Pubdate: Fri, 12 May 2006 Source: Vancouver Courier (CN BC) Copyright: 2006 Vancouver Courier Contact: http://www.vancourier.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/474 Author: Mike Howell Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?131 (Heroin Maintenance) VISION WANTS SAM TO PUT IT IN WRITING Vision Vancouver councillors Tim Stevenson and Raymond Louie will present a motion to council Tuesday calling for Mayor Sam Sullivan to submit a written outline of his heroin maintenance proposal to city staff for evaluation. The motion comes after Sullivan told reporters last month that he wanted to create a heroin maintenance program for female sex trade workers. Sullivan hasn't given specifics on his plan, only saying that he would rely on experts in the drug addiction field to determine how such a program would work. The mayor's talk of the program has attracted the attention of two men with offers of money. Sullivan hasn't revealed the name of the man with the $500,000 offer, but Marco Romero of Polaris Minerals Corporation has offered $10,000. Stevenson and Louie told the Courier in previous interviews that they are concerned Sullivan's proposal would simply see drugs given to addicts. The Vision councillors request that staff evaluate the mayor's proposal as part of a progress report of the city's Four Pillars drug strategy by June 30. The council meeting begins at 2 p.m. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom