Dealing with drug addiction
in Health ·
tinitrus said:Nice thread :-)! I guess a few years back here in the States, there was this huge debate between people who thought the answer lay in community programs versus those pushing for methadone therapy along with needle exchange programs... (those other folks were basically arguing that it’s better to just minimize the damage for addicts). Personally, I lean toward the latter group. It seems more logical to give an addict clean supplies to protect them from things like Hepatitis or HIV, and then—if they actually decide to get clean—move toward methadone treatment.
Honestly, harm reduction works pretty well.
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They do it right here in the US too.
Glad someone's actually thinking about this; instead of being one of those people asking why we’d even bother giving them stuff to use.🙂