The health of the nation: responses. Injecting drug misuse.

The war on drugs will never be won, just as the war on cancer and the war on poverty will never be won; but what folly to fail to identify achievable goals, measures of progress, and strategy of action in the ongoing war. In each of these unwinnable wars great benefit (to both personal and public health) may be accrued from fighting on the right fronts. The challenge for the strategist is to direct the available resources so as to make advances on key fronts while guarding against damaging losses elsewhere. Does injecting drug use really deserve to be included