Australian Broadcasting Corporation   Investigative TV
journalism at its best  The Politics of Heroin  The struggle
over how Australia tackles the drug problem.  ANDREW FOWLER:
More than 100,000 Australians are regular users of heroin.  Over
the past five years, more than 3,000 of them have died.   And I
can't explain to anybody who hasn't been through that experience
what that's like.  ANDREW FOWLER: Now the debate has become
openly factional.  The Prime Minister's chosen adviser is an
old-style Salvationist.  MAJOR BRIAN WATTERS, FORMER DIRECTOR SE
REGION SALVATION ARMY: They talk about a war against drugs -- I
say it's a phoney war.  We're running around with popguns and
they're chocolate soldiers.  If we had the same approach towards
stopping the invader in 1942 as we've got towards this problem
now, we'd all be talking Japanese today.  ANDREW FOWLER: The
treatment of drug users is now bitterly contested, characterised
by moral posturing and party politics.  JOHN HOWARD, PRIME
MINISTER: Unlike the Labor P