ADDICTS NEED REHAB, NOT SYRINGES

The editorial on June 24 expresses the opinion that we should give
clean needles to drug addicts to save lives ("N.J. needs a
needle-exchange program"). Putting addicts in rehab would be saving
lives and would keep the addicts from giving drugs to youngsters to
addict them. But the only way we can save lives is when they decide
they want to be cured. This would also cut down on the crime,
because addicts are desperate persons who sometimes steal to feed
their habit. I do not believe we should help them to destroy themselves.

- - Charlotte Wood

Paterson