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It's hard to understand what life is like in East Van until you've experienced it for yourself. It's estimated that 6,000 junkies call 12 square blocks of downtown Vancouver home, making it a desolation of drug abuse, violence and crime, and enabling it to lay claim to the dubious distinction of having the highest HIV transmission rate in the Western world.

April 3, 2008

It's hard to understand what life is like in East Van until you've experienced it for yourself. It's estimated that 6,000 junkies call 12 square blocks of downtown Vancouver home, making it a desolation of drug abuse, violence and crime, and enabling it to lay claim to the dubious distinction of having the highest HIV transmission rate in the Western world.