Heroin Drug Trial – Switzerland
Heroin Drug Trial – Switzerland – Sep 1997 A feature on the novel Swiss plan to help drug addicts recover. Evelyn is a heroin addict. Since the age of 18 she’s been caught in a downward spiral of unemployment, crime and prostitution. She’s also one of a thousand users attending a clinic several times a day for a cheap, legal hit of heroin. Watching Evelyn ‘shoot up’ in the clean, controlled environment of the clinic is far removed from the squalid scenes of addiction in a Zurich park. She’s even able to work as a waitress. But not all Swiss are impressed by the heroin trial. The referendum to halt it came from right-wing religious groups who label their government a drug pusher. Boris Piske once fed his drug habit as a male prostitute. Now married with two children, it was God and abstinence in a religious community which helped him quit. Meanwhile, on a drug bust in a downtown flat with the Zurich, Switzerland drug squad it’s clear illegal drugs are still in plentiful supply. Police say driving addicts underground will merely worsen the problem. So far the Swiss trial has shown that the heroin clinic does work. Ninety addicts have already withdrawn. The government is considering extending the trial. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
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I am a fromer junkie clean for the last 10 urs….hardest fight of my life, i look back now and cannot believe i wasted so much of my life, what changed i I’m not sure, I’d had enough, but it breaks my heart to hear of ppl who died because of this drug, because they weren’t strong enough to do it…it was the hardest fight of my life everyday for 20 yrs, a hard life to, i feel i have wasted my life, am very happy now and don’t think about? it now…but it was hard..extremely hard,ppl can’tbeat it
Most Heroin addicts I know want to quit. They hate having? to work all day hustling to get enough money to buy it just to feel normal. They don’t even get high anymore, they spend hundreds of dollars just so they aren’t sick. If America wanted to stop it they should offer free treatment, Suboxone, Colonadine, not Methadone. I believe in the 1980’s the CIA smuggled Opium out of Afghanistan to help the Holy Warriors buy stinger missiles and other equipment to fight the Soviets.
when it comes to heroin/opiates, two things kill: an overdose or impurities.
Rule out both, and death goes to zero. that is only true for opiates like morphine, heroine, oxycodone, NOT true for meth or coke. And all opiates still reduce your mental abilities. Heroine/opiate addiction can be managed if there are people willing? to do so. Same with old people, often opiates extend their life.
for heroin it makes sense, because if the dose is right they can function in society and even keep up a working life with a job.
Think about old people with painful diseases…. we pump them full of the same stuff to keep them present/alive/functioning for a few more years. Morphine and oxycodone, catch a painful mortal disease and you are on it.
think about doctors abusing pure morphine, it often goes undetected for years. The addiction causes problems, but? meth is worse.
Helping people kill themselves is a health program??
They should give her an? overdose, she won’t be back and problem solved
Boris had too many dicks shoved up his ass, as he turned to religion…another kinda drug…like? Karl Marx said: ‘Religion is Opium for the people’.
hahahaha this swiss-accent sucks asses, i? hope mine is not bad as fuck ^^
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Man whatever helps bring the crime down if they closed the Methadone programs here in America all hell would brake loose for? the junkies.
Ide rather be different like that eveline then a two time slave like you! What do u do? Work ya ass of until your in the grave until ya old? m grey. I can go on holiday twice a year, and I pay no taxes myself, and I don’t break the law. I earn my own coin, n I’m an ex heroin addict. Your just a slave. Go n slave away.
damn junky fat ass eveline, shove that? heroin up in your ass
welcome? in switzerland 🙂
and that one eye freak? bitch