ADDICTION IS ...

I'm not sure I understand Margaret Wente's point (Is Addiction Really
A Disease? - May 17). If most hard drug addicts eventually find the
resolve to kick their habit, thus rendering Insite, as she suggests,
useful only for "the hardest of the hard cases" (those with additional
psychiatric disorders and few meaningful alternatives), and if it's
also true (as both sides in the debate acknowledge) that the
facility's services have significantly reduced fatal overdoses among
this core group of users, shouldn't that fact alone be reason enough
to keep it open?

Michael Lennick

Bala, Ont.