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Skid Row IsA Vision OF HELL
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I KNOW YOU KNOW THE THE FACTS -PLEASE DON'T BECOME A STATISTIC
I was lucky to make it through my addiction but many of the people I knew were not as fortunate. Brian please protect yourself against death and disease as I do not want to have to attend one more friends funeral because of drugs or aids.
- 7000 injection drug users on Vancouvers East side
- 40% are HIV Positive and do mingle with prostitutes
- HIV rates in Vancouver's downtown eastside that have been called the highest in the developed world.
- 90% of residents are infected with hepatitis C and tuberclosis
- 10,000-25,000 people reside in this area
- 180 organizations have set up to cure, detoxify, jail, protect and feed its inhabitants
- 60% of crimes committed are to support drug habits
- 80% of skid row residents have no phone
- 50% have no means to cook a meal
- many die daily due to aids, drug overdoses, shootings and stabbings
- crack cocaine is "the most highly addictive form of all drugs ever known in history"
- If 1,000 addicts are free of HIV, 186 of them will contract the AIDS- related virus within 12 months."
- Female drug addicts in Vancouver's downtown east side are becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS at a rate more than 50 per cent higher than drug-using men, a new study has found. The study, by researchers is the first to show a group in the developed world with a higher rate of infection for women than for men.
- Vancouver's downtown east side is one of the poorest and most drug-infested neighbourhoods in Canada.
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