[Know your rights]

I'm inherently skeptical of sources that tell me how wonderfully socialist programs are working.

The available evidence says that treatment socialism works better than criminalization socialism ... and I know of no reason to doubt that.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The available evidence says that treatment socialism works better than criminalization socialism

Again, we're basing this on the Swiss study.

Let it be understood that the study was conducted in Zurich, where heroin was already legal in Needle Park and the problem was already out of control. The study does not show that treatment enrollments have gone down, only that they haven't risen since 1996, when heroin use in Zurich was an epidemic because of the Needle Park experiment.

So this study merely shows that treatment socialism may have, for the moment, stopped the bleeding caused by the 1987 decriminalization in Zurich.

Now, if you're comparing Switzerland to the US when you say "more successful", you're comparing apples to oranges. Switzerland isn't America. It's not even New Jersey.