Thursday, 14. December 2006
Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2006 at 9:57:00 AM CET
Drugs: why we should medicalise, not criminalise
If you are a desperate drug addict and you are neither a trust fund babe nor a doctor with a prescription pad, you really have only three ways to pay for your habit: you steal, you deal or you sell your body. For those poor young women who have too many scruples to steal or deal, prostitution is often the only answer. Some 95 per cent of prostitutes, according to a Home Office study, are what they call “problematic drug users”.
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