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Free Heroin..you Know You Waaaaaaant It!
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» eLDee replied on Wed Feb 9, 2005 @ 12:43am |
 Coolness: 121840 | VANCOUVER (CP) - A program that will hand out free heroin in a bid to stop junkies throwing themselves at the mercy of the streets, desperately selling their bodies or stealing for drugs, will begin recruiting addicts on Thursday.
Under a clinical trial just approved by Health Canada, 158 Vancouver addicts will be given prescriptions for free, pharmaceutical-grade heroin for 12-15 months. Officials are hoping that freed from their daily pursuit of money to buy their next fix, users will find time to make positive changes in their lives. A second site is being readied for the North American Opiate Medication Initiative in Montreal, expected to open in April, and the project will begin in Toronto shortly after that, said Jim Boothroyd, a spokesman for the initiative in Vancouver, known as NAOMI. On Wednesday, NAOMI volunteers will paper Vancouver's Downtown Eastside with posters asking for recruits for the study. The area is crawling with pushers and pimps. More than 4,000 drug addicts live in the slum near NAOMI's clinic. "We will begin enrolling people Thursday," said Boothroyd. "They have to have been addicted to heroin for at least five years. Once we have a random sample, there will be about a month's hiatus before we actually start prescribing." That means the free drugs will be available by mid-March. more: [ story.news.yahoo.com ] |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ashtraygirl replied on Wed Feb 9, 2005 @ 1:05am |
 Coolness: 90410 | i think that, coupled with the safe-injection sites can go a long way to help fix (bad pun) the rampant heroin use in Vancouver.
however, if i were a junkie and i had a 12 month prescription for free heroin, i would probably end up doing twice as much. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Wed Feb 9, 2005 @ 8:32am |
 Coolness: 57125 | I think I agree that it would probably just lead to them doing more-- or not necessarily less.
It sounds like it is more to please/appease the appeal. Get the junkies off the street so we don't have to see them or be robbed by them. That's what I call pleasing the public. It's what any "good" little govn't should do. It sounds funny to say recruiting..junkies. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Wed Feb 9, 2005 @ 9:13am |
 Coolness: 146125 | it's good, it will take some time but in the end it will hurt organized crime which is good. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Wed Feb 9, 2005 @ 9:36am |
| Coolness: 57125 | I didn't think about that-- good point^^^ |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Feb 9, 2005 @ 9:46am |
 Coolness: 340590 | i always kinda wonder whats going through someone's head when they decide to do heroine or crack.... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Roxiie replied on Wed Feb 9, 2005 @ 10:26am |
 Coolness: 36280 | Probaly the same thing that goes threw some one's head when the decide to do coke or k? .... boredom perhaps ? |
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