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Drug users often alternate alcohol with heroin because of high heroin prices. In contrast,
when inexpensive opiates are available, the tendency to use both drugs is reduced, even
among former alcoholics.
There is no doubt that even after receiving warnings and reliable information, some
reckless individuals will continue to mix heroin and alcohol. However, legalization and the
free flow of reliable drug information would certainly save the lives of many other users,
who simply do not know that mixing the two drugs can be deadly.” James Ostrowski
Thinking about Drug Legalization Policy
188 Andrew Weil & Winifred Rosen, From Chocolate to Morphine; Everything You Need to
Know About Mind-Altering Drugs (Houghton Mifflin 2004), s 101.
189 Edward M. Brecher med flere, The Consumers Union Report - Licit and Illicit Drugs,
kapittel 4. Han legger til helt sist i kapitlet: “Any survey of heroin users turns up a wide
variety of other complaints; headaches, joint pains, hiccups, diarrhea, nervousness, running
nose, difficulty urinating, and unhappiness were among the side effects reported in a recent
Stanford University survey. These reports no doubt result at least in part from the natural
human tendency of addicts and nonaddicts alike to attribute whatever happens to whatever
drug one currently happens to be taking.” analysis nr 121 Cato institute funnet på
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=981.
190 Christie og Bruun, Den Gode Fiende, s 217.
191 Om opiatavhengigheten
Theodore Dalrymple, en britisk fengselslege i 14 år, sier dette om opiatavhengigheten:
“*W+ithdrawal from other drugs is far more serious than withdrawal from opiates. In fact,
withdrawal from alcohol is much more serious: one complication, delirium tremens, is
quoted as having a death rate, without proper medical management, of 10 percent.
Withdrawal from barbiturates, now rarely prescribed, is likewise dangerous, with a
significant death rate. On occasion, withdrawal even from benzodiazepines can result in
symptoms identical to those of delirium tremens.” (Theodore Dalrymple, Romancing
Opiates: Pharmalogical lies and the addiction bureaucracy (Encounter Books 2008) s 20.)
Han siterer videre fra boken Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook:
“The acute opioid withdrawal syndrome is a time-limited phenomenon, generally of brief
duration. Following the abrupt termination of short acting opioids such as heroin, morphine,
or hydromorphine, withdrawal signs and symptoms usually subside on the second or third
opioid-free day. Although uncomfortable for the addict, the opioid withdrawal syndrome, in
contrast to the syndrome associated with the withdrawal of other drugs such as
benzodiazepines and alcohol, does not pose a medical risk to the individual.” (Lowinson &
Ruiz, m.fl., Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook (Baltimore 1997) s 416.Funnet i
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