More debate on medical heroin

So heroin is good, and should be free to anyone. Great progress! And cocaine is okay? Sure, why not. Acid. Ecstasy? Methamphetamine? Wow. You name it, we've got your safe, free government supply. This is such a great country to live in. Lets encourage everyone to participate. Safe injection sites starting in elementary school, so no one ever needs to come down from a high. Like Reply 1 hour ago 1 Like
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This isn't the proposal. A heroin addict has sex with a girl who has sex with a guy who has sex with your daughter. The heroin addict injected himself with a used needle, and has HIV and Hep C hiding in him, with little to no symptoms. If the community, society does not treat this as though there was an epidemic, we all better be prepared to pay. This program is for genuine addicts. Not for people to become addicts to get free drugs. With few exceptions addicts hate their habits. They don't do heroin to get high, they do it so that they don't get sick. Addicts have to fear the government, doctors, policemen etc. because these people right now represent the way to jail.An adict knows if they are thrown in jail, they will get very sick, and do unthinkable things to score hard drugs in jail.
Under a medical model these people, not recreational drug users, have a life-saving intervention, and over time, medical solutions to getting off the habit. In a medical model, the doctor and the nurse, and the counselor are there to help you get better, not to turn you in. Finally, there have been a few studies done where groups of addicts had access to medical heroine prescriptions. Crime rates plummeted: the addict didn't have to steal thousands and thousands of dollars worth of honest hard working people's stuff. And the Hells Angels were mad because they weren't getting thousands of dollars from every addict they had under their thumb.