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  2. Downtown Eastside - Wikipedia

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    604, 778, 236, 672. 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 sex work.

  3. Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users - Wikipedia

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    The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users or VANDU is a not-for-profit organization [ 2] and advocacy group based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The group believes that all drug users should have their own rights and freedoms. The group's members have been actively involved in lobbying for support of Insite, North America's first safe ...

  4. Insite - Wikipedia

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    Insite. Insite is a supervised drug injection site in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [1] The DTES had 4,700 chronic drug users in 2000 and has been considered to be the centre of an "injection drug epidemic". The site provides a supervised and health-focused location for injection drug use ...

  5. Through a Blue Lens - Wikipedia

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    Release date. 1999. (1999) Running time. 52 minutes. Country. Canada. Through a Blue Lens is a Canadian documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The film follows interactions between police officers and drug addicts and documents the extreme poverty and suffering many addicts endure.

  6. Hastings Street (Vancouver) - Wikipedia

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    Burnaby Mountain Parkway. Hastings Street is an east–west traffic corridor in the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. [ 2 ] It used to be a part of the decommissioned Highway 7A. In the central business district of downtown Vancouver, it is known as West Hastings Street; at Carrall Street it becomes East Hastings Street ...

  7. Astoria Hotel (Vancouver) - Wikipedia

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    Astoria Hotel (Vancouver) Coordinates: 49°16′53″N 123°05′17″W. The Astoria Hotel is a historic hotel turned into single-room occupancy accommodations located at 769 East Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver, Canada. The hotel was opened in 1913 as the Toronto House Apartments before becoming the Astoria ...

  8. Dana Larsen - Wikipedia

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    Dana Albert Larsen (born 1971) is a Canadian author, businessman, philanthropist and activist for cannabis and drug policy reform.Larsen currently operates businesses and non-profit societies in Vancouver including The Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary, The Medicinal Mushroom Dispensary, The Coca Leaf Cafe, Pothead Books, and the Get Your Drugs Tested centre.

  9. Woodward's Building - Wikipedia

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    Technical details. Floor count. 12. Floor area. 113,549 m 2 (1,222,230 sq ft) (pre-2006) The Woodward's Building is a historic building in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The original portion of the building was constructed in 1903 for the Woodward's Department Store when that area of Cordova Street was the heart ...