The following Media Release was posted today by DPNC President Gwen Landolt.

M E D I A   R E L E A S E

For Immediate Release                                                                      October 3, 2011

A DRUG ADDICT’S DESTINY

Drug addicts are human beings.  They deserve better than being shuffled off to a drug injection site, which will only deepen their addiction and hasten their inevitable and terrifying death.

The Supreme Court of Canada based its decision to legalize the operation of the site on the supposed premise that it “saves lives and health of the addicts”.  This conclusion, however, was based only on the flawed evidence of the activist researchers who had a conflict of interest in that they were also the lobbyists for the establishment of the site a decade ago.

The impartial federal government’s Expert Advisory Committee in its report in March 2008 concluded that the drug injection site, which costs three million dollars annually to operate, only refer 3% of its attendees for treatment, the latter is the only way that an addict can regain his/her health and dignity and return to a normal life.

The happiest people in Canada with this decision will be the drug traffickers whose business will boom by way of the addicts obtaining the drugs from them to bring onto the site to inject themselves.

Conversely, the unhappiest individuals will be the police who will have to deal with the inevitable increase in crime due to the criminal activity caused by addicts who require a minimum of $35,000 annually to feed their addiction.  This is one of the reasons why Vancouver has one of the highest crime rates in North America.

The compassionate and humane solution for drug addicts is to help the addicts, not kill them by allowing them to inject more and more of the drugs into their system facilitated by the drug injection site.