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In the 80s and 90s, Dr. John Marks prescribed controlled doses of legal pharmaceutical heroin, amphetamine and cocaine/ crack for hundreds of addicts in Cheshire (United Kingdom), as you can see here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_86iVhmkQ The results were extraordinary. First, there was a 93 percent drop in theft and burglary between his patients. Michael Lofts, from the Cheshire drugsquad, said: "You could see them transform in front of your own eyes. They came in in outrageous condition, stealing daily to pay for illegal drugs; and became, most of them, very amiable, reasonable law-abiding people."
Dealers started disappearing from the streets. It was estimated by the local police and Home Office coordinators that Marks Widnes clinic alone took Β£5,000 per 100,000 population per week out of the black market. Lofts said that "prescribing whatever drug the addict needs seems to have done more to wipe out the drug trade than years of old-style police enforcement." He also said that "since the clinics opened, the street heroin dealer has slowly but surely abandoned the streets of Warrington and Widnes." The health of users dramatically improved because they were using clean medical-grade drugs instead of unregulated substances often cut with adulterants even more noxious than the drugs themselves. Many addicts got jobs and became functional. The recovery rate of those given drugs was the same as those who were not offered drugs, showing that a legal steady supply does not prevent abstinence. HIV rate reduced to zero!
The mortality rate was also reduced to zero. In all the 13 years in which Dr. Marks prescribed for addicts the pharmaceutical form of the very drugs they were addicted to, he never had a drug-related death among his patients, even though addicts injected alone in their own homes and some of them took truly massive doses. Because the drugs were legal, they knew exactly how much they were taking. After the British goverment put an end to Marks prescription program because of diplomatic pressure from the US and addicts went back to street drugs, 20 users were already dead within six months, and 41 were dead within two years. More lost limbs and caught potentially lethal diseases.
Dr. Russel Newcombe, who had worked in the clinic, tells that survivors "were immediately forced back into the street... people who had jobs lost them. It split relationships up. People rapidly went back into debt and crime. The average person thrown off John Marks's
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