this is still the news live from berlin growing fear in ukraine of another russian invasion tensions between the 2 countries run high amount of buildup of russian troops along the shared border the us and nato pledge to support ukraine's sovereignty but kiev would like to see more than just words also coming up. the u.s. is reportedly planning to withdraw all american troops from the gadgets and by the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 terror attacks on the united states later this year plus. minneapolis on a 3rd day of protests over the fatal shooting of

a black man 5 buildings and in the same city the trial of the police officer charged with murdering george floyd continues with the defense arguing the use of force against him was justified. and can for the good to have you with us unjustified unexplained and deeply concerning that is how nato secretary general against stoltenberg described the sudden build up of russia's military presence on the ukrainian border kiev is accusing moscow of amassing thousands of troops along the border and on the crimean peninsula russia meanwhile claims the troop movements are just military exercises ukrainian soldiers have been fighting pro russian separatists and 2014. there is

renewed fear that bloodshed is again on the horizon. russian warships on their way to the black sea parts of the military buildup around ukraine that's been stoking tensions in recent weeks. military camps like this one have sprung up and witnesses have reported seeing rows of tanks in the area now the west is condemning russia's build up and reiterating support for ukraine united states stands firmly behind the sovereignty of turkey for turkey of ukraine that's. where. we're seeing unfortunately. russia very very provocative act want to thank you very much. for this concentration of russian forces on the recent 24 team. that was when fighting between pro russian separatists and ukrainian troops 1st erupted in ukraine's east more than 14000 people have since

died in that conflict which has yet to be resolved. in response to russia's latest moves nato secretary general yen stultifying said the military alliance with stand by ukraine. we are also increased presence in the black sea region in the black sea with more naval presence and more ships more puerto visits and we are constantly looking into how we can continue to step up and provide more practical support to to ukraine to help them defend themselves ukraine's foreign minister said the offer of help with urgently needed we means measures which will deter ukraine russia and which will contain its aggressive intentions. this could be as the secretary general mentioned. a new round of sanctions which would raise the price of russian aggression. later on

tuesday must go hit back saying its appointments were due to nato his actions. in response to the alliances military activities that threaten russia we took appropriate measures. with musk are sending more troops and equipment to its western ukraine and its allies are also pushing for a diplomatic solution but accusations of blame on both sides looks set to continue . meanwhile the u.s. is reportedly planning to withdraw all american troops from afghanistan i suppose 11th of this year president biden is due to announce the plans later on wednesday the decision will keep thousands of u.s. troops in the country beyond the may 1st withdrawal deadline set by the trumpet ministration there are about $3000.00 american soldiers in afghanistan serving alongside some $7000.00 additional nato forces the taliban has threatened to renew

attacks if foreign forces aren't out of the country by may 1st. lots of movement there for some analysis let's talk to michael o'hanlon he's a senior fellow and director of research at the brookings institution in washington mr o'hanlon welcome to w. good to have you with us by move on afghanistan is certainly full of symbolism the september 11th date marks 20 years since the $911.00 attacks on the u.s. does afghanistan mark a 20 year failure for america. well you know i like the way you ask that because this is a time for 11 symbolism doesn't really work for me i don't really know what message the biden ministration is trying to send by this policy that i think is a big mistake handing over the leverage and the odds in favor of the taleban at a time when the peace process was really just beginning by september 11th are we trying to say there were tired after 20 years and that's all we can muster are we

somehow claiming to honor the anniversary or the legacy or the sacrifice or the loss of those who died that day i don't really get it and i'm really quite confused and surprised by this decision i thought they would have at least spent 2 or 3 years at this very modest level u.s. and nato military presence to support a b. these process that really hasn't yet had a chance and now we're going to see the taliban feel they have the upper hand i worry that these process could really break down and that large scale fighting could erupt on a much more scale than we're seeing even today the taliban are still very much there and stand to gain as you just pointed out from the u.s. withdrawal will anyone else benefit that's a hard question you know i think the answer is really no maybe iran iran probably would like to see the united states get a black eye on this overall mission you might say maybe russia would benefit in a broader geo strategic sense after your ukraine story but even russia doesn't

really want an afghanistan in chaos with extremists on the rise i don't even think pakistan really wants that they may have supported the taliban all these years but do they really want a group that's had a parallel organization in pakistan sometimes destabilizing their own country so i just think it's a actually an area where the world can generally cooperate if we stay the course and it's so much easier to stay the course because we reduce forces by 95 percent compared to their so all the more reason why i'm confused about this decision. with tensions also rising again over ukraine as we just heard i'm wondering in the u.s. playing some kind of 3 d. chest involving these 2 regions do you see any links there well there are links and certainly vladimir putin likes to play chess or at least he likes to play judo he likes to look for your mistakes and take advantage of them my guess is the biden team is reflecting an american prostration and actually the prostration of joe

biden himself and his secretary of state and perhaps his national security adviser who have been around these issues a long time and maybe they're just tired of hoping that somehow things can get better in afghanistan we're all tired of afghanistan it's a prostrating place to be operating the mission has not gone great however the government there is still in control of the cities there is still some degree of improvement in women's rights in education there is still some hope that a negotiated peace process could work although all that hope is now in jeopardy if not discarded today and so again i find this an unforced error by the by the ministration i don't know if there's still any possibility of rethinking the decision but it strikes me as just a moment when we could actually aspire to a long term steady state small presence that would say facilitate a peace process we've decided to the teeth and frustrated to continue that i think

it's quite regrettable michael o'hanlon at the brookings institution thank you very much for your insights thank you. a sad take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world at this hour around says it will start and reaching your rainy i'm up to 60 percent purity that's a big step towards weapons grade uranium tehran made the announcement 2 days after an explosion in flames on israel hit a key nuclear facility islamic republic denies it seeking to build a nuclear bomb or go out to you. for peanuts faso the exiled former president called powerade has been charged with complicity in the murder of his predecessor pope aure will have to stand trial in connection with the killing of tomas and carra the ousted in a 987 coup the circumstances behind some caras death have been shrouded in secrecy . u.s. medical regulators have called for an immediate pause in the use of johnson and

johnson's coronavirus vaccine this comes after 6 recipients developed a rare blood clots 2 weeks after getting the shot johnson and johnson says it's delaying its vaccine rollout in europe while regulators conduct a safety review. the u.s. state of minnesota saw a 3rd day of protests after the death of a black man at the hands of police 100 stick to the streets of the minneapolis suburb to demand accountability in the killing of dante write the officer who shot him in a weekend traffic stop has since resigned a decision on whether or not she will be prosecuted as expected on wednesday. minneapolis remains a city on edge for a 3rd day people gathered to protest the death of yet another black man at the hands of a police officer. i. don't want to ride too short to have to use a respite using

a traffic stop. police say body count footage of the officer who shot him shows that she mistook her gun for her taser shooting night by accident. oval office and the local police chief have now stepped down but that's not enough for many here not far from where don't you write was killed another black man george floyd died in the choke hold of a police officer derek shaven is currently standing trial for his murder. outside the courthouse the families of both florida and right stood united in grief . they're very much. doubt very much. you know my son you don't have a dad his dad didn't get to see him for his 2nd birthday or for any of his

birthdays and i'm just so messed up about it because like i feel like they stole my son's death from her. really apple you are ok sweet devoted to her getting more i was we're you know we will fight for justice but it's family just like with 55 brothers. meanwhile inside the courtroom on day 12 of the george fluid trial the prosecution rested its case and derek shaven stiffens stacia presenting their arguments. they will try and prove that children's use of force was not excessive and that it was drugs and poor health killed destroyed. the outcome of this case could either mark a step in healing racial wounds or it could further inflame the tensions that are being felt here in minneapolis and.

in the champions league byron munich have been knocked out in quarterfinals by paris sunshine not the defending champions won one nil on the night in paris but lost on a way goals jonathan crane from delhi is forces here to tell us more jonathan walk us through the match well it was always going to be a very difficult job for by munich they had to go to paris and score twice at least if they want to get through most of it out robyn nevin of course there are star striker and we know what about the quality that paris and your man have so difficult match ahead of them neymar one of those paris quality players could have a hot streak i think in the 1st off it would work several times a bind to take the lead those 3 were erik show promoting a very scrappy go really they scored in the 1st leg he repeats a tricky dance is ok but that was it remarkably for the goals by and threw everything at paris and around in the 2nd half they couldn't get that elusive 2nd goal it finished 3 all in aggregate because parasangs amount scored 3 goals in munich combined and they got one in paris paris and you go through last season

biron won everything there was still when they won the champions league the cup they're out of both of these competition this time around what does that mean for coach on the fans if that was in a lot of speculation about hansie felix future speculation is going to create i think what i need sense if i now offer this defeat has been linked with the germany job which will be vacant very soon of course i think we can say it's been a very difficult 2nd season really by a lot of conflict with the sporting director. i think flick has been unhappy about some. players that have left or are going to leave also about the quality of the players that have come in he even said recently in a press conference last year the team was better hardly a glowing endorsement of what he has and i think the fact that he was injured and the fact the bind didn't really have anyone backing him up to replace him is a sign of that so huge disappointment they've gone out of the champions league i think free fall from battles on the pitch the biggest problem has been battles

behind the scenes grain always a pleasure and he. you're watching. a documentary about the opioid crisis in the us at the top of the hour sara kelly will have more headlines for you and me and the entire team here in berlin thank you so much for you. can you hear me no no yes we don't need you and how the last 2 years gentlemen so it's now bringing you i'm going to back off as you've never. surprised to see what is possible. really what moves them to want. to talk to people. the way maurice and critics would like to join us from eccles life stops.

it is fire it is so dangerous it's like the most. feared terror you can imagine and feel as though some slowly they just pulling your life force out to you and then you get tunnel vision start in smaller and smaller around this tunnel and just darkness right smallers warns war poses and. you're dead to the good though you're dead you're a flatline are be dead. thank you for a city renowned for its not true p.c. . a quote from the tourist board. but beneath the mountain vista the

city is a tragic compelling. despite being known as one of the world's top 3 cities in which the lives of the tiny neighborhood known as downtown eastside is experiencing a huge drop. thousands of lives have been lost and in nearly 9 out of 10 autopsies a deadly new illicit drug has been present the painkiller offense at home is now the number one killer drug in the u.s. you can die just by touching it meant that at all that not fatal dose of pendleton's now that the potent opioid that's supposed to tranquilize elephants has said that a painkiller $100.00 times more powerful than morphine just 2 milligrams of the pure drug which is about 4 grains of salt is enough to kill the average adult friends die from a lethal amount of the painkiller in fact general boy in florida has become one of the girl more than 63000 people died of monster drug feels far more people than gun

violence if you don't know what that no is it is basically the new heroin but much much stronger. more dying. but those are all. you know a whole lot i want to documentaries right now brother. not a documentary here talking about opioid use and yeah i'll come talk to him in a way down here i got off the roof just give me a minute. and then another fellow brought in the good you know. friend to you as a good friend of mine you know that doesn't matter. no ask no questions i'll tell no lies. here in downtown eastside

addiction is nothing new heroin has flowed through think he was pulled to this deprived parts of town since the 97 c. . but market forces have seen that heroin supply replaced since no it's stronger cheaper and much less bogeys when. where are we going to have it where would you like to go i mean if you want to see what it's really like show us go. this route. this is east hastings street now this is where you get off church changing. what you're looking at is the mecca. of drug addiction. or you have been an act there narcotics for. ever since i can remember maybe that's why i came here on air yeah i found it probably why i came here. and this offense who hasn't flooded

the street drug supply outside north america again do you think this could become a global problem if it does what should people expect that lots of. people are going to die and it's not going to be pretty. it is wildfire people will try and love it and will never quit. these these streets were crowded we're talking about 1500000 people died just in this walk. on mom put my job on the street the ground. is a huge problem united states lost 72000 people those deaths last year canada lost 8000 all right these are these are large numbers of people dying and eventually death will not be any different australia the united kingdom or anywhere in the western world. just so never this. stuff will

kill you. for once but like how easy. it would be pretty much be simple for me to get down on the impossible for you harold because that's what it's all that even if there is there a way just got back all the house budget committee that. there wasn't just. a lot. a lot of. what's your name but that's the only thing you know in the streets or the exhibits. sound phone phone all you know trying to get by live on the street so i've got to make a living somehow i don't want to rob stores and often i get about 10 years in the pen this way here i stay oh. and house business selling a lot woman man like you can never have enough. so how many people buy a principle for staying. 100 under 50. every day every day.

is the same thing hey quite ok nice is there like a bit of a kind of change a few months yeah different gangs run different alleys i want to 12 hour shift. how do you get that job is that their offices in the newspaper right now. through connections mostly coming out of jail. was pencil jones that. destroyed it i lost like 40 people but i know well close to me in the last 3 years . people never did drugs in their life it up once they had from friends of the from friend is it possible any of them and some. possible. somebody. to an extent but they're going to get it from somebody right. i mean he gets a puff make the house it's no great business practice to be in the. customs you know i don't think anybody wanted anybody die but the thing is. heroin used to come in

it's heroin this fat no we're making it ourselves you know online on the on the dark web you order an ounce of fend off a china question $350.00 paying extra 50 bucks next days delivered to your door you take that $400.00 with a friend. and you make a 1000 grams of down and you're getting anywhere between 10120 programs. for the not. jesus. of money time and just. like gold you're taking $400.00 and you make it a 100 grand. but well it's lucrative illicit street friends and always often being cooks but it's a gangsta's in their basements they're making the recipe up as they go along and the final product is synthetic and wildly inconsistent. custom is it's old as the what they buy on the street can be any color of the rainbow it doesn't like right now everybody wants the dark green. they come out nasty get the dark green you

don't get it they shop around like that one that's the highest but no so he said it's going to. be playing russian roulette and people that come to the state that it's going as they know that that's tough dropping people they're running to you got that green stuff. because they think they can they're the ones that can take half a meter a quarter of it or the paper time for the night that it must be that much and that's the logic. last night. this girl just came out of the talks and i know she just got back she got healthy and everything she sees me old sylvester come run it up give me a point. as you get older you know i just go 2 hours you go and say what i want to point for all i'm just going to use a little bit of it have some what's more i don't use it all i can you know when you know your tolerance is no no i won't. 10 minutes later yeah move in the alley they will work out or i will she live in i. don't know

a month come please come i leave. so how much do you sell it to get $10.00 for a flop. i say. that's a $10.00 for a fat man and not stop growing doctoring that's just dropping people you know it's 15 percent fat no. 3 percent heroin the rest is a bit accident sugar. is a post but i'd die if i took. all depends how high your immune system know it all and i mean i'd never take a pencil but if you took that you die 100 percent. and if i put the same one steve perry about done. for me no definite.

she said it's me i want to buy it i want to buy it but give me 10 bucks but some of . your life bro. get to make your own choices right. and i get to. go. if i got. the candid way in which sylvester discuss this is day job is conflicting it's easy to judge him but the reality is that fence no has become normalized in downtown eastside and for the homeless community who live here in desperate hardship it's one of the very few tradeable commodity. vancouver's a very rich city surrounded by very rich real estate plan unlike most canadian

cities and covers decided to get a wise poverty. as the city center 5 people get squished and scratched used to be 15 square blocks now it's down to 6 or 7 square blocks of people and most of them are in search of some sort of a way to. say just the booklet that way i just purchased a it's got the pencil i think it could be me and it comes in all different shapes and sizes whether you think that i'm good at cisco the baby on board rather than over. this i mean it's a surprising the 1st or we've heard there's a multiple overdose calls in this little community per day and some sometimes it's just been a rift or like there's just been as wall to wall ambulances and fire trucks and people lying on the street can look like a war zone. you would really squatted down here at their friends and others gives

us news and you know we're in the i was a little bit of a mom this is the bush era where you're really not a you think afghanistan is not this isn't regulated substances east of the orange dying because of the opioid crisis the strain here was my last $10.00 and my only $10.00 that i sold a crowbar and an angle grinder for i got a coffee and some dough. yeah usually you don't eat and if you live breathe and work for this how can you know really what's inside so i guess it's but no he's also got the powder version there. oh like he never know where you're going to get the surprise all the time so these are but it's been slow but it was looks like a different drug and it does you never know. like it's always looks different.

it's just. goofing around really is sorry for the language but it's you know. food clothes shower drugs it's constant so. they walk on the wild side that way. but. there's a re an idea here that it might be dangerous down here at my dream yeah mainstream society is a little bit of a intimidated by it 'd or are afraid of it. and yeah as i said in jest because. it's not the wild side at all it's just that it's a neighborhood people that are going to experiencing

a lot of pain and dealing with a lot of trauma and. ok patients of people. high priority areas there's there's there's all kinds of people and people thrive all kinds of trauma from early childhood abuse to you know relationships and you know just yes. people have gone through a lot down. to think addiction is a disease it is an illness 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 and i became dependent on using. heroin or no because reality was painful. like heroin unfenced no belong to the same pharmacy school family as most seem like morphine the. were intended for pain relief everyone in this self medicating community has a back story pain both physical and mental is all around. this

person like a. temp right now i'm sure they're probably breathing when they are or where you were filming the war we want we want that. story. so you come into your space ma'am. 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 used our product i cleaned up and 997 i cleaned up to raise. money. and i raised my and i was thinking that i raised my child my son and. i owed him a life and i have an amazing son. except for one well i did and i'm really proud of what they did. and then i had an accident and it kind of brought me back. i'm i

got hit from behind on my bike i broke my leg by published by hit by a bridge rip my rotator cuff both hands of my back and for placing my skull and more places of my face my nose my teeth with a hearing brain haemorrhage. yeah it wasn't a good day in my world. but it may be 10 years ago with a different something. you're probably you were not you wouldn't met me and you would have met me i'd be apologizing right now it's completely different apologizing for a problem for something i've done or were taken from here but yeah inject drugs 30 to 40 times a day i mean so yeah i mean. just the shell of the you know a person that was just so much that close spent probably a good 600 bucks a day. since who is now sweeping through north america at a horrifying rates since he hit the streets drug overdoses has become the leading

cause of death for those under 50 you come find anyone in these alleyways who hasn't lost a loved one it's scary how commonplace it's become. he lost any friends through this. and i'm so sorry to hear that how does it but it's on. that's a 10. year. cruelest trick is the stockholm syndrome that pushes to its victims. the more it devastates this little community the more people seek solace in this homes. right now we're going to go to washington you know how it's paralleled and we had there. harm reduction supplies to the community with him that means that the people

of the south that what they use drugs themselves will halt but it's yeah absolutely yeah it's really important that people from the community are the ones leading up to take us. inside this building clean injecting equipment his hand it's like who's through a hole in the wall the idea is to stop the spread of blood borne viruses like hepatitis an h i say it's open 24 hours a day a 1000000 syringes a year. sekali how many leaders would you get out and then the whole shift all over town going through one of these boxes have $500.00. rigs in it and one day i went through 4 boxes of room and one sentence that was impossible. why is it so important that people around take can get just basically needles what though they'll use still use

really need is the use of gurney ring that you find you know that's how people get have seen any trade though share with us they will use toilet water puddle water or whenever they need to get water and i guess that was his great strength and that bloodstream and that is not so great one can imagine and give eases in the valley for people urinate in feces and urine this is. from the back of the building the stuff from the response unit working in shifts to reverse street overdoses. so from a shift i have my. best on i have a. 21 hour can really go i have my bike my helmet and they always have extra knocking on me so in case i come across multiple overdoses of that right here in town.

workers like jen patrol these alleyways administering life saving medical interventions the secret weapon is no locks on the fence no on today it's commonly known by its brand name. fence and all its copia and what it does is it shuts down the respiratory system so pretend that this is this here this is the fence all coming in your system right so we should show up in our can it's like a wall goes up and so the french alps the wall it can keep on going the more narcan parts of the system that figured out all gets so what you're saying is this is actually quite easy service and i guess that it so then if it's not easy service leave is why we have so many people going over those limits we were using by himself. 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 in dark places you know like a can't see or can't find a health relate to find someone over those around them if you go you got treatment

and that's the plans i mean usually it starts off with all the fear blew up and then you feel you only got so much time to act if you find in their faces purple it means you're saying i'm just oriented on the face of glad to have like a slim chance of print so when you do find someone the size age your able stomach around to save the life how does it feel it's really stressful a traumatic. you know you remind yourself is why you do this job so for myself personally in the last 2 years i responded 31 programmer news. one trying to be a 103 overdoses and then a week later we had 12 people die c n n. 130. what they. call me how does it feel to work in a place like this with saving lives every day. and. then you can.

earn in the end means a lot because i lost on this one spot a little and i. had. to and i like it feels good to save a life instead of 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 since now has at times been an impossible challenge from the old me because it's 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 care and began running this side of the street not 100 times and then down to find out as well that. british

columbia has 4 times the amount of the u.k. and yet 7th the same school it's mine one crews came from these 2 clubs. is another one i do this but this is 3 places both of them they are horrendous there you know really out here there are the lowest they could wonderingly and would want to move further into the ground like it makes sense not to rain if i'm bleeding to death and i don't want to help but that's me down i don't want their help they're not my friends. and i you know what i'm here i've played a part in every single interaction i'm not. a colorful guy i mean. i've been known to have a bit of an ad here however they're professionals right i'm not in the fashion oh. i'm i'm not in i'm not imagine all there. there's always lots of stuff for certain cars are there. then you need charlie honest i think a lot of me just say p.r.

to show their own. business they don't give 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 they want to get even their name to keep it away from the city keep it away from from where people are screaming bloody murder. and if the cops had rode on when you're listening to them and she did leave the rest but now they tell you to they grabbed me put me down to the wall surgery take and tell me. it's a goal to play not your boss. in spite of the ill feelings towards the police say their approach is based on pragmatism and it's certainly true that this open public drug use in food view from. you guys live in the states you know we've been downtown eastside for over a year. sleeping rough out when it gets to winter here last night was there and it was very cool very rough yeah you know we got there was rain the blankets were glad

we had. our he had weird. we had weird people like watching us and we just looked at him yeah yeah you know there is feared people like that came up and just like we're standing at the end of like the foot 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 oh oh. 000000000 nancy texas ron brown eyes were cold 3. free speech for you like that goes for you know i don't know what that means. how did you guys meet. him in the library. and i ran after him geez. why did you run off to love at 1st sight

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 her and i freaked her out he's like hey. whoa take my you have to admit all 5 minutes later we were making out for it were a little bit but i don't know that's not a very we were we did we did make our own way and find out as late. as this past and i well know this is this is this is normal. this is this is totally normal this what we call is what we called the knot or or the the hastings shuffle. we we've been there we we've we've spoken heroin i overdosed like and i had

i had somebody narc on me twice ok saved your life yeah i almost dry slipped through my lips were blue i was dead you shouldn't you should talk doing drugs all together that's why it liquor and we all have pretty much in that gave it to us it is here and you know i think what do you think it was an effect as for him definitely we didn't even have that much you know we should look at jerry and and i and i was just i can as in one you just inhaled one thing off of smoking get off on the foil he stood like one who is yeah and i and i basically almost died from one inhalation one. i was 3. i doubt it's just basically he was a routine would you have done if i die. i would.

how does it make you feel looking back on that day stephen thinking him and he did . never do it again. never again. it. was in jake you know where i mean god put in you know part fought for a little bit of water and it.

syringe. and it's. also some people use it filters and don't. let. nothing's going to fit into the syringe that isn't already having it in there and so. he's done for the day. how does it feel. great. to do it. oh and drugs are really what you make of it and then there's a functioning addict so there and there is nonfunctioning onix you know there's

people that. do drugs and all runs them into the ground and then they die and that's it you know there's no statistic. where you heading see now one day. and down in the mall. and you go. shoplifter i get some money and support rabbit is that search you know do you use days on. already because there's a $4.25 cent shot ages did it and. is it already one off is on the account

a minute ago now. you know if i don't go to jail time to do it. maybe all get paid and get some more dough but it's not fine on i ate it and i can't stand it years spent like 110 years of my life behind bars thank for what a drug addiction something that kills me and. i know what i'm doing and i know that it's bad for me but i think you know we've all got our problems and. just trying to cope man what's life. my life has been absolutely dragged through the mud i've lost friends as i have lost family members 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 use and abuse drug use for a. jew terrible. i wouldn't wish this on a person i wouldn't wish living like this for a person i most in the world. it's not living on. it's dying when 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 all i know is jail and crime and. drugs it's all i know. lost.

so there's a 5 year old son. doesn't know who it is. some people say that people that use drugs have a choice unit she's a mess you don't know how choosing is not 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 feature. sometimes. i don't know how far my future is going to go and i could be dead joining us from going over.

they told us that you see are on 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 work or stealing from cars we could fix that. the current crisis is because people are using poison drugs and i'm at the point now where we really need to think seriously about giving people a safer supply of oil fields. and rights in the hearts of one of downtown the sides worst affected streets one

small medical center is looking to do exactly that so we're going to go out across town planning. will have to stop and so on and we provide injectable hydromorphone an injectable knife you know more than i do clients but if you're going to decide what is tyson i'm fine with a tickle me heroin. that's got so i have mine and. that's rights it's a medical center because heroin to people in addiction. to any clothes. for the claim for here for the nurses do a pretty fs thing for them 3 ladies. the engine to the throne they can not to this window here and they'll give their name their birth date and the nurse will provide them or hand them their syringe. plate can you get past the

a syringe. thank you. so you can see here that we get this is the dose so it will tell us the client name and then the guy there on. what he getting into. heroin thank you mark. and how often the 3 times a day. and this in my lunch time for. it's another drug transaction in downtown eastside but rather than talk. 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 who are. introducing a heroin into my body now. it is now in there until chihuahua. it's. all over. seriously i got to turn red and.

get really maci but my. my desire for heroin meth. 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 the handful of days i'm up at people reconnect with families have to go back to school they start work and start working

part time to travel out here and they get housing but more importantly my most recent of us patients have been in and out of jail over 200 times before he came to treatment here in sense he's been in treatment here he's not going back to jail that's a huge success. how many banks have you roped. i mean there are a lot over 60 banks. i served 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. by reducing crime policing health care and ambulance cooler. 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. very grateful saying that 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. but for how long.

our. name who's. the last being. we always look at the action you know we're so focused on substance that we've actually forgotten the value of human life hans just graduating brain at the same time as people are beautiful i got hopes so. i know. i'm not. it thought that. if you could go back to the day when you 1st put that needle in you know if you did again. or something. then i put the birth name in my room wow i didn't go every day of yesterday. to

bring the man it will be here today and the mannings 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 that i received lots of it i put away a put away put away i've put away of doing that now for for your. brother your that's. all i had on here with 150 grand. not look back. you got it sounds wrong i keep your chin up and you got to keep

going because if you don't end up a statistic. a mark in a book. i think you're just another one of those people that died. they are defining the change. in bangladesh have water almost up to their necks. they're growing in a cave with. it's been a very gentle tradition but is touted as a model for the entire country. full is the idea. of 3000. and 30 minutes on w. 1986. it's

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