UNDER THE PILLARS

After all this time, it still seems that people don't get it. Safe-
injection sites are not supposed to be the answer to drug addiction
and/or homelessness.

The concept falls under harm reduction, part of the four-pillar
approach -- the other three pillars being prevention, treatment and
enforcement.

Harm reduction means reducing the spread of communicable diseases and
preventing overdose deaths, among other things.

This means needles are disposed of safely, rather then being tossed
into a park or alley.

By receiving clean, sterile needles, the possible transmission risk
of a deadly disease is reduced.

Let's get the contaminated needles off the streets and disposed of
safely and properly.

Beck Foreman,

Abbotsford