Give back safe smoking room to Vancouver crack users, study says
Vancouver drug users want their illegal crack-smoking room back
The Province (Canada)
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
For three years, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users’ (VANDU) operated an unsanctioned, peer-run “safer smoking room” for crack users in a small ventilated washroom in its Downtown Eastside facility. It protected crack users from violence, connected them with health care services, kept them away from public spaces and prevented the spread of disease from pipe-sharing, according to the authors of a recently-published study titled “We need somewhere to smoke crack.”
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