Pubdate: Sun, 10 Jul 2016
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Page: A10
Copyright: 2016 The Toronto Star
Contact:  http://www.thestar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/456
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n463/a05.html
Author: Sigmund Roseth

'SAFE INJECTION' AN OXYMORON

Re: Do the right thing, Editorial July 6

"Safe injection sites"? Isn't that an oxymoron? It is perpetuating 
and abiding this scourge by keeping the addicts from committing 
crimes in order to get their fix. Perhaps, by putting Band-Aids on a 
blistering sore it will keep the rest of us safer. But at what price? 
There must be some other way of dealing with this scourge.

Unfortunately, if you are determined to run away from yourself and 
drown in a drug-hazed environment, there is little anyone can do to 
dissuade you, at least in the short term.

I don't have an answer to such self-destructive behaviour, but I am 
sure that keeping these people living with free drugs - the 
paradoxical "safe injection sites" - is not the answer.

Sigmund Roseth, Mississauga
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom