Posted on 10/20/2015 12:59:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Norway’s two largest cities could start giving away heroin for free to hardened drug addicts, in an effort to reduce the country’s death rate from overdose, the second highest in Europe after Estonia.
After the Labour Party took control of the two cities in last month’s local elections, it is expected to start trialing the policy in both cities, Aftenposten newspaper said on Friday.
“We have agreed not to prevent a trial of heroin-assisted treatment for the heaviest abusers, if the Bergen health authority wants to begin such an effort again,” Harald Schjelderup (Ap), the newly appointed Chief Commissioner for Bergen told VG.
At the same time, Labour’s Christian Democrat and Liberal allies in the city’s council are willing to back the opening of special safe rooms where heroin addicts and smoke and inject heroin and other drugs.
In Oslo, 64-year-old Marianne Borgen, who was appointed mayor on Friday night, is expected to bring in a new drugs treatment policy.
The policy agreement Labour has agreed with the Green Party and the Socialist Left party opened the way for a trial of heroin treatment in a strictly controlled trial.
But this must be backed by Norway’s national parliament, which in 2012 rejected a motion to allow treatment with heroin.
According to a 2014 EU drugs report, Norway at 76 per million per year, has the second highest rate of death from drug overdose in the world after Estonia.
In Estonia the rate have soared to 190 per million from below 80 since 2008 because of an explosion in the use of the potent synthetic opioid Fentanyl.
I can see compassion trying to help get them off the drug and programs to help them go off the drug slowly. However, using the taxpayer’s money to keep them hooked on the drug and keeping them alive for more “free” drug giveaways is totally insane.
Unless they can hook the “new” refugees, yeah, that’s the ticket, hook the refugees on heroin.
a utopia for druggies. Welfare & free drugs. Hmm perfect society for leftists. Druggies too drugged out to notice the police state.
“Heroin, Frank, Heroin”
“That’s a tall order, you’ll have to give me a couple of days on that one”
Where to the draw the line between assisted suicide and drug use? Why do they not overdose them in their enlightened mercy.
So much for legalize it/tax the hell out of it. Free is subsidizing.
It’s a quality of life issue.
Apparently the government plans to withhold just enough heroin so that they don’t overdose, since that is the stated problem.
Addiction & substance abuse has always been a medical problem.
We are a long way from solving it. Alcohol & drug rehab centers have a 4% success rate - not very encouraging.
But jailing the junkies is expensive & only produces a junkie/predator upon release. We could shoot them, but then a lot of mommies & daddies, friends & family are gonna be dead. That wont work.
So, we are left with a medical solution. Better the junk comes from a doctor than a dealer. And if some junkies die, well, that was their choice despite all the info & warnings.
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