Quote Originally Posted by BCram View Post
Agree that our social services seem to be aimed at keeping people in the system rather than getting them back on their feet and looking after themselves. Had a very well informed talk at our Rotary Club by someone who had to deal with drug addiction. I was surprised y his support for the methadone support for addicts. Apparently the problem is not the methadone but the lack of rigorous care packages to help addicts to get out of the system. Nobody thinks that allowing addicts to live on a methadone programme is acceptable but the cost to the state/society of doing nothing and withdrawing methadone is greater than the cost of the methadone programme. Actually putting in a programme of rehabilitation will be an expensive additional cost.

It would be interesting to find out why heroin rooms will be a cost effective alternative to the methadone programme.
They won't be.

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