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Senior surgeon calls for drug law relaxation after son dies of overdose - Telegraph

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 02/05/2015 - 14:20
The surgeon father of a young musician who died after a heroin overdose has called for Britain to adopt Swiss-style 'shooting galleries' where intravenous drugs can be administered more safely.

In a letter to the Telegraph, John Skipper claimed that had his son Rob been given the opportunity use a supervised consumption room, he might still be alive.

"Had he been given the opportunity to use heroin from a reliable source under supervision in a “consumption room” such as is found in Switzerland, I would have had less cause to warn his wife, sister and mother that he might be dead from an overdose before the end of the year," said Dr Skipper.

"He would probably be struggling, still, with addiction, but he

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