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‘These people are broken': Why the UK's war on drugs has failed
[Aljazeera] There was a time when drug use in the UK was not considered a matter for the police and judges, but for the doctor. Then it adopted the US’s punitive approach to addiction.Pat Hudson never leaves her house without a syringe of Naloxone. She will not be needing it for herself, but she wants to be ready for any emergency on the street. Naloxone is injected into the muscle and blocks the effect of opioids: If somebody has taken an overdose of heroin, it can save their life. "It’s a bit late, of course," she says: Hudson’s 32-year-old adopted son, Kevin Lane, died in 2017 after taking heroin. Posted by: Besoeker 2021-03-22 |
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