The women I knew all claimed methadone was harder to come off than heroin. I don’t know as fortunately, I was never tempted by drugs. Paddyanne, my experience was drug workers may prescribe 80mgs on a programme reducing to maintenance of 25mg(or thereabouts).
One problem is that many who become dependent on drugs/alcohol have complex psychological difficulties. Their dependence usually began in an attempt to numb pain. Another significant difficulty is that Physical addiction may Be brought to an end but the underlying psychological problems are long lasting
Imprisonment for offences like no tv licence is crazy. We need to develop good alternatives to custody. A friend was governor at a prison where inmates went out to work every day. It was extremely rare for a man not to return after work. The reoffending rates were low. Other Northern European countries imprison far fewer than we do, with better outcomes
To obliterate your address on packaging