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The following contacts would be useful for Vancouver residents seeking additional local information, related to the four pillars:
Access Central: Detox Referral Line – 1-866-658-1221
Needle Pickup Hotline – Vancouver residents may call this number to request pickup of a stray needle - 604-657-6561
Addiction Services (detox, treatment, support recovery) - Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver Coastal Health Community Health Centres– (primary health services, addictions counselling, harm reduction services such as needle exchange, methadone program, withdrawal management, support groups and education and prevention)
Vancouver Police Department 
Insite, Onsite and the Community Transitional Care Team – Insite is Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site, where drug users obtain clean injection-related equipment and then inject their own drugs, while observed by nurses. Onsite offers detox on one floor and, on another floor, short-term housing for those waiting to get into a treatment program. The Community Transitional Care Team offers community-based medical care for injection drug users who require IV antibiotic therapy and who are homeless or have unstable housing.
Managers Russ Maynard and Monica Stein – 604-687-7483
SACY School Age Children and Youth - Substance Use Prevention Initiative
North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) – This is a clinical trial that tests whether heroin-assisted therapy benefits people suffering from chronic opiate addictions who have not benefited from other treatments. The trial is now closed and study results were released in 2009.
Chronic Addiction Substitution Trials (CAST) – The InnerChange Society, founded in 2007, was formed to support the CAST clinical trials to improve the treatment outcomes of chronically drug addicted individuals, with a significant emphasis on advocating for integrated psycho/social treatment and individualized case management.
Trish Walsh, Executive Director – 604-263-8591
The BC Compassion Club Society (BCCCS) is Canada's oldest and largest medical cannabis dispensary and wellness centre. Taking a compassionate client-centred approach to health care, the BCCCS is a registered non-profit organization that offers eleven modalities of natural therapy for its members, from clinical counseling to ethically wild-crafted herbal medicine to acupuncture.
The following is a list of BC Health Authorities outside of the Vancouver Coastal Health region, with links to each health authority’s mental health and addictions services:
Northern Health Authority - Mental Health and Addictions
Interior Health Authority - Mental Health and Addictions
Vancouver Island Health Authority - Mental Health and Addiction Services
Fraser Health Authority - Mental Health and Addictions
Fraser Health Authority - Addiction Services
The following are other local, provincial, national and international links related to drug policy:
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
British Columbia Ministry of Health
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP) 
Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU)
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
Centre for Addictions Research of BC
City of Vancouver's Youth Outreach Team
Comprehensive Systems of Care for Drug Addiction
Downtown Eastside Revitalization
Drugscope - United Kingdom
Drug Policy Alliance
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
From Grief to Action
Health Canada
Join Together
Kaiser Foundation
National Institute on Drug Abuse - USA
Royal Canadian Mounted Police-RCMP
Urban Health Research Initiative
The Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI) was established in 2007 as a program of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. Led by principal investigators Thomas Kerr, PhD, and Evan Wood, MD, PhD, UHRI is based on a network of studies that have been developed to help identify and understand the many factors that affect the health of urban populations, with a focus on substance use, infectious diseases, the urban environment and homelessness.
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