Drug addicts paid £200 a year to use long-term contraception

Summary of story from Daily Mirror, ed 8.3.11.

A charity is paying 26 female drug addicts £200 a year to use contraception.

The women are given the cash in stages if medical examinations prove they have used a coil or implant.

Project ­Prevention claims the scheme will cut the number of babies born in the UK hooked on drugs.

Campaigner Barbara Harris told BBC Radio 5 Live: “Most of the women will spend the money on drugs, erectile but that is their choice. The babies don’t have a choice.  The women will prostitute and rob to get cash.”

Harris, treatment from the US, caused outrage last year when she paid a heroin-addicted man £200 to be sterilised.

A UK charity is launching a similar scheme, giving £50 in supermarket vouchers to addicts who use protection.