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When I was in Vancouver 15 years ago, I was certain they had heroin clinics then.
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They had clean injection sites, not heroin clinics
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Oh, I forgot it was BYO.
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Precription narcotics are prescribed and legal and continue to ruin lives at a much higher rate then heroin.
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Thank you for this excellent article on the wonderful success of NAOMI/SALOME. I'm so proud to live in a city where we have a weekly newspaper that treats drug issues with care and respect. Joelle Puccio BSN RN
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I understand the harm-reduction aspect of this, but methodone and suboxone already serve this purpose. Once you get a daily dose, it satisfies your need for opiates and you can actually function in society on a daily basis. You can hold a job. A daily dose of heroin and you're incapacitated. What is the point?
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Vancouver is a Canadian city, n.ot a "North American" city
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not
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@4 true, and many move on to heroin...

@6 methadone & suboxone are mostly for people who want to stop using heroin, etc. This is more for people who want to keep using and are not interested in quitting for whatever reason. Also, not everyone who uses heavy opiates is incapacitated, for some it has an energizing effect.

I recall a similar program in England a long while back that worked pretty well, after not blowing all their money on illegal smack and using clean, many decided that they no longer wanted to use and enrolled themselves into cessation programs.
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@Sarah91 North America is a CONTINENT, of which Canada is a part. Drugs arent this country's problem, that would be ignorance.
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Whose gonna pay for it? How will the addict get there money think!!!!!
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@7: What continent do you think Canada is part of, if not North America?
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Vancouver B. C. = Canada

Vancouver, WA = USA

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