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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 13 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4227 ..
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 10 NOES, 7 Mr Berry Mr Cornwell Ms Carnell Mr Hird Mr Corbell Mr Humphries Mr Hargreaves Mr Kaine Mr Moore Mr Osborne Mr Quinlan Mr Rugendyke Mr Smyth Mr Stefaniak Mr Stanhope Ms Tucker Mr Wood
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services): During my speech on the Supervised Injecting Place Trial Bill I said that I would table papers on all the complementary documents or processes the Government has in place and also the "Charter for health care workers" issued by Vatican City in 1995. I now table those documents and seek leave to have the relevant sections of the charter incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The document read as follows:
Undoubtedly, the evils caused by dependency and the care it requires are not a matter for medicine alone. But medicine does have a preventive and therapeutic role.
Drugs
93. Drugs and drug addiction are almost always the result of an avoidable evasion of responsibility, an aprioristic contesting of the social structure, which is rejected without positive proposals for its reasonable reform, an expression of masochism motivated by the absence of values.
One who takes drugs does not understand or has lost the meaning and value of life, thus putting it at risk until it is lost: many deaths from overdose are voluntary suicides. The drug-user acquires a nihilistic mental state, superficially preferring the void of death to the all of life.
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