ADDICTED, BUT NOT FOR LIFE

Jan Carroll (Letters, April 16) obviously doesn't believe in rehabilitation
for anyone.

"Hands up all you former heroin addicts who are now fine upstanding members
of the community," she says. My bet is that plenty of people put their
hands up.

Or does being an addict at some stage of your life mean you can never be
redeemed, you should just be thrown out with the garbage? Perhaps she would
prefer that there be no harm-minimisation programs so that all the addicts
could just die and stop being a pest. Bugger rehabilitation.

Oh, and because she seems a bit confused about what a safe injecting room
is - drugs are not supplied, they simply let the user inject there.

Sally Brady, Cheltenham, April 16.