UN says sydney injecting room must close
In its 2001 annual report the International Narcotics Control Board condemned the Kings Cross heroin injecting room.
The injecting room is a breach of international drug conventions and should be closed down.
Injecting rooms condoned illicit drug use and drug trafficking.
The injecting room damaged the anti drugs fight.
Board President, Hamid Ghodse, said the board had gone public because the behind the scenes diplomatic efforts had failed to convince the NSW government to close the room.
Professor Ghodse said the injecting room provides the outlet for illicit drug trafficking which is the opposite of what the 1961 United Nations Convention on Drugs asks them to do.
Source: Canberra Times 27 February 2002.
DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL COMMENTS-
Heroin used in the injecting rooms comes from criminal sources and is illegally brought into Australia by international drug crime syndicates. This undermines the work of international, national and state law enforcement.
Heroin users should be diverted into detoxification followed by rehabilitation to get them drug free.
We should not assist criminals but should help drug users.
THE DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS-
More detoxification & rehabilitation that gets illicit drug users drug free.
Court ordered and supervised detoxification & rehabilitation.
Less illicit drug users, drug pushers and drug related crimes.
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