Not fair...
Addicts get free heroin, while responsible users still have to pay for it.Addicts to get free heroin
AARON DERFEL
The Gazette
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
The idea sounds like the farthest thing from drug rehabilitation: give heroin addicts free shots of pharmaceutical-grade smack to help them kick their habit.
Yet that's precisely what doctors in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver hope to do in a controlled study early next year.
Researchers plan to recruit about 150 heroin addicts for the Montreal portion of the study. The addicts will be encouraged to shoot up in a downtown clinic under the supervision of a nurse up to three times daily, seven days a week.
Half of the addicts will be given heroin, and the other half methadone. No one - not even the doctors - will know who has taken either drug until the two-year study is concluded.
In Montreal, researchers haven't found a location, although it will probably be downtown.
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