NEWS: The Age 16 Jun 01: Heroin trial wins support

[BigTrancer]

Heroin trial wins support
By DARREN GRAY
and CHLOE SALTAU
Saturday 16 June 2001
A report commissioned by the Prime Minister's hand-picked drug advisory group has recommended the introduction of a heroin trial.
Heroin addicts who failed to respond to other forms of treatment would be best suited to a trial, in which they were given free pharmaceutical-grade heroin under strict conditions, according to the report. The cautious but controversial backing for a heroin trial was in the final paragraph of the report on heroin abuse, released yesterday by the Australian National Council on Drugs...
Full article at: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/06/16/FFXP17EUYNC.html

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[De Quincey]

yeah, cos the Howard government would ever listen to *that* sort of advice... pffft....
johnny can't handle the truth... he'll probably just go and change his advisory board. again.
there are no votes in helping addicts.

 

[Soma]

Except perhaps for the 75,000 Australian heroin addicts.