Pubdate: Tue, 31 Aug 2010
Source: Ottawa Citizen (CN ON)
Copyright: 2010 The Ottawa Citizen
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/326
Author: Russell Barth
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n705/a09.html

NEEDLE MESS

Re: The needle hunter, Aug. 29.

If Ottawa had an INSITE safe-injection facility like the one in 
Vancouver, we would have a lot less of this kind of mess. The RCMP 
even admitted that they were wrong and that INSITE is actually a 
benefit to the community -- or they would have, if the ideological 
federal government hadn't prevented them from doing so.

In spite of the evidence of how safe-injection sites reduce crime, 
costs, death, and the spread of diseases, our police chief and city 
counsel will work hard to keep INSITE out of our community.

Russell Barth,

Ottawa

Educators for Sensible Drug Policy
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