Give addicts heroin, says officer
`Heroin should be prescribed to drug addicts to curb crime, the deputy chief constable of Nottinghamshire has said at a drugs conference.
Howard Roberts told an Association of Chief Police Officers’ conference in Manchester the idea should be assessed.
He said the treatment would cost �12,000 a year per addict but added that drug users steal property valued at an average of �45,000 a year.’
