Pubdate: Tue, 27 Nov 2001
Source: Abbotsford Times (CN BC)
Copyright: 2001 The Abbotsford Times
Contact:  http://www.abbotsfordtimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1009
Author: Alan Randell
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1927/a01.html
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?142 (Safe Injecting Rooms)

ANOTHER VIEW ON DRUG QUESTION

THE EDITOR:

Re: 'Abbotsford awakened to drug problem,' (the Times, Nov. 16).

You quote Vancouver Const. Al Arsenault as saying, "Safe fixing sites
are an oxymoron. There is no such thing as safe heroin or cocaine."

Your readers should know that the 1973 Le Dain Commission concluded,
"There appears to be little permanent physiological damage from
chronic use of pure opiate narcotics."

Over to you, Const. Arsenault.

Alan Randell
Victoria
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