News (Media Awareness Project) - CN BC: LTE: Injection Sites Are No Answer |
Title: | CN BC: LTE: Injection Sites Are No Answer |
Published On: | 2005-04-26 |
Source: | Abbotsford News (CN BC) |
Fetched On: | 2008-01-16 14:43:33 |
INJECTION SITES ARE NO ANSWER
Editor, The News:
Abbotsford city council members are to be commended for refusing to
allow safe injection sites and needle exchanges in our community.
If junkies want to kill themselves that's their business, but there's
no way we should be assisting them in the process by providing them
with shooting galleries and injection equipment.
Making more detox centres available to these people might be a good
idea, but until an addict is fully committed to getting off drugs and
turning his/her life around, there is little chance that intervention
of any kind will help him/her.
Gary Tupper
Abbotsford
Editor, The News:
Abbotsford city council members are to be commended for refusing to
allow safe injection sites and needle exchanges in our community.
If junkies want to kill themselves that's their business, but there's
no way we should be assisting them in the process by providing them
with shooting galleries and injection equipment.
Making more detox centres available to these people might be a good
idea, but until an addict is fully committed to getting off drugs and
turning his/her life around, there is little chance that intervention
of any kind will help him/her.
Gary Tupper
Abbotsford
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