Heroin Maintenance: A Medical View
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Drug Issues
- Vol. 9 (3) , 341-347
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002204267900900308
Abstract
People who are fed up with crime in the streets think, simplistically, that heroin maintenance will solve the problem. According to the medical view presented here, heroin maintenance will not solve any problem, either for the addict or for society, and it will have predictable adverse consequences. Some problems have no complete solution. Some “solutions” can be worse than the problems they are meant to solve.Keywords
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