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You're kidding yourself if that is what you believe. Even pure heroin is still extremely dangerous. Your solution isn't so simple when you provide pure heroin
by king_magic 12y ago
You're kidding yourself if that is what you believe. Even pure heroin is still extremely dangerous.
Your solution isn't so simple when you provide pure heroin to an addict who gets behind the wheel and kills a family coming home from dinner. The devil, as always, is in the details - maybe some aspects of that sort of plan will work in a small country like Switzerlend, but in somewhere like the US, there are just too many practical barriers to a plan like that working. Hell, we can't control our drunk driving problem - there is just no way free heroin for addicts is going to work at scale.
- logic404 12y agoYou're kidding yourself if that is what you believe. I think OP is speaking from a medical perspective, and from that perspective I believe OP is correct. You could live a long time without complications taking a medicinal dose of heroin. To be clear, if you abuse alcohol you get cirrhosis of the liver, if you smoke your more likely to get cancer, emphysema, etc. You don't have those types of complications just from abusing heroin. So instead of arguing against a straw man, lets try to understand each other. Is it your belief that heroin use causes medical problems or do you agree with the claim that heroin is relatively benign from a medical perspective. If you disagree, maybe elaborate on the what you believe are the health consequences. (Note: I'm talking about medical heroin, as was the OP. Injecting contaminated substances and sharing needles causes all sorts of health problems. I stipulate that the behavior that typically goes along with heroin abuse is unhealthy).
- sukilot 12y agoWhen one of the side effects of the drug is dependency, abuse should be considered part of the drug effect.