Local heroin
Legal narcotics in a liberal city
THE people queuing up at the Providence Crosstown Clinic are pioneers of a sort. They are heroin addicts whose habits have resisted conventional treatment. They hope to become the first in North America to get their fixes legally as part of a treatment programme rather than just for a clinical trial. “It’s heroin that you know is good,” says one addict waiting outside, who aspires to join the queue.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Local heroin”
From the December 6th 2014 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the edition
A Mexican pharmacy chain revolutionised health care at home
Can it do the same abroad?
Xi Jinping tries to press China’s advantage in South America
New polling suggests locals are warming to China
Killer gangs are inches from ruling all of Haiti
They seem to be unstoppable
Mark Carney’s plan for Canada
A political novice cannot govern by econometrics alone
Canada’s new Conservative movement resembles Donald Trump’s
Just as in the United States, working-class and immigrant voters swung right
Mark Carney leads Canada’s Liberals to a remarkable victory
The Conservatives suffered one of the most astonishing falls from popularity in political history