In many cases, when people in substitution programs miss their scheduled doses, they may seek non-prescribed opioids, now likely to include higher potency types such as fentanyl. “Our community is ...

Today (September 26) was my first trip into the Downtown Eastside since the beginning of autumn and let me tell you, more than leaves are falling in that neighbourhood.

Migration to the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver and changes in service use in a cohort of mentally ill homeless adults: a 10-year retrospective study. BMJ Open , 2016; 6 (1): e009043 ...

The past year has seen multiple fires at SROs, tent city violence, random attacks and the ongoing fentanyl-poisoning crisis on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. What, one might wonder, could anyone ...

As the cold, wet weather rolls into B.C.’s South Coast, a coalition of groups from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is calling for more safe and warm spaces for the homeless.. The Carnegie ...

The City of Vancouver said in a statement that “the threat of arson in the Downtown Eastside is unacceptable.” “The city condemns these threats in the strongest possible terms,” it said.

Colin Askey: I became part of this community when I began working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) in 2008 for a harm reduction organization that provided several housing and healthcare ...

In 2016, in response to record high overdose deaths in Vancouver, a group of artists, activists, and current and former drug users in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood came together to form the ...

Fentanyl took hold in Vancouver around 2014. Overdose numbers more than doubled in two years as the Downtown Eastside became an emergency room.

Vancouver police are investigating flyers distributed in the city’s Downtown Eastside threatening arson against the area’s homeless. Images of the flyers have begun circulating on social media ...

But the heroin supply in Vancouver was taken over about a decade ago by fentanyl, an opioid that is 50 to 100 times as potent and thus far more profitable for the cartels that sell it. Image ...