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Injection room newsFrom: Carlos Roure MD (croure@ibm.net)Wed Mar 15 02:37:58 2000
Just published as"news" in the BMJ is something very interesting and controversial. Just the first few paragraphs. The first medically supervised injecting room for heroin users will open in Sydney in May 2000 despite last week's condemnation by the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board and opposition from John Howard, the Australian prime minister. The supervised facility will have 10 bays in which users can inject, supervised by two health professionals, and clients will be offered supportive counselling and primary health care. The UN is so opposed to the development that it is sending a delegation to Australia this month to try to stop it. The centre, based in the inner city district of Kings Cross, will be managed by the United Church Board for Social Responsibility, an Anglican organisation that supports local community projects. The Vatican has banned all Catholic groups from supporting the trial. The initiative, which follows the success of similar "safe injecting rooms" in Rotterdam and Zurich, will run for an 18 month trial period, during which its possible role in minimising harm to drug users will be evaluated. The evaluation will be conducted by several research bodies, including the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research and the Institute of Criminology. With the same puritanical and hippocritical view, my own church (the catholico one) will forbid any catholic (except me) from participating in this pilot plan just the same way it prohibits safe sex among unmarried people, the free distribution of condoms in schools, the "abortion" pill under medical care, free distribution of clean syringes at shooting galleries as all of this *promotes* those activities. Closing our eyes does not. Hurrah for those brave people who are attempting to find not a solution, but an improvement without closed eyes. Carlos
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