Burton News & Staffordshire Newspaper | Burton On Trent Local Newspaper Headlines | Daily Mail | Drugs clinic experts slam legal heroin hits: "Bosses at Burton Addiction Centre (BAC), in Station Street, have disregarded research which suggests hardened heroin addicts should be given the Class A drug under supervision to prevent them from returning to ‘street drugs’ and crime.
The research, carried out by the National Addiction Centre, in London, saw addicts who were injecting the drug under supervision of a nurse cut down their use of ‘street’ heroin and respond better to rehabilitation programmes.
But BAC bosses said their experience of working with addicts had taught them that practicing a policy of abstention would help the drug users break the cycle better than providing them with a prescription high."
The research, carried out by the National Addiction Centre, in London, saw addicts who were injecting the drug under supervision of a nurse cut down their use of ‘street’ heroin and respond better to rehabilitation programmes.
But BAC bosses said their experience of working with addicts had taught them that practicing a policy of abstention would help the drug users break the cycle better than providing them with a prescription high."