Incomprehensible and immoral. European doctors don’t believe what they see in the Nygårdspark. – Why don’t the addicts get treatment? Photo: The Italian professor documents suffering among Norwegian addicts. Two foreign doctors visited the Nygårdspark today. From their offices in Italy and Belgium they help the addicts away from addiction. What do these people do here? Icro Maremmania swiped his arms towards the group of heroin addicts in the Nygårdspark. - Why don’t they get treatment? They are sick. This Norwegian authorities must be responsible for! Photo: Worn out. Edematous hands with ulcers that will not grow. Several addicts approaches the Italian doctor when they understand what’s going on. In good English they explain the problems they face as addicts. He easily understands that they despair. It is far too difficult to get LAR-treatment in Norway, the Italian doctor states. He is professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Pisa and works in a psychiatric hospital. -These people are sick. It doesn’t matter why they started to abuse. Heroin affects the brain just after the first injection and makes changes. They need treatment, Maremmani is saying, who also is President of Europad, an organisation that wants to forward drug assisted rehabilitation. (Subutex, methadone etc.) - But prophylaxis is also important, the Italian adds. Absurd demands Marc Reisinger is psychiatrist in Belgium. The Nygårdspark also affected him. He means that absurd demands are made on the addicts who want treatment. In Norway it can take weeks and months before treatment can be started, and then you are being thrown out again after a minor fault. He looks around, surrounded by heavy addicts. The treatment they get is immoral. In Belgium the addict can contact the family doctor. You don’t need to visit special clinics. Photo: Marc Reisinger reacts on indecent living conditions the addict has. He is vice president of the Europad.