Pubdate: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2016 Canoe Limited Partnership Contact: http://www.torontosun.com/letter-to-editor Website: http://torontosun.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n168/a01.html Author: Gordon Skinner Page: 16 ENABLING ADDICTS Re "Needle site cost?" (Don Peat, March 17): Enabling junkies to continue their habits is just wrong. I have met a few in my time and when they are lucid they wish they were not hooked and could get their life back. When the withdrawal hits, they have no choice but to continue to sate their desire. Providing opportunities to beat the withdrawal seems much more humane. Get them off the drug, then you can work on the core mental issues that drive them to make their poor choices and enable them to get their lives back. To offer to help them to continue their cycle of dependency just seems that we are giving up on them. Safe injection sites, in my opinion, are the easy way out. We might as well give them free drugs as well. Gordon Skinner Uxbridge - ----------------------------------------- (That's where the logic of safe injection sites eventually leads) - --- MAP posted-by: Matt