Pubdate: Wed, 16 Jun 1999
Source: Canberra Times (Australia)
Contact:  http://www.canberratimes.com.au/
Author: Harry Hobbs

LIVES THE PRIORITY

I THINK it is a good thing that the Wayside Chapel is opening a safe
injecting room for heroin addicts because people can inject with clean
syringes and health workers.

My mum and dad had a close friend called Jenny, who tried to give up
heroin, but she couldn't.

Last year she died of a heroin overdose in her kitchen.

If a safe injecting room had been available she may not have died. I
think any idea that could save lives is worth trying.

HARRY HOBBS (aged 10)
Deakin
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