A record 202,000 people went through drug treatment programmes in England last year, reports the BBC, but only 7,300 addicts, or 3.6% of the total, left the programmes drug-free. Julian Baggini on the Guardian site insists that "harm reduction is usually a more realistic, reasonable and humane objective" ....
Posted on The Purple Scorpion
Thursday, 2 October 2008
Drug treatment programmes - an expensive flop?
