i bezrobotnych alkoholikow? Moze to wydaje sie absurdalne pytanie, ale z punktu widzenia dobrej polityki panstwowej, ma swoje uzasadnienie i humanitarne racje. Panstwo z natury powinno dbac o dobro i zdrowie swoich obywateli. Czy bezrobotni alkoholicy mieli by byc wykluczeni z kategorii obywateli?
Free booze leads to healthier homeless: Study
Giving homeless alcoholics a regular supply of booze may improve their health and their behaviour, the Canadian Medical Association Journal said in a study published yesterday.
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 everage of 16 months, the number of times participants got in trouble with the law had fallen 51 per cent from three years before they joined the program, and hospital emergency room visits were down 36 per cent.
"Once we give a small amount of alcohol and stabilize the addiction, we are able to provide health services that lead to a reduction in the unnecessary health services they were getting before," said Dr. Jeff Turnbull, one of the authors of the report. "The alcohol gets them in, builds the trust and then we have the opportunity to treat other medical diseases... It's about improving the quality of life."
- Reuters (24 HOURS, January 4, 2006).
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