Dutch clinic helps alcoholics by "binding them with beer"
Posted By Ken Monday, 02 August 2010 17:17
AMERSFOORT, Netherlands — Alcoholic Janetta van Bruggen settles comfortably into a clinic chair, lights a cigarette and takes a supervised swig from a tall, frosted mug -- her sixth beer since breakfast.
Previously forced to drink on the sly, up to two litres (two quarts) of wine and three litres of beer per day, she is one of 19 clients of an innovative Dutch clinic where homeless alcoholics get booze in rations to keep them on a "light buzz".
It will be interesting to hear if such a thing actually has success.