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News (Media Awareness Project) - US VT: LTE: Cures Make Sense
Title:US VT: LTE: Cures Make Sense
Published On:2002-05-26
Source:Burlington Free Press (VT)
Fetched On:2008-01-23 06:41:08
CURES MAKE SENSE

Just a minute. Let me see if I understand this. Because some people are
stupid or weak-kneed enough to get themselves addicted to heroin, and to
get un-addicted causes a certain amount of pain and suffering which they
are unwilling to undergo, then according to the recent editorial, (Free
Press, May 16) we the taxpayers of Vermont should spend a large amount of
money to give these hop-heads methadone for the rest of their lives.

Not that this is a cure for their addiction, but just a substitute drug,
perhaps a little cheaper, but they stay addicted.

My late Venezuelan father-in-law had a succinct phrase for this type of
thinking -- "caca del toro" -- in English, "B.S."

Now, if the Free Press were advocating a program to cure the heroin
addiction, it might make a lot more sense.

Jim Burbo

Hinesburg
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