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Vancouver's Radical Approach to Drugs: Let Junkies Be Junkies | DrugReporter | AlterNet

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- The report on the NAOMI clinic trial (providing pharmaceutical heroin to heroin addicts who have continually failed other types of treatment, including methadone) is out and, like the results everywhere it's been tried, it has proven to be a real lifesaver. So many have died that didn't have to.
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  pokesmot
- I couldn't agree with ya more. I have been there on the east side it is as he says, i was there in 1998 Thanksgiving and this "house" was already going.
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  onechance
- That's NOT "radical", it's LOGICAL.
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