Making it legal will just mean the drug dealing boyfriends
putting millions of young girls on it without fear of prison and more
crime in Britain then ever .
    However chronic users who dont want to change and who buy on
the street should be put in prison until they are drug free by blood
tests for three months, the Singapore method of cold turkey
works.Another method is daily tablet taking under supervision as a
price of staying out of jail of narcan . Even if addicts then inject
heroin the receptors are blocked and they dont get any high.
    Drug dealers should be jailed , their passport taken away and
deported to Somalia and the Islamic court govt there given $1000 for
each.

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    The worry is that there is more on the streets and the price
has fallen.' Latest figures indicate there are 327,000 hard-drug
users, although drugs charities worry the figure could be as high as
500,000.

    Mike's experiences are, McKeganey found, the norm. His report
found that around 40 per cent of drug users in Britain are Hepatitis C
positive with thousands dying from drug-related causes. Drug use, he
added, continues to fuel high levels of offending and scar entire
communities.

Hollis concurs that the chronic reoffending of a hardcore of heroin
addicts needs to be urgently tackled and remains a persistent source
of exasperation to officers on the front-line.

Perhaps those best qualified to comment are those who have felt
heroin's grip - the diarrhoea, the aching limbs, the burning vomit and
the long, feverish nights. Only one solution remains workable to those
like Mike; heroin must be legalised and offered on prescription if the
cycle of crime and community breakdown is to be broken. Even so, the
price will be high according to those who have seen heroin's damage
first-hand. 'It might mean writing off a generation.'

Heroin

· Used widely as a painkiller in the 19th century in Britain, heroin
can be smoked - 'chasing the dragon' - snorted or injected.

· Acutely addictive and fast-acting, it is described by users as
giving them a feeling of warmth, relaxation and detachment within
seconds.

· Addicts spend an average of £10,000 a year feeding their habit.
Famous users include John Lennon and Charlie Parker.

· Also known as brown, china white, dragon, gear, H, horse, junk,
skag, smack and jack.

· A Class A drug, it is an opiate derived from the dried milk of the
opium poppy. Heroin is made from morphine.

· Afghanistan supplies 90 per cent of heroin found in the UK.

· Methadone is the main treatment for heroin addicts, although it is
an addictive drug in itself, producing feelings of euphoria and
sedation, but to a lesser degree.

Its strength has improved recently though Mike warns that such
changeable purity levels offer an omnipresent threat. One sudden,
strong doseage can kill. But, as always, cost remains the key factor.
On London's King's Road in 1976, heroin cost Mike £100 a gram. Last
year it fell to £58. Police sources believe its current price of half
that may yet fall further.