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...course, the treatment was initially met with skepticism from the Swiss public. But last year, 68% of people backed a referendum to keep the clinics permanently funded by the state, obviously convinced that the positive results showed the treatment works. The British program, too, has its critics. "What about other addicts? Will we soon be giving cocaine to cocaine addicts? Alcohol to alcoholics?" asks Mary Brett, vice president of the nonprofit group Europe Against Drugs. "This perpetuates addicts' maintenance on the drug when the goal should always be abstinence." (Read "Swiss Heroin Program Is Put to a Vote...
...Despite some opposition, though, Britain faces fewer potential roadblocks in making the treatment program permanent than other countries that have experimented with it, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Canada. This is largely because Britain already has heroin on the books as a medication and, most crucially, because the program has strong political backing. The government has already said it would keep the clinics open provided the trial showed positive results. Paul Hayes, head of the National Treatment Agency, stressed in the Guardian newspaper this month that the clinics would only be available to a "very small proportion...
...Sarah hopes the program's future is decided quickly so that those in her treatment group can hang on to their newfound stability. "That's the one downside about this treatment - the insecurity, knowing that it's still a trial," she says...
...think the same model of microlending so successful in Bangladesh can be applied elsewhere? Sadruddin Salman, Dhaka Today, Grameen programs are everywhere. We even have a program in New York City, and it works beautifully. We brought the same system as we do in the villages of Bangladesh. We do it in Latin American countries - in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica - in exactly the same...
...been difficult to implement microcredit schemes in Africa? Obi Iwuagwu, Lagos, Nigeria We have a program in Zambia and we have absolutely no problem. If somebody says microcredit doesn't work in Africa, I will not agree because I see it working...