Pubdate: Wed, 14 Jun 2000
Source: Age, The (Australia)
Copyright: 2000 David Syme & Co Ltd
Contact:  250 Spencer Street, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Website: http://www.theage.com.au/
Author: Matthew Townsend

LANGLEY WILL BE PROVED A PIONEER

In 20 years, when supervised injecting facilities are operating in a
dozen or more places around Victoria, and the practice of injecting in
laneways, parks and abandoned buildings has been all but eliminated,
the Reverend Tim Langley will be regarded as a pioneer in helping
bring to an end this reactionary and devastating period in Victoriaís
regulatory history.

The drug debate has plenty of armchair drug-law-reform theorists, but
Reverend Langley, at his own professional risk, has overseen the
creation of a state-of-the-art facility for chaotic heroin-dependent
users in the heart of our city.

While this showcase facility sits there unused, virtually every day
someone's son or daughter lies unconscious in the streets surrounding
Wesley, awaiting the herculean efforts of our MICA units.

MATTHEW TOWNSEND, Toorak
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