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Zoggite

I agree with you, but I am sure most methadone clients use other drugs too, and just use the service to get themselves methadone for that day, if they can't get hold of anything else. I have worked as a locum there and most of his methadone clients get needles too.

The problems of like you say alcohol especially, cost the country and the NHS a fortune. I have met kids as young as 13 though, with track marks up their arms, and that's not a pretty sight.

In my home town there is a group of GP's that prescribe benzos, but not methadone. The people wanting both register with another GP for their methadone, or a drug agency. I once saw a client sell half their nitrazepam in the shop to another customer. I told the GP about this, thinking he would want to know, so he could do something about it. The next time I saw the nitrazepam client he said "I don't know whats the matter with Dr X, he's told me to use another pharmacy".