The Orchard Recovery Centre, who were well-represented by E.D. Lorinda Strang and Communications Director, AnnMarie McCullough, at our DPNC November 16th Conference held at Pacifica, have shared with us their latest newsletter. You can find the entire piece on our DPNC BLOG, listed under the menu heading, LINKS. This is exactly the kind of sharing of information – especially great stories of Prevention and Treatment – that we welcome form

This email is to inform you that one of our favourite films, Tears for April, has been accepted into the BRAND NEW Reel Recovery Film Festival which is being held at District 319 (319 Main Street, Vancouver) between October 21-23, 2011. For those of you who are not familiar with the venue, Lyn Vince and District 319 kindly donated this private theatre as a filming location for our latest film

Martinuk: Some insight into Insite – the data don’t hold up By Susan Martinuk, Calgary HeraldOctober 14, 2011 Susan Martinuk’s Photo On Sept. 30, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Insite, Vancouver’s drug injection site for addicts, is exempt from the provisions of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The site can therefore continue to provide drug addicts with a safe place to inject themselves with illicitly obtained heroin