Re: drug abuse among the homeless

"Pete nospam Zakel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Snider) writes:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Meadows) wrote in message
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> >> How do we help these people?
>
> >Make legal, clean, drugs and paraphernalia (needles and/or pipes)
> >available to registered addicts, along with voluntary treatment.
>
> That's a good start.
>
> >Slowly wean the heroin addicts off of heroin and onto methadone.
>
> Why?  Heroin is cheaper.  Of course, methadone lasts longer.  Other than
that,
> they are essentially equivalent.
>
> In England and some other European countries heroin maintenance has worked
> very well.  Why switch them to a more expensive but otherwise equivalent
> opioid?

i watched an interview with a heroin addict once, talking about his
methodone treatment and how it made him sick and he hated it.  so he
switched his dose from methodone to heroin.  and is now as good as rain, his
wife agrees, and frankly from the interview so do i.   (have you ever heard
of this? people not liking methodone and saying that heroin is better for
them?)

what's so great about methodone anyway?  is it just the longer lasting
thing?
co-incidentally i just switched from longer lasting insulin to shorter
lasting insulin.  it's prefered by doctors coz of the greater control.