Re: E. J. Chatelain letter in the Aug. 14 Salmon Arm Observer.
My apologies to the writer. I do not profess to have your expertise in regard to addiction programs. However, in my letter of July 31, nowhere did I state that all programs should be abolished. Nor do I class these people as dirt – a hasty assumption on your part. The one crucial word I failed to include is in the following statement: The healing programs both at the family level and community-wise, will ultimately fail unless the central figure has the intestinal fortitude to do the major battle. To reverse an age-old analogy, “one may lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”
Alli M. Graham
