Posted in Substance Abuse on Feb 29th, 2012
VANDU is the Vancouver Area Network of Illicit Drug Users. With a current membership of around 2,000 illicit drug users, Vandu sees itself as being a democratic, grassroots community whose focus is social action, their aim to challenge public policy and practices, with regard to illicit drug use. The qualification to be a member is [...]
Posted in Substance Abuse on Feb 22nd, 2012
In Vancouver BC, a young girl of seven was recently taken to hospital, apparently after finding and drinking water laced with GHB. The child has survived, has been taken into care, while authorities make decisions about parental responsibility. see article: The incident highlights the fact that GHB is still around as a party drug. GHB [...]
Posted in Substance Abuse on Feb 16th, 2012
In downtown, eastside Vancouver BC drug addicts congregate at East Hastings and Main to score the drugs that they use. Not much is done, to round them up, to send them on their way. In fact the locality of East Hastings and Main is quite a tourist attraction – tourists flock to see the bizarre [...]
Posted in Substance Abuse on Feb 7th, 2012
On 6 December 2011, Vancouver BC officially began handing free crack pipes to addicts. By 3 January 2012, there were cracks appearing in the system. The supply provided, of 60,000 kits, intended to last for eight months would be used up already if supplies had freely been given to all of the addicts who want [...]
