Pubdate: Sun, 14 Jul 2013
Source: Ottawa Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2013 Canoe Limited Partnership
Contact: http://www.ottawasun.com/letter-to-editor
Website: http://www.ottawasun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/329
Author: Jill Harper
Page: 19
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor

NEEDLE SITE NEEDED

To those who have expressed such strong opinions about not needing a
supervised injection site in Ottawa I ask why?

Why is it that you feel so strongly that the nation's capital does
"not need one"?

The principal reason people don't want these injection sites in the
city is because they don't approve of the idea of the use of drugs or
how it will look to the public if this project is approved.

The truth of the matter is that a project like this is designed to
help people with drug addictions to help prevent the spread of disease
and used needles floating around and to introduce new preventive
strategies and intervention programs into the community.

A similar project was opened some time ago in Vancouver. People should
be doing their research and digging deeper before forming any kind of
opinion when it comes to health-matters.

For once, someone is trying to do something to help improve the health
of Canadians and reduce the spread of disease.

While at first I was skeptical about the idea as well, I think it
would be worth the while for everyone including the mayor to find out
more about the project.

JILL HARPER OTTAWA

(Does more harm than help)
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MAP posted-by: Matt