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True cost of drug addicts revealed [UK]
    #8519228 - 06/13/08 11:10 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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A drug addict costs the taxpayer more than £800,000 over his or her lifetime, according to a shocking Government report.

The study also advised Justice Secretary Jack Straw that drug-free prisons were not a realistic possibility, and raised the prospect of handing out clean needles to prisoners to inject heroin.

Ministers had attempted to keep the report secret for months. Prisons minister David Hanson finally released the data after "considerable interest in the report", which was drawn up by independent auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The authors said: "The creation of drug-free prisons is an expensive option and was not considered to be practical in the current resource climate."

They added that it would be "an option" to give junkies a supervised "retoxification" course near the end of their sentences - in other words, to give them drugs to prevent them overdosing on release.

The report highlighted the failings of mandatory drug tests, which have frequently been hailed by ministers as a success in reducing drug use behind bars.

It said: "Staff and prisoners generally felt that mandatory drug testing should not be used to monitor the behaviour of individuals since it was open to manipulation (with clean urine often being used as a currency), and other problems such as recreational users of cannabis moving to opiate use to avoid detection."

The authors of the report admitted that even the massive £800,000 cost of each addict was likely to be an under-estimate, because they had adopted "the more conservative" figures throughout the exercise.

They calculated the astonishing sum from the additional cost on the NHS as well as other factors such as lost earnings and expenditure on law and order.

More than £730,000 could be saved if an addict was successfully brought into treatment by the age of 21, it added.


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Re: True cost of drug addicts revealed [UK] [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8520159 - 06/13/08 03:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Thanks for the link, I'm checking it out now. Interesting news.

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Re: True cost of drug addicts revealed [UK] [Re: JapaneseEmpress]
    #8521190 - 06/13/08 07:04 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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The authors of the report admitted that even the massive £800,000 cost of each addict was likely to be an under-estimate, because they had adopted "the more conservative" figures throughout the exercise.





Massive?! Who wouldn't pay £800,000 per head to have their government take away people's rights to their own bodies?

How can money spent encouraging cultural hate NOT be worth every penny?


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