For a change, the epidemic of deaths by heroin adulterated with fentanyl that takes place in the U.S. since late 2005, is going quite unnoticed in the national media. And no laughing matter. It is estimated that around 500 people have died in northern Iraq because of this, especially in Chicago, for less than a year. Nora Volkow, director of NIDA's compassionate, it is clear who are the culprits: the addicts themselves. "" Many addicts are unaware of the composition of what they buy on the street. However, others deliberately seek this mixture to undergo a greater sense of pleasure when 'put', "says Volkow NIDA's web." "Tango and Cash: an analgesic murderer
Everyone knows that the desire for pleasure drug addicts will stop at nothing. The funny thing is that, across the Atlantic in a small country surrounded by mountains called Switzerland, the implementation of other drug policy is producing diametrically opposite results among opiate injectors and no one has seen the fentanyl for those payments. "The study shows in particular that both researchers in the canton of Zurich - where more than 20% of addicts-850 Swiss people had fallen into heroin dependence in 1990, and the number dropped to 150 in 2002.Heroin: the Swiss model creates school abroad
Other countries, starting with those who bet on an enforcement policy, did not achieve a similar decline. England and Australia reported, including an increase during the same period. In Italy, there were strong fluctuations from one year to another. But Zurich researchers consider data from Italy are incomplete.
"In Switzerland, the action of granting a medical nature of heroin use has certainly helped change the image of users: from rebels were losers. In the eyes of young people are forced to turn patients to medical treatments, "says Carlos Nordt."
a novelty, that of treating heroin addicts as people instead of sending them to slaughter. No wonder it is the Swiss model, not the U.S., which is creating a school. In Spain, however, the socialist government takes cognizance and claims (against all evidence) that more testing is needed. Do not say the same thing in opposition but on the contrary: "The head of the department came at the request PP, to give his opinion on the motion of the Senate demanded a trial on heroin in Euskadi. His speech began with a review of parliamentary initiatives on this issue since 1999, with emphasis on a proposal by the PSE in 2004 urged the PP Executive to approve the therapeutic use of heroin. "They change their opinion depending on who governs, we lack the courage to say yes or no, accused the Socialists."Inclán advocates dispensing heroin and said that the ministry "tide partridge"
Maybe four overdose deaths that have occurred in Bilbao last month August help our political leaders to pluck the daisy. The clock is ticking and people die, Mrs. Salgado.
