Downtown Eastside - Wikipedia
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, the DTES is the site of a complex set of social issues, including disproportionately high levels of drug use, homelessness, poverty, crime, mental illness and …
How decriminalisation made Vancouver the fentanyl ... - The Telegraph
Jul 9, 2024 · Manufactured in numerous illicit labs in Canada’s wilderness, fentanyl is now so common in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that you can literally pick it up off the street.
City on drugs: the dark pull of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Aug 1, 2017 · In the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, thousands of people live with addiction, along with a painful combination of other issues. Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has long had a magnetic...
How Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Became What It Is Today
Apr 10, 2019 · In 1997, a public health emergency was declared in the Downtown Eastside. The drug problem had grown worse than ever. HIV started to spread, needle-sharing became more prominent, and approximately 1000 people died of drug overdose. Present Day Photo: Patrick Doherty/Flickr. Today, the drug problem still exists in the Eastside.
Success or failure? Canada's drug decriminalisation test faces ... - BBC
Mar 30, 2024 · In Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a historic neighbourhood that has long grappled with social issues like poverty and drug use, advocates have accused politicians of sowing "moral panic".
Research on a Vulnerable Neighborhood—The Vancouver Downtown Eastside ...
The Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver is the subject of considerable research due to high rates of drug use, poverty, crime, infectious disease, and mental illness. This paper first presents a brief background to the DTES and then presents a ...
'The Dope Craze that's Terrorizing Vancouver' - The Tyee
Aug 13, 2008 · Beginning in 1939, Vancouver police were making regular inspections of skid road rooming houses looking for drugs and related paraphernalia. The Downtown Eastside was also the largest...
Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. Fentanyl destroyed them
Jun 27, 2024 · The drug problem is at its most acute in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, several astonishingly squalid blocks that protrude from the city’s affluent centre.
Violent Montreal street gang now selling drugs in Vancouver
Jun 7, 2023 · A violent Montreal street gang is now selling drugs in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, raising concerns about increased tensions with local drug sellers.
How did we get here? Failed public policy and Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Aug 17, 2019 · Vancouver's Downtown Eastside has been the epicentre of homelessness and drug addiction in the province for decades. It has also been the focus of public policy to address these...