By Bart Campbell
ISBN-10: 1895636361
ISBN-13: 9781895636369
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The Door is Open is a compassionate, reflective, and informative memoir approximately three-and-a-half years spent volunteering at a skid row drop-in centre in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. In a space most famous for its stunning social ills, and the excellence of maintaining the country's "very poorest ahead sortation sector of all 7,000 postal prefixes," Bart Campbell dismantles our hard-held notions approximately poverty, the disenfranchised, substance abuse, and the character of charity. The Door is Open is the tale of 1 transformative trip during the advanced and complicated international of poverty.
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And then there were 246 more BC heroin deaths in 1994, 175 in 1995, and 256 in 1996. ) It wasn’t until BC Ambulance Services dedicated two units to OD calls only and paramedics started administering Narcan (a narcotic antagonist that can reverse complete respiratory depression if injected into the overdosed patient quickly enough) that Lower Mainland heroin overdose deaths began to fall—to 145 in 1998, and 91 in 1999. But 52 THE DOOR IS OPEN more responsible than Narcan for the lower death rates were the efforts of grassroots educators who encourage addicts to use the buddy system when fixing so that someone will be on hand to call 9-1-1 if they should stop breathing.
And also there was that embarrassingly high overdose body count, and the highest rates of new HIV and HCV infections of all the cities in the western world, and an open drug bazaar on Hastings Street operating 24 hours a day, with people fixing everywhere, in the parks and sidewalks and on the front porches of private homes. City Council finally realized that they couldn’t afford to sit idle anymore, and so they began looking at some unusual new strategies. The Vancouver Agreement is a $30 million, five-year commitment from the City and Provincial and Federal governments to a four-pillar approach to the drug problems in the Lower Mainland (those pillars being: Harm Reduction, Treatment, Enforcement, and Prevention).
I wandered onto the front porch for a cigarette break. But instead of relief all I had to look at was a hard-boiled looking woman cradling her drunken boyfriend who had collapsed on the sidewalk in a puddle of his own piss and vomit. He struggled for a moment, and then went limp in her arms, sobbing helplessly, hiding his face in the nape of her tattooed neck. “What’s the matter? ” The woman angrily hissed at me. “He’ll be all right,” I suggested. “Sure,” she bitched, “the damned selfish bastard is indestructible, but I’m not!
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