Posted on 19/07/08
Drugs: another set of facts
Margaret Wente's selective use of examples from various nation-states and academic literature does a disservice to those of us who have been working in this area for decades, irrespective of the positions that we take (Europe's Approach To Drugs Is More Enlightened ... It's Tougher - July 17). There are more than 40 legally sanctioned injection sites in the countries of Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Norway; these countries do not experience rates of illicit drug use and abuse that are fundamentally different from other countries in Europe, taken as a group.
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