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I read an article today about a new scheme going on in England that is somehow supposed to end heroin addiction. It’s the U.K.’s equivalent of safe injection sites, heroin addicts come to the sites to shoot up, but the government supplies the drugs. The article describes it as ‘part of a government backed experiment to help them get clean’, but no mention is made of heroin detox, drug rehab, or any other treatment that will end addiction.

The readers’ comments after the article are interesting – most people are all for it.  However, a few take exception to the program stating that cancer (or other illness) sufferers are unable to receive life saving treatment from the government because of an alleged lack of funds, that older people receiving social security are not being adequately taken care of, and that people who’ve been contributing members of society all their lives are being ignored while the government spends money to supply drug addicts with heroin.

Good point.

The most ridiculous thing about it is that it does nothing to end heroin addiction. Why isn’t the money being spent on drug detox centers and drug rehab programs that can get people through a heroin detox and then rehabilitated so they can end their heroin addiction?

One more weird solution to a problem that’s relatively simple to handle. The most difficult thing about getting a heroin addict off drugs is overcoming their unwillingness to do something about their problem. Obviously, the addicts enrolling in this program are ready for a change - why not make it a change that really counts? End their heroin addiction through heroin detox and drug rehab. Give them back their lives.

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