SO drug users across Knox, Whitehorse, Monash, Maroondah and Yarra Ranges will soon be able to dial a needle, presumably to accompany their dial-a-pizza.

Your report (Herald Sun, June 16), says the service aims to reduce the risk to users of blood-borne viruses, such as AIDS or hepatitis C.

We already have a needle exchange program. Why do we have to descend to such bottomless depths of moral degradation that we can seriously run this dial-up service.

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