Drug Addicts To Be Given i-Pods If They Beat Their Habits (But No Drugs For Alzheimer's Patients)

Daily Mail ^ | 22nd July 2007 | JAMES SLACK

[DogByte6RER]

"...National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice)..."

Nice - Sounds simply Orwellian.

[DogByte6RER]

Drug addicts could be given iPods as an incentive to quit (posed by model)

[dfwgator]

Great, now they reward people just for obeying the law.

[T.Smith]

Coming soon to an America near you.

[sportscaster]

And they trade the I-pod for how much dope?

[Graybeard58]

I haven't robbed any bank, wonder if I could get one too.

Well, I haven't robbed any banks today.

[tcrlaf]

“Drug addicts to be given i-Pods if they beat their habits”

Does an IPOD bring as much as a donated inner-city school laptop at the Pawn Shop?

What’s the latest trade in crack-per-Ipod?

[DogByte6RER]

I wonder how many of these "reformed" dope addicts will be listening to Bob Dylan tunes or watching Cheech & Chong flicks on their newly acquired i-Pods?

[dighton]

iPod? What iPod? Oh . . . . she has an iPod!

[grjr21]

I don’t do drugs and I already have an I-Pod

How about if i just take the model and we can call it even

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

I was never on drugs. I want my ipod.

[DogByte6RER]

pinging

[giobruno]

“Research by the University of Connecticut found cocaine and methamphetamine users stayed drug free for longer when they had the chance to win prizes such as telephones, stereos, DVD players and televisions.”

More wasted tax dollars; more idiot, leftist research; more unemployable idiots on their floating island of Laputa.

[Reagan is King]

I’m sort of addicted to chocolate, does that count? Where’s my iPod?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Research by the University of Connecticut found cocaine and methamphetamine users stayed drug free for longer when they had the chance to win prizes such as telephones, stereos, DVD players and televisions.

If this works with drug addicts, we can try it with alcholics, smokers, serial killers, rapists, bank robbers, etc!

Everyone knows that iPod ownership is the new American Dream! Yee haw!

Liberals are the stupidest people on the face of the planet!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“If this works with drug addicts, we can try it with alcholics, smokers, serial killers, rapists, bank robbers, etc!”

Maybe we could try this with senators and representatives. There could be prizes for not hiring ‘escorts’, prizes for telling the truth, prizes for actually voting for what they said they would, prizes for straight answers to questions, and for every 5 times they actually show up for a vote their name can go into a general drawing for additional prizes.

[FlingWingFlyer]

BTW: I’ll bet those wacky Islamofascists would end their jihads against us if we only give them all a chance to win free prizes. These “intellectuals” might be on to something here.

[varyouga]

Umm. If someone is a real addict, ipods are not enough incentive to stop.

I have known several addicts that stole from their parents to support the habit. One pawned her mother’s engagement and wedding rings.

[Publius6961]

Beware of best (but clueless) intentions!

But... but... but...

[ichabod1]

Nobody wants iPods any more. Make it an iPhone or nothing. They can keep their sodding iPods.