We are enslaving heroin addicts in a state-run chemical gulag / Guardian 27 June 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/27/drugsandalcohol.drugspolicy?gusrc=rss&feed=politics
David Raynes
"Britain has pumped huge funding into Hayes' methadone maintenance programme, driven apparently more by the desire to reduce crime figures than meeting addicts' real needs. Barely 3% of addicts leave treatment drug-free. That is a miserable success rate in anybody's book, and if Hayes thinks that this is indicative of an effective drug treatment industry, he needs to tell us how he would define failure."