Should doctors be allowed to prescribe heroin to severely dependent adults when other treatments have repeatedly failed?

AI-generated summary, admin reviewed: This vote was about whether to allow doctors to prescribe heroin as part of medical treatment. The public narrowly supported this measure.
VoteWorld wording adapted from a Swiss federal vote. Seed votes are official Swiss results for the original linked proposal, not votes cast on this adapted wording.
AI model: gpt-4o-mini

Seed source: Swissvotes federal popular vote dataset.
Swissvotes page: https://swissvotes.ch/vote/456.00
Official result data: https://bk.admin.ch/de/details-referenden-und-weitere-erlasse?voteNumber=456
Vote date: 1999-06-13
Original Swissvotes English title: Bundesbeschluss über die ärztliche Verschreibung von Heroin
Original German title: Bundesbeschluss über die ärztliche Verschreibung von Heroin
Swissvotes short-description title: Das Volk stimmt der Heroinabgabe wider Erwarten knapp zu
Original French title: Arrêté fédéral sur la prescription médicale d'héroïne
Année Politique Suisse description: https://anneepolitique.swiss/prozesse/28898
BFS result map (German): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic⟨=de#c=indicator&i;=vp19990613.prop_oui_456_0
BFS result map (French): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic⟨=fr#c=indicator&i;=vp19990613.prop_oui_456_0
Official chronology (French): https://bk.admin.ch/fr/details-referendums-et-autres-actes?voteNumber=456