Guideline recommends severely addicted drug users should be given injectable medical-grade heroin

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A national research group recommends health-care providers offer injectable medical-grade heroin or another prescription drug to severely addicted patients if treatment with oral medication has not worked to reduce cravings for people who could die from toxic street drugs.

The Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver is the only facility in North America that provides diacetylmorphine, which is imported from Switzerland, as well as hydromorphone, another safer substitute for heroin recommended by the initiative, which consists of 32 members including Canadian health-care practitioners, opioid users and their families.

The recommendations are a blueprint for health-care practitioners on screening patients who would benefit from injecting the two injectable opioids under medical supervision, said Fairbairn, who is also a research scientist at the BC Centre on Substance Use. The rigorous program requires patients to inject at the facility under medical supervision three times a day at an annual taxpayer-funded cost of about $27,000 per patient, MacDonald said.

MacDonald said diacetylmorphine should be domestically produced to reduce reliance on Switzerland’s supply and he believes that could happen sometime next year. Along with its recommendations, the research initiative published an operational guideline on how health-care practitioners could set up clinics to provide the injectable therapy that is most prevalent in British Columbia.

I don't know who came up with this idea but it's a really really bad one. I was addicted to drugs for a long time, homeless for most of the time and let me tell you how the last thing I needed was to be given drugs. Addicts need tough love, not easy access.

Should just let them die.

It’s not a topic that I know enough about, but Vancouver is definitely a front line for dealing the addiction public health crisis, and I would tend to trust professionals on this.

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