READERS REJECT INJECTION SITE

The Prince Albert Daily Herald had a strong response to our question:
What do you think about creating a safe injection site in Prince Albert?

The answer, overwhelmingly, was that readers do not think the safe
injection site is a good idea.

The question was prompted when a group of student nurses from the
First Nations University College of Nursing asked council to consider the idea.

In phone calls and e-mails, our readers communicated that they think
a site would facilitate drug use and would not be a good use of tax dollars.

One reader wrote: "I think having a safe clinic in PA is not the
ideal thing to do. It promotes using the drug to drug addicts who
have a problem with heavy drugs. So instead of getting these people
off the streets with possessions of narcadicts, we set up a safe
clinic and watch them do it? It would become a place where your
16-year-old child tries heroin for the first time, becomes an addict,
ruins their lives and the crime in the city goes up because they need
to get money for their drug of choice right? The city should spend
the money it takes to set up the safe house to get city workers
picking up the needles, advertise on what to do if someone finds a
needle, get schools to tell kids on what to do if they find needles
and possibly set up a detox centre in PA to help these people get
their lives on track, not ruin their lives."

It was good to see some lively debate on this subject and we hope
future questions prompt a similar response. This week's question can
be found lower on this page.