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FIRST READING: Official Vancouver World Cup guide includes tips on how to do illicit drugs

No other host city with comparable drug problems to Vancouver included illicit drug tips in its FIFA guide

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FIRST READING: Official Vancouver World Cup guide includes tips on how to do illicit drugs Back to video

In a measure presumably followed by no other World Cup host city, Vancouver’s official FIFA guide contains tips instructing visitors on how to do illicit drugs.

“The unregulated drug supply in Vancouver is unpredictable and may be more dangerous than what visitors are used to in other countries or regions,” it reads, before recommending that tourists carry anti-overdose medication with them at all times.

“Carry naloxone and know how to use it,” it reads.

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World Cup fans are also told to only use illicit drugs with a friend, to “start low, go slow” and to only use “one substance at a time.”

Tourists are also encouraged to submit their cell phone numbers to the Province of B.C. so that they can receive public health alerts if a batch of illicit drugs turns out to be particularly potent.

One such alert happened just this week after Vancouver Police reported a cluster of seven overdoses in the same region of........

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