[LadyMoonlight!!]

by the Prison doctor?I mean it would be cheaper for us taxpayers for them to go on Methadone than for them to have to go cold turkey and then us to have to pay them loads of compensation out of our taxes because their"human rights"*cough* were"breached"wouldn't it?

[lifeofthepartyyea]

a inmate can get heroin in prison.

[andrew w]

They are given methodone together with psychological support. The claims were based on the fact that these"treatments"were inadequately administered, leading to the inmates suffering"unneceassarily".

[jacg]

I see your point. This is though a hangover from when prisoners had no rights to any form of medical treatment at all. It is only recently, in fact since the introduction of the Human Rights Act, in 1998 that they had any medical rights at all.Treatment for addictions may have been seen at that time as non-essential medical treatment and was therefore not covered before. You are right - it would be far cheaper to continue any detox treatment that a prisoner was already on than to clear up after the consquences of not doing so when they are eventually released and commit further crimes to fund theur continued habit.

[manthintall]

Your absolutely right but unfortunately they did nothing that's why they gave in so easily,they'll try shutting the"barn door"next.

[Paul K]

There are no human rights to a controlled substance. People die from overdosing on heroin, going cold turkey usually does not kill anyone.

[reggie]

Give the bastards a bath full of methodone...

[BobC]

Sorry but I don't agree, the prisoners human rights should be cancelled the moment they have been found guilty of a crime, the victims of the prisoners had their human rights violated without any warning or any chance of compensation from the prisoner. If a prisoner took drugs voluntary when in the community, that was their choice, even if they were breaking the law, but why should the overburdened taxpayer have to foot the bill to have them weaned off drugs when imprisoned, let them do cold turkey, change to bloody silly laws on human rights to allow this, in the long term the prisoner will benefit by being drug free when released

[Phlodgeybodge]

Why should I pay to compensate a druggie coming off heroin (or any other drug)? Surely they should be thanking the prison service for ridding them of the drug in the first place?Giving them methodone should not be allowed - treating an addiction with another addictive substance is just pointless - the only way to get off heroin for good is to go cold turkey.If they wanted'kid-glove'treatment they shouldn't have mugged or burgled some poor victim in the first place.It's about time we made prisons what they're supposed to be - a place where your civil liberties are curtailed and where you go to pay for your crime. If prisoners get any more'human rights'they'll be better off and more'free'than I am (in fact I think some of them are already!)