Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users

Report summarizing information on illicit drug use in Metropolitan Toronto, obtained from a wide variety of data sources. Data and statistics about cocaine, heroin, cannabis, tranquillizers, hallucinogens, solvents and stimulants) are presented in descriptive and graph form, with regard to police seizures; drug purity; drug treatment; and drug deaths, from the late 1980s to mid-1990s. Additional sections of the report provide information on needle exchange programs, other drug programs, and newborns affected by maternal drug use. A series of tables conclude the report, summarizing illicit drug data by year and in relation to different populations (adults, students, street youth, etc).

Research paper written in order to educate methadone patients about how their treatment works. Topics covered include the pharmacology of methadone; how methadone is administered and how the body absorbs it; drugs and conditions that reduce the effectiveness and action of methadone; and where to find more information about methadone and other psychoactive drugs. A list of references is provided.

Academic research paper arguing that attention to property as a legal and political set of relations is overdue in geographic scholarship. In particular, property and property law should be understood in terms of the legal violence it is enacted through and legitimated by. Using the Downtown Eastside's gentrification as a case study, the author argues that the violences enacted through property development and law are also powerfully geographic.

Poster announcing a public meeting in April, 2000, and inviting methadone users to come in order to tell their stories; describe experiences of discrimination; and express what they think should be done to improve the system. Representatives of both the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board and the BC Association of People on Methadone are scheduled to attend.