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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Maybe there is some sort of lesser evil here? The Methadone is legal heroin isn't. Lots of drug addicts commit some sort of crime to get money for their drugs and they are committing a crime when they buy it. So I guess there is some sort of logic in giving out methadone as you hopefully are preventing some illegal activities, you can control the dose better and when you have these poor souls in the system maybe you can help them in other ways.
But I don't know and maybe what you're asking is one of the reasons, that doctors are talking about giving out heroin on prescription, at least they are in Denmark is that an on going debate in the UK too?
Yeah when methadone is prescribed it is not meant to get you high but to stop you feeling ill.It can also be prescribed in injectable ampoules,and so can diamorphine.I think the idea like someone said is to stop people commiting crime to get drugs.And it can be prescribed in exact amounts,some people use it to come off heroin by weaning them selves of meth, reducing how many mls they have slowly.Methadone is supposedly a worse withdrawal than heroin.