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About Us
Four Pillars News is published for the Mayor's Four Pillars Coalition by the City of Vancouver.
Editor
Theresa Beer, Drug Policy Program
Contributors
Mayor Larry Campbell
Donald MacPherson
Jim Boothroyd
Naomi Brunemeyer
Richard Garlick
Jennifer Vornbrock
Zarina Mulla
Lesli Boldt
Links
Newsletter archive
What are the Four Pillars?
Coalition Members
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| Clinical
Trial to Test New Treatment for Heroin Addicts
by Jim Boothroyd,
Communications Manager, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes
at UBC/St. Paul's Hospital
Researchers hope to begin
a long-awaited clinical trial of a new treatment for people with
severe cases of heroin addiction at a clinic in the Downtown Eastside
this September.
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| Methamphetamine
Response
by Jennifer
Vornbrock, Manager of Youth and Women's Addiction Services, VCH
Methamphetamine, or crystal
meth as it is commonly called (also ice, jib, crystal, meth, or
speed), is a synthetic stimulant. It appears as powder or granules
that can be smoked, snorted, ingested or injected. The effects
resemble cocaine, but methamphetamine is metabolized much more
slowly, so effects may last up to 24 hours.
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| Addictions
Redesign at VCH
by Naomi Brunemeyer, Regional Communications
Officer, VCH
Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is
in the process of redesigning addiction services, for which it
assumed management in 1999. The redesign process is built on a
number of community consultations and documents outlining gaps
in addiction services and proposed programs to address the gaps.
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| Canada's
Drug Strategy
by Richard Garlick,
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
OTTAWA ÷The long-awaited renewal of Canadaâs
Drug Strategy (CDS) was all but ignored in the media frenzy that
greeted the federal governmentâs simultaneous call for new cannabis
laws last May. Now that the marijuana issue has cooled slightly÷proposed
reforms (now called Bill C-10) were re-introduced in Parliament
with little fanfare on February 12÷there is a fresh opportunity
to focus on the CDS and what it is supposed to accomplish.
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| News
in Brief
- Vancouver Drug Overdose Deaths -
2001 to 2003
- City's prevention planning
moves forward in 2004
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| Improving
Prevention and Treatment
by Mayor Larry Campbell
The Forum on the prevention of problematic
drug use held at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue on November 20 and
21, 2003 marked the beginning of a new challenge for all of us.
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| MEMBER STORIES |
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Pacific
Community Resources Society
by Zarina Mulla, Social Planner, DPP
Two desks, four chairs, a computer, printer
and a phone, several busy schedules and posters on the wall·and
not enough room to swing a cat. But this active little office
is the hub of an impressive program addressing problematic substance
use among youth.
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HOW
ARE WE DOING?
This is the third issue of the Four Pillars
News. To help us improve the newsletter and serve you better, weâd
like to hear from you about how weâre doing.
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