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It is great that Paul Hunt said what he said in Barcelona It is also wonderful that Prof Buchanan verifies his thoughts about the dehumanising violation of drugs users human rights by also reminding us that this continues even when people have stopped using, not to mention the sad need human beings appear to need to scapegoat the weaker member of their species However, it needs to be noted that, as drug workers, we have also colluded with this by taking grants and funding from the very hands that are part of this oppression. In 1996, following on from the death of my life-partner, an influential AIDS Activist, I established an organisation to give other ex/current users the opportunity to recover through activism in three short words.. Though we never had that much cash in our account partly because we were well-supported administratively by various drug agencies (Drugscope for example), it became abundantly clear that as Prof McGregor put it at the Warwick CJS /Drugs Conference in 2007, we covertly & continuously collude with government in this way. Is there no other way to fund the reintegration and healing of chemically-dependent people in the UK, societies in general? The UK government does have this deathly 'special relationship' (Iraq also comes to mind as well as drugwar- related crematoriums) with the USA, but does this mean that we should all continue to collaborate with the insanity? The upholders of the treaties in Vienna, around the world will never let go of their policy until those 150 governments unsign themselves from the treaties, which is Not going to happen soon, It is time for revolt in this field of injustice; it has been for a very long time in fact Where are Drug Policy reform's Mandelas, Che Guevaras and Ghandhis is what we need to be asking Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt MSc