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...funded in large part by the $22 million per year spent on health insurance in Switzerland , is offered in twenty-three centers across the nation, where nearly 1,300 addicts receive carefully measured doses of heroin daily. Of course, not just any addict can go to a center and obtain heroin. Only hard-core junkies—that is, addicts who have been using for years and have previously tried and failed to quit—are allowed to participate in the program. All qualms about making this narcotic available to the masses are invalid as the addicts who receive...
...users through increased health, justice, and law-enforcement expenditures. The crime activity so typical of junkies has declined greatly since the inception of the heroin program. Addicts, by virtue of their addiction, are bound to engage in any sort of behavior, be it healthy or destructive, to obtain their drug of choice. When this drug of choice—heroin in this case—is given to them in controlled doses by the government, the drug-related crime rate drops. Keeping addicts in the program and off the streets has proven to be a fiscally and socially responsible solution...
...said. UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, said that it would probably cost between $5,000 and $7,000, which he said he thinks is reasonable. The UC has already passed some legislation on the issue. James is less specific on how he would obtain more student space. His Web site features only a more nebulous statement, saying that “Harvard must grant and create more space” and that space should be “reclaimed for the good of the University and a healthy social atmosphere.” Schwartz?...
...medieval condoms made of dried sheep gut, referring to them as "dead skins" in his memoir. Even so, condoms made of animal intestine - known as "French letters" in England and la capote anglaise (English riding coats) in France - remained popular for centuries, though always expensive and never easy to obtain, meaning the devices were often reused...
Dershowitz defended Claus von Bulow at his appeal and helped obtain his acquittal