Pubdate: Wed, 01 Jun 2011
Source: Victoria Times-Colonist (CN BC)
Copyright: 2011 Times Colonist
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/481
Author: Bill Bate

A THROWBACK TO PROHIBITION

The assertion by David Berner, director of the abstinence-based Drug
Prevention Network, that "harm reduction" is actually "harm seduction"
and his equating Insite and needle exchanges to "walking up to a drunk
and handing him a clean shotglass" shows the same lack of logic and
distortion of the issues that our federal government has attempted to
implement.

As if the implications of a shared drinking glass are as severe and
potentially deadly, or that they will result in continued use of
illicit substances, is ludicrous. Perhaps the analogy is based on the
Prohibition-era experience and the success that program had? This is
propaganda and not science.

Bill Bate

Courtenay
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