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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.

Posted by chrisdye on October 21, 2003 with category tags of

2 comments
I know someone helping administer a cocaine study at McGill. Oh, the crazy stories he can tell!
   comment by alice (#60) on October 22, 2003

You're lying, Alice, how sad...
   comment by Chronomorph (#11) on October 27, 2003

   

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