Pubdate: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 Source: Prince Albert Daily Herald (CN SN) Copyright: 2006 Prince Albert Daily Herald Contact: http://www.paherald.sk.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1918 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?142 (Supervised Injection Sites) READERS REJECT INJECTION SITE The Prince Albert Daily Herald had a strong response to our question: What do you think about creating a safe injection site in Prince Albert? The answer, overwhelmingly, was that readers do not think the safe injection site is a good idea. The question was prompted when a group of student nurses from the First Nations University College of Nursing asked council to consider the idea. In phone calls and e-mails, our readers communicated that they think a site would facilitate drug use and would not be a good use of tax dollars. One reader wrote: "I think having a safe clinic in PA is not the ideal thing to do. It promotes using the drug to drug addicts who have a problem with heavy drugs. So instead of getting these people off the streets with possessions of narcadicts, we set up a safe clinic and watch them do it? It would become a place where your 16-year-old child tries heroin for the first time, becomes an addict, ruins their lives and the crime in the city goes up because they need to get money for their drug of choice right? The city should spend the money it takes to set up the safe house to get city workers picking up the needles, advertise on what to do if someone finds a needle, get schools to tell kids on what to do if they find needles and possibly set up a detox centre in PA to help these people get their lives on track, not ruin their lives." It was good to see some lively debate on this subject and we hope future questions prompt a similar response. This week's question can be found lower on this page. - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman