Talk:The Medicalization of Addiction in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Hi! I think this is a fantastic Wiki Page! Very interesting and informative. I like how you organized your Wiki Page in order to give readers the full background on BC's health care system and the history of drug users in Vancouver. I have a quick formatting concern: just between your paragraph "Addiction in Downtown Eastside of Vancouver" and "Safe Injection Sites" there seems to be one too many spaces. Additionally, moving forward with your Wiki Page, I know you spoke a bit about the Safe Injection Sites in 2003, but it would be interesting to read about any potential strategies that the government can use (or plans to use) in these current times with the increase in overdoses.

I think this is a great topic for a wiki page and overall, your page has a lot of quality information already! I think a topic that could be interesting to add is gentrification. Gentrification in Vancouver has created a lot of the issues in the DTES. Also adding statistics would be helpful too! I actually wrote a research paper on the DTES last year and I’ll paste an article that can really help your page. Liu, S., & Blomley, N. (2013). Making news and making space: Framing vancouver's downtown eastside. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe Canadien, 57(2), 119-132. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.2012.00453.x