Australia's drugs debate is reaching a critical point. Feeling compelled to 'do somethign' and believing that current policies don't work, some state governments are seking to introduce heroin injecting rooms as possibly the first step in the general liberalisation of the drug laws.

Holland and Switzerland - which have done just this - are cited as examples to follow.

In this book, medical experts, social commentators and drug counsellors take a closer look at the European experience and the arguments in favour of 'harm minimisation' and find them seriously flawed.
But there are alternatives which are working.