Doctor shopping must stop

I have a nephew that has a drug and alcohol problem and has been in and out of rehab.

We have tried for years to get him long-term care but this has not worked out.

There is no help out there and every time he has been into rehab they have just let him back out.

He gets bashed all the time, has fallen off the train tracks many times, self harmed himself and has been in hospital on life support.

He really needs fulltime care.

And he goes around the Central Coast doing "doctor shopping".

The doctors give him what he wants and his family are left to pick up the pieces.

Our family has contacted all the doctors and told them not to give him any more drugs but they still give it to him.

This is a joke and this is what all the drug addicts are doing these days.

It needs to be stopped.

Email, 3 Sep 2010 Jackie Phillips, Woy Woy