Project Prevention want to pay addicts £200 to be sterilised

Project Prevention has come over to the UK and are offering to pay addicts £200 if they agree to be operated on.

The unnamed man, who has been involved in drugs since he was 12 years old, has agreed to accept the money.

He said, ‘It was something that I had been thinking about for a long time as I will not be able to support a kid, I can just about manage to support myself.’

The charity have been criticised by some other drug charities that claim that the addicts will use the money to further feed their addiction.

Simon Antrobus, chief executive of Addaction, said, ‘It exploits very vulnerable people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol at probably the lowest point in their lives.’

Barbara Harris, the founder of Project Prevention, has admitted that her methods amounted to ‘bribery’, but said that it was the only way to stop babies being physically and mentally damaged by drugs during pregnancy.

Project Prevention has already paid 3,500 addicts across the United States to undergo the operation.

In support of the scheme, Reverend Martin Blakebrough, director of Camden’s Kaleidoscope Project, has commented that sterilisation was ‘worth considering’ if it was right for the individual.

By Lauren King