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A few days after his vasectomy, Alan Mitchell's GP phoned him to check on his progress. He warned Alan that, because of his medical history, the healing process might take longer than for most men.
'My immune system isn't great and my liver was damaged during a bout of Hepatitis C last year,' says 38-year-old Alan. 'He wanted me to be aware that, for me, everything is a bit more complicated.'
However, not even his GP could have realised quite how 'complicated' this vasectomy was. For Alan admits he failed to mention one crucial fact to his doctor - the envelope of cash that awaited him after the procedure.
Alan had just become the first person in Britain to agree to be part of a controversial scheme to sterilise drug addicts in return for money.
After 16 years of battling a heroin addiction, he accepted a deal from a controversial U.S. charity that promised him £200 in return for the snip.
This week, the news of the deal was greeted with shock and revulsion by drug campaigners, who claimed that...