DISTRIBUTE DRUGS TO ADDICTS

The headline for Pat Reavy's piece on heroin amongst Utah youth,
"Heroin hits Utah's young" (July 18), had it backward. Heroin can't
"hit" anything. The headline should have read: "Utah's young hit
heroin." Such youth want to get high; they want to rebel. Long ago I
was one myself.

The only real answer, politically unpalatable as it is, is to scrap
the drug war and return to regulated distribution to addicts as we had
in the 19th century. Young people will not be turned-on by waiting in
line at a government clinic somewhere for drugs.

DAVID MICHON

Eau Claire, WI