Drugs: 'Pay Addicts to Be Childless'

The HeraldMarch 13, 2004

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female drug addicts should be paid to take long-term contraception to stop them having children, according to a leading adviser to the Scottish Executive.

Neil McKeganey, professor of drug misuse research at Glasgow University, will give a lecture tomorrow explaining that the plight of children of addicted parents has reached "crisis" levels. He said with an estimated 60,000 such children in Scotland, drastic and radical action must be taken.

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Drugs: 'Pay Addicts to Be Childless'

However, the idea faced immediate criticism, particularly from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.

According to new figures from the professor's own interviews of 1000 drug abusers, m...

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