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nobody's saying the NHS is perfect, but that's not an argument for avoiding (probably-) effective (both in terms of cost and other benefits) harm-reduction strategies for heroin addiction. surely that would be counter-productive. it's not a zero-sum game: stopping trials of medical heroin wouldn't change the cancer treatment postcode lottery, for example.
there is an argument for improving the administration of the NHS to make it fairer and more efficient, but that's orthogonal to the debate about whether we should be prescribing heroin to addicts.