On: Norway to test free heroin for drug addicts

[redisman]

Any experiments on how to help drug addicts is great. It's been obvious (in hard data) for decades that wagging our finger and throwing people in jail is not doing anything.

[lev99 → redisman]

The Rat Park experiment (1981) shows an increase in the standard of living decreases drug use among addicted and non-addicted mice.

[redisman → lev99]

Hmm but Norwegians have probably the highest standard of living in the world already. It's a super rich country with a generous welfare state.