I remember when Wirral Drug Service started 'Understanding Methadone' seminars for new starters onto a script. The person who ran it wouldn't let a script start until the person attended the three half days. This went on for some months until hardly anyone completed the course and virtually no one started a script. Dr Stef went mad when he found out and pointed out that you only start attending courses once you are on a script. He stopped this immediately and said to the irate staff member, a gobshite who hated drug users, that the course could still run and people should attend. No one turned up though so it shut down completely. We are a fickle lot..! I am pleased to say, Dr Stef always laughed at this though.
Another attempt, years ago, to get peoples job chances improved who were on a script was JCP sponsored 'Fork Lift Driver' courses. Needless to say many did do the course, hardly anyone got a job though, and so many did the course that if you said you had a fork lift driver certificate, people knew you were on a script!
But I don't know many who would turn the chance down of a decent vocational training course, through a local college, IT or something, gas fitter etc. Not CGL 'Inner Self' courses or Zumba Classes or even creative poetry writing, something with a fuckin' job at the end of it! But as many point out and still do, why should drug users get better opportunities than non-drug users? That attitude is still there.