unbeaten home record. and you're watching news up next our documentary $10.00 trip inside the fence until crisis don't forget you can get all the latest news and headlines and website for the state of utah i'm exposure rights watch. and you hear me yes we're going to do and how the world stands gentlemen sausan i want to bring you i'm going to back off as you never have surprise yourself with what is possible who is medical really what moved them to want. to talk to people who flew along the way maurice and critics like join us for metals last stop.

it is fire it is so dangerous it's like the most. feared terror you can imagine if you know those i'm slowly i just pulling your life force out to you and then you get tunnel vision start in smaller and smaller and around this tunnel there's just darkness right into small hours of closes and. you're dead so i think that when you're dead you're a flatline are be dead. frankly . the city we're known for is not true peacey. a quote from the tourist board. but beneath the mountain vista is the city so tragic and barely. despite being

known as one of the world's top 3 cities in which to live the tiny neighborhood known as downtown eastside is experiencing a huge stroke. thousands of lives have been lost and in nearly 9 of them it's been also seen as 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 relapse and all that not fatal dose of pendleton's now that you know the whole opioid that's supposed to tranquilize elephants' a synthetic 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 died from a lethal amount of the painkiller fat 10 year old boy in florida has become one of the girl more than 63000 people died of cancer 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. on 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 guys off the roof just give me a minute. and then another fellow bro in the hood you know. friend that you was 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 there's nothing new heroin has flowed through vancouver's pull to this deprived parts of town since the ninety's seventy's. but market forces have seen that heroin supply replaced friend snow is stronger cheaper and much less baucis with. where we're 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. grow. this is each tasting street now this is where you get all shirts rationing what you're looking at is the mecca. of drug addiction. or you have branded an act there narcotics for. ever since i can remember maybe that's why i came here and now yeah i think that is probably why i came here. and this explains who hasn't

slept on 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 everybody. it is a wildfire people will try and love it and they'll never quit. is the streets were crowded we're talking about 1500000 people died just in this walk. on my street the ground. is a huge problem the united states lost 72000 people last year canada lost 8000 all right these are these are large numbers of people dying of mental death and will not be any different australia the united kingdom anywhere in the western world. just never. stuff will kill you.

if i once was right how easy. it would pretty much be simple for you to get down on the impossible for you harold to fend for themselves that all you need is there a way just got all that house budget go to teach. there wasn't just. a lot of a lot of. what's your name but that's the thing you know in the streets or the exhibits. sound phone phone all you know trying to get by i 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 oh. and house business selling a little woman man like you can never have enough. to how many people buy a pencil from school. 100150. every day every day.

it's the same thing hey quite open ice is there like a bit of a kind of change months yeah different gangs run different alleys i want to 12 hour shifts. how do you get that job because i've been there at the size and then the newspaper i don't know no 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 you know from from 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 make the house is no great business practice to be killing. customs or no i don't think anybody wanted anybody die but the thing is. heroin used to comment

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 china cost you $350.00 an extra 50 bucks next days to reach 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 so do the math. jesus. the money time just. like the old you take your $400.00 and you make it a 100 grand. but well it's lucrative illicit street sense and always being kooks but it's a gangsta's in their basements making the recipe up as they go alone in the final product a synthetic and wildly inconsistent. custom as 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 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 not dropping people they're run into you can bet that green stuff . because they think they can they're the ones that can take half the data recorder out of it or to keep its audience from it that 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 bought healthy 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 no no i won't. 10 minutes later yeah move in the alley they will work out or i don't know she meant it i. don't know ammons companies

come. so how much do you sell it for more to get $10.00 for a flat. i say. that's a $10.05 a fat lot and that stuff doctoring that's stopping people you know it's 15 percent fat no. 3 percent heroin the rest of the reactive sugar. is a plus but i'd die if i took. all depends how high your immune system know it all and i mean i've never taken pencil before if you talk to you die 100 percent on that and if i pull the same concept but i know definitely no definite.

she said it's me i want to buy it if i want to buy it but contempt is something the . judge life pro. get to make your own choices right. and i got to see. if i got. the candid way in which sylvester discussed 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 i'm 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 and unlike most canadian

cities think overside in the ghetto wise poverty. as the city gentrified people get squished and scratched there 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 this pick up the fence no i think it could be me and it comes in all different shapes and sizes whether you think that i'm going to. the baby. brother and 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 horrific like it's just been because wall to wall ambulances and fire trucks and people running on the street can look like a war zone. you literally squatted down here right now where their friends are so

that is a sign that is in this war and let's look at the end of. this is the area where you're really not why you think afghanistan or not this is a highly regulated shutterstock of the words dying because of the look of the crisis the strain here was my last 10 dollars 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 not really was and so on so i guess it's but no he's also got the powder version there. oh i think you never know what you're going to get a surprise all the time so these are both financial 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 it's. a walk on the wild side that way. you could explain. that there's a real 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 or are afraid of it. and yeah as i said it in jest because. it's not the wild side at all it's just that it's a neighborhood of people that are going to experiencing

a lot of pain and dealing with a lot of trauma and. people. high poverty areas there's there's there's all kinds of 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. you think it actually 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 suffering i became dependent on using. heroin because reality is painful. opioids like heroin unfenced know belong to the same pharmacy school family is morphine and like morphine they were intended for pay millie for 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 they're probably breathing that they are there for where you were filming the moment we want we want that. story to enter its origin. so you come into your space ma'am. i had and i reach out and 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 my child and his mother. and i raised my i was doing all that i raised my son and. i owed him a life and i have an amazing son and he turned out exceptionally well i did and i'm really proud of what i did. and then i had an accident and it kind of brought me that. i i got it from i know my bike i broke my legs my published my head my breath

ripped my rotator cuff crushed both hands but my back in 4 places my skull in more places my face my know my teeth with a hearing brain hemorrhage. yeah it wasn't a good day in my world. but it may sound i had 10 years ago with a different something. 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 thing for a problem for something i'd done or were taken from here but yeah inject drugs 30 to 40 times a day i mean yeah i mean. just the shell of the you know a person that was just so much that constant 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 can't find anyone in these alleyways who hasn't lost a loved one it's scary how commonplace it's become. a lost any friends reserve this venting all about me. i'm so sorry to hear that how did you but it's on. that's. cruel astray is the stockholm syndrome that pushes to its victims. the more it devastates this little community the more people seek solace in these homes. right now we're going to go to the washington hilton how it's paralyzed and we have there. harm reduction supplies for the community to lead means that the people of

the south of what used drugs themselves will help but it's absolutely that it's really important people in the community are the ones leading up to take us. inside this building clean injecting equipment is handed to a cool 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 hands out a 1000000 syringes a year. sekali how many needles would you give out and then the whole shift was. going through one of these boxes have 500. rigs in it and one day i went through 4 boxes of room in one sentence that was implicit. why is it so important that people around taking just basically needles. they'll use still use it when you need

years they'll use a journey ring that you find you know that's how people get have seen their name try to share with us they will use toilet water puddle water or whenever they need to to use get water and i guess that water is going straight into that blood stream and that business i'm going to be measuring give eases in the valley for 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 shift i have my. best on i have a. 21 hour can really go i have my bike my helmet and i always have extra nice candle me so in case i come across multiple overdoses of that right 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 on today it's commonly known by its brand name knockout. punch and all opiates and what it does is it shuts down your respiratory system so for 10 that this this here this is the facts all come in your system right so we should soften our can it's like a wall goes up and so the french alps the wall of cake in front 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 that it so then if it's not easy of a slave to it's why do we have so many people showing up i believe it's because we were using damn 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 like a can't see or can't find a health relate to find someone over those out of the people you got treatment and

that's the plans i mean usually it starts off with all the flu and then you feel you only got so much time to act if you find the interface is purple it means you're saying that's just more interest on the faces glad to have like a slim chance in print so when you do find someone the sides age you are able to turn the around to save the life how does an extremely stressful a traumatic. you know you remind yourself as a white to the strong so for myself personally in the last 2 years i responded 31 drug overdose. one trying to be 103 overdoses and then a week later we had 12 people die saving. 1. 1 day. tommy how does it feel to work in a place like this with saving lives every day. heard these kids.

earn their lives because i lost my son's father in law and i. had. the i liked him because it's 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 come about the crisis and while health responses like this have made some inroads sensible has at times been an impossible challenge from lawmakers it's become so you about the average life expectancy is officially richie's to the public health emergency has been declared i. it's caused a deep mistrust from those in the community towards both in power. trying to keep the hair on begam or on your side of the street not our time and then to have to find out as well the. british columbia has full times the amounts

of the u.k. and yet 7 percent of its my one cruise came from these 2 clubs. is another one of that spike is the 3 place does what. they are her and then you know a dealer out here there at the lowest they've been watching me and we're going 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 it's down i don't want their help they're not my friend. i know what i'm here i played a part in every single interaction i'm not yeah i'm a colorful vogue i mean. i've been known to have been at it here however they're professionals right i'm not i'm a fashion. i'm i'm not a i'm not a real bad no there. there's always gonna be some are there certain cars are there . and in each on the honest i think a lot of us a p.r.

to show that they're out there. 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 they're making their name keep it away from the city keep it away from from where people are spending money. and if the cops had rode on when he was setting it up and he did leave the rest looks now they tell you that they grabbed me put me just a wall search me take my and tell me to. it's a gold claim that your boss. in spite of the ill feelings towards the the police say their approach is based on pragmatism and it's certainly true that there's been public drug use in full view of. you guys live on the streets out here yeah we've been downtown eastside for over a year. sleeping rough out when it gets to winter here is last night was very it was very cold very rough yeah you know we got there was rain the blankets for that

gets in the. car and he had weird. weird weird people like watching us and we just letting it go out real fears weird people like that came up and just like we're standing at the end of like the photos like are that and this is scaring us yeah. it's kind of creepy it is create is very creepy this stuff happens here every single day 0000000000000 no no street sense wrong route i'm for a cold 3. 3 pieces for you and i believe that you know me or you know. i don't know at that moment. 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 but 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 the freaking out easily hey if. they play you have to have mental 5 minutes later we were making out for it on the door that right there i don't know that's what i mean here we were we did we did michelle and i find out later. that this person well no 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 of the the hastings shuffle so. 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 yeah i almost i slipped through my lips were blue i was dead he shouldn't you should talk doing drugs all together that's why it liquor and weed is all that pretty much and gave it to us it is here and you know i think what do you think it was meant for is for and definitely we didn't even have that much you know we should like a charity and like yours and i was just i can as in one you just inhaled one thing it off smoking it off on the foil he used to drink one. and i basically almost died from one inhalation one. i was 3. doubt because they simply he was a routine when you're john if i die. i would.

how does it make you feel looking back on that day steven thinking you know he did . never do it again. never again. no. one in think you know what i mean daryn put in you know hopefully for a little bit of water and.

take a syringe. that's. also some people using filters and don't. let. nothing's going to fit in the syringe that isn't already going to get in there and so. he's done for a very. 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 statistic. where you heading say now running. and down in the mall. and you go. shoplift so i get some money and support rabbit is she going to do you use days i'm. already because it was a $4.25 cent jar it just did and. it already worn off was only

a kind of minutes ago now. you know if i don't go to jail trying to do it and maybe all get paid and get some more dough but it's not fun i ate it and i can stand it here or spend i was 13 years of my life behind bars. for what a drug addiction something that kills 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 man what's life. 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 the evening and sport myself i hate my life.

i wake up in the morning wishing i didn't. die so if you are a drug abuser minister the news for you i. feel terrible. i wouldn't wish this on 1st i wouldn't wish living like this for the person i most in the world. it's not living on. it's dying that you're running yourself into the ground every day and willingly doing it. and why because you're just 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'm all i know is jail and crime. drugs it's all i know i'm. 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 she's a man so you don't know how 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 could be dead 20 minutes from now with all those. so.

the playoffs that we 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 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. and rights in the hearts of one of downtown eastside was to fix the streets one

small medical center is looking to do exactly that they were going to go it across town planning. and. so on and we provide injectable hydromorphone an injectable site you know more than add to my needs but at the end of it as i would especially if i'm fine with it a call made heroin really as good as i have mine and. that's rights it's a medical center because heroin to people in addiction. to any clothes. for the clients are here for the nurses do appear fessing for them 3 ladies. they intend for the for whom 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 storage. can you give me

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 time they're on. what are you getting today. karen thank you marking. and how often the 3 times a day. i miss in my lunch time for. it's another drug transaction in downtown eastside. rather than toxic type sold in a back alley and injected behind a dumpster it's a regulated pharmacy school given in a medical setting and supervised by people who. are introducing heroin into my body you know. there is no inerrancy chihuahua. all over. seriously until i go to turn red and. get really mean cheap but

my. my desire for whom we 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 and make incremental life changes. when people start with us they're using. illicit drugs every day and by 6 months and care with aspect goes down the handful of days i'm up at people reconnect with families and they go back to school they start working and

start working part time travel is here and they get housing but more importantly my most recent of us patients had been in and out of jail over 200 times before he came to treatment here and since he's been in treatment here he's not going back to jail that's a huge success. how many banks have you roped. locked 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. 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 and 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 a.p.i. 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.

have. the last year being. we always look at the action you know we're so focused on substance that we are actually forgotten the value of human life not just graduating from at the same time as people are beautiful i got hopes so. i know you remember. how to. eat stuff because. if you could go back to the day when you 1st put that name in your geodetic and. personally no. did then i put the birth name in my arm wow i did just 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 and i refuse box of it i put away a put away put away and put away i'm doing that now for for your. brother your that's. all i had on here with a 150 grand. not look back.

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