Drugs strategy team’s approach questioned

IN reply to your report headlined ‘Clean needles still unavailable to addicts’ (February 2), I would like to know if the Government-appointed “expert group” recommended that the goal of a “drug-free lifestyle” should be part of its strategy?

Is the National Drugs Strategy Team (NDST) going to continue with its new strategy of reacting to the situation where heroin smokers are progressing to be heroin injectors?

Is not the purpose of a strategy to be guided by a set of values and to seek to implement actions informed by these values?