Your Voice 17 June

Johns words just tired and lazy rhetoric

In response to John Letfords column on Dundees drug problem, how wonderful it must be for him to see the world in simple black and white.

John might want to consider that the work-shy hangers-on and self-inflicted people he claims to have no sympathy for are still someones son or daughter.

Drug or alcohol dependency is a complex issue and the reasons behind why people become addicted are most often linked to wider, deeper issues.

John calls for a drugs tsar with dedicated expertise, but at the same time tells us we dont need so-called experts to explain the difficulties of addiction.

I would like to know what he thinks the tsar would be doing because John tells us he has no respect for those who defend addicts.

Would the tsars approach therefore be one which judges, persecutes and punishes people?

John offers no real answers, just more tired, lazy rhetoric. Jock Tamsons Bairn.

Im a big fan of John Letford, but I couldnt agree with his hard line argument on drug addiction.

If people dont agree with current efforts then what do the hard-liners suggest?

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Your Voice 17 June