Amsterdam gives heroin addicts free heroin, and the program actually works
Posted by Josh Taylor / August 3, 2014
The heroin epidemic in Amsterdam in the 1980s an ’90s traumatized the country. Crime and addiction was so bad that the country worked hard to turn things around, including a needle exchange and methadone clinics. The real innovation was from the Swiss, but perfected by the Dutch: giving addicts free heroin.
If addicts qualify––being above thirty years old, having attempted to quit on their own, etc.––they can come to specially designed government clinics and shoot up or smoke heroin three times a day at specific times. See how the program works and the (questionable) success of the strategy at the full article.
Full story at Vice News.
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