NEEDLE MESS

Re: The needle hunter, Aug. 29.

If Ottawa had an INSITE safe-injection facility like the one in
Vancouver, we would have a lot less of this kind of mess. The RCMP
even admitted that they were wrong and that INSITE is actually a
benefit to the community -- or they would have, if the ideological
federal government hadn't prevented them from doing so.

In spite of the evidence of how safe-injection sites reduce crime,
costs, death, and the spread of diseases, our police chief and city
counsel will work hard to keep INSITE out of our community.

Russell Barth,

Ottawa

Educators for Sensible Drug Policy