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Europe:
Germany
Plans
to
Provide
Free
Heroin
to
Long-Term
Addicts
5/5/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/434/germany.shtml
The German government announced
Tuesday that, given the success of pilot
heroin maintenance programs in seven cities, it will expand the program
to supply between 1,000 and 1,500 German heroin addicts. That is
still a small percentage of the estimated 120,000 current heroin users
in the country, but will be roughly twice the number receiving the drug
under the pilot programs.
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Germany began the pilot programs
in 2001 in an experiment to see if they could help hard-core addicts get
off the drug, reduce their levels of criminality, and reduce overdose deaths
and disease. Now, the Germans have decided the experiment was a success.
"A heroin therapy is the
last hope and provides help for survival for some of those who are addicted,"
said government commissioner for substance abuse Sabine Baetzing.
"It can improve their health and stabilize their social situation," Baetzing
told the newspaper Die Welt.
Baetzing said the pilot projects
had shown that given hard-core addicts heroin at taxpayer expense was a
more effective way of getting them off the drug than methadone and that
heroin therapy also led to a reduction in criminal acts by participants.
Baetzing is a member of the
center-left Social Democrats, who are junior partners in a coalition with
the conservative Christian Democrats. But she said she thought the
government would agree to the plan.
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