Pubdate: Wed, 04 Aug 1999
Source: Australian, The (Australia)
Copyright: News Limited 1999
Contact:  http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
Author: Stephen Sinn
Note: Title supplied by newshawk

INJECTING ROOM HUMANE AND NON-JUDGMENTAL

YOUR religious affairs writer, James Murray, says that the Sisters of
Charity may be led up the garden path both by their advisers and the drug
addicts. It is no garden path that addicts are on.

More and more are being found dead in places like toilets and boarding
house rooms.

A supervised injecting room is no starry-eyed response to a complex issue.
It is a humane, non-judgmental response to that group of addicts who are
not ready to stop and are at risk when using.

Father STEPHEN SINN
St Canice's Catholic Church
Kings Cross, NSW
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