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Patty,

   You make some valid points. I wish your daughter the best.

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From what little I have heard about the Seattle Police Chief, he seems like he will have an objective and educated view in his role of federal drug czar. As for needle exchanges, I like the concept, but being a recovering IV addict myself, I never used them for fear of the police presence that I knew existed around exchange sites in Portland. The methadone vans are a bad idea. The last two clinics I worked in were methadone so I am very familiar and I think methadone is appropriate in some situations. The reason the vans are a bad idea is it just offers the heroin addict an easy opportunity to "get well" until they can obtain more money to resume their heroin habit. Now they're talking about methamphetamine. OPB needs to get in the solution. Do you know that there was a proposed follow up campaign to the "Faces of Meth" program? It was to be called, "Faces of Hope." Unfortunately, they couldn't get it funded. I think TOL should discuss more solutions and less problems.

Ben Randolph benjamin@compassionateinterventions.com

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Addiction is a biological function. When you are truly addicted, it is often much stronger than the will required to "draw the line."

benjamin@compassionateinterventions.com

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I like Kate's approach and it is one we take in doing some prevention work with PPS. I never thought about that when I discussed the lack of solution focus in my comment below.

Ben   benjamin@compassionateinterventions.com

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