What should be done with drug ad-diets? While drug dealers are a familiar category of villain, it has never been obvious whether their clients ought to be pitied or put away. Increasingly, politicians are trying to have it both ways. David Blunkett, the home secretary, wants to steer 13,000 drug-addled criminals into Drug Treatment and Testing Orders next year: in effect, sentencing them to a cure. David Davis, his Conservative opposite number, has gone one better, declaring that he would give all addicts a stark choice between treatment and prison.
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