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close down the drug addiction clinics

radical solution to heroin addiction is to close down the drug addiction clinics and restrict medical intervention to such physical complications as abscesses, hepatitis and Aids: 'Addicts would then have to face the truth, that they are as responsible for their actions as anyone else.'
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Many have no difficulty in taking heroin intermittently

Large numbers of Vietnam veterans addicted to heroin promptly packed in their habit when they returned home with little or no support from the relevant agencies.Every premise of current policy turns out to be deeply flawed. To start with, the overwhelming craving for heroin, reputedly the defining feature of addiction, is much overplayed. Many have no difficulty in taking heroin intermittently as a recreational drug once or twice a week for years on end: 'You don't just wake up in the morning and decide to become an addict,' William Burroughs claims in his autobiography. 'It takes at least three months shooting up several times a day to get any habit at all.'
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