[EpicEng]

A clinic isn't really the optimal setting for this sort of thing. And what about the people who have jobs and families? Hard drug use is demonstrably bad for society on the whole. It's tough to argue that the government should be playing drug dealer to heroin addicts.

[girvo]

> It's tough to argue that the government should be playing drug dealer to heroin addicts.

Mine did for me, and I'm clean now. Opiate-replacement therapy is one of the few proven ways to truly help addicts reintegrate back into society. I can somewhat understand the moral argument against it, but the facts don't really support it; I am quite biased, however, as I'd be dead or in jail without it.

[EpicEng]

Sure, but I wasn't really talking about those sort of programs, more the unfettered access to any drug you like that was the context of my response.