https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-mayor-s-bold-plan-to-treat-heroin-addicts-on-12920781.php
This article discusses a proposal the mayor of San Francisco had to create a special medical team for the city, whose chief purpose is to drive around the city and provide heroin addicts with a medication which severely reduces the withdrawal symptoms of heroin. The drug is called buprenorphine, and it is faster acting and more effective than methadone.
I personally feel that this is a great step towards helping addicts get through their addiction and on the path to leading a normal life. Do you think that this medical team will be effective? Should this be something implemented in all big cities?
The article said that you can't overdose while using this drug? That's kind of amazing, but also scary. If the addicts know this, people may start doing the same thing with this drug that they did with the methadone, taking it and then going and getting heroin. It seems to have less ill-effects than methadone so I think its a better option.
ReplyDeleteBesides Brett's comments, I think such medical team would be effective. The addicts are lack of professional treatments in the current society. The medical team should also provide psychotherapy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Elena .Not only should we be making efforts to find alternatives to heroin, but we should also be providing rehab .
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