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reallypsst11 months, 2 weeks ago

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this issue has only one benefit and thats keeping addicts from resorting to crime ok lets look at the other side you get free heroin and its legal so what do you do with a thousand addicts waiting on line for their daily multiple fixes. Some you have to house shelter and feed also give medical attention ,they wont want rehab because its not forced or necessary because heroin is free. And after a year or so there be ten thousand addicts and many more coming from other countries, no law no morality the whole system wont support this short term fix, it doesn't work its been tried in new york !

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  Tangent00111 months, 2 weeks ago
  
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  Any program has to be comprehensive. Just handing out free drugs is no solution at all. Women's Empowerment Project here in Denver works with 'recovering' prostitutes by offering a safe house, job training, counseling, child care assistance, legal assistance, and treatment for substance abuse.
  
  Boulder has an organization that distributes needle kits to addicts, but they also offer rehabilitation resources similar to WEP. Both programs have a lasting recovery rate far higher than your standard state-funded programs. Both programs have to fight hard for civic funding because of perceptions like those expressed by reallypsst.
  
  Most state substance abuse recovery programs are locked into an AA/NA-style 12-step paradigm, which is statistically ineffective. Get dinged for a drug violation in Colorado, and NA is the only option for your mandated recovery treatment. REBT programs like LifeRing Secular Recovery, which are both cheaper and more effective, are simply not available.
  
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