Canada's cure for alcoholics: Give them more alcohol!

[Dis]

I left the homeless part out of the title. It looks better that way.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/05/060105050518.j5hs7mnr.html

Interesting study. It still doesn't seem right. Why do they get it for free when I have to pay for it? WTF!! . I guess I could pretend to be a homeless alcoholic. But I don't drink wine anyways. I'd only do it for good beer. And Canada doesn't know anything about good beer.

What I find kind of funny is 3 of the participants of the study died of alocohol related disease before the end of the study. Yet it was still considered a success to give them alcohol.

[BlackCat]

Re: Canada's cure for alcoholics: Give them more alcohol!

Originally posted by Dis
I left the homeless part out of the title. It looks better that way.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/05/060105050518.j5hs7mnr.html

Interesting study. It still doesn't seem right. Why do they get it for free when I have to pay for it? WTF!! . I guess I could pretend to be a homeless alcoholic. But I don't drink wine anyways. I'd only do it for good beer. And Canada doesn't know anything about good beer.

You actually get something out of it - lower taxes

What I find kind of funny is 3 of the participants of the study died of alocohol related disease before the end of the study. Yet it was still considered a success to give them alcohol.

Maybe it was going from 46 glasses a day to 15 that killed them

Seriously, I don't think that it was the program that caused their deaths, they would probably had died even earlier if not for the program.

This is similiar to something the Swiss did some years ago. They gave heroine to heavy drug addicts. Don't know if the still do.

http://www.sallysatelmd.com/html/a-wsj08.html

[Wezil]

The "harm reduction" approach.

As the article says, this seems to fly in the face of common sense, yet their numbers support the position.

[OzzyKP]

Harm Reduction

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Harm Reduction

In all things. It just makes so god damned much sense, but the then consies get all up in arms about funding someone's personal responsibility problems, but never have any problem paying up the butt for more prisons. Damned idiots ruining the country for the rest of us.

[Tingkai]

17 people is a pretty small sample group, particularly when three of them died from alcohol related illnesses and three quit drinking.

[Winston]

Sure, take away all hope and outside expectation of recovery from those people. We can't have alcoholics bettering themselves ever so slightly, not even feeling an incentive for moving in that direction.

Life - of alcoholism - WithOut Parole, case closed. Call us when you need an undertaker.

[Last Conformist]

One'd think those with any such motivation would get themselves to a detox home.

But if lowering taxes is the goal, nine grammes of lead ought be cheeper than 15 glasses of sherry a day indefinitely.

[Winston]

I like how you change your style so effortlessly between abusive and civil, albeit with a nasty insinuation tagged on at the end.

On the topic, I would say homeless alcoholics are likely to be at the very bottom when it comes to personal ressources required for possibly finding a way out of their situation. As such they are very much in need of guidance from the outside, and offering them 15 glasses a day for eternity does not seem to carry much hope for alleviating the underlying problem What these people need is assistance in overcoming their addiction, not assistance in perpetuating it for the rest of their short natural lives.

[Flubber]

Nice thread title

I particularly like how one STUDY of 17 people makes this the cure for a nation of 30 million.

It's just part of your ongoing infatuation with Canada.

[Richelieu]

That's how Canada cures every illness.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Tingkai
17 people is a pretty small sample group, particularly when three of them died from alcohol related illnesses and three quit drinking.

i was under the impression they quit the study, rather than quit drinking.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara but never have any problem paying up the butt for more prisons.

Well... according to the statistical analysis in "Freakanomics", increased prisons had a very significant effect on the drop in crime rates during the 1990s (#1 effect was, of course, abortion.. but a close #2 was increased prisons).

[Dis]

Originally posted by Flubber
Nice thread title

I particularly like how one STUDY of 17 people makes this the cure for a nation of 30 million.

It's just part of your ongoing infatuation with Canada.

haha! Yes I make fun of Canada, but I secretly want to live there.

The only problem is. I'm too busy having fun living in a fun place to live, and don't want to live someplace boring and cold.

seriously. How bad is the homeless problem in Canada? Surely it's too cold for the homeless. We have homeless die due to the weather in my city (though usually from the hot weather- but sometimes in the winter). We have thousands of homeless in my city. And the problem is getting worse.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


Well... according to the statistical analysis in "Freakanomics", increased prisons had a very significant effect on the drop in crime rates during the 1990s (#1 effect was, of course, abortion.. but a close #2 was increased prisons).

Indeed, it's simple to show that prisons lower the crime rate significantly. Now, if only we could figure out some way to make those prisons pay for themselves ...

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