"Insite" safe injection sites

The mayor of Victoria even advocated establishing several "Insite" safe injection sites around the island, about which no further mention has been made after many letters of objection.
Apparently crack pipes are widely used, are not issued by the Island Health Authority, but must be condoned and encouraged if the Health Authority is considering issuing in the new year, "safer crack kits" of sleeves and screens that fit over pipes to reduce the chance of spreading Hepatitis C and other diseases, instead of tackling the real problem of drug addiction head on.
Crack cocaine is a highly addictive, relatively cheap and prevalent street drug used across Canada. It can be heated, smoked through a pipe, injected and sniffed. Why, oh why, would anyone encourage the use of addictive drugs when there is such a universal sickness permeating society worldwide. There is only one solution--treat drug addiction properly, eradicate the drugs and prosecute those importing and selling it, before it spreads any further.
Addicts feed their addiction through theft, encouraging dealers and the importation of the supply by drug lords and all sorts of criminals, enriching themselves and their families, making the addicts criminals as well. To condone and encourage the use of crack pipes plus the attachments in the new year, is only increasing the problem at the taxpayers' expense, just to prevent a few cases of Hepatitis C.
If this disease is estimated to cost the Canadian health care system billions of dollars a year, this money could be spent more wisely in treating drug addicts in a residential detoxification and rehabilitation centre or clinic, where they can be educated and taught trades, while being treated, then returned to society as healthy contributing citizens, instead of living a permanent hell, without any hope for the future.
Note should be made of such a community, opening mid-January near Prince George by MLA Lorne Mayencourt, who has had the courage, vision and understanding of how drug addiction should be treated and is pursuing this dream.
Cocaine especially, according to Australian 2006 research results, prevents the up-take of the necessary precursors, dopamine and probably, serotonin, which stimulate the brain's neuro-transmitters.
The tunnel vision regarding the correct treatment of drug addiction needs revision, more attention and understanding. It could take from two to three years for an addict to be rehabilitated after treatment and training, including plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, minerals, vitamins, rest, fresh air, exercise, encouragement and hope, in the country somewhere away from temptation and big city influences. Such a residential detoxification and rehabilitation community is now being made available near Prince George