Hospitals do not typically make a habit of turning away sick people and most street IV drug users don't not have health insurance therefore cannot pay . ... In a study conducted by Drug Policy Research Center and Health Program, they examined 340 high risk IV drug users over a period of one year. ... At the end of the study Drug Policy Research Center and Health Program found 60% (204 of 340) reported stopping needle sharing and disposing used syringes in common areas. ... * It does nothing to stop drug gangs from killing one another. (4) In another article titled "Making the cas...

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"Since most of the propagandists against drug abuse seek to justify certain repressive policies because of the alleged dangerousness of various drugs, they often falsify the facts about the true pharmalogical properties of the drugs they seek to prohibit." ... Insurance companies would pass on those accident expenses to consumers. ... Amsterdam's officials blame the significant rise in crime on the liberal drug policy. ...

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