There’s a very interesting debate going on just now regarding heroin addicts in prison and what the treatment costs are to treat those suffering from this debilitating and often deadly disease.
It is very interesting how it is viewed in a Daily Mail article entitled ‘Cost of maintaining the heroin addiction of convicts to cost us £110 MILLION a Year’ mmm…interesting, to say the least.
This stems from a human rights ruling that heroin addicts should not be allowed to go without medication while detoxing from heroin whilst in prison, commonly known as going ‘cold turkey’ hear, hear.
Heroin is one of the most powerful if not, thee most powerful pain killers known to man or woman and to detox from this drug without medication is totally and completely horrendous.
Some of the barbaric comments and opinions about the human rights ruling towards heroin addicts are unbelievable and bordering on laughable. Too many members of the public have no understanding of what addiction is and how it affects people, real people who are caught up in a nightmare.
Addiction is not self inflicted, it is an illness, a disease that needs treated not punished. Punish the crime but don’t punish the addiction, treat it regardless of the cost. Authorities wouldn’t dream of not giving insulin to prisoners who are suffering with diabetes, would they?
