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You need to read my post again - I said that prescribed heroin should only be given on the condition that a rehabilitation programme is implemented within a specific timeframe with a proper multi-disciplinary approach. Using methadone to manage heroin addiction has a low success rate, there are plenty of other, more successful, proven methods but they cost money, methadone is very cheap.


[COLOR="MediumTurquoise"]I agree, my point is that only a small amount of drug users would want that help.
[/color]As for no one forces anyone to take drugs - again, completely wrong. The Government and it's medical quangos made a joint commercial decision to licence certain cheap drugs for certain conditions, in substition for proper (expensive) rehabilitation, leaving millions of people to become dependent on prescription medications, i.e. stroke patients, pain, cardiac etc.


[COLOR="mediumturquoise"]I was not talking about prescribed drugs.
[/color]Street drug addicts can and do regularly ask for help but do not get it, there are reforms in place to rectify this. No one forces anyone to take drugs but once they're on it, they're on it and you and me are funding the consequences LONG TERM. As for queuing up to get clean, I think you'd be surprised if the proper support infrastructure was put in place.

[COLOR="mediumturquoise"]As I said , these people should get the help they need
[/color]Even if they did not want to get clean immediately, just give them heroin on prescription, then you remove the source of drug crime and overcrowded prisons and bad quality substance overdose. Heroin is a cheap drug pharmaceutically but on the street obviously the value is different. Once addicts are in the medical setting, it will be a lot easier to discuss the rehabilitation options to get off the stuff. You can't do that if they're caught up in the hit up/come down/rob someone/go to dealer cycle.[/quote]

[COLOR="mediumturquoise"]So you give it to them on prescription, do they have to take it in a contolled enviroment or can they take a weeks supply home, where they can get someone else hooked?

Please don't think I'm having a go at you, I agree something needs to be done, I just dont think this is it as it sends out the wrong message to the up and comming teenagers.[/color]