Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) Copyright: 2001 The Sydney Morning Herald Contact: http://www.smh.com.au/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/441 Author: Sally Brady Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n662/a01.html ADDICTED, BUT NOT FOR LIFE Jan Carroll (Letters, April 16) obviously doesn't believe in rehabilitation for anyone. "Hands up all you former heroin addicts who are now fine upstanding members of the community," she says. My bet is that plenty of people put their hands up. Or does being an addict at some stage of your life mean you can never be redeemed, you should just be thrown out with the garbage? Perhaps she would prefer that there be no harm-minimisation programs so that all the addicts could just die and stop being a pest. Bugger rehabilitation. Oh, and because she seems a bit confused about what a safe injecting room is - drugs are not supplied, they simply let the user inject there. Sally Brady, Cheltenham, April 16. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens