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...Swiss government is now peddling heroin to its hard-core addicts. Since 1994, the Swiss government has used a heroin prescription program that enables doctors to provide heroin junkies with a strictly controlled dosage of heroin everyday. Shockingly enough, this program has succeeded in controlling the nation’s drug problem beyond the government’s wildest dreams. The Swiss pilot program—recently made permanent by a nationwide referendum on the issue—has saved the nation money, decreased crime rates, and halted the spread of infectious disease...
...controversy; a group of conservative politicians forced a national referendum to try and defeat the program. On our side of the pond, the United States government has criticized the program for supposedly enabling drug abuse. The many successes of this fourteen year-old program, however, have demonstrated that the Swiss policy might actually be a good idea...
...From a medical standpoint, the Swiss program minimizes the risks to heroin users and non-users alike. Thanks to the sanitary injection rooms and equipment, infection contraction and death also decreases. The risk of overdosing also diminishes because when presented with an almost unlimited amount of heroin per day—up to 300 milligrams, three times a day—addicts quickly realize that a maximum dose does not necessarily result in the same ‘flash’ that a lower dose does, and thus, decrease their heroin intake voluntarily...
...heroin program has not only rehabilitated former junkies; it has also enabled the Swiss government to learn about patterns of drug abuse and addiction. Researchers at the Zurich Department of Social Welfare have discovered the exact mechanisms by which heroin junkies become addicted and have devised more comprehensive solutions for treatment and rehabilitation. Were it not for this program, these findings would have been much more difficult to come...
...Switzerland is waging—and winning—a real war on drugs, instead of losing a war on drug users. The United States ought to step back and examine the Swiss program as a solution to its own narcotics problems. At the very least, it could refrain from criticizing the Swiss...