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However, it becomes the people's problem, when medical expenses negatively affect them. In other words, if you end up needing treatment, as a result of being on drugs, wether it's detox or a car crash, then you just bumped my insurance premiums. In Canada, it increases your taxes.
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Yes, but what about all the drugies that wind up in the ER from overdoses? Such a plan would practicaly eliminate overdose cases in the ER, which is a cost to taxpayers both in the US and Canada.
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It's also not in the people's interest to allow a company to make money from selling a substance that is addictive, because the product markets itself, and I mean, the product creates a need for more of it, and that's unfair.
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The whole point of the clinics would be to get the drugies off the drugs. The doctors would be there to administer and monitor, and at the same time could employ therapists to help in the recovery process.
Also, I did some googleing, found a couple links, unfortunately most of them were broken. this one, however was good:
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/cds..._drug/appb.htm
if your concerned about financial cost to citizens, read the end. Se how this type of program has made life cheaper already.
does that sound like an infommercial?
also:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n992/a06.html?192