Through their intervention, Hitler and the Nazis (particularly Goering his designate in 1940) brought methadone to the attention of the world, as many leading Nazis were hard drug addicts.

This drug, that is the leading treatment for heroin addiction in the West, is more addictive than the drug it tries to cure.

Indeed, ask any drug addict on the streets today which is the worst addictive drug to stop taking, he or she will say methadone.

Therefore why do we use methadone? The problem escalates through this addictive treatment year-on-year? Have we really gone mad?

Now we see some who are trying to put forward the situation that we should reward drug addicts for just staying on this and other non-performing continual drug treatments.

This is sheer insanity I would say, but where I could very well see that the Home Office, who are empowered to tackle the hard drugs problem in the UK (not the NHS), taking on board this absurd recommendation.

The reason that I truly say this is that there is no logic in the Home Office's thinking, as senior civil servants and ministers only last year refused the introduction of a non-addictive cure for hard drug addiction in the United Kingdom.

This a harmless, no side-effect cure that even Kofi Annan instigated and supported.

Deplorably when you consider that the nation is utterly crying out for such a humane cure and where one does really exist.

When therefore I would respectfully ask, will the Home Office ever learn and come to their senses?

DR HAVID HILL, WORLD INNOVATION FOUNDATION CHARITY Bern, Switzerland