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Insite’s success causes problems for morality-based opposition
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
May 16, 2011
… government lawyers requested the court ignore the piles of evidence that suggest the inexplicably embattled facility does exactly what it purports to do: reduce overdoses, stop the spread of disease, encourage rehabilitation — you know, generally just save lives… Besides the widely reported 35% drop in overdoses, it’s also been shown to reduce HIV transmission, by as many as 35 cases a year, which is no small savings to our health-care system: the International Journal of Drug Policy finds the cost-benefit ratio just in this instance to be 1 to 5.12.
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