EDITORIAL PRAISED FOR PROVING NEED FOR SAFE INJECTION SITE

Congratulations on your editorial pointing out the duplicity and
intransigence of the federal government for ignoring and distorting
the solid medical research supporting the evidence of harm reduction
achieved by the supervised injection site. I am proud that we have
such a facility in this city and urge you to keep this issue in the
public eye so that the funding will be extended well into the future.

We cannot let such an important resource be sabotaged by uninformed,
biased, indifference to the fate of our struggling citizens who seek
help from compassionate staff who are trying to find solutions to the
devastation of drug addiction.

This is not a perfect solution, but is by far the best we have at this
time and is gaining significant interest from other cities which could
lead to more lives being saved and illness prevented.

Wendy Barrett

Vancouver