Pubdate: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 Source: Province, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2002 The Province Contact: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/476 Author: Charlie Anderson Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?142 (Safe Injecting Rooms) NO INJECTION SITES IN CHINATOWN - MAYOR Mayor Larry Campbell took to the airwaves yesterday to defuse concerns from Vancouver's Chinese community over safe drug-injection sites near Chinatown. Campbell acknowledged safety is a major issue for the community and promised any injection sites would not be located in Chinatown. "You have to go where [addicts] are and so it won't be in Chinatown, but it could be within two blocks of Chinatown," Campbell said on CHMB Radio AM. Campbell said he hopes an injection site will be open by Jan 1. He said he would leave it up to health authorities to measure its success. "If it's not going to work, we'll stop doing it and we will look for some other way, but we're not going to walk away from the addiction problem." - --- MAP posted-by: Doc-Hawk