Drugs, Taking their lifes away!

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My name is Ronan Doran, I live in Ireland. Two years ago I finally managed to convince my oldest friend he needed help to get off heroin. The two of us grew up together but in our teens chose separate paths. After about ten years of addiction myself and his mother(Helen) finally convinced him he needed help. After years of trying we managed to get him to go to our local Doctor and ask for help. The Doctor listened and was very sympathetic and refereed him to a Methadone clinic. He attended the Methadone clinic in a desperate state asking for help there and then. They told him they would help him but that he would have to come back in six months time. He left distraught. He came home with his mother and me(we attended the clinic with him) and he was lost. The way he seen it was that it was now or never. Myself and his Mother spent the next three months actually buying him heroin to make sure he didn't get sick, in the hope that the Methadone clinic was a means to an end, a cure. He died of an overdose in the fourth month. I swear to you he had a good family. Nobody knows what his reasons were for starting to take heroin. The question I want to ask is, do you think once an addict asks for help should they receive it or should they have to wait?? Thank you, Roe