'Offer heroin to addicts on prescription'

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THE boss of a South Wales drugs charity says heroin should be offered to addicts who have proved untreatable on substitutes like methadone.

Martin Blakebrough, chief executive of South Wales drugs charity Kaleidoscope, said fresh thinking is needed on how to deal with a hard core of addicts who cannot be moved on from a life of crime through heroin substitutes.

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'Offer heroin to addicts on prescription'

He said trials that have seen addicts offered heroin at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundat...

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