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Sydney, Australia, is sponsoring a legal “shooting gallery” — a safe indoor place for addicts to inject drugs. The facility will be located in the city’s Kings Cross nightclub district, and will be run by the Catholic order the Sisters of Charity and St. Vincent’s Hospital. “The point about this is to get heroin use off the streets,” said New South Wales Premier Bob Carr. (AP) ...And into church, where it belongs.


Publication Date: 15 August 1999

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