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The document provides an overview of Methadone Maintenance Programs (MMT) from the perspective of the client. The authors include: a brief history of methadone; a description of the characteristics and benefits of methadone; a brief overview of the administration and structure of MMT in British Columbia (BC); and an assessment of the BC program.

The author provides some background on heroin maintenance programs from an international perspective; and lists eleven advantages to heroin maintenance over methadone maintenance. Using a harm reduction perspective the author emphasizes the importance of the client to have their needs met as they see them, and concludes that physicians, if they have access to both drugs, might choose to prescribe both, in isolation, or combination.

Pamphlet by Vibrant Surrey, which is a collaborative and cross-sectoral effort to reduce poverty and address poverty-related issues. It provides demographic statistics about the percentage of people living in poverty who are youth, people with disabilities, immigrants, visible minorities, lone parents; and First Nations people. It discusses socio-economic factors that contribute to this poverty, the barriers posed by poverty; how service demand is up yet funding for services is down. It advocates that community leaders, business, social services, and government work together to build economic and social opportunities for everyone.