Free Alcohol Benefits Homeless Alcoholics

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ...eut/index.html

Giving homeless alcoholics a regular supply of booze may improve their health and their behavior, the Canadian Medical Association Journal said in a study published on Tuesday.

Seventeen homeless adults, all with long and chronic histories of alcohol abuse, were allowed up to 15 glasses of wine or sherry a day -- a glass an hour from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. -- in the Ottawa-based program, which started in 2002 and is continuing.

After an average of 16 months, the number of times participants got in trouble with the law had fallen 51 percent from the three years before they joined the program, and hospital emergency room visits were down 36 percent.

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well knowing a bit about "needing" that drink and having an Uncle
that died from DT's it is a bandaid and will save Gov't some hospital and Detox time.
But the truth is that there is a serious lack of beds in Detox
Centers, or Lack of centers period.
The only cure for Alcoholism is Abstence.
but it only works for those that want it
not those that need it.
When one is sick and tired of being sick and tired,
then you will be ready to go to any lenghts to
Take it one day at a time.
" There but for the Grace of God go I"
if it helps one person stay alive one more day so they may have a chance tomorrow -I am all for it.