If a heroin addict goes to prison wouldn't they just be given Methadone?

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by the Prison doctor?

I mean it would be cheaper for us taxpayers for them to go on Methadone than for them to have to go cold turkey and then us to have to pay them loads of compensation out of our taxes because their "human rights" *cough* were "breached" wouldn't it?

Answer 1

Your absolutely right but unfortunately they did nothing that's why they gave in so easily,they'll try shutting the"barn door" next.

Answer 2

Methadone is just as - if not more addictive as heroin but seeing as the prisons cant stop real drugs getting in to prisoners I can understand the short time that prisons allow methadone. I agree with the fact that you commited the crime now do the time and that they should not be mollicuddled ( how many innocent people have been robbed, attacked, hurt by people after money to fund their habbit). AND it is just a habbit - how about the Human Rights of people that smoke and have done for donkeys years that get turned away form our hospitals because the hospital has policies in place and they refuse to treat these people because they also suffer from a habbit that is addictive (but one that doesnt make them steal/attack people) I dont think that prisoners should get any compensation for their drug habbit. It was their choice to use - and they probably are getting their regular supply from friends anyway. Justice in this country seems only to be in favor of the criminal - the victim very rarely gets compensation because when it is awarded it has to come from the offender and you can guarrentee that they dont have the money but the goverment doesn't step in then.

Answer 3

all you people are simply being brainwashed by what you hear and read in the tabloids.
You can not say that anyone who is in prison and on drugs has mugged, murdered or raped anybody.
Many people who are in prison for drugs offences are in fact the victims of crime themselves, be in abuse or being abandoned. If you put somebody in prison on cold turkey then when they come out of prison they are more likely to get back on drugs when they come out and commit more crime. If you were to deal with the issues that cause these individuals to be on drugs in the first place then there is more chace of rehabilitating them and intergrating them back into society.
People are so quick to condeme individuals as it makes out society feel like we are so much better ourselves.
I think a lot of people who are commenting on this would feel differently if we stopped people from smoking!
by the way i am aware that smoking and heroin are different, but i am saying everybody should be treated with dignity and as a person!
They will be out on the streets at some point and wouldnt you rather they were ex drug addicts then just people who had been through a highly traumatic experience being made to go cold tureky

Answer 4

Sorry but I don't agree, the prisoners human rights should be cancelled the moment they have been found guilty of a crime, the victims of the prisoners had their human rights violated without any warning or any chance of compensation from the prisoner. If a prisoner took drugs voluntary when in the community, that was their choice, even if they were breaking the law, but why should the overburdened taxpayer have to foot the bill to have them weaned off drugs when imprisoned, let them do cold turkey, change to bloody silly laws on human rights to allow this, in the long term the prisoner will benefit by being drug free when released

Answer 5

I see your point. This is though a hangover from when prisoners had no rights to any form of medical treatment at all. It is only recently, in fact since the introduction of the Human Rights Act, in 1998 that they had any medical rights at all.

Treatment for addictions may have been seen at that time as non-essential medical treatment and was therefore not covered before. You are right - it would be far cheaper to continue any detox treatment that a prisoner was already on than to clear up after the consquences of not doing so when they are eventually released and commit further crimes to fund theur continued habit.

Answer 6

Why should I pay to compensate a druggie coming off heroin (or any other drug)? Surely they should be thanking the prison service for ridding them of the drug in the first place?

Giving them methodone should not be allowed - treating an addiction with another addictive substance is just pointless - the only way to get off heroin for good is to go cold turkey.

If they wanted 'kid-glove' treatment they shouldn't have mugged or burgled some poor victim in the first place.

It's about time we made prisons what they're supposed to be - a place where your civil liberties are curtailed and where you go to pay for your crime. If prisoners get any more 'human rights' they'll be better off and more 'free' than I am (in fact I think some of them are already!)

Answer 7

Methadone does not get you extreme. habit to opiates is a actual besides as a psychological habit. Opiate habit isn't constrained to heroin. Oxycontin, hydrocodone, codieine, propoxylene and morphine to call some are prescription opioid, and addictions to those meds are transforming into each and on a daily basis. There are actual indicators whilst coming off off a opiate, and a guy or woman may additionally die whilst they are dealing with detox. using methadone in scientific care can incredibly help not in basic terms with the psychological habit however the actual habit besides. the issue with methadone is the scientific care carriers. in the event that they are in basic terms giving out methadone with out scientific care then the possibilities are the addict will relapse or proceed to apply. There are new drugs that surpass methadone in helping with scientific care of opiate habit. Burenorphine is one such drug. habit to opiates could be risky in the process the hieght of the habit and in scientific care. Opiate habit of addictions is the toughest to lick.

Answer 8

There are no human rights to a controlled substance. People die from overdosing on heroin, going cold turkey usually does not kill anyone.

Answer 9

They are given methodone together with psychological support. The claims were based on the fact that these "treatments" were inadequately administered, leading to the inmates suffering "unneceassarily".

Answer 10

a inmate can get heroin in prison.