HOW WILL THEY GET THERE?

B.McCONNELL, of Families & Friends for Drug Law Reform, tells us that
''people are injecting drugs now in dark secret places, in alleys and
in toilets, (she forgot to mention parks and school playgrounds), and
that the proposal of the injecting room was to bring them closer to
treatment" (CT, July 4). All sounds plausible to me, except for one
little problem. How do these addicts make their way from their home
locations to Civic, where this room is to be located? Would they spend
their drug money on taxis, waste their precious shoot-up time waiting
for buses that never come, or, God forbid, would they drive and then
have to drive home after they have shot up? Most likely they will
continue to do what they do now, shoot up wherever they happen to be,
and to hell with the consequences!

IVAN HOY
Chifley