NationStates Jolt Archive


Booze for Bums

Drunk commies deleted
05-01-2006, 16:39
A study conducted in Canada has found that giving the homeless free liquor improves their health and behavior. Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-01-03T220736Z_01_DIT379558_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-LIFE-CANADA-HOMELESS.XML&archived=False
Megaloria
05-01-2006, 17:00
It also stops them from cleaning out the mouthwash at the drug store.
Willamena
05-01-2006, 17:37
Oh, thank Brad... When I read the title I imagined an alcoholic colonic.
Drunk commies deleted
05-01-2006, 18:46
Oh, thank Brad... When I read the title I imagined an alcoholic colonic.
That's an interesting idea. It might be a way to get drunk without causing alcohol breath.
Kryozerkia
05-01-2006, 18:55
Best idea ever! Since giving Heroine Addicts a safe shootin' up place in the VTA... :p :rolleyes:
Minoriteeburg
05-01-2006, 19:09
life - beer = death
I V Stalin
05-01-2006, 19:22
Three of the 17 participants died during the program, succumbing to alcohol-related illnesses that might have killed them anyway, the study said.
Also has a 17.6% success rate at killing them then. Great :rolleyes:
Eh-oh
05-01-2006, 19:24
*dresses up as hobo*

:D
Drunk commies deleted
05-01-2006, 19:24
Also has a 17.6% success rate at killing them then. Great :rolleyes:
Maybe, maybe not. They had been suffering from health problems due to alcohol abuse prior to the free booze program. Still, most people on the program got healthier, and many drank less.
Eh-oh
05-01-2006, 19:25
Also has a 17.6% success rate at killing them then. Great :rolleyes:

well, there'll be less of them littering the streets. it's a win win situation!:D
:p
Heron-Marked Warriors
05-01-2006, 20:06
*dresses up as hobo*

:D

Now there's someone thinking with his head!
The Tribes Of Longton
05-01-2006, 20:17
life - beer = death
Does that mean that life=beer?

*drinks to sustain life*
Heron-Marked Warriors
05-01-2006, 20:23
Does that mean that life=beer?

*drinks to sustain life*

only if death=nothing