Unfortunately this is something we will all have to get used to as needles are obviously handed out to addicts, no questions asked. 

I have no objection to a needle “exchange” program for addicts. However, that program seems to have been abandoned as needles are simply handed out like lollies.

Surely it is evident to the persons who have authority to supply needles that the people they are giving the needles to are at the lower end of the socio economic scale. 

Therefore, these addicts have no legal means of obtaining the drugs that they intend to inject with the needles.

Many people believe that the problem is far removed from them until their home is broken into, their purse taken, or their car stolen. 

Think again, because we are sharing our streets with these addicts, we are sharing our roads with them while they drive high on ice, and unfortunately our children have to share their local park with them as well.

Beverly Gillebaard

Hillvue