Say it with me now... WTF?!

[wildelion]

Under Britain's Department of Health guidelines, prisoners about to be released, and who had previously taken drugs but cured their addiction while incarcerated, are being purposely re-addicted by wardens, using methadone. According to researchers, the former addicts will then be less likely to overdose when they get back on the street. Reportedly

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Don't laugh

[fireboy4plai]

There are actually stats that support that. The addicts (especially when it's pain pills) go out and immediately take their original dose. Which usually ends up either killing them outright or hospitalizing them. The analysis suggests that the problem is they didn't receive any sort of drug counseling in prison, they simply went off the drug. So when released they immediately go back to the drug and OD