Robert Maginnis

Robert Maginnis contends in the following viewpoint that programs to supply addicts with heroin will encourage drug legalization, increase drug use, and lead to the death of many addicts. According to Maginnis, studies documenting the success of the Swiss heroin maintenance experiment are flawed. Maginnis is a senior policy adviser with the Family Research Council, a nonprofit educational organization promoting the traditional family unit and the Judeo-Christian value system.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. How was the Swiss heroin maintenance program scientifically flawed, in the author’s view?
2. What evidence of the Swiss experiment’s failure does Maginnis provide?
3. In Maginnis’s opinion, why is it unethical to give heroin to addicts"

European drug legalizers have long touted the merits of heroin giveaways. Now, those same people want to give heroin...