Hoffman and the Terrible Heroin Deaths in the Shadows

The one thing I disagree with in this article is the idea the Hoffman might have gone to a safe-injection site. I lived in Vancouver for a while, I always thought of the safe-injection sites as places where people can shoot up safely in private, rather than in the street (which is common around Pigeon Park).

My gut reaction would be that a recovering addict, and a celebrity one at that, would want to hide their addiction. It's another problem with the stigma associated with addiction. It's seen as shameful even though it's a disease.