Should a drug addict be given a regular fix by the NHS?

[grannyclaret]

I just cant get my head round the fact that people want go on drugs in the first place,when they can see the consequences ..maybe i have missed something ,,,

[Ianto.W.]

Cutting drugs off at the source is the only way to try to solve the problem, only then can you look at weaning the addicts off on the NHS,cancer patients are being denied access to life saving drugs so you can not justify giving drugs that threaten life to people who take them by choice.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I'm with you 100% on that Ianto.

[expat]

Also if the druggies get safe pure herion and other drugs that have not been cut with talc, battery acid,and all the other harmfull substances , they won't be has much of a burden on the NHS . Everytime they bust a drug ring the price of the drug goes up, so instead of nicking one video player they need three, I,am all for them getting it free, the only thing that I,am not sure about is them driving cars and going to work,they will have to be monitored,after they get there fix,

[entwisi]

Hence my call for a safe environment for them to get their fix.

I disagree Ianto, you will never cut off the supply without buying it all in the first place as jambutty said and then they will just grow more, its a never ending cycle. By giving them enough to feed their habit the market disappears almost overnight.

My thoughts are with the thousands/millions of people who suffer as a result of drug related crime, not teh hundreds that are the cause

[mallard]

no would be the anser the N.H.S. Could spend money on better things.

[entwisi]

Isn't the whole point that there would be more than enough savings by doing this that teh NHS etc would be better off?

[chav1]

the whole point is these pricks shouldt have taken drugs in the first place and deserve everything they get

most druggies steal and commit even worse crimes before they even consider coming off drugs and the sickening thing is an old woman for example that is robbed by a drug addict will probably spend teh rest of her life scared witless of leaving their door unlocked or even walk into teh street while the person who attacked her can go get their free high on the NHS

if anything the NHS shoudl give them all one huge overdose and save a lot of people the agony of been mugged , burgled or worse

[WillowTheWhisp]

I wish I could belive that if the addicts got free drugs on the NHS then the pushers and suppliers would be out of business but if you think it through the growers are still going to be growing and selling to the suppliers who are surely not just going to cancel their order do to lack of sales. Won't they be pushing the pushers to recruit more buyers by getting even more people hooked?

[Chopper]

Theres no fking way i am working my ass off for a big wage then have more took off me to give crack heads an easy life all they care about is smack.

Yeah dealers will stop selling heroin but they'll find another way to make money then when the goverment can't afford it anymore and the country is smack head land dealers will come back.

First they say it's fine for 30 year old men to bed 13 year old girls and now they are feeding the country on smack? this country has lost the plot ....

[Sparkologist]

Originally Posted by chav1

the whole point is these pricks shouldt have taken drugs in the first place and deserve everything they get

most druggies steal and commit even worse crimes before they even consider coming off drugs and the sickening thing is an old woman for example that is robbed by a drug addict will probably spend teh rest of her life scared witless of leaving their door unlocked or even walk into teh street while the person who attacked her can go get their free high on the NHS

if anything the NHS shoudl give them all one huge overdose and save a lot of people the agony of been mugged , burgled or worse

Agreed. 100%!

If these weak-willed slackers want to waste their lives away on drugs, let's speed up the process for them. Give 'em something that is 100% pure, then box up and burn their sorry miserable carcass! Why should society keep wiping the arse & burping these wastes of oxygen?

[panther]

No time for druggies, its self-inflicted! God knows why they take it in the first place. waste of spacers if you ask me. they should all overdose, and for those on canabis .....WHY do you take it??? GET A LIFE!!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Isn't it amazing that we can consider giving these people their fix for Free when we can't give the Alzheimers sufferers their drugs which cost £2.50 per day....we can't provide the folk suffering from bowel and bone cancer the drugs that would make their existence more bearable, and probably lengthen their lives too. Somewhere along the way we have got very mixed up in what is right and moral and what is wrong.

The drug addicts are suffering a plight of their own making. Some medical consultants won't treat smokers unless they quit, some surgeons will not treat obese people unless they lose weight...both groups of people are seen to be contributors to their own ill health......why should drug addicts be any different.

[SPUGGIE J]

WHY THE HELL SHOULD I PAY FOR THEIR DESTUCTIVE HABIT!!!!

If this became nation wide then were would it stop and how much would it cost? They give it to heroin addicts so do the cocain and crack addicts get the same response further down the road? Ok they were quoting figures but how accurate are they? If someone wants to shoot up heroin then let it be at their own expense not mine or that of those that they rob as it encourages them not to come of it and they would still commit crime for an extra fix. This is a case of the nanny state considering another easy fix instead of getting down to the nitty gritty. Is this a knee jerk reaction to the court case recently?

[Stanaccy]

I voted yes, mainly the same reasons that entwisi has mentioned. Also if an addict is given their fix in a safe environment it will cut crime.

Another reason no-one has mentioned is that it is actually easier to come off smack than methadone.