Prescription "heroin" a success!

So, today it was reported on the news that in three cities in the UK a trial scheme has revolved around supplying heroin addicts with the drug methadone (substitute of heroin) for free, for hopes of reducing drug related crime.

What.

The.

Fuck.

We are in a recession, so we are all conscious about money (and the apparent lack of it), if this trial was ever made nation wide and the norm - then thats just silly. Firstly, the research indicated that giving the drug addicts their fixes for free reduced the amount of crimes they (admitted to doing!) by 66%. This was labeled a success, and this success is that I have a problem with. Think about it, this program is paid by the tax payer. The drugs and the staff of the clinics are mean't to be there so that the drug addicts commit no crime in order to get their fix - but 33% of the original amount of stealing is still occurring.

So in short, the government pays £15,000 a year on drugs per addict to solve the crime issue, while 33% of said robberies still occur. Doesn't sound like a good deal to me.

I mean has anyone wondered about the notion that many of the addicts are getting the free drugs, then stealing to get more drugs? Really, it's not rocket science - why can't our government actually do something with a small teeny weeny bit of the mythical term "common sense" for a change? Yes, thats right, I'm looking at you Health and Safety too - no, ties don't strangle pupils. Idiot.

Basically, it's us the public loosing out, the druggy's winning by getting free drugs, and the government looking good by creating jobs and thus reducing unemployment.

Yeah, way to get us out of recession and lower the amounts of drug dealers - of course it makes sense to make the public pay for the drugs in a "non crime" fashion and of course this will encourage the addicts to give up drugs. Yeah.