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idwiyo

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8. Who was trying to excuse that murder?
Thu Nov 7, 2013, 01:03 PM
Nov 2013

And yes, you do go into drug business if you want to help people and cut down drug-related infections, crime, and number of hard-drugs addicts.
Never mind chronic pain treatment, as an example.

Below are 2 links for articles about Portugal:

Excellent scholarly research paper. I strongly recommend to read it:

http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/bib/doc/bf/2010_Caitlin_211621_1.pdf

Mainstream article from Spiegel:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/evaluating-drug-decriminalization-in-portugal-12-years-later-a-891060.html



British NHS guidelines for prescribing hard drugs:

http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/formulary/bnf/current/4-central-nervous-system/410-drugs-used-in-substance-dependence/4103-opioid-dependence/opioid-substitution-therapy

Some stats:

http://www.nta.nhs.uk/news-2013-prevalence.aspx

Below is a best source of info about prescriptions for heroin, cocaine, etc. for pain management and drug addiction treatments.
You will need to create a free account to read it.

These are official guidelines for all drugs and prescriptions on NHS (BNF is British National Formulary):

http://www.bnf.org/bnf/search.htm?source=bnf&q=heroin

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