Editor:

Re: 'Safe-consumption' sites considered, July 20.

Forty-three drug overdoses in Surrey on the weekend of July 16-17 and Mayor Linda Hepner refers to illicit drug use as a "lifestyle."

Really, Mayor Hepner?

Starting to use illicit drugs may be a choice - perhaps a recreational choice, but how often is it a way to deal with chronic pain, to self-medicate a mental health issue or to forget past trauma?

And how quickly is it no longer a choice?

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