Denmark - Prescribed heroin become reality

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Here is a quick translation of a danish news article from today, I'm not sure if this is the right forum so please move as you see fit. It's good news in my opinion and it will hopefully have a positive effect on the lives of the addicts aswell as lower burglary rates etc.

Doctor prescriped heroin become reality

A broad political majority sets aside 70 million DKR of rate funding pools for experimenting with prescribed [heroin] for the hardest strained addicts in 2008 and 2009.

Fifteen years of discussion and tug-of-war about prescribed heroin is over.

All of the parlament parties besides Enhedslisten today agreed upon to allocate money to prescribed heroin for addicts. The municipalities gets ten million in 2008 to prepare the agreement and 60 million DKR to implement the agreement in 2009.

Venstre [a rightwing government party] has shifted views.
The debate on prescribed heroin has been going on for the last 15 years and untill the election campaign was started Venstre's official position was that they were against it.

But during the election campaign former minister of health Lars Løkke Rasmussen made, what was called one the election campaigns 'U-turns' when he promised that prescribed heroin would become a reality.

The committee for socially vulnerable: A success
Several have speculated if the prescribed heroin would end up as a broken election promise but with todays announcement all speculation can be ceased.

And for this, the chairman for the committee for socially vulnerable and long-time proponent for prescribed heroin, Preben Brandt is glad.

"I have no doubt at all that it will be a success", he says to TV2 News.

source: http://politiken.dk/indland/article475676.ece [in danish]

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nice post about prescribed heroin