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Preventing Heroin Overdose: Pragmatic Approaches - Friday, January 14, 2000.

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
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Agency: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)
Date: 
2000-01
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
Announcement of upcoming presentations to be given by members of VANDU. It provides a brief description of VANDU as an organization and gives biographical information about each of the presenters. It gives the titles and brief descriptions of the presentations to be given. These include a presentation on overcoming barriers to form user-run groups; a presentation on the dilemmas of users "coming out" in community organizing and then applying for housing and jobs in the area; and a presentation on how user groups can change the culture of shame and denial about relapses, thereby reducing overdose deaths.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU); advocacy; drug users; harm reduction