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Amsterdam encourages those with alcohol dependences to clean the streets as street cleaners. They then pay them 5 cans of beer, 5 Euros and some tobacco a day.

This is just exploitation of someone's unfortunate condition which is supposed to be treated medically. Amsterdam are worsening the Alcoholism problems rather than solving them.

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