Professor Aiden McCormick:

I think it is fantastic and is the way to go. It is safer for the drug users and safer for the community, certainly if people are using clean needles. I would go further and say that one should give these people the opiates rather than having them buy them on the streets and giving the money to criminals, but that is a different area. If they are in the injecting centres, we have access to them and can go and talk to them and treat them.