the only effective rehab for opiates addiction appears to be a combination of the original “British method” and intense supervision of the patient after they have stopped using (to get them back into employment/education) but unfortunately this method led to a backlash before I was even born (in reality it was only available to affluent middle class addicts).
Todays political climate in Europe is so divided that many political parties make a point of “not giving in to criminals” and would rather see the addicts die than them receive any treatment that incurs more taxpayer funding (although I didn’t think that undertakers and crematoriums worked for free; and it costs the NHS a grand or so for each dead body that requires an autopsy).
The dead addicts are essentially being used as “useful idiots” by the cops and local governments to persist with the “drugs are bad mmkay” mantra; the only reasons the UK can get away with this without being pulled up for human rights violations are that the country is still quite affliuent and prosperous and the number of opiate addicts is declining and they are getting older; as drug use was declining in the UK (I have a feeling the current government may be taking things too far with the public service cuts and could cause this to reverse).
