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There are prescription programmes at rehab in the UK and many other nations. What you are never going to get is taxpayers or anyone else allowing someone to feed an addiction, whether or not they commit crime to get their drugs. Most crime/shoplifting in my town is done by alcoholics rather than hard drug addicts but alcohol is legal.

If someone is addicted to drugs then they are ill, and the healthcare providers rôle is to get them better, by encouraging them first to take a smaller dose of drugs and then abstain altogether.

This is why in modern European nations drugs are controlled in the first place (Im referring to 1960s/1970s era legislation following the setting up of public healthcare in most of Europe, not the conspiracy theories of previous centuries).

A long term solution would be to tolerate the limited use of less harmful recreational drugs as street heroin and crack only exist due to prohibition, but the production of these drugs has impacts on foreign countries so there is not global consensus about drugs laws. Especially Asian folk still remember the use of opiates and even cannabis as a distraction technique to pacify their natives and colonise their countries.

Back in Europe there are two important reasons why this idealistic plan will not be accepted : people who work and pay taxes will think they are being blackmailed by criminals (folk emigrate from NL and DK to the UK because of this), and in any case it goes directly against the basic principles of human healthcare which say “do no harm”. The only place you will ever see folk getting a endless supply of class A is the old peoples home where they are going to die anyway.

This isn’t the young Conservatives club you’ve stumbled on, many folk on here have struggled with addiction and and even some Tories nowadays have more pragmatic views about treating addicts (my local MP is a real doctor and has done this). There is also a very good rehab centre being set up here especially to stop young women getting into sex work due to addiction (because 5 were killed this way) and other programmes to stop young men getting into a spiral of addiction, crime and gang activity.