Medically Prescribed Heroin Is Not Acceptable

 

Everyone knows the dangers of heroin and how devastating withdrawal symptoms are, but publicly funded prescribed heroin programs are not working. They are simply a legal way for addicts to keep up their habit without fear of arrest.

Cheaper To Taxpayers Than Methadone

Studies indicate that treating addicts with diacetylmorphine, the prescription substitute for heroin, is cheaper than methadone. While this may reduce the burden of drug abuse on the public welfare system, it's still no solution. However, due to this benefit, people are squawking less than they did with the problems created by methadone clinics. There's less public outcry over diacetylmorphine, because use of it is kept behind closed doors, keeping it off city streets and the steps of town halls.

Addicts Are Still Addicts

Whether on the street version of heroin or pharmaceutical substitute, people's lives are still just as messed up. They live and die for the drug, and many use their prescriptions as commodities. They trade the medicine for cash or other drugs, but again, since this is rarely a problem for the general public, it goes largely unnoticed. The patient prescribed diacetylmorphine is no less a user or an addict because it's given to them by a doctor.

Real Treatment Provides Real Results 

In most cases, there's an underlying cause for drug abuse, no matter what the substance of choice is. These are the issues that need to be addressed by professional health care workers, in cooperation with out or in patient treatment programs. The same applies for people who are addicts for no other reason than their recreational or experimental use graduated to serious addiction. Those who are hooked on one drug and fed something else by the public health system simply continue the self-abusive and self-destructive lifestyle, only with a "get out of jail free" card.

Getting off of drugs means getting off of drugs, period. Addicts who are coddled by programs giving them free prescription heroine or methadone simply represent the problem being swept under the rug, on the tax payers dime.