HOSPITAL CAN'T COPE WITH METH ADDICTS

MAPLE RIDGE - Ridge Meadows Hospital can't contain its crystal-meth addicts.

Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Randy Hawes said he's been in touch with
Solicitor-General John Les about it, and is hoping a solution can be
found as soon as possible.

Hawes said he has spoken to Les on the need for a "holding place for
people that are in drug psychosis and considered dangerous."

"They are violent and they are a medical problem . . . they're not a
police problem, but the hospital's not equipped for that," he said.