VIHA DRUG INITIATIVES KINDLE HARD FEELINGS

To the Editor,

Re: Province defends safer crack kit plans, March 18.

Dr. Perry Kendall says the United Nations itself tends to be
supportive of harm reduction programs.

So the International Narcotics Control Board is, I would say, not
speaking for the UN.

There is no harm reduction for any residential neighbourhood that the
Vancouver Island Health Authority forces these programs into.

Instead it is actually steadily kindling hard feelings among many
Vancouver Island residents by consistently ignoring residents'
concerns, disregarding visions of neighbourhood plans and the poor
execution of similar programs time and again.

Leslie Hallberg

Nanaimo