Zuckertort
New Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A recent report by Jeremy Cooke the BBC World Service analogized insulin treatment for diabetics with the provision of drugs to drug addicts at the Vancouver, Canada safe injection site. I feel this analogy is profoundly inappropriate, since while drug addicts eventually find their need for drugs inescapable, there is no initial choice for diabetics in becoming insulin dependent, especially if they are type 1 patients, as there is for those who eventually become drug addicts. Also, the report implies that diabetics are 'given' insulin, when in fact diabetics in most countries are not freely provided with insulin, and indeed, in the U.S., they are often forced to ration insulin because it can be enormously expensive. I hope others will complain as I have to the BBC about their analogizing insulin use to illegal drug use.
