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Amsterdam Pays Alcoholics in Beer – Gawker

Amsterdam Pays Alcoholics in Beer – Gawker


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Amsterdam Pays Alcoholics in Beer
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It's certainly an approach employed in many countries with regard to other vices: the idea takes the same approach as methadone clinics, which provide a less-strong drug to serious heroin addicts on the road to recovery. If some of Amsterdam's
Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in BeerNew York Times
Alcoholics Work for Beer Under Government Funded Program Guardian Express
Amsterdam is now paying its alcoholics with beer to get up and work.scallywagandvagabond

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Amsterdam Lures Alcoholics to Work With Beer

Amsterdam lures alcoholics to work with beer
After more than a decade out of work because of a back injury and chronic alcoholism, Fred Schiphorst finally landed a job last year and is determined to keep it.        
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Amsterdam Pays Alcoholics in Beer
About a year ago, a charity in Amsterdam began a project to employ alcoholics and pay them partially in beer. And according to the New York Times , it's apparently going great. Read more…        
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Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in Beer – New York Times

Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in Beer – New York Times


New York Times

Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in Beer
New York Times
The basic idea is to extend to alcoholics an approach first developed to help heroin addicts, who have for years been provided with free methadone, a less dangerous substitute, in a controlled environment that provides access to health workers and 

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Even Trace of Methadone Risky, Court Told – TheChronicleHerald.ca

Even trace of methadone risky, court told – TheChronicleHerald.ca


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Even trace of methadone risky, court told
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KENTVILLE — Even a small dose of methadone can do serious harm to a person who has never used it and has not built up a tolerance, says an Annapolis Valley Health psychiatrist who works in addiction services. “A 115-milligram dose to a non-user is

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Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in Beer – New York Times


New York Times

Amsterdam Has a Deal for Alcoholics: Work Paid in Beer
New York Times
The program, started last year by the Rainbow Foundation, a private but mostly government-funded organization that helps the homeless, drug addicts and alcoholics get back on their feet, is so popular that there is a long waiting list of chronic

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New High Causes Users to Rot From the Inside Out – Sunday World

New high causes users to rot from the inside out – Sunday World

New high causes users to rot from the inside out
Sunday World
About 1 million users are estimated to be abusing the drug in Russia, according to the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. Vice chronicled the ongoing battle against the addictive drug in their documentary "Krokodil Tears

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Daily Round-Up: Lack of Sleep Linked to School Problems, Teens Opt Out of

Daily round-up: Lack of sleep linked to school problems, teens opt out of
The report comes a few days after The New York Times published a story about college programs that help students transition from foster care to campus life. Microsoft puts professional programmers in schools to enhance tech education: In a Seattle …
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Free screening of “American Promise” next Tuesday at Langston Hughes
A new film that tracks two middle-class black boys for 13 years, including the time they spent at the prestigious Dalton School in New York City, will be shown Tuesday in Seattle at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, 104 17th Ave. S. The …
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