From the New York Times (The Needle Nexus)….
Moscow’s drug policy could be called harm augmentation: discourage drug use by making it as dangerous as possible. Arseniy and David, for example, can’t direct addicts to methadone clinics, since methadone — the global gold standard rehabilitation method — is illegal in Russia
Kind of sounds like North American tobacco policy…
Tip of the hat to CVP for bringing this article to my attention.
-PLB
