can force is out of the longest war in us history troops will leave afghanistan by the date of september 11th washington's needle allies will also withdraw from the country. next it is dr phil thank you so much for joining us here at the ticket is i'm sorry. take care and stacy. their story their very own personal drama. of the people who survived the catastrophe and remember. and they share private footage of those that has never been seen decide. to turn old storage people 26 on t.w. .

it is fire i think it is so dangerous it's like the most. pared terror you can imagine if you're. just pulling your life force out here and then you get tunnel vision starts in smaller and smaller and around this tunnel there's just darkness right. close as. you're dead and you think that you know you're dead you're a flatline are be dead. thank you for a city were known for its not true p.c. . a quote from the tourist board. but beneath the mountain vista is the

city the tragic underbelly. despite being known as one of the world's top 3 cities in which to live in the neighborhood known as downtown eastside is experiencing a huge drop. thousands of lives have been lost and in nearly 9 of the 10 or so up seen as a deadly new illicit drug has been present the painkiller fentanyl is now the number one killer drug in the us you can die just by touching it vent their lips and all that not fatal dose of fat multinational that the whole opioid that's supposed to tranquilize elephants hasn't got 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 fat 10 year old boy in florida has become one of the more on more than 63000 people died of cancer drug fields far more people than

gun violence we 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 we're talking about opioid use and yeah i'll come talk to him in a we don't hear about talk you will just give me a minute you know it's not another fellow bro in the hood you know. friend to you as a good friend of mine you know that doesn't matter. you know as no questions i'll tell no lies. here in downtown eastside

addiction is nothing new heroin has flowed through think he was poor so this deprived parts of town since the ninety's seventy's. but market forces have seen that heroin supply replaced since no it's stronger cheaper and much less both between books. where are we going to have it where would you like to go you want to see what it's really like show us go. go. this is east hastings street now this is where and you know church basically what you're looking at is the mecca. of drug addiction. we have been attacked there narcotics for. ever since i can remember maybe that's why i came here and now here i am 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 and if it does what should people expect death 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. is the streets were crowded we're talking about 1500000 people died just in this walk. on mine i got on the street right now. this is a huge problem united states lost 72000 people you know stuff last year canada lost 8000 all right these are these are large numbers of people dying a vegetable that will not be any different australia the united kingdom anywhere in the western world. just she never means that stuff

will kill you. but it once was and how easy. it would be pretty much be simple really get down on the impossible being in peril because that's what it's all for even if it is fairly just got all the house budget oh. yeah it wasn't just. a lot of a lot of it. was the name but that's the way you did hanging out in the streets or the exhibits. sounds on phone all you know trying to get by live on the street so i 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. and house business selling looking woman man like you can never have enough. so how many people are buying friends from school. 100150.

every day every day. is the same thing hey quite open ice is there like a bit of a kind of change a few months yeah different gangs run different alley i want to 12 hour shift. how do you get that job is that you know the size and then the newspaper right now. through connections mostly coming out of jail. was pencils and so 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 from friends now 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 i guess a puff making house is not great business practice to be killing the customer. no i don't think anybody wanted anybody die but the thing is. heroin used to comment its

heroin this fat no we're making it ourselves you go online on the on the dark web you want to announce a friend off from china cost you $350.00 an extra 50 bucks next day's delivery to your door you think that $400.00 with a friend. and you make a 1000 grams of down yeah and you're getting anywhere between 10120 programs so do the math. jesus. money time and just. like the old you take your $400.00 and make it a 100 grand. but well it's lucrative illicit street since it always being kooks but it's a gangsta in their basements making the recipe off as they go along and the final product is synthetic and wildly inconsistent. customers it's old as the what they buy on the street can be any color of the rainbow that's what like right now everybody wants the dark green. they come out now so you get the dark green you

don't get it they shop around like that one that's the highest but not so he said it's going to. be playing russian roulette and people are coming to the state outlets soon as they know that that's tough dropping people they're running here who've got that green stuff. because they think they can they're the ones they can take half the data recorder of it or the people dying for them it must be good looking that's the logic. last night. this girl just came out of the talks and i know she just got back she thought 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 to go and see what i want to point for all i'm just going to use a little bit of it have some what's more i still use it all i can you know when you know your tolerance is oh no i won't. 10 minutes later you. am of in the alley they work on or i don't all humans and i. don't want anyone to come please

come i leave. so how much do you sell it for work to get $10.00 for a flat. i say. it's $10.05 a fat not enough stop growing dark green that's stopping people you know it's 15 percent fat on. 3 percent heroin the rest in the back to give sugar. as a post but i type it. all depends how high your immune from know it all and i mean i've never taken pencil before if you took that you die 100 percent fat and if i thought the same concept but i'm not really no different on.

the cell it's me you want to buy it if i want to buy it but contempt is something that. should live bro. get to make your own choices right. and i guess he. is like that and. 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 snow 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 is a very rich city surrounded by very rich real estate plan unlike most canadian

cities think over suicide in the ghetto wise poverty. as the city gentrified people get squished and scratched used to be 15 square blocks now it's down to 6 or 7 square blocks of people. most of them are in search of some sort of drug. so just a look at that way i just purchased a it's good that the fence will think it could be i mean it comes in all different shapes and sizes whether you think i'm good at cisco to be on board rather than over. this i mean it's a surprising the 1st all we've heard is there's a multiple overdose calls in this little community per day and some sometimes it's just been a rift or like it's just been just wall to wall ambulances and fire trucks and people running on the street can look like a war zone. people are greased watered down here that are friends with the other to

resist this and it is worrying that this little bit of. this is the bush era. you're really not like you think afghanistan is not this it's not regulated shutterstock the world's dying because of it looking for a crisis the strain here was my last $10.00 and my only $10.00 that i sold a crowbar in an angle grinder for i got a coffee and some don't. yeah usually you don't eat and you live breathe and work through this how can you know really what's inside so i guess it's but he's also got the powder version there. oh i think you never know where you're going to get a surprise all the time so these are both offensive but it was looks like a different drug and it does you never know like it's always looks do.

it's just. goofing around really is sorry for the language but it's you know. food clothes shower it's constant. play 100 miles away. and there's a reason idea here that it might be dangerous down here at my dream yeah mainstream society is a little bit of a intimidated by it or are afraid of it. and yes i said it 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 pains of people because it's really. a high priority area and there's there's there's all kinds of people people thrive all kinds of trauma from early childhood abuse to you know relationships and you know just yes just. people have gone through a lot down. to 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 because reality with painful. opioids like heroin unfenced will belong to the same pharmacy school families move things and like morphine they were intended for pain relief. everyone in this self medicating community has a back story and pain both physical and mental is all around. this

person the. tech right now i'm sure they're probably breathing but they are yeah. we were filming the one we want we want that. story to enter its origin. so you come in here spaceman. i had and i mean i i dabbled. 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. money he called it off and i raised my and i was doing all that i raised my son and . i thought i owed him a life and i have an amazing son. except me well i didn't i'm really proud of what i did. 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 pelvis by hip my rib ripped my rotator cuff crushed both hands of my back and for placing my skull on more places my face my you know my teeth with hearing brain hemorrhage. yeah it wasn't a good day in my world. but it may be 10 years ago with the difference that. you're probably you wouldn't you wouldn't met me and you would have met me i'd be apologizing right now it's a completely different over just 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 person that was just how much that cost and oh probably a good 600 bucks a day. since who is now sweeping through north america a horrifying right since they hit the streets drug overdoses 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. we lost any friends there is through this. company and i'm so sorry to hear that how did you put it on the show . but. that's a fact not tried here and here and. perhaps 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 the psalms. right now we're going to go to washington you know we have it here led and we have there. harm reduction supplies to the community and that means that the people of

the south that what they're used to us themselves will help but it's absolutely yeah it's really important people in the community are the ones leading i guess. you are inside this building clean injecting equipment is 100 to a cruise through a hole in the wall the idea is to stop the spread of blood borne viruses like hepatitis and h i c it's open 24 hours a day and a 1000000 syringes a year. say korea how many meters which you give out and share. on. line through one of these boxes have 500. rigs in it and one day i went through 4 boxes of room and one states that was implicit. why is it so important that people around take time difference just basically illegals was ill will years still

use it and many years they'll use a gurney ring that a friend you know that's how people get have seen any tradeshow sharing they will use toilet water a pot of water or whenever they need to do you get water and i guess that water is going straight into that blood stream and that is not something one can imagine given uses in the valley for people year in. in feces and urine this is. from the back of the building the stuff from a mobile response unit working in shifts to reverse street overdoses so from a shift i have my vest on i have a 8.8 american way to go i have my bike my helmet and i always have extra nakano me so in case i come across multiple overdoses at that rate here in town.

what is like gen patrol these alleyways administering life saving medical interventions the secret weapon is no locks on the fence no and so they commonly known by its brand name knockout. punch and all opiates and what it did says it shuts down your respiratory system so pretend that this this here this is the facts all coming in your system right so we should soften our can it's like a wall goes up and so the french helps the wallet taking one gulp more narcan which the sense of the bigger that wall gets so what you're saying is this is actually quite easy service and i guess if it so then if it's not easy service leave days why do we have so many people showing up my place in history where he isn't 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 and in dark places you know they are people can't see or can't find and helps relate to find someone overdose how did you go so

you got treatment and that intense i mean usually it starts off you don't observe clue and then you feel you only got so much time to read back if you find their faces purple it means you're saying that story and to find the faces platter would have like a slim chance in print so when you do find someone those i'd say it's your able stand around to save the life how does it feel. really stressful inch maddux to. help you remind yourself there's a light to the strong so for myself personally in the last 2 years i responded 31 programmer knows. one trying to be a 103 overdoses and then a week later we had 12 people die and then. one day when they. come in how does it feel to work in a place like this where you're saving lives every day. are. going to.

earn in the end moved a lot because i'm lost on this one spot they're living the life to a. parent. that i like it because it's good to save a life and sanity is 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 from the old me because it's become so bad the average life expectancy is officially reducing the public health emergency has been declared i. it's cause the mistrust from those in the community towards pleasure and power of. trying to get the care and began running the side of the street not on the right hand side and then the other mind does as well the. british columbia has full

times the amounts of the u.k. and yet 7 percent of all its mine one clues came from these 2 blokes. there's another one like that spike is the 3 place doesn't that they are horrendous then you know a dealer out here there are the lowest they could wonderingly and would want to move further into the ground. it makes sense not to maine and i'm bleeding to death i don't want to help but that's the down i don't want their house they're not my friend. and i you know when i'm here i've played a part in every single interaction i'm not yeah i have a colorful vocabulary and i've been known to have a bit of an attitude and however they're professionals right i'm not in the fashion . i'm i'm not him i'm not imagine out there. there's always gonna be some are certain cars are here. and in the meantime be honest i think a lot of me just say p.r. to show that they're ok they're. busy 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 then they can explain it they're going to keep it away from the city keep it away from where people are screaming bloody. and if the cops approach when you do something you know and she did leave us but now they tell you to they grabbed me put me against the wall search me take my and tell me to. make it go play not your boss. in spite of the ill feelings towards them the police say their approach is based on pragmatism and it's certainly true that there's been public drug use it's who view from. you guys that on the streets out there you know we've been downtown eastside for over a year. sleeping rough out when it gets to winter here is last night was out there it was very cool very rough yeah you know we got there was rain. blankets regret it

gets in the. car and he had weird. weird weird people like watching us and we just looked at him yeah yeah you know here's weird people like that came up and just like we're standing at the end of like the foot of a car that. and this is scaring us yeah. it's kind of creepy it is crazy and is very creepy this stuff happens here every single day 000000000000 yes he turned from around him for cold 3 and 3 d.v.d.'s for you like that you know me for you know. i don't know what that means. how did you guys me. you met in the library. and i ran after it geez.

why did you run off to love it. 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 out for and i freaked her out easily hey. my you have to admit the whole 5 minutes later we were making out for it one other day but i don't know that's what i think everyone we were were we did we did make our own way and find out later. that this person will know this is this is this is normal. this is this is totally normal it's what we call it's what we called the knot or or the the hasting shuffle. we we've been there we we've seen 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 weed is all the pretty ones and gave it to us that it was here and it wasn't what do you think it was and if it was for indefinitely we didn't even have that right. you know we should look at your age and like yours and i was just i can as in one you just inhaled one thing that off smoking get off oil we used to drink one plate . and i basically almost died from one meat inhalation one. i was freaked out because they said cleve he was a routine where you don't join the fight 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. still. and let. him think you know what i mean you are a clinton you know pope fought for a little bit of water and then.

take a syringe. and i think she. also has some people using filters and don't eat. right. nothing's going to fit in the syringe that isn't already going to get in there anyway and so. you've done for a vein. how does it feel. great how. to do it. drugs are really what you make of it and i don't think there's a functioning addict so there and there is nonfunctioning out x.

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 this statistic. where you heading say now running. and down in the mob. oh there you go. shoplifter i get some money and support rabbit is search you get to use days i'm. already because there's a $4.25 cent jar ages did and. it's already worn off as i think out of minutes ago

now. you know if i don't go to jail time to do it and maybe all get paid and get some more dough but it's not fun i ate it i can't stand it here are spent i was retained as my life behind bars. for what drug addictions i'm not me. 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 mine what's life. my life has been absolutely dragged through the mud i've lost friends 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. that. i wake up in the morning wishing i didn't.

die so if you are a drug user and minister of news for i. feel terrible. i wouldn't wish this on the person i wouldn't wish living like this for the person i most in the world. it's not living on. it's dying when you're running yourself into the ground every day you know willingly doing it. and why because you're too scared to be dopesick get off the drugs no it's because it's when you've done something for so long it's all you know and i'm all i know is jail and crime and. drugs it's all i know. lost.

so it's a 5 year old son. doesn't know who it is. some people say that people that use drugs have a choice of choosing men so you're not 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 on that i could be dead 20 minutes from now you know.

the payoffs 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 worker stealing from cars we can fix 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 the downtown eastside worst affected streets one

small medical center is looking to do exactly that it's the way to go it across town planning. would have been so and we provide injectable hydromorphone an injectable knife you know more than add to clients but if your goal is to fight what is tyson if i'm far with a tickle me heroin belly that's guys that i'm on and. that's rights it's a medical center because heroin to people in addiction. or any close. for the clients are here for the nurses do a pretty fs thing for them sorry ladies. the entrance of the frome 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 storage. print can you just pass me

a syringe. thank you. so you can see here that we get this isn't the dose so that it will tell us the client name and then the drug that they're on. what are you getting that day. carol thank you mark in. the house of the 3 times a day. and this in my lunchtime fix. it's another drug transaction in downtown eastside. but rather than toxic soda in a back alley and inject it behind a dumpster it's a regulated pharmaceutical given in a medical setting and supervised by people who. are introducing a heroin into my body now. you know inerrancy chihuahua. you keep all over. you seriously i got turned red and. now

i'm getting really cheap but my and my desire for heroin use me. 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 overdose deaths 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 month in care with aspect goes down a handful of days i'm up at people reconnect with families and they go back to school they start work and they start working part time for voluntary they get

housing but more importantly why most percent of us patients have been in and out of jail over 200 times before he came to treatment here and center has been in treatment here he's not been back to jail that's a huge success. how many banks of the road. blocks over 60 banks. are breaking turning 22 years 2 months and 3 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 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. very grateful same. retired. bank robber. and no longer need to do that. the time in vancouver was up in the little neighborhood of downtown eastside disappeared in the rearview mirror. the a.p.i. crisis here in north america his accounts of control claiming a life every 7 minutes and seeing it up close and personal has been heartbreaking. heading for higher means escaping it. for how long.

my. name who's. 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 graduating training at the same time as people are beautiful i got hopes go so. i know you remember that but i'm not. good stuff. if you could go back to the day when you 1st put that name in your geodetic and. personally no. good then i put the 1st name and where my out and it goes every day of yesterday.

to bring the mannings in here today and anna manning 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 of doing that now for for your. brother your this . is. all i had on here with other cryptogram. not the back. you got it sounds tryin to keep your chin up and you got to keep

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