Re “Use of Heroin in Public View Across the U.S.” (front page, March 7):
Until they are ready for treatment and have access to it, people with an addiction to heroin will find a place to inject, whether it’s in a fast-food restaurant bathroom, a church basement, a public bus or an abandoned building. Making restrooms inaccessible will only push the problem elsewhere.
Nurse-supervised safe injection sites like Insite in Vancouver, Canada, have been demonstrated to save lives and provide a pathway toward recovery. We need to follow suit.
MARK EISENBERG
Brookline, Mass.
The writer is a doctor of internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.
