Here’s a quick hit on drug policy: Better to treat the hardcore addict by giving them access to heroin by prescription, if they are not ready to get sober, because it saves on police work dealing with their crimes. That’s what a study by the British Medical Journal has concluded.

Who knows whether the study, referred to in the excerpt below, is worthwhile science or not?

It’s almost politically impossible in these times to perform an extensive study of options to prohibition.

So much of our national energy has been directed at prohibition that we can’t even look at other options with being ridiculed.

But the British are apparently not as closed minded as we are.

BBC NEWS | Health | Heroin prescription ‘cuts costs’
Heroin prescription ‘cuts costs’

Heroin is prescribed under strict rules
There are strong reasons to support the practice of prescribing heroin to drug misusers, researchers claim.

A University of Amsterdam team says the treatment is cost-effective, even though it is expensive.

The British Medical Journal study found the cost to health services was offset by savings linked to crime reduction.