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From: pxhxz@cadence.com
In article "Mr X"
writes:
>"Aidy" wrote in message
>news:CKWdna0FRvmEH8HXnZ2dnUVZ8midnZ2d@bt.com...
>> "Dr John Watson" wrote in message
>> news:7c3cs8F2533pvU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Heroin is supplied by the NHS. It goes by it's scientific name.
>> They also use alcohol....but do they supply it for recreational use?
>Yes. In hospices the patients often get pre-dinner and pre-lunch alcoholic
>drinks.
>Even on standard wards long-stay patients will also be given alcohol on
>occasions. I've certainly seen patients being given cans of beer as part of
>hospital catering.
Note that in the US one of the requirements of many homeless shelters is that
anyone intoxicated can't enter.
However, at least one homeless shelter has started catering specifically to
alcoholics and was even providing alcohol to ensure the homeless alcoholics
weren't dying or being mugged on the streets (some alcoholics absolutely
refuse to give up drinking), and also to ensure they weren't drinking things
like Sterno (which contains methanol) when they couldn't obtain ethanol-based
beverages.
Their philosophy was that it was more compassionate to maintain a live, safe
alcoholic than to have a result of a dead or injured one because one didn't
want to tolerate their drinking.
It also made it more possible to help them get off of alcohol if they had that
desire.
Most people with heavy drug addictions are unsuccessful in getting away from
the addiction the first time they try (or even the first few times they try).
If one wants to help the addicts (whether to legal or illegal drugs) with the
most difficult addictions, one must accept that even with the best of
intentions quite a few will backslide on occasion.
-Pete Zakel
(phz@seeheader.nospam)
"Be different: conform."
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