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Isolation For Drug Addicts
Proposal of R.C.M.P.

SOLATION for drug addicts and
continuing pressure on the
“shrewd, amoral criminals” who

sell them their drugs was a R.C.M.P.
proposal to a special senate committee
in Vancouver.

It was the first time such a committee
has met outside Ottawa. Vancouver
was possibly chosen because of its
unsavory title, “Canada’s narcotics
capital.”

The R.C.M.P.’s official opinions
were given to the committee by Set.
Harold Price, head of the 2l-man
R.C.M.P. drug squad, stationed in
Vancouver.

“A number of witnesses have sug-
gested some form of isolation,” Sgt.
Price said.

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Head of Vancouver squad gives news to

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“I would like to go on record as
favoring that plan. And I have the
greatest sympathy for the addict.
But as a policeman I know the addict’s
lot today is hopeless. I know that 40
per cent of the addicts are in jail and
the rest living in poverty, filth and
degradation. I can’t help wondering
why the opponents of this suggestion
seem to consider isolation would be a
hardship.”

Narcotics to Blame

Set. Price traced Vancouver’s recent
history of violence and tied it directly
to narcotics.

‘

‘. . . It represents a see-saw battle
of individuals or groups attempting to
seize control of the narcotic traffic in
this city,” he said.

In addition to the sergeant, wit-
nesses included Dr. A. W. Bagnall of
the British Columbia Medical Asso-

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ciation and Supt. Jack Horton of the
Vancouver city police, with Detective
Rex Cray. During one session,
Warden R. S. Douglas of B.C. peni-
tentiary, Dr. Allan Davidson of the
B.C. Mental Health Services, Magis-
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Elliot, assistant deputy minister of the
provincial health department, testi-
fied.

Dr. Elliot said a program was

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