In 1984 the use of medical heroin was made legal for terminal cancer patients. But bureaucratic regulations attached to its prescription made it so difficult for doctors to prescribe that little was used
Heroin for Addicts? Or Send Them to Northern Canada?
How would I react if I were dying of terminal cancer and none of the current painkillers could ease my agony? Or if I were suffering day after day the pain of crippling arthritis and no medication relieved my misery? And then I read that addicts were granted prescription heroin to treat their addiction. I’d be damn annoyed that this painkiller was available for addicts but not for cancer victims and others dying in pain.
