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Each morning Dr. Jane Buxton, 49, bicycles through the manicured West Side of Vancouver, Canada, to wage an unconventional war on drugs. Just two miles north and a world apart from Buxton's office is a 10-square-block area known as Downtown Eastside, where a shifting population of some 5,000 addicts huddle together, drawn to Vancouver for its relatively mild climate, generous social services and easy access to street drugs. The area also boasts the highest concentration of HIV and hepatitis-C cases in North America; more than 80% of its drug users test positive for hepatitis...
...that as well as cracking down on drug use, the city treats it as a disease--providing free prescription-grade heroin in a research trial and running a medically supervised injection site--while carefully gathering data on the effects of city policies. At the heart of this experiment is Buxton, a physician-epidemiologist affiliated with the University of British Columbia medical school, who monitors the situation firsthand and meets several times a year with a committee of police, health workers, charities and support groups to collate their reports. "We're looking at the numbers of people affected, hospital utilization, deaths...
...program is not without its critics, especially within U.S. drug agencies. But Buxton is convinced that the only way to answer the critics is with hard evidence. Her mission, she says, is to help policymakers and the public understand that drug use "is a health and social issue and that persons affected should be treated ethically, with respect and dignity." Her no-nonsense annual report has become a valued source of well-documented evidence and has served as an early-warning system for emerging issues, such as the burgeoning use of crystal meth. "We interpret the data epidemiologically," says Buxton...
...Murphy’s goals streak of five games was broken against Clarkson...Assistant coach Sean McCann ’94 missed the trip after the mid-week births of his twins. McCann had said he wanted “a split,” and indeed, wife Emily Buxton ’94 had a son and a daughter. —Staff writer Rebecca A. Seesel can be reached at seesel@fas.harvard.edu...
...hardly a paragon of genre-bending ambition. Most of it falls squarely, if not unpleasantly, within the accepted boundaries of modern country. Mixed in with the inoffensive party tracks (including one that makes a commendable use of Spanglish) are songs about debt and God, and a duet with Sarah Buxton that sounds more like Music Row than the Muzik Mafia. The absence of a single social or political lyric leaves the impression that Cowboy Troy may be the obverse of a certain white rapper whose skin is outwardly a comfort to his audience but whose substantive goal is to make...