Editor: I agree with the guest editorial of Sept. 6 that said too many drug people are going to prison, etc. However, I do not see any existing offering of something different or any plan to change this deplorable situation. I would like to offer my suggestion. To be effective it needs to be nationwide.

It amounts to government controlled drugs, where drugs are free. Setting up centers in all areas where an addict can go to sign in, get a card and his drug of choice, stay there until the effects wear off, then go home or to work or whatever.

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