Heroin experiment caused fall in crime

IT worked. And the bullying cat and mouse game will continue for ever.

Since drugs where made illegal, robbery, violent crime, prostitution, and arrest have only gone up.

America have legalised ‘medical marijuana’ arrest an crime dropped already, hence nearly every state adopting this, I remember this and know people in treatment at the time and it worked better than any methadone/subutex or any other current treatment.

We have needle exchange for users to have clean needles, Government funding, methodone, not all people made this choice guys, some born into it, some grow up around it, people have been injected after crashing after a party, but it affects those nearest and the community most.

If this helped back in 80s and 90s why not now? (Regulated by BMC).

Nobody stops a gambling addict from going the arcade, or an alcoholic buying beer. Applied logic and a well structured treatment could help all in the situation, reducing crime, reducing victim impact and could let the community relax again.

I REMEMBER Dr Marks and his very radical views on addiction.

Valium was very popular drug of choice for most GPs to treat depression and unwittingly doled out like jelly tots to a wide variety including new mums experiencing post natal depression.

His idea was not to wean them off but have them throw all their drugs away and in effect go cold turkey. This is again a radical approach but maybe with a common sense element.