Delays hit student-designed women’s pharmacy

Construction delays and a lack of money are slowing the opening of an innovative new health care facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Lu’s Pharmacy For Women, created by a team of UBC architecture students, is intended to change the way pharmacies work in Canada’s poorest postal code.
The aim is to replace the dingy methadone dispensaries common [...]

Vancouver’s Asian drug addicts ‘overlooked’

In a city with the most visible East Asian population in Canada, there is one type of Asian who remains almost invisible in Vancouver: the drug addicts.
Health workers and drug counselors say there is a hidden group of mostly Chinese and Vietnamese drug users who receive no treatment because they are flying under every official [...]

In pictures: Student-designed women’s pharmacy

Construction delays and a lack of money are slowing the opening of an innovative new health care facility in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Lu’s Pharmacy For Women, created by a team of UBC architecture students, is intended to change the way pharmacies look and work in Canada’s poorest postal code.

A model of Lu’s Pharmacy illustrates a [...]

Writers explore violence against women

Hot on the heels of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a physician and a sex worker delivered an engaging discussion about drugs and women in the Downtown Eastside as part of the Robson Reading Series on December 4.
In the short seminar, the two authors linked violence against marginalized women to [...]

Q&A: Physician Gabor Maté

Dr. Gabor Maté was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 and came to Canada in 1957.  His eclectic career has taken him from teaching high school English to treating patients to writing bestsellers.  For the last 20 years he has been treating people suffering from HIV and addiction as a physician in the Downtown Eastside.  [...]