DEALING WITH FALLOUT

Re: Injection sites do not create negative impact,' May 6.

Vancouver criminologist Neil Boyd's "study" should be made public --
I hope it contains statistical evidence and not merely the opinions
of his chosen study targets.

Further, the advocates of the approach should be the first ones to
share the benefits that a supervised injection site extends to their
neighbourhoods. Our area has been experiencing the fallouts of "harm
reduction" for the past two decades -- the police crime statistics,
and the economic decline of harm-reduction host communities speak for
themselves.

Mr. Boyd advances a certain point of view but he does not have a
monopoly on solutions to addiction. There are those who think that
putting a 350-pound person on a 5,000-calorie diet of fat and sugars
is not the right way to control his or her obesity, and neither is
allowing addicts to shoot up three times a day courtesy of the taxpayers.

Eva Curlanis-Bart,

Toronto

Garden District Residence Association