TRY HEROIN ON SCRIPTS

CBD locals, traders and visitors are faced with the drug scene every
day, often being subjected to harassment, violence and theft. Everyone
is scared.

Injecting houses with a police no-go area will only increase the
number or addicts and crime and do little to help addicts long term.

How can it, when they are still injecting cement dust and other lethal
substances with their smack?

The drug problem should be viewed as both a health and economic issue.
Only then can the harm associated with drugs be minimised.

A bold and courageous policy of prescribed heroin can address the drug
epidemic.

With proper counselling and medical supervision, many addicts could
lead a life where chasing their next hit is not the priority of every
waking hour and eventually some may enter detox programs that could
lead to a drug-free life.

If the government monopolised the smack market, a safer, pure,
signifleantly cheaper and easier to obtain product would largely cut
illegal suppliers out of the market.

This could also lead to a dramatic drop in the number of people having
heroin pushed on them.

If no one is prepared to do this, then put these injecting houses next
door to Prof. David Penington and in suburbs such as Doncaster and
South Yarra, where so many of the well-heeled peddlers of death live.

C. Ellis,
Melbourne