The Good Drugs Guide

The Good Drugs Guide: "Let's use Afghan heroin in our hospitals
Independent UK

'Afghan heroin available on the NHS? It may sound far-fetched but that is what two leading doctors from the British Medical Association have put forward as a way of dealing with a shortage of the drug. Heroin is used by doctors under its medical name diamorphine as a pain-killer for the terminally ill and after serious operations. But there is currently a severe shortage of legal diamorphine in the UK.'

((This will never happen of course, since it crosses one too many discursive boundaries (i.e one boundary). The opinion of this God-class pain-killer has been cemented in the public's mind through years of propaganda: 'heroin = bad'. That's why, in debates on its shortage, the press have to use the constantly name 'diamorphine' to distinguish the same drug and protect the ears of the listeners. If the government were to sign up to an imaginative, intelligent solution like this, everyone would be like: 'Wha-? Heroin's a medicine? One that we're short of? Then why the fuck are we burning it???' The boundary between medicine and poison would be breached. And Western civilisation will go up in flames. Maybe. )))"

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