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Employees of the British Council on drug addiction problems consider that nurses should be authorized to give cocaine to patients in very bad condition treated from drug dependence.

At present some doctors in the Great Britain have already the license to give patients, suffering from drug dependence, A class drugs (cocaine, heroin and MDMA), worth in the street about 100 dollars for a gram. However employees of the Council want to go further and to allow by law to give drugs to dependent people in hospitals provided that they will take them in the medical worker’s presence.

Such permission is wanted to be passed only in relation to very hard addicts. For today about 10 thousand British are being treated after the cocaine use, though not all of them are registered as addicts. A principal cause of the suggested innovation is the desire to lower amount of crimes, committed by addicts to get a “doze”.

Means for cocaine are going to be allocated from the state budget. Because of this and some other reasons the question of “medical” cocaine has caused a number of disputes, as it is connected to the big expenses.

There is a lot of criticism and the main ground is that many law-abiding citizens suffering from serious illnesses not connected to drug addiction (cancer, arthritis and other diseases), are frequently refused in drugs.