He points out the reasons heroin addicts choose to give up their habits. His statement “… more than half mentioned they had trouble with the law and rising costs…” (Wilson 554) He compares the use of heroin in the US and Great Britain. During the late 1950’s and early 60’s the British government allowed physicians to prescribe heroin to patients. This may sound irresponsible, but they believed what Milton Friedman believes. Make this drug legal and worry less. This all changed in the middle of the 1960’s. Physicians prescribe numerous amounts of heroin to their patients, starting a “mini epidemic.” The doctors began to use an “addictive drug, methadone, which did not produce a high…” (Wilson
He points out the reasons heroin addicts choose to give up their habits. His statement “… more than half mentioned they had trouble with the law and rising costs…” (Wilson 554) He compares the use of heroin in the US and Great Britain. During the late 1950’s and early 60’s the British government allowed physicians to prescribe heroin to patients. This may sound irresponsible, but they believed what Milton Friedman believes. Make this drug legal and worry less. This all changed in the middle of the 1960’s. Physicians prescribe numerous amounts of heroin to their patients, starting a “mini epidemic.” The doctors began to use an “addictive drug, methadone, which did not produce a high…” (Wilson