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Germany and other places do opiate maintenance with diamorphine (heroin). You go in and get to shoot up as much as you want then go about your day. Sounds nice.
by bfuller 8y ago
Germany and other places do opiate maintenance with diamorphine (heroin). You go in and get to shoot up as much as you want then go about your day. Sounds nice.
- hguhghuff 8y ago>> sounds nice Sounds shit to me but I fully respect any system that allows it. These people can probably get on with some sort of life in between their hits instead of spending their lives trying to get in a position to get high agsin.
- vbrandl 8y agoSwitzerland has a program where clean heroin is given to addicts. Since the program started in 1994, none of the participants died from an overdose or other problems caused by impure drugs. Also, as long as you have a clean substance, it is actually easier and healthier to taper of heroin by lowering the dose than by substituting it with something like methadone. The last withdrawal when going from a low dose to taking nothing anymore is way heavier when coming of methadone than it is for heroin.
- gaspoweredcat 8y agoim not sure id encourage the use of full diamorphine for this id argue using straight morphine is sufficient, its also cheaper for the service to provide (also cheaper than the likes of methadone too as far as im aware)
- tim333 8y agoReduces the chance of them using black market stuff though. I'm not sure the actual cost of the legal diamorphine is much in the scheme of things. Update: "The cost of a year's diamorphine treatment for an addict is about £15,000, although this includes administering and supervising the injections." Compare: "CEA estimates that in 2015, the economic cost of the [US] opioid crisis was $504.0 billion, or 2.8 percent of GDP that year." And 33,000 deaths. It can be worth intervening to stop these things going exponential.
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