Money well spent?

'Taxpayers are forking out more than £44million a year to maintain the drug habits of thousands of prisoners. Shocking figures out yesterday show that every day the state pays for one in six of the entire prison population to be given methadone or other heroin substitutes.'

So. No meaningful attempts to wean junkies off the very thing which is destroying them?
If not even happening in prison, it certainly ain't gonna happen voluntarily when they are released - is it?

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/178372