THE FIX SHOWING THIS MONTH

The Fix is In

The film, Fix: The Story of an Addicted City opens at the Avalon Cinema on
May 23-29.

Following each 7 p.m. and matinee screening a community forum about the
drug scene in Nanaimo will be held.

The forums will feature health professionals and outreach workers
representatives.

Philip Owen, the former mayor of Vancouver, will join the local panel of
experts on May 23 and 24.

The two other central figures to the story, intravenous drug user Dean
Wilson and activist Ann Livingston, will also be in attendance throughout
the week.

Fix focuses on the story of Vancouver's downtown Eastside.

The story revolves around grappling with the new idea of harm reduction as
an alternative to the American-style war on drugs.

Harm reduction seeks to treat addicts as people with an illness as opposed
to seeing them simply as criminals. Safe injection sites and heroin
maintenance, however, have been a source of controversy.

Fix opened in Victoria for a week and stayed for three, outdrawing the
other six films at the Cineplex.