A REAL GOOD SHOOT 'EM UP

Re: "The great safe inject debate" | Mind & Body | Sept. 4, 2008

The supporters of the safe-inject sites are talking about some
statistics that supposedly show these sites actually help, but they
forget the main point. They should instead consider the number of
drug addicts in Canada, and according to Statistics Canada, there
more than 3-million, or one in every ten Canadians have used drugs in
the last year at least once. With this scary reality, society should
not turn its back on those people by letting them "shoot themselves up".

Julien Montreuil's argument that addicts can only quit if they are
"ready to work on it themselves" is immature and anti-social. It
shows a basic lack of understanding of the dangers that drugs hide -
if those people were to quit on their own, they wouldn't even start!

It's society's responsibility to battle this pandemic by making sure
addicts are placed in detox even if they don't fully understand it in
this difficult moment. Stop treating addicts like kids and stop
neglecting the moral principles that this society is based on by
allowing such self-destructing practices.

Alexander Kunev

U2 Mechanical Engineering