General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Why does locking up druggies never break their addiction ?

That's because of the crappy way the prison service / home office deal with drug addicts.

Drugs are easily slipped into prisons, either by throwing packages over the prison fence, and the package is collected by an inmate. Prison visits whilst being monitored, are an easy time to pass drugs from a visitor to inmate (kissing, hidden in a babys nappy).

There are solutions, but the damned Human Rights gets in the way.
Prison visits should be closed visits - a glass screen between visitor and inmate.This makes passing drugs impossible.
Putting druggies on "cold turkey" to get them off the drug is a the way (methadone is also addictive, so once weaned off heroin with methodone, many become addicted to methodone ). This practice of trying to get inmates off drugs is not allowed after several inmates successfully sued the Home Office in 2006, as it amounted to a breach of their human rights and amounted to assault
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Prison is not the tough place we think it is. That's why so many enjoy going back there.