The study was conducted with 51 inner-city crack users in Toronto in 2006, collecting crack pipes after they were used and testing their owners for hep C antibodies.

With high-quality shatterproof Pyrex pipes now available free through Vancouver Coastal Health or for 25 cents from the vending machines, crack users no longer have to turn to sharing pipes or ...

Crack pipe sharing in B.C. shows gaps in services for addicts: researchers By The Canadian Press The Canadian Press Posted July 18, 2011 3:34 pm 3 min read ...

Crack addicts can now get up to five taxpayer-funded pipe kits per day and “crack house operators” are also entitled — astonishingly — to five kits a day, according to a September 2012 ...

OTTAWA – Distributing crack pipes to addicts in Canadian cities to halt the spread of disease is actually doing more harm than good by tacitly encouraging substance abuse, says a senior RCMP off ...

Hepatitis C can be transmitted in many ways, even when sharing a crack pipe. One Thunder Bay organization is providing people with safe inhalation kits and injection kits as part of the Superior ...

OK, we admit it. Handing free crack-pipe pieces to addicts was one of those topics we knew a lot of Province readers would be foaming at the mouth about. So it’s not surprising that much of the ...