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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Greg Hennessy   
    writes   
      
   >On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:43:55 GMT, Stephen Glynn   
   > wrote:   
      
   >>Why, I wonder, would the junkie want to sell his methadone?   Presumably   
   >>he'll only use the proceeds to buy more drugs.   If it's that he prefers   
   >>heroin to methadone, then you can solve that problem by giving him   
   >>heroin in the first place.   
      
   >Quite, especially when smack is less addictive than methadone.   
   >   
   >The 1971 act was another one of Ted Heaths wonderful cockups for which we   
   >all pay the price.   
      
   Could you explain more? I didn't know there had ever been a statutory   
   ban on NHS medics prescribing heroin.   
      
   The prescription of methadone rather than heroin is not a cock-up. It's   
   designed to keep people addicted to hard drugs. Everyone interested has   
   known for years that methadone is more addictive than heroin.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
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