Pubdate: Fri, 26 Aug 2016
Source: Kelowna Capital News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2016, West Partners Publishing Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.kelownacapnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1294
Author: S.B.
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v16/n575/a10.html

SAFE INJECTION SITES SAVE LIVES

To the editor:

Re: Injection Sites Are Just To Get Addicts High, Aug.19 Kelowna Capital News.

It doesn't sound to me that you have ever known anyone who is an 
addict. They are not at all what people think. They are just people 
like us who are on the wrong road in life.

I had a dear cousin who died of a heroin overdose that turned out to 
be a bad batch that was on the streets at the time and there was no 
safe injection site in Vancouver at the time. Had there been, I might 
still have my generous, funny and kind loved one.

Addicts will use anyway, so let's make it as safe as possible, and at 
the same time give them opportunities to get clean. Countless lives 
have been saved by safe injection sites, why do we want less for the 
people in our community?

S.B., Kelowna
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