Calgary Considers Dispensing Free Addictive Drugs Giving Heroin addicts free drugs and a safe place to shoot up appears, at first blush, to be a bizarre and convoluted way to address a serious health problem or suppress an illegal activity. Yet just such a program is under consideration in Vancouver and is generating more than a casual interest in Calgary. Dr.John Gill, the chief of infectious diseases with the Calgary Regional Health Authority (CRHA), calls the Vancouver proposal novel and innovative. [continues 591 words]