Medicalize Heroin?

The Case for Not Medicalizing Heroin “The Case for Medicalizing Heroin” by Alan Dershowitz is an absurd idea for so many reasons that this reader is infuriated. Dershowitz believes that forced treatment to addicts may eliminate some of the problems associated with this particular drug. He thinks that by giving addicts a daily fix without chance of overdose will, somehow, help them. He also believes that politicians will never legalize it simply because the idea …

…voters do not want them to be “soft on drugs,” especially narcotics that are deadly. Furthermore, the lethalness of heroin is really the only reason one needs to denounce the medicalization simply because it would violate the Hippocratic Oath. Doctors are discredited and lose their jobs over violations of that particular creed now, and that should never change. Heroin will still kill people and still ruin the lives of others if legalized. Find another way.