Rattling out prescriptions writes off addicts (Guardian Unlimited)

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Keeping drug addicts in jail under control with prescriptions ensures that the marginalised remain disempowered and costs a fortune, says Mark Johnson In a jail recently, I watched a slow, shuffling queue of men in the rain. The sight of these addicts lining up outside the dispensary for their drugs must be one of the saddest and most shameful in our prison estate, yet giving them drugs is now …

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