Saving Drug Users SIR: I write to correct assertions made by Drug Free Australia’s Gary Christian in his article “Blinded by the Dominant Ideology” (November 2010) regarding Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC). While Christian extrapolates from a range of incorrect assumptions, all of which I have clarified since he first publicised these in 2003, I confine myself here to addressing the aspersions he casts on my professional integrity in my former role as the MSIC’s medical director. First, Christian states that six weeks after the MSIC opened I was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald “as claiming that the…
Subscribe to get access to all online articles
Already a member?
Sign in to read this article
Digital Subscription
$98 / YR
Get the latest ideas from Australia’s most insightful writers.
- Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
Printed & Digital Subscription
$118 / YR
For avid readers of leading ideas
from Australia’s brightest.
- Printed & Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.