Who pays for prescription heroin treatment facilities?

Who pays for prescription heroin treatment facilities?

Michael Jourdan (Drug Researcher) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'heroin injection site'?; What controversial heroin treatments are being tried in Europe?; How do police departments in the United States and Canada react to injection sites? and more...

Well, in principle, the prescription of heroin could be done completely different ways, according to what policy you want to adopt. Some places, the prescription of heroin is totally paid by taxpayers dollars, (pop up stating FACT: In the United Kingdom, it costs between $20,00 and $30,000 per user annually.) and other places an amount is paid by (pop up leaves the screen) the user for being able to access that facility and in private practicing in England, people will pay the full amount for the whole cost of that treatment. Now, I would like to add, when it comes to discussing the price of this, that it's also been subject for cost benefit analysis, and it shows, for instance in the Dutch heroin prescription trial, that providing addicts with heroin was a great dollar saver, or rather euro saver in Holland. It was close to 30,000 Euros cheaper for society a year, per user than not providing it, because you had fewer hospital admissions, you had less crime, you didn't have to put people in prison, and so on. But if you add all the expenses of that up, and it's not cheap to put people in jail, then it proved very cost efficient.