the_dengle said:
I'm pretty sure that, given the effects of heroin on an individual, most addicts would still be running themselves into the ground using it. How could an addict maintain a job? Without a job, how can they afford a house? Even if heroin was dirt cheap, we're back to square one. And don't give me any of that bs about common sense, you just said yourself that "fewer people wouldn't be doing it," a roundabout way of admitting that more people would become addicts, which would only make the problem much, much worse. That is what I was applying common sense to. |
They maintain a job... by maintaining a job.
A lot of Heroin users already maintain jobs while using it... as has been shown by the cited research.
It seems to be MOST people who the drug doesn't make destitute via consumption costs.
Maybe your US centric or something, but you know a lot of countries use Heroin as a pain killer... largely because it's actually superiror to Morphine in a lot of ways.
The UK is an example of this.
And I mean hell... Heroin addicts are given Methadone... which is essentially well regulated heroin. Plenty of ex addicts live regular lives.
