Hundreds more heroin addicts to be given a fix on

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Hundreds more heroin addicts to be given a fix on
the NHS
By Nic Fleming, Health Correspondent
(Filed: 25/04/2005)

Hundreds more heroin addicts will be able to get the drug free on the National Health Service under a Government programme.

Pilot schemes starting in June will expand the number of long-term addicts given injectable heroin if they fail to respond to other treatments such as methadone.

Ministers have been advised by drug treatment specialists that the introduction of "heroin clinics" in Switzerland and Holland during the 1990s significantly reduced drug-related crime and other social problems.

But members of communities in south London and Manchester, where the pilot schemes will be conducted, are unhappy at the prospect of up to 100 addicts visiting the centres daily to shoot up.

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VOTE FOR POODLE! Free fix on the NHS and no nasty cops bustin' you at 6am..........

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1. can't have this public you know!!--on the other hand, I am glad to see

that the brits have a humane policy.


......But members of communities in south London and Manchester, where the pilot schemes will be conducted, are unhappy at the prospect of up to 100 addicts visiting the centres daily to shoot up.......

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2. We give our heroin addicts methadone

It is a man-made opiate that can easily be sold on the black market because it is so good. I have had a pill person tell me it is second only to Oxycotin on his list of good stuff.

A person can live a full and healthy life while on heroin. It is the black market status that causes the financial crisis and the loss of dignity. It is the criminal act that keeps the addict from coming to ask for help. Remember the English fought China to accept the opiates and when China reasserted its sovereignty and prohibited opiates, many people died and had nothing for their chronic pains. Fifty million Americans have chronic pain and chronic pain is nothing new.

This is an example of harm reduction and with help these addicts can reduce their consumption of heroin and live productive lives.