NO INJECTION SITES IN CHINATOWN - MAYOR

Mayor Larry Campbell took to the airwaves yesterday to defuse concerns from
Vancouver's Chinese community over safe drug-injection sites near Chinatown.

Campbell acknowledged safety is a major issue for the community and promised
any injection sites would not be located in Chinatown. "You have to go where
[addicts] are and so it won't be in Chinatown, but it could be within two
blocks of Chinatown," Campbell said on CHMB Radio AM.

Campbell said he hopes an injection site will be open by Jan 1. He said he
would leave it up to health authorities to measure its success.

"If it's not going to work, we'll stop doing it and we will look for some
other way, but we're not going to walk away from the addiction problem."