I've read it.
I'll also quote another addiction specialist, who's been researching in this field for 20 years, who says, “Heroin treatment is unsafe and...does not address the treatment needs....”
For this very small, vulnerable group of people I support treatment, I support intervention, and I support recovery programs. We know that these kinds of addictive drugs are very dangerous. I believe that drug treatment should be focused on ending drug use, not on maintaining drug use, and supporting these people to recover and lead a drug-free life.
As well, you also know, as do many physicians, that there are safe alternatives available to giving heroin to someone who's addicted to heroin. If I had a request to give cocaine to someone addicted to cocaine through the special access program, or LSD.... I could go through the whole list—that is the list of substances that we have now disallowed under the special access program. But I can tell you, as far as I know, we've never received any requests for that. In the past, any request for this substance was denied.