ON ADDICTION, DISABILITY, AND CARNEGIE

As a resident of the Downtown Eastside, I am becoming sick of the
pandering John Turvey and like-minded organizations are giving to the
junkies down here. I am sick of hearing "up", "down", "rock",
"powder" every time I leave my front door. I am sick of junkies using
the back lanes around my home as an open-air toilet/trick
pad/shooting gallery. I am sick of having friends' and neighbours'
cars and homes broken into. I am sick of the police brass caving in
to special-interest groups, and I am sick of people like Turvey
abusing the human-rights legislation to further their own agenda. If
the people of B.C. knew the true scope of the financial black hole
that is harm reduction in the Downtown Eastside, I wonder what they
would say.

Dean McLean
Vancouver