we can offer heroin or morphine unadulterated by who-knows-what impurities, to be self-injected in a clean environment, with uncontaminated needles. We are neither condoning nor encouraging addiction: the addiction exists and will continue to savage that person’s life no matter what we believe. Our only choice is between compassion and indifference. By administering heroin in a controlled fashion we are attempting to minimize harm for the addict, with the social benefit of reducing crime, squalor and medical expenses.
