Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked

Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by DenisM on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:30PM (#23714998)

There is a different course of action for high-abuse drugs. Apparently in Switzerland you can get an "addict" prescription from your doctor, and with that prescription you can go to an injection clinic and get a free professional injection of heroin and a bed to lie on.

The result of this is all drug dealers going bust, and no drug dealers - no one to market the drug, so no new users. All addicts in Switzerland are now old people, and as they die of related diseases and old age the Swiss are having hard time keeping the clinics open because there are not enough takers for free heroin.

I think all opiates can and should be taken care of this way. Not sure about stimulants though - one doesn't just lie down on a clinic bed after a dose of meth or crack. Maybe if regular coke is legalized people will give up meth and crack?

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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by Leherenn on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:59PM (#23716091)

You've never been to Switzerland if you think there are no drug dealers there.

I don't know about heroin, but there are something like 3/4 Swiss cities in the top 20 for cocaine consumption based waste water sampling.

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Re:Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked by microtherion on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:39PM (#23717770)

There are, in fact, even heroin dealers in Switzerland, and of course all sorts of other drugs are still being sold illegally, but compared to the early 1990s, before the heroin prescription policy, there is practically no visible drug addict scene anymore.

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