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Vancouver's Drug zone
Photos illustrating "The Dope Craze that's Terrorizing Vancouver," Maclean's Magazine, 1 February 1955.read more
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Blue Eagle Cafe
The Blue Eagle Cafe was open from 1944 until it was shut down in 2000. As far back as the 1950s, it was known as a place to buy heroin.read more
View ArticlePast Tense: Harm Reduction, '50s Style
In the recent hullabaloo over Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection site for drug users, critics of the facility are doing their best to create the impression that harm reduction is the recent product of...
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Edna MacCullie
Edna MacCullie was an activist who spent years studying the drug problem.read more
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Senate Committee on the Traffic in Narcotics, 1955
A special committee of the Canadian Senate held hearing into the drug problem. Their main recommendation was stricter law enforcement.read more
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Shoplifting
A photo from the Vancouver Sun in 1949 showing a heroin addict shoplifting to feed his addiction.
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Matsqui Institution, 1963
Matsqui Institution in the Fraser Valley opened in 1966 and operated as an addiction treatment centre for incarcerated addicts until 1969.read more
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Straight Talk about Harm Reduction: An Open Letter to Margaret Wente
The following was written by Dr Bruce Alexander and presented as a keynote address to a meeting of the Four Pillars Coalition on 3 October 2008 at the Segal Centre in Vancouver. It is a response to a...
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