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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 12:34 PM

Please keep covering this issue, but....

Mark

I'm a Vancouver journalist and, like most journalists I know, I hope Insite is allowed to continue and expand. But every time a story is printed that exaggerates the success of the injection site, it serves to fuel the arguments being made against it.

The Insite story is a good news story on the facts. Lives have been saved, and there is now a glimmer of hope for a lot of sick people who had no hope before. Perhaps best of all, Vancouverites appear to be supporting the site in ever bigger numbers.

So, please continue to watch this experiment and spread the word, but lay off the hyperbole.

I’m sure a good many Insite supporters cringed when they read your piece this morning. The conservative’s rebuttal almost writes itself.

—JMiller Read JMiller's other letters

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