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Friday, September 22, 2006 12:00 AM

The needle and the damage undone

Vancouver has halted a drug epidemic by helping street addicts shoot up in safety. Will U.S. cities -- and Bush's drug czar -- learn from the Canadians' success?
By Mark Follman

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  • Friday, September 22, 2006 08:34 AM

    It may be unseemly....................

    but if you can get the addicts to willingly connect with health care professionals, you have won a major battle. The next step will be for the Canadian government to provide pure, unadulterated opiates and the like for use in places like Insite. This will drive all the drug dealers out of business and pull the rest of the addicts into places like Insite. Then the process of helping people to leave the addiction can commence.

    —Tom in Central Illinois Read Tom in Central Illinois's other letters

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