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UK. MPs call for funding for axed Middlesbrough heroin addiction clinic
UK. MPs call for funding for axed Middlesbrough heroin addiction clinic
A ground-breaking clinic for people with heroin addiction should be funded for the rest of the financial year, a prominent committee of MPs has said.
Middlesbrough's Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) programme is to close due to lack of money.
The Home Affairs Select Committee said it was "united in our disappointment" at the scheme's closure.
It had reduced drug use, helped move addicts away from criminality, and disrupted organised crime, it said. (BBC, UK, 02.11.2022