Party Vibe

I wasn’t sure which side of the water you were on initially but can tell from how you write you are in Europe and possibly good old Blghty.

TBH I would speak to your uni and your parents and try and get a study break and whatever other treatment you need whilst that pain is sorted out; and have a good chat to decide whether you really do want to continue with that course. Even if you genuinely want to remain in healthcare there are other courses with less pressure you might be able to transfer to, and then go back to a full degree course when you are more mature.

Otherwise even if you do pass you will be judged as a diversion risk and watched like a hawk on your first NHS assigments; there will be a shit ton of other docs and healthcare staff the same age who will have no problem about informing on you to their superiors as everyones competing for jobs. Its not like 1970s or 1980s when that stuff was tolerated; I don’t like prohibition/drugs control much but I can understand why diversion is frowned upon as it led to bad corruption in the NHS and worse, people doing evil shit like experimenting on patients/overdosing them for fun.

The Harold Shipman incident not only shattered the whole of the UK’s faith in the NHS and elderly healthcare (if you look in the NHS security advice you can see for yourself the impact it had) but also led to a clampdown on party drugs use and nightlife in Manchester – he had bumped up the crime figures so much it wiped out the effects of a successful anti gangs operation in the same area so the only way the Police could make themselves look good again was to start bearing down on lower level drugs use/dealing.

they still have to comply with domestic and EU privacy rules and would have to still come up with a very good reason for asking us to divulge any details and even if they went over our heads to your ISP it wouldn’t be that easy to prove any wrongdoing.

you’ve not actually diverted substances by theft or false prescription, merely taken a larger dose of those prescribed for your own use if anything the qualfied doctor who prescribed you a controlled substance with known abuse potential knowing your age, that you are in a non-supervised environment and that you are under pressure would have to justify themselves first (round here anyone below 60-80 is rarely prescribed benzos or any CD stuff and if they do get it in small batches of quantities that would discourage hoarding).

British / European regulations give young people second and even third chances; although my CRB turned out to be blank in the end (most likely due to filing errors at the Police) I had to declare two drugs cautions but still got a job in a healthcare organisation (not as medical staff as I’m not smart enough, and not directly linked to NHS but which deals very closely with them). I don’t get watched any more than anyone else in there but there are strict security procedures, and I am aware of staff having had to resign after suspicion of diversion; and they are often the last people you think would do it (i.e not “dodgy” types like me!)

Even the patients where I work think I am a “Jap border guard” in spite of the bulk of them being just too young for active service, or if they did join up never went to Asia in WW II (it got invaded very quickly and the British ran away). Other than one chap who did serve in that part of the world (though he was merely unsure which side I might be on, and that was understandable given where he had served). He subsequently decided that as I was fixing the computer I wasn’t a threat but then said “my hair was too long for the Army” (I had also had it cut short fairly recently!)

The rest are getting their decades mixed up and confusing me with the character played by Bert Kwouk in Tenko (a 1970s BBC drama about a SE Asian prison camp)…)

TBH the greater risk is more after you’ve passed and qualified, especially if you qualify in a big city but end up working in a rural area, where everyone watches each other very closely.

@son goku 563707 wrote:

When you mentioned “Otherwise even if you do pass you will be judged as a diversion risk and watched like a hawk on your first NHS assigments”

Did you mean this happens to everyone or would happen to me specifically for a particular reason?

it happens to everyone in a healthcare environment where controlled drugs are stored or dispensed; although some regions are or were stricter than others though if people are getting away with anything its more because the audit/investigatory staff are overworked (such as in a large city area with many teaching hospitals)

At the same time there is a shortage of young people of British origin (i.e born in a UK country) who genuinely want to study medicine (or even take up nursing) so the educators try not to be too judgmental during University (it also casts suspicion on the uni , therefore students are allowed a certain amount of leeway.

Employers have reputations to protect, even more so when we have this bizzare mixture of the NHS having to compete againstprivate organisations and other parts of itself and yet having to work together at the same time (the same stupidity that has fucked up the tech industries in Britain since the 1970s).

Added to which every healthcare organisation contains young folk from half the world working for it who just about tolerate each other; many of them are also away from their homes and families for the first time and/or end up forming friendships and relationships which add to security risks.

One thing I’ve noticed about todays younger people in my area who have “better” jobs such as healthcare or skilled admin work is many of them are very tolerant of different races/cultures/sexualities but are genuinely horrified by drug use, but they do not form these views simply because the cops or media say so, its because of what they’ve seen some of their own peers (and my generation) go through.

The most “on top” areas are the ones where raves etc used to happen regularly (as the rest of the community has had to deal with the fallout).