Methadone costs

Prof Neil McKeganey (Opinion, 29 March) is right to draw attention again to the continuing absurdity of drugs policy. It is amazing that, even at a time when voices on all political sides are daring to speak of inescapable major cuts in public spending, the waste of vast resources on the current futile drugs policy is scarcely challenged.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Mar 2010, 22:27 BST
Updated 29th Mar 2010, 22:31 BST

Rarely can the bankruptcy of a policy have been so long and so comprehensively demonstrated as it has with the methadone programme.

The professionals involved will doubtless claim they act from the highest motives, but are their actions not simply confirming to the "beneficiaries" that nothing more than continuing addiction and an utterly useless existence are all that can be expected of them?

ALAN OLIVER

Battock Road

Brightons

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I was intrigued by your headline (29 March) about how much it costs to keep someone on drugs. I had always thought the object of the exercise was to get them off the drugs.

DAVID R MOLE

Springbank

Leven