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The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Daily Express: Police plan to give Heroin junkies free needles

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The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Daily Express: Police plan to give Heroin junkies free needles : "PROPOSAL for police to ...

<a href="http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/media/2010/05/daily-express-police-plan-to-give-heroin-junkies-free-needles.html">The TaxPayers' Alliance - Media Coverage: Daily Express: Police plan to give Heroin junkies free needles</a>: "PROPOSAL for police to give heroin addicts advice and free needles to inject the drug safely sparked outrage last night. 
Under the scheme, junkies will receive so-called Harm Reduction Kits of clean needles, a clinical waste container and a manual about the most effective dose and the right veins to inject. 
The drug users are to be given the packs when released from custody in a bid to stop them killing themselves. 
The scheme will get underway in Cambridgeshire next month.But last night there was outrage that police appeared to be encouraging the use of the deadly class A drug. 
Monmouth MP David Davies said: “I am astonished by this initiative. My understanding is that it is the police’s job to catch drug dealers and possession of drugs is also against the law. We should get drug users off the streets and if necessary force them to get medical help to combat their addiction.” 
Matthew Elliott, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “This is sending out mixed messages about drug use. The authorities should make their mind up whether they think drugs should be banned or not.” Former Home Office minister and Daily Express columnist Ann Widdecombe said: “We should be preventing heroin use, not sanitising the use of the drug."