Drug users should pay

The government needs to do more to stop people using methamphetamine. Really? And how will they do that? Using it is a personal choice. Our border patrols and Customs are stopping this stuff at our borders, seizing humungous amounts before it gets to the streets.

If people are too stupid and weak-willed to heed the warnings about the effect this crap has on their body and mind and use it anyway, no one and no government regulations are going to stop them. The fact that it is illegal makes no difference, people still use it.

Personally I feel that anyone being treated for the after-effects of this scourge on our society and any other self-administered illegal drugs (and alcohol) should have to pay for any and all treatment and resources used to treat them. Hospitals are not charities.

This drug is costing our country's hospitals thousands of dollars every year, money that could be used for urgent cases and much-needed surgeries.

Our doctors and nurses are stretched to breaking point, overworked, underpaid and they are in constant danger of being attacked while trying to help these buffoons and for what? Put simply – stupidity! Make them pay.

S Gussey, Tauranga.

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