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The article highlights the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, British Columbia as the core of the first narcotic drug laws in Canada. Topics discussed include neighbourhood history of resisting punitive and prohibitionist drug policy, the legal and social discrimination against Chinese Canadians, and the demonization of non-white and poor people who consumed criminalized drugs.

Background: This article highlights the experiences of a peer-run group, SALOME/NAOMI Association of Patients (SNAP), that meets weekly in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SNAP is a unique independent peer-run drug user group that formed in 2011 following Canada's first heroin-assisted treatment trial (HAT), North America Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI). SNAP's members are now made up of former research participants who participated in two heroin-assisted trials in Vancouver. This article highlights SNAP members' experiences as research subjects in Canada's second clinical trial conducted in Vancouver, Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (SALOME), that began recruitment of research participants in 2011. Methods: This paper draws on one brainstorming session, three focus groups, and field notes, with the SALOME/NAOMI Association of Patients (SNAP) in late 2013 about their experiences as research subjects in Canada's second clinical trial, SALOME in the DTES of Vancouver, and fieldwork from a 6-year period (March 2011 to February 2017) with SNAP members. SNAP's research draws on research principles developed by drug user groups and critical methodological frameworks on community-based research for social justice. Results: The results illuminate how participating in the SALOME clinical trial impacted the lives of SNAP members. In addition, the findings reveal how SNAP member's advocacy for HAT impacts the group in positive ways. Seven major themes emerged from the analysis of the brainstorming and focus groups: life prior to SALOME, the clinic setting and routine, stability, 6-month transition, support, exiting the trial and ethics, and collective action, including their participation in a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court of BC to continue receiving HAT once the SALOME trial ended. Conclusions: HAT benefits SNAP members. They argue that permanent HAT programs should be established in Canada because they are an effective harm reduction initiative, one that also reduces opioid overdose deaths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) hull design by software company Friendship Systems and performance prediction software provider HydroComp. Topics include geometric modeling and optimization using Friendship Systems' CAESES tool, hydrodynamic analysis using HydroComp's NavCad (premium edition), and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modules for computer aided engineering system for design studies and formal optimization.

The article discusses the conferences held during the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1976. It discusses the conferences that took place during the Edinburgh Film Festival including the series of discussions and screenings on the subject of "Psychoanalysis and Cinema," and the "International Forum on Avant-Garde Film." It mentions that the topic of psychoanalysis in cinema was dictated by the notion of cinema as a social and political practice.

An excerpt from the book "Raise S##t! Social Action Saving Lives," by Susan Boyd, Donald MacPherson and Bud Osborn is presented.

Metaplastic changes in the renal glomerular epithelium is an unusual lesion. Only three other cases have been collected from the literature. This case is unique in that there was no associated liver disease. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]