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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Swiss Approve Unique Heroin Program

Drugs just don't go away. The interest in getting involved with drugs like heroin also keeps arising. Why is that? Its clear it has no benefit and the life of a junkie is limited and its not like the word isn't out. Yet its a reoccurring issue.

Here, the Swiss have legalized heroin centers to give addicts highly controlled amounts of the drug. It will be interesting to see how heroin addiction in that country changes for the better, or for the worse. Hopefully politics will keep its fact twisting little nose out of the equation.

Yahoo: Swiss approve pioneering legal heroin program
Sixty-eight percent of voters approved making the heroin program permanent. It has been credited with reducing crime and improving the health and daily lives of addicts since it began 14 years ago.

The aim is to help the addicts learn how to function in society, with counseling from psychiatrists and social workers.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

U mean they don't put them in hellish jails too teach them a lesson? How barbaric, how unchristian too condemn these poor wretches too drug addiction! The Swiss are now part of the Axis of Evil. Oh wait a min. they're white and rich right? Ok, they're just misinformed then. Nevermind.

Jim Sande said...

Europe just seems light years ahead in health care issues. This is a welcome change from the right wing hysterics we get here. What's interesting is that the Swiss are not known as the liberals, they are conservatives or at least were conservatives.