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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , Stephen Glynn   
    writes   
      
   >banana wrote:   
      
   >> Many poor junkies are lumpen thieves who as soon as they get some   
   >> Gramsciite 'drug worker' to get a quack (who's probably himself a   
   >> smackhead) to give them free methadone, the first thing they'll do is   
   >> try to sell it.   
   >   
   >A problem easily solved, I would have thought, by dispensing the   
   >methadone on the spot, a dose at a time, which is what my local chemist   
   >does.   
   >   
   >Why, I wonder, would the junkie want to sell his methadone?   Presumably   
   >he'll only use the proceeds to buy more drugs.   
      
   That's right. The ideal day for most of them would involve doing some   
   trades and managing to get drugs for their own consumption without   
   having had to lose money. Yes, even if someone gives them drugs for   
   free.   
      
   >If it's that he prefers   
   >heroin to methadone, then you can solve that problem by giving him   
   >heroin in the first place.   
      
   Most of them will take anything that gets them out of their head.   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)