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To: definitelynotaliberal
This sounds indistinguishable from the old rationale for methadone maintenance programs in the US. It gets the rabble out of the "needle parks" but doesn't change anything.
3 posted on 11/30/2008 9:25:10 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

And that’s what the conservative politician said - ‘damage limitation’, I believe, is what she called it. The article also said that they give the addicts just enough to satisfy a craving, not enough to get high, or something like that. I don’t know much about drug abuse.

I posted the article only because I thought the last article was interesting. I don’t much care about junkies, Swiss or otherwise.


5 posted on 11/30/2008 9:28:44 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal
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“It gets the rabble out of the “needle parks” but doesn’t change anything.”

I would think it might reduce theft from these people too who are the types that would probably be stealing, selling their bodies, or whatever to get high. They’ve been doing this for quite some time now. I wonder how many addicts in their program are getting in trouble for stealing, dealing and/or the other sorts of things junkies do to get the money for drugs?


18 posted on 11/30/2008 10:54:19 PM PST by TKDietz
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