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I do not understand why the death of an 18-year-old young woman, a first-year student, by an illegal drug overdose in a UVic dormitory in late January was not made public knowledge until mid-May. Something is very strange here.
Do you want the police to carefully investigate how the students involved obtained the drugs? Someone obviously was distributing them.
The public needs to know more about this. The students themselves need to know how this happened. In my opinion, anyone sharing or persuading someone to use these dangerous drugs is guilty of serious harm, and a criminal court needs to decide punishment for cultivating fear among the student body of convictions to prevent further events like this. What about prevention? Are you considering required attendance at appropriate workshops/talks on what illegal drugs contain and how dangerous they are to experiment with? The university seems to underscore drug recovery, not prevention. I, a senior citizen in Victoria, would like to see the university take a public step in that direction.
This letter was submitted by Janet Doyle.
