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- B.C. capital wants safe injection sites established
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  Victoria will request federal permission to set up a safe injection site — similar to the one operating in Vancouver — in order to tackle the city's growing drug-addiction problem. A call for safe injection sites in the city is among the recommendations in a report released Wednesday by the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C.
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- Lived To Use And Used To Live: A Former Sex-Trade Worker Covering A Serial Killer's Trial
  Posted by Orato
  This week, Orato begins the coverage of the trial of Robert Pickton, the man accused of killing at least 26 sex trade workers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. I say at least, because there are more than 60 women missing from the area, and Pickton has been mentioned in connection with more disappearances.
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- The needle and the damage undone
  Posted by Billbar from Salon
  Three years ago, Vancouver opened a bold new front in the eternal war on drugs. In a downtown neighborhood notorious for street addicts, healthcare workers began welcoming clients into a new "safe injection site," a legal facility for users of illegal narcotics such as heroin and cocaine. The Insite program has saved hundreds of lives. It has wiped away much of the drug use in the surrounding streets, while increasing the number of addicts seeking treatment and rehabilitation. Some local conservatives, once fierce opponents of the injection site, are now backing it. And supporters believe the site's success will prove a beachhead for a less punitive and more humane war on drugs extending across Canada -- and even to drug-troubled cities south of the Canadian border.
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- Internet addicts halfway house opens
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  Mainland China has opened its first halfway house for internet addicts, offering shell-shocked teenagers counselling, books - and the use of computers. The shelter can hold four minors for one-night stays and help bridge gaps between children and parents, the Shanghai Daily said. "None of the teenagers are forced to come here," the newspaper quoted Wang Hui, the house's chief social worker, as saying. "We wander around in nearby internet bars at night and bring them to the halfway house if the teen agrees." Computer and online gaming has exploded in China in recent years, with an estimated 14 million people taking part. Amid growing concern that more and more young people are getting hooked, China has issued a raft of regulations aimed at curbing excessive game playing at Internet cafes and heavily fining owners that admit minors.
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- Homeless Alcoholics Receive a Permanent Place to Live, and Drink
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  Rodney Littlebear was a homeless drunk who for 15 years ran up the public tab with trips to jail, homeless shelters and emergency rooms. He now has a brand-new, government-financed apartment where he can drink as much as he wants. It is part of a first-in-the-nation experiment to ease the torment of drug and alcohol addiction while saving taxpayers' money.
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- Women Get Drunk, High and Addicted Easier Than Men
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  More than 20 million girls and women in the United States abuse drugs and alcohol and 30 million more are addicted to cigarettes, according to a 10-year research effort from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. The study documents how women, pound-for-pound, not only get more drunk or higher faster then men, but also become addicted more easily.
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- 'Gene cause' of cocaine addiction
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  In a large study, a gene variation that makes cocaine more strongly inhibit a protein that controls removal of the key mood chemical dopamine in the brain has been identified. Two copies of the variant gene made people 50% more likely to be cocaine abusers.
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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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