I’m not sure why Canada is giving them heroin instead of Methadone. Had an addict in my close family, and he said the worst part of it was that the tolerance for heroin kept going up, so by the end of it all he was just trying to avoid getting sick and wasn’t getting high hardly at all. He got good results from an impressive local Methadone program and eventually was able to clean up entirely. I’d support free treatment centers with the proviso that the patients would have to stay long term AND COULD NOT LEAVE.
I'm not sure why Canada is giving them heroin instead of Methadone.
First of all I am glad there was success with your relative in treatment. I did a bit of research and got the National Post of last March. Reference Tom Blackwell. Incredibly the number of Methadone patients in 1996 was 3000, in Ontario alone. To this date it is now 50 thousand. A health care worker stated that most patients use it to get a high.
I will concede that I hadn't a clue about the statistics of drug use in Ontario. My own vice is 200 ml (7 ounces) of Wiser's Deluxe whisky once a week (chuckle). I absolutely do not condemn the addict, not walking in their shoes.