If you want to learn about drug addiction, Vancouver is a good place to start. The city has struggled with opioid abuse nearly as long as it's existed. In the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood ...

In 2001, a Vancouver Coastal Health Study indicated there were 4700 intravenous drug users occupying the downtown eastside, and there were 12,000 in total throughout the lower mainland. Advertisement ...

Police say five men linked to the Wolfpack gang have been handed multi-year sentences after pleading guilty to trafficking drugs in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Combined Forces Special ...

Vancouver police officers have arrested a man a day after he began operating an illicit drug dispensary in the Downtown Eastside. According to a police statement, the 51-year-old man has been ...

Find Drug Abuse Support Groups in East Side, Vancouver, get help from an East Side, Vancouver Drug Abuse Group, or Drug Abuse Counselling Groups.

The B.C. Centre for Disease Control, using data from 2015, estimated the number of injection drug users in Vancouver at 8,500 people, many of whom reside in the Downtown Eastside.

A Vancouver city councillor is calling for more transparency from the mayor's office after it was revealed the Vancouver Police Board was not aware of a program intended to curb crime and violence in ...

Vancouver police have arrested a 51-year-old man for trafficking in connection to a mobile illegal drug dispensary in the city's Downtown Eastside. Canadian Press May 4, 2023 4:21 PM May 4, 2023 4 ...

VANCOUVER — A new study shows illicit opioid users in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are increasingly testing positive for the potent painkiller fentanyl, which was … ...

A new library has broke ground in Vancouver and will serve the poorest postal code in Canada. The Downtown Eastside is rife with poverty, drug use, sex, crime, and violence.

Vancouver police officers have arrested a man a day after he began operating an illicit drug dispensary in the Downtown Eastside. According to a police statement, the 51-year-old man has been arrested ...

A police officer stands at a barricade restricting access to a block of East Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, April 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck ...