THE BIG ISSUE: COCAINE IT'S WRONG TO BLAME AMY WINEHOUSE

Your conclusion that the answer to cocaine lies not in trying to curb
supply but in eradicating demand is absolutely correct. Where there
is demand there will always be supply.

However, you are naive if you think that your appeal to
cocaine-takers to stop because of the dreadful 'impact their habit
has on other people around the world' will have the slightest effect.
I use a modified version of the late Allen Carr's method of curing
nicotine addiction to help people quit cocaine and am repeatedly
confronted by dejected individuals who realise their lives are being
ruined by the drug and who are desperate to quit but have been unable to so do.

Individuals will not quit for the sake of unknown people in distant
lands but for their own extremely pressing, personal reasons.

Robin Hayley

Managing director, Allen Carr's Easyway (International) Ltd London