Bad Heroin

Health workers and police in both Glasgow and Dublin are alarmed and concerned about a mystery illness that is killing heroin addicts in their cities. The deaths are not overdoses, and it seems increasingly likely that the heroin on the streets has been badly contaminated. The authorities are working flat out to discover the nature and source of the problem, as so far almost 25 lives have been lost.

Hang on a minute, am I the only one to ask "What's the big rush?". From where I'm sitting (admittedly, in my non addicted state) this seems like a superb development.

In one fell swoop it could tackle two of society's major problems at once; that of removing druggies and drug related crimes from our streets, and dissuading non-users from trying the stuff in the first place. If the underlying problem is discovered, and a workaround made public, this plan will be totally ruined!!

Did I say plan? Am I asserting that this is a predetermined, man made set of actions? If not, it bloody well ought to have been. Keith Halliwell, the Government's drug tsar, should have been given a medal... if of course he'd had anything to do with it, which under absolutely no circumstances am I suggesting he did. At all.

Nevertheless, It's An Outrage!! that public money should be spent on trying to sort this out. I say, leave the junkies to be hoisted by their own petard. After all, they now have a really good reason to quit. I mean, Cold Turkey or death? I reckon that's a fairly easy choice...