Kathy's Ideas on Drugs Aren't New

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I have read Kathy Secker's comments on drug addiction. I would say it is nothing new that the Government should pay for drugs to be given to the addicts.

It was that way about 30 years ago until, I believe, a Tory Government decided to stop it and let people go on the open market, which is the reason so many addicts are recruiting other people so they can fund their own habit. The problem today with drug addiction is purely down to that Tory Government and as such they should now be brought to account for their actions because it is ordinary people who are suffering for the unrelenting powers that Government has and they don't consider their own citizens before they take such stupid action.

GRACE WITHERBURN, Dudley, Cramlington.

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