Word: kormann
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...Kormann denies what he calls "scare tactic" allegations, insisting there's "no scientific proof that cocaine substitution would be effective." And he says that the price tag for keeping an addict in the program and off the street - approximately $300 a week - is far lower than what taxpayers would have to shell out if he or she were on the street. A 2004 World Health Organization report concluded that for every dollar invested in the HAT program, $12 is saved on law enforcement, judicial, and health costs. While both sides debate the issue, ultimately the decision on HAT's fate...
...experiment was borne out of the closing, in the early 1990s, of Zurich's infamous Letten "needle park," where thousands of addicts from across Europe gathered to shoot heroin on garbage-strewn railway tracks. "We wanted to offer a program to reach out to these people," says Dr. Adrian Kormann, medical director of a Zurich HAT clinic where Heun is treated. "And we knew that an approach based only on repression doesn't work...
...Though the long-term goal of the program is to get addicts off the drug says Kormann, "our immediate priority is survival, reintegration into society, and reducing crime. In this regard, we have been very successful...
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