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By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent, PA News
Drug addict criminals could be offered detox treatment as an alternative to prison, Home Secretary David Blunkett suggested today.
Mr Blunkett told a conference of drug and alcohol workers that not all addicts who commit crimes should necessarily be put behind bars.
The alternative could particularly apply to young offenders, he said."
