Drug addicts are being paid by an American charity to undergo sterilisation.

Project Prevention defend their scheme on the basis that it reduces the numbers of drug-addicted babies born, but other drugs charities attack it as exploitative and morally questionable, and express concern that addicts will simply use the £200 paid to feed their habit.

According to Private Eye the first Briton to collect the money also picked up £5000 from the morally unquestionable Daily Mail, to run his story.