Pubdate: Thu, 11 Sep 2008
Source: McGill Daily, The (CN QU Edu)
Copyright: 2008 The McGill Daily
Contact:  http://www.mcgilldaily.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2638
Author: Alexander Kunev
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n842/a06.html

A REAL GOOD SHOOT 'EM UP

Re: "The great safe inject debate" | Mind & Body | Sept. 4, 2008

The supporters of the safe-inject sites are talking about some 
statistics that supposedly show these sites actually help, but they 
forget the main point. They should instead consider the number of 
drug addicts in Canada, and according to Statistics Canada, there 
more than 3-million, or one in every ten Canadians have used drugs in 
the last year at least once. With this scary reality, society should 
not turn its back on those people by letting them "shoot themselves up".

Julien Montreuil's argument that addicts can only quit if they are 
"ready to work on it themselves" is immature and anti-social. It 
shows a basic lack of understanding of the dangers that drugs hide - 
if those people were to quit on their own, they wouldn't even start!

It's society's responsibility to battle this pandemic by making sure 
addicts are placed in detox even if they don't fully understand it in 
this difficult moment. Stop treating addicts like kids and stop 
neglecting the moral principles that this society is based on by 
allowing such self-destructing practices.

Alexander Kunev

U2 Mechanical Engineering
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