Pubdate: Tue, 23 Jan 2001
Source: Vancouver Sun (CN BC)
Copyright: 2001 The Vancouver Sun
Contact:  200 Granville Street, Ste.#1, Vancouver BC V6C 3N3
Fax: (604) 605-2323
Website: http://www.vancouversun.com/
Author: William McMichael
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n120/a06.html
Cited: http://www.crimepreventiondrugtreatment.com/

RESIDENTS' NEEDS CLASH WITH THOSE OF ADDICTS

The type of polemic that Ian Mulgrew describes is not helpful at all
toward any resolution of the substance abuse problems in the Downtown
Eastside (Coalition gathers to fight Owen's drug policy, Jan. 20). The
Community Alliance seems determined to politicize a public health
emergency without bothering to articulate its own framework for
action. Mayor Philip Owen has done his homework and come up with a
plan. Until the Community Alliance does the same, its arguments are
hollow and perhaps even damaging.

William McMichael

Vancouver 
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