seeing a lot of pain and dealing with a lot of trauma. to people it's. a high priority area there's there's there's all kinds of people thrive on kinds of trauma from early childhood abuse to you know relationships and you know just yes. people have gone through a lot. you think it actually is a disease it is and it's definitely you know what starts out as an original choice to use substances to self medicate from the pain turns into a lifetime of suffering i became dependent on using. heroin and because reality was painful. opioids like heroin unfenced know belong to the same pharmacy school family is moved and like morphine they were intended for pain relief everyone in this self medicating community has a back story pain both physical and mental is all around. just

personally. right now i'm sure there are probably breathing that i how are you for where you were filming the moment we want we want that. for. a story to enter its origin. where you come into your space man. i had and i mean i i dabbled. yeah i was running away from things from an awful lot of pain when i was a kid and i got it. i cleaned up and 997 i cleaned up to raise my child and his mother. and i raised my i was going with that arrangement to my son and. i owed him a life and i have an amazing son and exceptionally well i didn't i'm really proud of them but they didn't. and then i had an accident and it kind of brought me that

. i'm i got hit from behind on my bike i broke my legs my published my head my red ripped my rotator cuff both hands of my back and for placing my skull and for placement my face my you know my teeth with a hearing brain haemorrhage. yeah it wasn't a good day in my world. but it may sound 10 years ago with a different something. you're probably you wouldn't you wouldn't be and you would have met the apologize i mean it's completely different it's just a apologizing for a problem for something i'd done or were taken from here but yeah inject drugs 30 to 40 times a day and yeah i mean. just the shell of the you know person that was just how much that cost him oh probably a good 600 bucks a day. since who is now sweeping through north america a horrifying writes since he hit the streets drug overdoses has become the leading

cause of death for those under 50 you can't find anyone in these alleyways who hasn't lost a loved one it's scary how commonplace it's become. he lost any friends where there is sort of this venting off on me and i'm so sorry to hear that how did you put it on the show. business. that's a tent not trying here no. spends most cruel astray is the stockholm syndrome it pushes to its victims. the more it devastates this little community the more people seek solace in these gnomes. right now we're going to go to the washington you know because it's care led and we have to have. harm reduction supplies to the community hey let me that the people

of the south what they're used drugs themselves apart but it's yeah absolutely yeah it's really important people in the community are the ones leading up to take us. inside this building clean injecting equipment these hundreds of cools through a hole in the wall the idea is to stop the spread of blood borne viruses like hepatitis an h i c it's open 24 hours a day and south a 1000000 syringes a year. sekali how many needles would you give out and then the whole shift was allowed one through one of these boxes have 500. rooms in it and one day i went through 4 boxes of room 2 in one sentence that was implicit. why is it something that people round take kind just basically to use. they'll use still use really need is

the use of journey ring that you find you know that's how people get have any trade to share with us they will use toilet water puddle water whenever they need to to use to get water and i guess that water is going straight into that blood stream and that is the most i'm going to be measuring give eases in these valleys are people urinate in feces and urine this is. from the back of the building the stuff from the mobile response unit working in shifts to reverse street overdoses. so from a ship i have my. best on i have a. 21 hour can really go i have my bike my helmet and i always have extra knock a moment so in case i come across multiple overdoses at that rate here and.

work is like gen patrol these alleyways administering life saving medical interventions the secret weapon is no locks on the fence no and so they it's commonly known by its brand name narcan. fence and all opiates and what it does is it shuts down your respiratory system so pretend that this this here this is such all coming in your system right so we should still open our can it's like a wall goes up and so the french alps the wall taking one gulp the more narcan parts of the system that figured out all yes so what you're saying is this is actually quite easy to reverse and i guess that it just so then if it's not easy to have a slow day so why do we have so many people talking about it i just missed where using bob self. people are really ashamed about their drug use they're labeled as a criminal or a junkie or a crackhead so they use by themself and in dark places you know they are people can't see or can't find and helps relate to find someone over there is how the

people you got treatment and that's the friends i mean usually it starts off they go to the loo and then you feel you only got so much time to act if you find in their faces purple it means you're saying that story and find the faces glad to have like a slim chance and so with you do find someone the sides age you are able to turn that around to save the life how does an extremely stressful enjoy having to. you know remind yourself is why you do this job so for myself personally in the last 2 years i responded 31 drug overdoses one trying to be 103 overdoses and then a week later we had 12 people die in the snow event. one day. one day. tony how does it feel to work in a place like this with saving lives every day. for these things you.

earned in moved and moved a lot because i lost on this one spot a lemon i. had. feels good to save a life and seem to be just part of the problem for being part of the solution. the city of vancouver has invested millions trying to combat the crisis and while health responses like this have made some inroads sensible has at times been an impossible challenge for lawmakers has become so bad the average life expectancy is officially which he said the public health emergency has been declared i. get schools to mistrust from those in the community towards pleasure and power. trying to keep the heroin begam around the side of the street not 100 times and then just remind us as well that. british columbia has full times the amounts of

the u.k. and yet 7 percent of all its mine one cruise came from these 2 clubs. there's another one i have that's why this is a 3 place does what. they are her and they you know really out here there are the lowest they've been watching me and would want to move further into the ground like it makes sense not to rain if i'm bleeding to death i don't want to help but that's down i don't want their help they're not my brand. and you know what i'm here i've played a part in every single interaction i'm not yeah i'm a colorful vogue i mean i. i've been known to have a bit of an attitude however they're professionals right i'm not in the fashion no . i'm not i'm not him i'm not imagine out there. there's always a lot dumber certain cars are in here. and in the meantime be honest i think a lot of me just say we are in the show and they're out there. as if they don't

hear us the cops are literally watching them shoot up and they do not arrest of they've got a bunch of drugs on them they do not because then they can intervene and i mean keep it away from the city keep it away from from where people are spending money. and if the cops and wrote down when you do something to them and you could leave the rest that's now they tell you to say grab me put me against the wall search me take my and tell me that. it's a gold claim that your boss. in spite of the ill feelings towards the police say their approach is based on pragmatism and his son betrayed that there's been public drug use in full view of him. you guys live on the streets yeah we've been downtown eastside for over a year. so hard sleeping rough out when it gets to winter here is last night was out there and it was very cool very rough yeah you know we got there was rain the

blankets were that gets in the. car and he had weird. weird weird people like watching us and we just letting it go out you know there's weird people like that came up and just like we're standing at the end of like the front of like our bed and he's just staring at us yeah. it's kind of creepy it is create is very creepy this stuff happens here every single day 00000000000000 no not 3 tenths wrong brown eyes are cold 3. 3 pieces for you like that you know me for you know i don't know what that means. how did you guys meet. him in the library. and i ran after him.

but did you run off the love at 1st yeah we were we were we were we were in we were in the library and we were in catchin eyes. and then i laughed and then and then she laughed and i started walking down the street and you bastard i cannot let her leave so i ran after and i freaked. out like hey. whoa my you have to admit all 5 minutes later we were making out right now rather than. i don't know nothing i mean here we were and we were we did we did make out right find out later. that this person well no this is this is this is this is normal. this is this is totally normal this what we call it's what we call the you know the not or or the the hasting shuffle. we we've been there we we've steve spoke heroin i overdosed like and i had i had somebody narc on me

twice ok saved your life yes i almost i slipped through my lips were blue i was dead you shouldn't use talk doing drugs all together that's why it liquor and weed is all very much in the us it is here and you know i think what do you think it was an effect as for definitely we didn't even have that much you know we should link it during and years and i was just i can as in one you just inhaled one thing off of smoking it off on the foil he stayed late one night. and i and i basically almost died from one of the inhalation one. i was freaked out because they said cleve he was a routine would you have done if i die. i would. think.

how does it make you feel looking back on that day steven thinking you know he did . never do it again. never again. you. know. what i mean think you know what i mean garnering put in you know hope fought for a little bit of water in that.

syringe. and i was thinking. also some people using filters i know. nothing is going to fit into the syringe that isn't already going to get in there and so. he's done for vane. how does it feel. great how. to do it. drugs are really what you make of it and then there's a functioning addict so there and there is nonfunctioning onix you know owners

people that. do drugs in their runs into the ground and then they die and that's it you know there's no this statistic. where you heading say now running. and down in the mall. and you know. shoplift so i get some money and support rabbit is going to do you use design. already because this is a $4.25 cent jar ages did it and. is it already worn off its idea kind of minutes

ago and. you know if i don't go to jail time to do it then maybe all get paid and get some more dough but it's not fun i ate it and i can't stand it here or spend like for 10 years of my life behind bars. for what drug addictions on the hills me and. i know what i'm doing and i know that it's bad for me but you know we've all had our problems and. just trying to go on what's. my life has been absolutely dragged through the mud i have lost friends i have lost family members and i have nothing to live on the street i freeze almost every night and i steal to eat and support myself i hate my life.

i wake up in the morning wishing i didn't. die so if you are a drug user and minister of news for. children or boy. i wouldn't wish this on a person i wouldn't wish living like this for a person i most in the world. is not living on. it's dying you're running yourself into the ground every day and willingly doing it. and why because you're too scared to be dopesick get off the drugs. you know it's because it's when you've done something for so long it's all you know and i mean all i know is jail and crime and. drugs it's all i know i. lost.

a 5 year old son. doesn't know who it is. some people say that people that use drugs have a choice you're not choosing this you don't have choosing this man i made what i had one choice i made the wrong one and this is what i deal with now. do you have hope for the future. sometimes. i don't know how far my future is going to go and i think i could be dead joining us from going over soon. so.

they say i think you see around the streets. is only partially due to the drugs people are taking it's more to do with what they have to do to get money to get keep the economy going and whether it's sex worker stealing from cars we can sense that. the current crisis is because people are using poisoned drugs and i'm at the point now where we really need to think seriously about giving people a safer supply of oil fields.

writes in the hearts of one of sounds county sites was to fix the streets one small medical center is looking to do exactly bounce so we're going to go to cross town clinic. and will have to consider. so we provide injectable hydromorphone an injectable knife to the morphine add to clients with severe opiate mystifying and waste i suspect if i'm a pharmaceutical made heroin really that's good so i have mine and. that's rights it's a medical center because heroin to people in addiction. or any close. to the claim for here or the nurses do a pretty fs thing for them so really. they enter into the throw they come up to this window here and they'll give their name their birth date and the nurse will provide them or hand them their syringe. can you give me

a syringe. thank you. so you can see here that we get this is on the dose so it will tell us the client name and then the time that they're on. what are you getting into. your own thank you mark. and how often you get 3 times a day. i'm using my lunchtime fix. it's another drug transaction in downtown eastside. rather than toxic type sold in a back alley and inject it behind a dumpster it's a regulated pharmacy school given in a medical setting and supervised by people. i'm introducing heroin into my body you know. there is no inerrancy chihuahua. it's all over. seriously i gotta turn red and. get really you cheap but

my. my desire for heroin may have. around i was good. prescribing people heroin as a treatment for addiction it's a challenging concept but the evidence is persuasive switzerland opened a similar sensor in 1994 and since they've seen huge reductions in a video hiv and drug related crime. the theory goes that when you take people out of a life of street drugs they have the chance to introduce retain make incremental life changes. when people start with us they're using illicit drugs every day and by 6 months in care with aspect goes down a handful of days i'm up at people reaching for the families and they go back to school they start where. as for working part time privateering

a good housing but more importantly my most recent of his patients had been in and out of jail over 200 times before he came to treatment here and sent even in treatment here he's not going back to jail that's a huge success. how many banks have you roped. coming out of a lot over 60 banks. prison term or 22 years 2 months and 2 days. it costs $27000.00 a year to supply heroin for one patient here and it's funded by the government. it's not cheap but independent research suggests service saves the taxpayer double that by reducing crime policing health care and ambulance call outs. and in the midst of offense in crisis there's a further saving one that's hard to quantify the cost of human life. we

haven't lost any of our clients to a functional overdose because coming here prevents all of that. they still working thanks. i am very grateful saying that jack i'm retired. bank robber. and no longer need to do that. the time in vancouver was up and the little neighborhood of downtown eastside disappeared in the rearview mirror. the opioid crisis here in north america is out of control claiming a life every 7 minutes and seeing it up close and personal has been heartbreaking. heading for higher means escaping it. so how long.

have. the last year being. we always look at the action you know we're so focused on substance we are actually forgotten the value of human life not just tragedy painting at the same time as people are beautiful i got hopes so. i know. it's tough because. if you could go back to the day when you 1st put that needle in your geodetic and. for some. good then they put the 1st needle in my arm went out and it took every day of

yesterday. to bring the mannings in here today and ana maning see i'm i'm i'm a good man and i'm happy with who i am. i still love this woman. if i make 300 bucks tonight 50 bucks of it i put away a put away put away and put away i'm doing that now for for your. brother your the . head over here with a 150 grand. not the back.

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