True cost of drug addicts revealed
Friday, June 13, 2008
A drug addict costs the taxpayer more than £800,000 over his or her lifetime, according to a shocking Government report.
The study also advised Justice Secretary Jack Straw that drug-free prisons were not a realistic possibility, and raised the prospect of handing out clean needles to prisoners to inject heroin.
Ministers had attempted to keep the report secret for months. Prisons minister David Hanson finally released the data after "considerable interest in the report", which was drawn up by independent auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers......
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