Source: Orange County Register friday, July 11,97 Contact: Switzerland declared its novel experiment with statedistributed herion a success Thursday,saying the drug giveaway has slashed crime, misery and disease associated with hardcore drug addiction. The program has attracted the interest of the World Health Organ ization, which is evaluating the results, and Dutch officials, who said they were using it as a model for their own effort. Presenting the findings of the pilot threeyear program involving 1,146 hardened addicts, health and lawenforcement experts said it has saved taxpayers money and should be continued. But they also stressed that having doctors inject daily doses of herion was no substitute for traditional substance abuse therapies.