> But Switzerland still has a street opiate drug market problem! The planet's various governments created the street drug marketplace by making desired substan

> But Switzerland still has a street opiate drug market problem! The planet's various governments created the street drug marketplace by making desired substances illegal. The United States government created the country's drug culture by lying to people about the actual hazards of these desired substances. Perhaps Switzerland has not eliminated opiate deaths, as my comment originally indicated, but the Swiss are doing better than everyone else in making progress at helping people with opiate addictions. Results from the Swiss studies, however, show that mortality among patients in heroin assisted maintenance programmes is low, and lower than for patients in other maintenance programmes.14 In addition, the wider safety concerns could not be empirically confirmed in Switzerland or the Netherlands.15 Finally, the incidence of heroin dependence has decreased greatly in Switzerland since the start of the trials, and currently heroin has a more negative image than it did 15 years ago.16 - http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7635/70?variant=full http://www.bmj.com/content/336/7635/70?variant=full ref #14 (above) says: CONCLUSION: Mortality in heroin-assisted treatment was low compared to the mortality rate of Swiss opioid users 1990s (estimated to be between 2.5 and 3%). It was also low compared to mortality rates of opioid users in other maintenance treatments in other countries as reported in the literature. The SMR was also lower than that reported in the only meta-analysis in the literature: 13.2 (95% C.I. 12.3-14.1). The low mortality rate is all the more noteworthy as heroin-assisted treatment in Switzerland included only refractory opioid addicts with existing severe somatic and/or mental problems. - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16002023?access_num=16002023&link_type=MED&dopt=Abstract https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16002023?access_num=1600...