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.
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