CITY MUST SAVE REHAB CENTRE

I wish to address my feelings in regard to the closing of the
Salvation Army Rehabilitation Services at the end of the year. What
most people do not understand is that addiction touches not only the
person who is addicted but everyone else that the person is connected
to. This is a disease that has to be controlled. Without the proper
treatment, it will run rampant.

This disease touches not only the skid-row type of person, but also
people in prominent professions, such as your doctor, lawyer, teacher,
pastor, minister, and the list goes on and on.

This debilitating disease could touch you or me very easily, given
circumstances that arise in our lives. Brentwood Recovery Home would
be the only residential treatment program that would be in existence
and would not be able to accommodate the large number of addicts that
require treatment as soon as possible.

I would strongly urge that city council help save the lives of people
who desperately need this help as soon as possible, and not to be put
on a waiting list, which may be too late.

Dina Venturini

St. Clair Beach