hydrochloride to flush out the opiates thereby speeding up the process of withdrawl. Having gone cold turkey myself on several occasions i know it takes much longer than five days, and i wish i'd had the luxury of being heavily sedated.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 11:57:11 GMT
clare, walsall
I smoke weed every day .sometimes i wish i didn't but i do enjoy it i think it's a load of crap when they say it leads to harder drugs. i've never touched a class a drug and neither has my boyfriend and he has smoked for 10 years. It doesn't affect my work at all i have a full time job! we are respectable we smoke it in the privacy of our own home. we enjoy going to amsterdam where you're not treated like a druggy cos i certainly am not. I don't think canabis is anywhere near as bad as things like heroin and coke. i've watched my sister destroy her life to heroin and i'd never go down that road.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 11:56:22 GMT
EDDIE, ROMFORD
I CAN NOT BELEIVE THAT THIS HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO BROADCAST AT ALL. WHAT A DISGRACE TO OUR TELEVISIONS. SHOWING AUDIENCES HOW TO TAKE DRUGS AND USE DRUGS IS ABSOLUTE MADNESS.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 11:37:15 GMT
eddeedee, carnoustie
Ok so this is the detox phase, what about the rehabilatation of those guys, have the producers thought that far ahead or is this just another ratings booster for ch4? Five days is only the very start of a very long recovery period. I hope ch4 has thought of the long term and not just a five day stint.

Created: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 11:28:23 GMT
Simon, Hull
Why is Heroin addictive?

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