Winston - "Ugly, wrong, desperate"

[Lilith7]

so i presume he's planning on building a few extra rehab clinics?  or will they just end up homeless living on the streets

And turning to crime to survive - idiocy, the man's a bloody fool. Fgs why the devil don't we do what Portugal did more than 10 years ago & decriminalise all drugs; they had a huge problem with drugs prior to that change with loads of deaths from OD. These days there are  very few & all addicts are able to access rehab when needed. And there was also the Widnes experimant in the UK which showed clearly that it was possible for heroin addicts to live normal lives & work, when given a specificied dose by a Dr


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...01780.html

"Portugal decriminalised drugs 14 years ago – and now hardly anyone dies from overdosing
The country has 3 overdose deaths per million citizens, compared to the EU average of 17.3
Portugal decriminalised the use of all drugs in 2001. Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it — Portugal decided to treat possession and use of small quantities of these drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one. The drugs were still illegal, of course. But now getting caught with them meant a small fine and maybe a referral to a treatment program — not jail time and a criminal record."







https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/ex-...s-11854487

"A former undercover policeman turned leading drugs law reform campaigner has called a maverick doctor’s experiment to prescribe heroin in Widnes the ‘most significant study’ into addiction to the Class A opiate.



Neil Woods, who spent 14 years infiltrating gangs, said Dr John Marks’s radical step to use a legal loophole to prescribe heroin in Widnes to addicts in the 1980s and 1990s achieved ‘astonishing’ results including cutting acquisitive crime such as burglary by 93%, street prostitutes leaving sex work and thieves and robbers holding down regular jobs.




Dr Marks had launched the programme in 1982 but it was scrapped when the results of his study came to light in 1995 and incurred the wrath of the White House.

Neil, whose undercover experiences are captured in his book Good Cop, Bad War, published in August, said the US Government pulled the plug on the experiment by pressuring John Major’s UK Government to shut it down.
Dr Marks was ‘vilified’ before having to emigrate to New Zealand, he said."