why do you think heroin would be dearer from da gangsta if the gov started selling it. 
almost all substance that can be bought legally can be bought illegally cheaper.
everything from cheap booze to cheap cigarettes and even cheap drugs.
if the gove sell anything they'll tax it or will do so after a while.
Billy the cost for treatment in a public methadone facility this year {April 2010} is $5,200 a year for drugs and counseling seven days a week.
I'd wager that is much less the the cost of a funeral or incarceration my dear.
is that for an hour a day ? i'd wager that cost of one councillor and the dugs he prescribes runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
who pays the rent for the councilors to work from? i worked a rehab center staffed by eleven councilors. it serviced about 60 square miles. it was closed due to lack of funding. the annual bill for travel expenses was something like 25 thousand pounds. that didn't include paying for two vehicles for the main guys. 6 of us were volunteers. but four were paid medical staff. a doctor, two nurse a Psychiatrist and maintainence man (us volunteers just got expenses and a food allowance, the others got fully paid wages.) prescriptions for methadone didn't even compare to some of the alternative treatments such as acupuncture (we eventually were taught how to do it t save cost) cold turkey. (which need 24/7 surveillance with at least two people in attendance in case the person tried to harm themselves) i'll check up some facts and figures for you later.
and that doesn't take into account the drain on hospital resources and the huge cost of that, as well as the loss of treatment to others who use a national health system.
and btw, it isn't humane to feed an almost unfixable habit such as heroin addiction. unless of course you merely want to control them
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not sure what 70 million krona is in dollars but i'm sure it's a tad more the 5 or 6 thousand.
Denmark’s new state-financed heroin clinics have just enough political backing and plenty of funding, but they can’t find enough heroin. Five city councils are set to be the first districts in Denmark where heroin addicts can receive free treatment and help kicking their habit.
But at least one clinic, in the town of Odense, hasn’t opened yet because it is having difficulty scoring enough heroin to handle the needs of its patients, according to the Fyens Stiftstidende newspaper.
More than a year ago, the Danish parliament allocated 70 million kroner to set up heroin clinics in Copenhagen, Odense, Arhus, Esbjerg, and Glostrup. Copenhagen got the lion’s share of the funding, pocketing nearly half of the total amount. But the National Board of Health is having a hard time finding a pharmaceutical company that is able to supply enough heroin, package it, and deliver it at a reasonable price.
The newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende says that the government has therefore embarked on a fact-finding mission abroad (location unstated) where it hopes to learn more about the practical side of its project, such as storing and distributing heroin.
Another obstacle facing Odense’s heroin clinic, which is scheduled to open on 1 January, is that locals don’t want the clinic opened in their backyard. The present drug treatment centre in the city reports it is running into difficulties finding a clinic location for the users and the staff due to local bias against junkies. source:
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this one looks good till you get to the end, first off its only dealing with 20 users lmao and then the realization dawns on what they say (i underlined it )
A scheme giving free heroin to Danish addicts has resulted in increased health and a reduction in crime and prostitution.
Initial reports have indicated that a trial issuing Copenhagen’s heroin addicts with free doses of the drug has been successful, with users committing less crime and demonstrating an improvement in their overall quality of life.
Twenty drug users have taken part in the programme since its launch in March, with two clinics providing morning and afternoon heroin doses. One of the participating centres, the Valmue Clinic, said addicts have shown a noticeable improvement in both their physical and psychological condition.
“They don’t have to wake up in the morning with how to get money as the first thing they think about. That gives them a surplus that means that we can talk to them about their housing situation, how we can help them apply for a disability pension if they need that, or perhaps about the child they have lost contact with,” said Valmue Clinic Head Torben Ballegaard. He added that addicts had committed fewer crimes, discontinued prostitution and put on weight during the study.
In addition to daily breakfast and a hot meal, the addicts had regular contact with nursing staff, enabling the faster discovery and treatment of illnesses, reports Politiken. “They get the courage to attend to things that they have kept to themselves – for example to say that they have shared a needle with another addict and would like to be tested,” said Vivian Kjaer, Senior Nurse with the KABS institution.
Ballegaard, however, acknowledged that while the addicts may have developed certain life skills, their chances of giving up the drug remained slim. “I can’t see any of them being able to get off heroin, but I can see some being able to live a sensible life with heroin,” he said.
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they also used that big word SOME in the last line.
there is no cure for heroin addict only abstinence
almost all substance that can be bought legally can be bought illegally cheaper. everything from cheap booze to cheap cigarettes and even cheap drugs.
if the gove sell anything they'll tax it or will do so after a while.
Billy the cost for treatment in a public methadone facility this year {April 2010} is $5,200 a year for drugs and counseling seven days a week.
I'd wager that is much less the the cost of a funeral or incarceration my dear.
is that for an hour a day ? i'd wager that cost of one councillor and the dugs he prescribes runs into hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
who pays the rent for the councilors to work from? i worked a rehab center staffed by eleven councilors. it serviced about 60 square miles. it was closed due to lack of funding. the annual bill for travel expenses was something like 25 thousand pounds. that didn't include paying for two vehicles for the main guys. 6 of us were volunteers. but four were paid medical staff. a doctor, two nurse a Psychiatrist and maintainence man (us volunteers just got expenses and a food allowance, the others got fully paid wages.) prescriptions for methadone didn't even compare to some of the alternative treatments such as acupuncture (we eventually were taught how to do it t save cost) cold turkey. (which need 24/7 surveillance with at least two people in attendance in case the person tried to harm themselves) i'll check up some facts and figures for you later.
and that doesn't take into account the drain on hospital resources and the huge cost of that, as well as the loss of treatment to others who use a national health system.
and btw, it isn't humane to feed an almost unfixable habit such as heroin addiction. unless of course you merely want to control them
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not sure what 70 million krona is in dollars but i'm sure it's a tad more the 5 or 6 thousand.
Denmark’s new state-financed heroin clinics have just enough political backing and plenty of funding, but they can’t find enough heroin. Five city councils are set to be the first districts in Denmark where heroin addicts can receive free treatment and help kicking their habit.
But at least one clinic, in the town of Odense, hasn’t opened yet because it is having difficulty scoring enough heroin to handle the needs of its patients, according to the Fyens Stiftstidende newspaper.
More than a year ago, the Danish parliament allocated 70 million kroner to set up heroin clinics in Copenhagen, Odense, Arhus, Esbjerg, and Glostrup. Copenhagen got the lion’s share of the funding, pocketing nearly half of the total amount. But the National Board of Health is having a hard time finding a pharmaceutical company that is able to supply enough heroin, package it, and deliver it at a reasonable price.
The newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende says that the government has therefore embarked on a fact-finding mission abroad (location unstated) where it hopes to learn more about the practical side of its project, such as storing and distributing heroin.
Another obstacle facing Odense’s heroin clinic, which is scheduled to open on 1 January, is that locals don’t want the clinic opened in their backyard. The present drug treatment centre in the city reports it is running into difficulties finding a clinic location for the users and the staff due to local bias against junkies. source:
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this one looks good till you get to the end, first off its only dealing with 20 users lmao and then the realization dawns on what they say (i underlined it )
A scheme giving free heroin to Danish addicts has resulted in increased health and a reduction in crime and prostitution.
Initial reports have indicated that a trial issuing Copenhagen’s heroin addicts with free doses of the drug has been successful, with users committing less crime and demonstrating an improvement in their overall quality of life.
Twenty drug users have taken part in the programme since its launch in March, with two clinics providing morning and afternoon heroin doses. One of the participating centres, the Valmue Clinic, said addicts have shown a noticeable improvement in both their physical and psychological condition.
“They don’t have to wake up in the morning with how to get money as the first thing they think about. That gives them a surplus that means that we can talk to them about their housing situation, how we can help them apply for a disability pension if they need that, or perhaps about the child they have lost contact with,” said Valmue Clinic Head Torben Ballegaard. He added that addicts had committed fewer crimes, discontinued prostitution and put on weight during the study.
In addition to daily breakfast and a hot meal, the addicts had regular contact with nursing staff, enabling the faster discovery and treatment of illnesses, reports Politiken. “They get the courage to attend to things that they have kept to themselves – for example to say that they have shared a needle with another addict and would like to be tested,” said Vivian Kjaer, Senior Nurse with the KABS institution.
Ballegaard, however, acknowledged that while the addicts may have developed certain life skills, their chances of giving up the drug remained slim. “I can’t see any of them being able to get off heroin, but I can see some being able to live a sensible life with heroin,” he said.
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they also used that big word SOME in the last line.
there is no cure for heroin addict only abstinence