One of the UK’s biggest problems relating to drug addiction is the crime associated with feeding a habit. This has led some people to suggest that up to half of all acquisitive crime is drug-related and that the market value of goods stolen involved could be between 2 to 2.5 billion pounds each year.
Mr Duncan Smith will call for addicts to be fully freed from a life on heroin in a speech to the Centre for Social Justice, the think tank he founded a decade ago.
With the pressure of services in England having their budgets slashed and services closing due to government cuts, acu-detox protocols could be used in many different settings and also in out-patient based treatment programs.