Pubdate: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 Source: Nanaimo News Bulletin (CN BC) Copyright: 2010, BC Newspaper Group Contact: http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/948 Author: J. Sharpe HARM REDUCTION PLAN IN CITY WON'T WORK To the Editor, Re: Public process left out of harm reduction plan, March 20. It was interesting to read the last line of this article that states, "distributed sites reduce the congregation aspects associated with one site." Of course they do. Do they reduce the use of drugs? No. Do they help drug addicts get off drugs? No. Do they keep drug users and pushers out of the areas they are in now? No. The Vancouver Island Health Authority is using funds to hopefully reduce medical costs associated with drug use without any real benefit to the taxpayers because all of the other costs such as law enforcement, judicial and all of the various expenses associated with monitoring the drug industry. No need to involve the public. They'd only make waves about this support of the drug culture. J. Sharpe Nanaimo - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D