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To: Huck
But it does nothing to stop the overdosing (due to questionable purity) or the crimes committed to obtain the heroin.

That will be solved by Phase II (I predict) where the addicts are provided free heroin.

The Swiss program provided heroin as did the Dutch program.

15 posted on 09/16/2003 7:37:56 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
But it does nothing to stop the overdosing (due to questionable purity) or the crimes committed to obtain the heroin.

Right. I am saying that some have argued that the needles programs benefit public health by attacking the spread of infectious disease--the blood born pathogens. Of course, it seems that has to be weighed against the promotion, if it is such, of heroin use, which is in itself a horrible disease. I may be using the term "disease" too loosely in that last sentence. I am not suggesting that heroin use is an ailment absent the free will of the person who chooses to use, just that once someone is hooked, it is a nasty, life and soul destroying spiral to hell.

18 posted on 09/16/2003 7:45:05 AM PDT by Huck
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