Pixelated Semantics

Inhumane medical experiments

Interesting and laudable that the Canadian government is willing to take the brave and sane step of giving heroin to addicts from a clinic. In a trial of this nature in the UK in the 80's the results were a 95% reduction in crime and vastly improved result for addict's health, not to mention the reduction of cost of policing and health measures - though the success did not translate into anything beyond the trial. Studies show conclusively that a more liberal availability of drugs results in fewer users and less issues with crime and public health, yet the American hysteria over drugs has more or less resulted in harder attitudes that see millions of addicts criminalised and kept in a vicious circle of poverty crime and ill-health. The current and historic approach achieves only vast profits for the black market and a hugely expensive police state mentality. Nobody wants to see a society that is stoned out of its mind all of the time, but that is not the case where these trials have proceeded. And I won't even go into the sheer hypocrisy over the tolerance of alcohol and prescription drug abuse which has greater impact than heroin or most other drugs put together - in fact mistakes in prescription by doctors constitute one of the leading causes of mortality in society, far, far higher than deaths due to overdose. The Canadian trial should be a benchmark for decent treatment of human suffering. US depictions as an "inhumane medical experiment" are typical of the hysterical misinformation that passes as "policy" from those with a predominantly narrow moralist bandwagon rather than a compassionate and open mind. Interesting that the Courier Mail locally ran the story in its print edition, but did not include it on their web site - and nor at time of writing, has any other Australian media: indeed, based on history, what is likely is that this story will not get a run here unless or until Man of Steel, his cabinet cronies, and his Salvo mates have all had free range over media coverage of the topic to misinform and slander first, rather than presenting facts and allowing the population to decide. And anyone who has undergone Methadone treatment will tell you that the "inhumane medical experiment" is treating opoid addiction with a synthetic drug developed by the Nazis to counter morphine shortages during wartime that is far more damaging and addictive than heroin.

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