News (Media Awareness Project) - CN AB: PUB LTE: Let's Help Inmates To Heal |
| Title: | CN AB: PUB LTE: Let's Help Inmates To Heal |
| Published On: | 2005-06-20 |
| Source: | Calgary Herald (CN AB) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-01-16 02:30:18 |
LET'S HELP INMATES TO HEAL
Drugs - Re: "Needles like arming inmates," Editorial, June 17.
To the contrary, the prison is the perfect place for a prescribed drug harm
reduction area.
The NAOMI project in Vancouver has shown that for a very small few who can
meet the study's criteria, it works well.
European experience shows that heroin maintenance and other programs such as
methadone maintenance get junkies clean.
A person in prison is damaged, and more moralizing will simply not work.
Healing should be the top priority, and these programs are very important in
reintegrating a person into society -- without an addictive drug habit.
Tim Meehan,
Ottawa, Ont.
Drugs - Re: "Needles like arming inmates," Editorial, June 17.
To the contrary, the prison is the perfect place for a prescribed drug harm
reduction area.
The NAOMI project in Vancouver has shown that for a very small few who can
meet the study's criteria, it works well.
European experience shows that heroin maintenance and other programs such as
methadone maintenance get junkies clean.
A person in prison is damaged, and more moralizing will simply not work.
Healing should be the top priority, and these programs are very important in
reintegrating a person into society -- without an addictive drug habit.
Tim Meehan,
Ottawa, Ont.
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