MDS OPPOSE LEGALIZING HEROIN

B.C.'s doctors have come out against a proposal that heroin be legalized as
a way to combat the province's drug-use epidemic.

"There is no evidence to suggest prescribing heroin to addicts will work,"
says a report from a subcommittee of the B.C. Medical Association. It urges
a better-funded, better-co-ordinated public health strategy.

The report says the strategy should include detox centres, residential
treatment programs, outpatient counselling, recovery homes, needle
exchanges and methadone programs.

Checked-by: Joel W. Johnson