Heroin Clinics Are Not Answer ; Have Your Say

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IN his plea for drop-in heroin clinics to be set up in Swansea (Post, September 18), I feel the director of the Swansea Drugs Project Ifor Glynn gives the game away, when he states what he believes are the advantages of prescribing the drug -- in effect, he is calling for the state to supply addicts with heroin.

I have to say, I find it frankly unbelievable that any heroin addict would be persuaded to give up the drug if they know that the state is going to provide them with heroin, and free of charge too! Surely such a brainless act would effectively be giving legitimacy to its use? A step towards the legalisation of this terrible drug, possibly? Why should heroin addicts be singled out for such special privileges from the state? Why not people with alcohol or gambling addictions? Or cocaine users? Ifor Glynn correctly states that use of this terrible drug continues to increase sharply locally, with referrals up by a shocking 54 per cent last year. Well, perhaps he should look at the apparent failure of organisations like his own to do anything to stem the use of this deadly drug locally.

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Heroin Clinics Are Not Answer ; Have Your Say

I fear supplying users with heroin in state-run ...

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