State has “allowed itself to become drug dealer-in-chief”.

Drug users hooked on methadone are pleading with the Government to help them get off drugs completely instead of just parking them on the heroin substitute. One former addict, Rosie, told The Times methadone is “almost more of a poison than heroin, there doesn’t ever seem to be an end to it”.And Jay, who started smoking heroin before he was 18, said he was given methadone in prison, instead of getting...

Chad Schaffner at risk for more life sentences than a cat with nine lives could survive

crime spree that puts Chad Schaffner at risk for more life sentences than a cat with nine lives could survive, the 37-year-old Indiana man yawned.He was equally nonplussed when Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Reeves announced the parolee's probable fate."It would be a total of 12 life sentences consecutive to each other," Reeves...