Should heroin addiction be treated with methadone?

Use Mouse Party to learn the basics of different recreational/illegal drugs including heroin.

Use this link about drug use and crime to find some useful facts for your AO1.

This link is also helpful for finding some statistics for your AO1.

Use this NHS page to find clear easy to understand info about methadone treatment including maintenance and detoxificaition.

This video provides more useful information of methadone treatment including points that may be useful for developing strengths and weaknesses (not usually needed for paper 1 KQs unless they appears as part of the 12 marker in Section E, when they may be combined with an issues and debate)

A great page for learning about strengths and weaknesses of methadone treatment as well as other useful facts.

My attempt at answering this question in 11-12 minutes in handwriting (then typed up) – I write fast and messy so I did get a lot down, the structure at the end isn’t great, and the grammar could be improved but this is what happens under timed conditions! See comments especially on the conclusion.