health blurb...addiction

"Does offering a place for people to get high make us more humane than running soup kitchens as our grandparents did? For Harris and many others, the false alternatives are either do something or nothing.Dalrymple’s solution is to shut down clinics claiming to treat addicts. By this he means, stop treating drug abuse as a medical illness. Hence, close up those methadone programs....compulsory residential treatment and legal supervision have been very successful in reducing drug use and illegal activity among participants. from mercatornet