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Plans to give addicts free heroin come under fire
(The Scotsman 13/11/2009)
PROPOSALS to provide drug addicts in Aberdeen with free heroin on the NHS, as an alternative to methadone, were condemned yesterday by opposition councillors. Opposition councillors warned that the proposals by two leading members of the city council's administration could turn Aberdeen into a Mecca for drug users. The call for Aberdeen to be chosen as the location for a Scottish pilot scheme came following the apparent success of recent trials in England.
'Why was our Kate left to die from heroin in a dirty squat?'
(Telegraph 04/11/2009)
The Walshes believe their daughter was brainwashed by the drug addict Alex Charlamow, as effectiverly as if she had been snatched by a cult. On her way to and from school, she passed the Salvation Army rehabilitation centre where he lived, close to her home in Highworth, Wiltshire. He persuaded her to leave home and took away her mobile phone, so that her parents had no means of contacting her. Within months, she had lost her smile and developed the dead eyes of an addict.
Straw moots heroin prescription
(BBC 20/09/2009)
Prescribing heroin on the NHS may be the best way to treat the "most problematic" addicts, Jack Straw says. The justice secretary's comments follow trials which showed big reductions in the use of street drugs and crime. "It may be the best means of reducing the harm they do to themselves, and of stamping out the crime and disorder they inflict," the Blackburn MP said. Writing in the Lancashire Telegraph, he says the potential benefits of trying alternative approaches are huge.
Heroin supply clinic 'cuts crime'
(BBC 15/09/2009)
A scheme in which heroin is given to addicts in supervised clinics has led to big reductions in the use of street drugs and crime, the BBC has learned. More than 100 users took part in the pilot - part funded by the government - in London, Brighton and Darlington. They either injected heroin or received the drug's substitute methadone. Those given heroin responded best and an independent panel which monitored the scheme over six months is advising ministers to set up further trials.
Pulp Fiction's deadly 'white heroin' hits the streets of Britain
(Telegraph 01/02/2009)
Easy to snort and inject because it is water-soluble, white heroin's dangers were made clear in Quentin Tarantino's cult film Pulp Fiction, in which Uma Thurman's character snorts the powder and then collapses. Heroin hydrochloride was replaced in the 1970s by more well-known "brown" heroin. Today Soca warned of a resurgence in the drug in the UK, shipped in from Afghanistan.
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New drug users
(BBC 05/01/2009)
A growing number of Asian women are using Class A drugs, according to leading Asian drugs charity Nafas. Ten years ago drug misuse amongst British Asian women was unheard of. Now, Nafas says it is treating 20 to 25 women for heroin addiction a year in east London alone - a figure it believes is just the tip of the iceberg.
Swiss approve prescription heroin
(BBC 30/11/2008)
Swiss voters have approved a radical health policy that offers prescription heroin to addicts on a permanent basis. Final results from the national referendum showed 68% of voters supported the plan. The scheme, allowing addicts to inject the drug under medical supervision at a clinic, began in Zurich 14 years ago before spreading across the country.
Reborn after heroin addiction with my tragic twin brother ... and now I'm going to be a dad
(Daily Mail 23/08/2008)
They were privately educated twins hooked on heroin - but the death of one shocked the other into dragging his own life back from the brink.
Call to cut the methadone quick fix
(The Scotsman 26/05/2008)
ONE of Scotland's leading drug treatment experts yesterday urged ministers to withdraw methadone from addicts after a set time period as part of a radical new approach to
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