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Originally Posted by fotze
No North hill shoppers and the kensington one.
I wonder if the media made a stink about giving heroin addicts 'heroin-lite' there would be quite the uproar, especially if it is paid for by health care.
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I don't think there would be an uproar personally. I mean, the whole point of taking it is to ween people off heroin, if it really was to administer diet heroin, I would imagine the junkies know how to get better stuff. But by getting over their drug addiction they are probably saving health-care more money, let alone costs of policing, unemployment, homeless shelters etc. that would be alleviated if addicts rehabilitated.
Methodone is like the patch for cigarette smokers. If a smoker gets an urge to smoke, are they going to go to the pharmacy and pick up nicorette or just buy a pack of smokes?
I am a little surprised that the pharmacy can administer it though...