Free needle clinics and safe injection sites have received much media attention recently as prophylactic measures in the prevention of a certain specific lethal infectious disease locally. One notes that this particular disease is conspicuous by its absence in the BC Centre for Disease Control item in the December 2002 issue of the BCMJ (Naus M. BCMJ 2002;44[10]:551). Can it be that someone is “asleep at the helm” down at Public Health?

—James E. Parker, MB
Abbotsford