Re: ANGER over NHS plan to give addicts iPods,
Cash incentives: Worth every penny
<!-- summary adds its own p tags --> "ANGER over NHS plan to give addicts iPods," ran the headline. The UK's National Health Service is notoriously hard up, so news that government advisers were suggesting doctors offer drug addicts prizes as an incentive to stay clean was certain to raise some hackles. Why should "these people" with "self-inflicted" problems get priority, a patients' advocate was quoted as asking in the article, published this July in *The Sunday Times*. "This country really is on its head," concluded a reader in the newspaper's online comments section.
Such reactions are typical when anyone raises the idea that addicts should be rewarded for changing their ways. Yet the fury over the proposal fails to account for one critical fact: incentive schemes work. And not just with drug abusers. Rewards have been used to help smokers quit, persuade parents to keep their children in school and boost uptake of healthcare.
I thought this was a bit random, giving addicts iPOD's it's kinda like a reward saying 'well done keep goin' anyways what so u guys think is thins sort of thing going to help or not?
taken from new scientist
Peace starcity
I think we'll begin to see lots of ipods on sale ... cheap brand new or barely used.
"Junky Lee was awarded a line of coke for abstaining from his crack habit"
I think the best thing to do is destroy all of the mass produced illegal drug establishments and prevent drug trafficking with a bit of honesty.