Pubdate: Sat, 14 Jul 2007
Source: Ottawa Citizen (CN ON)
Copyright: 2007 The Ottawa Citizen
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/326
Author: Lynn Jackson

ATTACK THE PROBLEM

A great "thank you" to the brave councillors who voted to end this 
ludicrous program.

Finally some common sense coming from a level of government in spite 
of the popular, politically correct and left-wing pressures of those 
who only want to pursue the folly of enabling sick behaviour in 
individuals instead of supporting programs such as Teen Challenge and 
others that have high success rates at helping drug addicts.

Go for the root problem instead of medicating the sickness and 
wasting taxpayers' money on helping people to supposedly remain in 
their addictions safely. Why not take time and money instead to help 
them work toward better quality of life instead of a stupored state 
of existence? There are no safe addictions -- they affect all of us.

Lynn Jackson, Toronto
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