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UK: Should addicts be encouraged to be sterilised?

BBC Have Your Say

Monday 18 Oct 2010

Drug addicts in the UK are being offered money to be sterilised by an American charity, to stop babies being damaged by drugs during pregnancy. What is your view?

The US charity, Project Prevention, is offering to pay £200 to any drug user in London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leicester and parts of Wales who agrees to be operated on.

The first person in the UK to accept the cash is drug addict "John" from Leicester who says he "should never be a father".

But the move has been criticised by some drug charities who work with addicts. Simon Antrobus, chief executive of Addaction says: "It exploits very vulnerable people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol at probably the lowest point in their lives."

Can this method succeed in the UK? Should drug addicts be persuaded in this way not to have children? Could the plan backfire? Could vulnerable addicts be exploited?

Sterilising The Addicts is on Inside Out London, East Midlands, West, and Wales on 18 October on BBC One at 1930 BST and in Scotland as BBC Scotland Investigates: Addicts - No Children Allowed. Those living in the rest of the UK can watch via the BBC iPlayer following transmission.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/haveyoursay/2010/10/should_addicts_be_encouraged_t.html

 

 

 

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