SEEKING GUIDANCE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES

The Vancouver Province newspaper (August 25) headlined, "Feds turn to Europe for advice on drugs.." Specifically, the report was of Canadian officials seeking guidance on "whether to kill insite, Canada's only safe-injection site." The visit is to Copenhagen and Stockholm - both undeniably lovely destinations, but neither of which has any experience whatever with "safe-injection sites." It would make vastly more sense for officials from those Scandinavian countries to visit Vancouver's program, which has been proven by independent evaluaiton to be extremely effective.