Traub says she was horrified by what she found: The lab, an old - fashioned «cop shop,» was run by a police sergeant with no scientific background, had no written operating procedures, didn't clean instruments between testing, allowed technicians
unlimited access to the drug vault, and didn't have anyone checking anyone else's work.
The conclusion: given relatively
unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal
access to their
drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.