City Council has voted 36-3 in favour of establishing supervised injection sites at three Toronto health centres. The supervised injection sites have been approved for the Queen West-Central Toronto Community Health Centre, the South Riverdale Community Health Centre and the Toronto Public Health facility located at 277 Victoria St. All three centres have existing needle exchange programs. There is much public relations to the effect that this makes everything safer and that may be true. In the Netherlands, addicts get free heroin, although some addicts complain that this makes them feel dependent. Please do not snicker. Favorable media says that statistics show this largesse had led to a decline in the number of addicts (once said to number 20,000 in Holland) because they aren’t seen. Or maybe because drug peddlers can’t get traction. Let’s see what happens.
