Canada's Fentanyl Addiction: A National Crisis | Synthetic Opioid Documentary
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- 100 times stronger than heroin, the deadly opioid fentanyl is cheap, potent and small enough to send in the post. These market forces have seen it replacing the heroin supply, spreading unprecedented death, destruction and misery. And, like all epidemics, it is spreading fast.
The death toll has disproportionately affected the homeless and marginalised. And now, due to its strength and low cost, the drug is also starting to appear in party drugs, such as cocaine and cannabis - with fatal results.
We travel to Vancouver, the epicentre of the fentanyl epidemic to meet with health care workers, activists, fentanyl dealers and people who use it.
We learn of radical initiatives to fight back against a toxic drug supply and ask what the world should expect if the fentanyl epidemic spreads outside of North America.
Under license from Sideways Film, Original Title: Ten Dollar Death Trip, for licensing enquiries contact Kazz@sidewaysfilm.com.
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43 days clean today, always wanted to write that I'm sober and I'm so happy I can finally say it
ur free what a feeling good for u xo
@@suzannewoodgate4661 the withdrawals still creep back for 30 mins every few days and it hasnt been easy, but it's so worth it!
@@Ma-cn7yn it get better trust me xoxoxox
@@suzannewoodgate4661 thanks ❤️
@@Ma-cn7yn xo
I was hooked on heroin for over 20 years. I spent over 14 years served in prisons and many rehab/treatment centers. Now I am 12 years CLEAN. It takes each person time and most of all suffering. We must suffer and reach ends of ourselves to overcome and the desire to use dope will be gone. It's so beautiful to wake up today , free and not have crime or stress over where I'm get my dope today. It's true freedom. I was also downtown there and it's ugly. Please 🙏 give yourself a chance and get clean. It's sad that we can not just get clean , it has to come from within our heart and our very soul. It takes alot of suffering for many of us to finally stop and live life drug free. My heart is with all those people who are stuck in the vicious circle. May God open your eyes
Good for you. You should be very proud of yourself from becoming clean . Please, never go back no matter what and hope you can use your own unfortunate experience to tell the others how damaging drugs could be.
Thanks for sharing.
God bless you and your family. ❤
@@TheMagicalPoison beautiful comment. Thank you. Yes I can say today I'm DONE with dope and I do help and encouragement and support people I know who are struggling and still doing drugs and drinking too much. My best friend is drinking himself to death. My son in law is a wired on fent dope and the street junk and it's sad to see a grown man make himself weak and so hopeless. I encourage them all. It's all about CHOICE. Addiction is NOT a disease. I have met thousands of people who do drugs. we decided to put dope in our bodies. Doing dope has allways been CHOICE. Weak people hide behind 12 step BRAINWASH and blame it on a " disease ". Hillarious really. It's only choices. Nothing more. I hope all drug users wake up. Wake up and make choices to prosper and choices to give ourselves a better future. Choices .
Congratulations!!!!
I was just saying this the other day, as a recovering fetty addict. Finally waking up enjoying my day, not feeling the need to use. Took a lot of suffering, internally from childhood trauma. Getting off drugs can be a very spiritual experience, and I've actually got on and off to feel that again. Those that can will, those that can't will be our reminder to keep going. Best of luck to all on the journey to find yourself.
My husband lived on Vacouver streets addicted to Heroin for 8 years, he's been clean for 13 years now. Never lose hope you can climb over this mountain
Great to hear. Wishing you and your family success and happiness.
Wow. That’s amazing. Rare
Thank you.. I and my husband Made it out but my mom is stuck. These words give me so much hope. Thnxz ❤
Recovering addict here, and content like this helps me keep pushing In my sobriety journey, 2years this May, thanks for putting things like this out, cause addicts are more than ❣️
Fair play keep it up
congrats on two years, keep going you got this
@@sankton4296 thanks so much
Congrats girl. 2 years in July for me. Much love 💛
From your perspective, what is the solution. More love or more tough love?
I live in South Africa and one day I was attacked and robbed while riding my bicycle . The attack left me with a broken femur and other stuff . After repairs , I woke up with a Fentanyl drip attached , after a day , I told my doc to take away the drip and give me a box of aspirins . I didn't want to mess with that stuff , there is no safety net here for me .
Good choice, the longer you use the stuff the more addicted you get.
Wow. Wise choice. Nice job!! Took some nerve!
Fentanyl is in the streets now in South Africa
Like me I don't do no type from the Dr because how I keep my body very clean and sober I have a spiritual enlightenment me I get very sick from any thing in my system I was given Vicodin and for my miagare I told them no thanks you I couldn't move in the ER for Eight hours and I had morphine in my IV drip after I had My son I told them no way I Will take Motrin when I get home from the hospital I don't care about the pain what I do care about is how the Dr s will give you All type of drug s without your concent that morph drips has me feeling All kinds of crazy
@@brandyvaughn1 give me da morphine anytime
As someone in recovery I'm so glad to finally see someone documenting the pain that drives someone to addiction in the first place instead of "shockumenting" injecting drugs for views. It's not a moral failing it's self-medicating trauma and we'll never arrest our way out of this epidemic.
Throw them all in prison so they don't hurt the honest hardworking people.
How about considering the impact they have on us honest hardworking people? Throw all of these junkies in prison for 20+ years and our streets will be clean safe and crime free! If you have a problem with it YOU can take one into your home and be 100% responsible for the addicts actions.They cause crime you go down with them. It's called being held accountable. Your pathetic virtue signaling is a joke.
@@Jetsetfastfood I am a hardworking person running the IT dept in one of the country's largest hospitals so I pay my taxes too not sure exactly what you're spewing in between your obvious hate for yourself so if you could be more clear that'd be great!
@@JennXTV Hate for myself? I love myself and my neighbors. What I detest is drug addicted parasites that have destroyed every tolerant major city. You are the blind one and I hope you wake up.
@@Jetsetfastfood and I hope one day you can let go all that anger, it's toxic. I'm sorry your life turned out so miserable but change is within you.
@@JennXTV WTF are you taking about? I am perfectly happy, retired here in Key West Florida. I live a wonderful life with my wife and could not be happier. Stop projecting on to others because I called you out on your self righteous BS! You need to grow up. I bet you live alone with a cat.
Not to worry dudes, the same company that invented and produced those opioid meds now invented meds to get off the opioid addiction...
An the jab 👈🤯🔫
No. Is Not possible. All Substitutes for Opiat Addiction never works No where. Yes, people is using it If they have No other choice, but: Opiat is Opiat. Thats why Not 1 e of all this Tablets is working.
@@vivimortius4337 it was sarcastic
Fentanyl is a drug used during surgeries etc..someone needs to produce it for medical use..what needs to stop is its illegal use
No they didn't
The intensity in the look she gives him when asked what she would’ve done if he had overdosed and died reached me deeply. May the love they have for each other save their lives. They both deserve a beautiful healthy life.
This was so raw...
Fentanyl will kill a lot of these off lol
Beautiful and healthy, what fantasy world are you in?
It's like we all felt it.
@@leonkennedy2909 perhaps that is the intention, since there's no expectations to give it up and be a productive citizen that contributes positively to the state. 🤨 Lawlessness, it's the norm
Today I'm cean for 1 year and 21 days.... Its a blessing to see how beautiful life is in recovery. Life doesn't become easier but it becomes worth every second to be alive.
To fellow recovering addicts never forget the pain that we went through, so that we can fuel the desire to help the next struggling addict in active.
Help where you can it is worth it
'I started using drugs because reality was painful' Most can relate to this statement.
Of course, my mom has gambling addiction. Try dealing with that demon. She just smashed a remote repeatedly over my head and left eye. Think I'm gonna die.
@@GateKeeper36 u what
@@GateKeeper36 OMG do need someone to talk?
This is what people don't get. Even if they don't have some empathy
Lost Tania last week, 37, we are devastated!
Commenting from small town Canada. It’s getting harder everyday to maintain compassion, when you have to clean up human feces, needles and broken crack pipes off the doorstep every day, while it’s too dangerous for our kids to walk to school, and you have to lead them around junkies overdosing on the sidewalk. Decriminalizing has made it so much worse, and safe supply is tax payer money, spent on providing them drugs they can then sell, to buy the benzo-fentanyl they really want. The narrative around this issue is being distorted. Whose thinking about the rights of the working poor, who are forced to live and work in this sewer of degeneracy?
U CAN SEE THE LOVE AND NEED BETWEEN STEVEN AND JULIA HOPE THEY KEEP SUPPORTING EACH OTHER AND GET THE LIFE THEY DESERVE
Dude wait until the booze wears off . Watch the fuck out .
MAN she's gorgeous!
@rodsrights yea both of them are gone..she ODed, he died 2 days later.
@@finkygsd2720 troll harder
@@finkygsd2720How do you know? 😮
When I went to rehab for my own addiction fentanyl was just hitting the streets around here. I am very blessed to have gotten help when I did. You don't have to be in jail to be living in a prison. I was offered soboxone and methadone and turned both down. I don't come down on those that choose those options they just weren't for me. Anything is better than living on the needle everyday. I was truly a shell of a man and I'm sure I wouldn't be here today if I had not gotten help when I did. Never give up and please seek help if you can't kick on your own. I still have friends that are living this nightmare and have known plenty that didn't make it out alive. Praying for all of the addicts clean or using.
Congrats 👏 it's difficult but worth it. Meetings help and reaching out to someone before it becomes a crisis. Wishing you sobriety one day at a time.
Recovering heroin addict here..thank you for doing these types of videos.. this really is a sad life to live and you can get to that point super fast
Stay strong 💪🏻
@@arnoud666 thank you
$600 a day to get high. That’s why there are so many break ins. They gotta get their $$$ from somewhere.
If you're spending $600 a day to get high, you are getting the worst dope imaginable 😂
@@markus7166 not true
@@joebidenshearingaid1618 it's definitely true, or you're getting ripped tf off by your dealer. Either way, you're getting taken advantage of.
it breaks my heart to see this. I wish each one of them will be put in a recovery and rehab facility and claim back the lives they've lost. Life is beautiful, even if its painful
That couple love each other deeply,wish them every happiness and good luck for the future
Steven and Julia are such beautiful people and an amazing couple
Please let them get help ❤️
Someone related to them had written a comment a while ago, unfortunately they both passed away. You can find the comment somewhere down the line.
Complex trauma can lead to so many things and self medicating through drugs is a big one
This!!!! I wish people understood that more
We do care for you.
My brother and beautiful friend died from this.
What does Fentanyl feel like?
" A big hug "
I cried, ngl
This world has so much filth, darkness, and evil. Your so lucky to have a normal family and die peacefully. I'm 36 and live in Vancouver and know about the trauma and abuse people endure once can suck 50 years out of your life. You feel like your constantly carrying a 500 pound bag.
I lived all over Canada for 2 decades. I am not surprised with the levels of drug dependency shown here
I’ve lived all over western Canada for 2 decades and know exactly what you mean.
Why aren’t you surprised? What’s the reason?
All of this is a symptom of riverviews shutdown. We let these people out here instead of giving them profesisonal help and now the only thing we give them are professional needles.
The love of my life diedhere from a fentynol overdose, breaks my heart to see others struggling like he did and like I could have if I didn't have the support I have
Peace love and health to to you beloved Soul.
Me too, last year. It’s what made me get sober
When I was on tour, we did one date in the Hastings area. Great venue but I've never seen such a horrible area in my life. You can feel the suffering in the very air. And the smell of rot... If you haven't been there you can't understand. I will not moralize or give suggestions as I'm not qualified, but I will not forget.
You guys put out excellent content!
this has already been uploaded to youtube years ago fyi
r.i.p. gerald peachey a.k.a "spike" , he transformed so much, and then fell again, but I lovd him, he was such a wonderful man.
So he passed away? I’m so sorry.
Was that the man with brown hat? Either way I'm sorry to hear that. 🙏
In Ontario we called it "A warm Hug From God".......prayers for them our brothers, sisters, kids
and once again, the community does the job of the authorities and government
god bless all who work day-in day-out to helps the most vulnerable
excellent journalism too
This is absolutely devastating.
May God bless you all. And may he lead you out of that awful mess. I am sorry this awful drug did this to you. Breaks my heart.
@@jahmanborneo1343 you don't understand the point of religion. The point of religion is to teach us how to live better and teach us morals and values. It will always be better than atheism and nihilism. Humans need something outside of themselves to believe in, otherwise we would've never made it to this point. You draw power from whatever God you want. That is the point. So I'd say it's not a farce
@@athyrus0190 good spoken 👌🏼😃
Isn't god supposed to be all knowing and all powerful? If so why does he let adults and children die from cancer, disease, starvation and war?????????????????????
As a chronic pain sufferer, I am so fed up with being lumped in with the street drug culture. I take opioids for pain relief, without the small amount I take, I would have no quality of life at all. But because deaths from heroin and fentanyl are counted in with all opioid deaths, restrictions to those who use some opioids as medication, have made our lives so much harder. Strangely, without my permission, I was given fentanyl after my second knee replacement. It did absolutely nothing for my pain post op, by day three I was suicidal. It took me begging my surgeon, getting support from my nursing team for me to be taken off fentanyl and put on ketamine, which I had had for my first surgery and which is miraculous for pain and depression. I am an accidental addict, I even go to NA, but my pain specialist has told me I will always be on a small dose of opioids. I have never used street drugs for a high, yet I still am treated like a junkie. It's wrong.
I totally agree with you mate, and I'm sorry that you are being treated like a street drug user when you have legitimate pain. Unfortunately the situation in Australia is the same. The pain specialist can only prescribed 2 weeks worth of opioid medication at the dr's appointment. We live in the country and have a shortage of dr's. My neighbour sometimes can't get an appointment for 3 or 4 weeks down the track for a prescription refill, so therefore she has no pain relief for a week or 2. When she inquired how to get another script, she was treated poorly. People are going to start committing suicide either from chronic untreated pain, or morphine withdrawal if we keep going down this track. It will probably take that for my government to reassess the situation. I hope things get better for you mate.
I’m sorry that you are going through this. I hope for the best for you 💙
i am afraid of being addict so i said no for fentanyl.for the judgement of people too
i had tramadol now for back pain and i'm supposed to take them until the day i die! i feel you they give us high dose of everything codeine opium and then it's our fault if we need them !
@@roygeorge5364 We could be neighbours! I am Australian too, also living in the country. The changes to pain medication prescriptions slipped in under cover of the pandemic in NSW, (thank you Health Minister Brad Hazzard or as we like to call him, health Hazzard), have made chronic pain sufferers' lives so much harder. Some days I can hardly get out of bed, but I have to see my doctor to get my scripts, a two hour round trip, no public transport. It takes about 3 days to recover from this. I imagine its much the same for you. And yes, the suicides have already started. A dearly loved cousin took his life a few years back as he couldn't get pain relief. And I know of others in my area that have done the same, or overdosed on unfamiliar street drugs trying to get pain relief. Members of my family have taken up that legal drug, alcohol, as they try to minimise pain and be able to do what's needed. It breaks my heart to see them resort to this. Its the 21st Century, ffs. Suffering should be a thing of the past, but not in backward Australia. I am a 70 year old woman with a supportive doctor and amazing pain specialist. My heart goes out to those not so blessed. Take care. From the boondocks of the South Coast, Australia.
@@kalayne6713 hi mate, I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your loved one especially under those terrible circumstances. It's awful to lose someone to suicide, but especially when it seems so preventable. I am a nursing assistant so I was aware that there was changes coming to opiate prescribing, and also the many problems that was going to arise for people with legitimate pain because of these changes. We are always going to have people with addiction issues, however a good Dr will pick up drug seeking behaviour quickly and turn that patient away. However it seems in this country dr's now assume that anyone asking for pain relief is an addict!! I'm glad you have a good Dr to support you, and vouch for the fact that you have legitimate pain. My back injury has almost been resolved now and I have been almost pain free for about 9 months now, so no need for the oxy contin script any longer which I'm so happy about. I wish you much luck with your ongoing pain issues, and hopefully our idiot government will look at this issue before other people lose their loved ones too. Take care mate, and hi from the finally opened doors of WA
As a former addict , I find it appalling that people think its a great thing they are doing by providing people the means to remain in hell! Living as an addict is worse than death! Stop patting yourself on the back as if you're peoples Savior! Jesus saves- you people are no better than the drug dealers themselves or the drug companies!
Well said!
That's what I'm thinking!! If I was a crackhead and the gave me free clean needles everyday, supplies and support if needed, I wouldn't ever wanna leave that place! I would probably feel like part of a community and normalize that situation! This strategy doesn't make a single sense, it will only bring more people into it!
Thank you for bringing attention to what is going on here ❤
We all have gone through a lot, each and every human being.
This is my first time watching A video from Canada I am speechless I didn’t know that Vancouver was that bad that is devastating BTW Great great video keep up the good work
it is nothing new in canada really
@@lo2740 seen vid yrs bk
@I I I lives in Oakville, GTA for 7 yerra…a very south after tien and area
Esa considered with vancouver as the m most expensive house market…never tought seeing this misery…never
Every single country in the world has places like this. No single country owns, or is immune from suffering.
This was so hard to watch. Keep strong good people ❤️
People need to be forced off the streets and into long term treatment. (Like a year long) these mitigation efforts are well meant but are still allowing incredibly inhumane conditions for people who cannot choose better for themselves. They are no longer choosing, the drug is.
I agree i think that would have been the best for me too. Long term treatment. ❤😊
Thank you Jen! You are an angel.
Everything I have ever seen on addiction has shown that most addicts have some kind of trauma in their past that has led to the addiction. Some people can not see any way out of the addiction or feel so helpless and hopeless that they can't imagine any other kind of life. Most have no health insurance because they don't have a job, so they think that they cannot attend any kind of rehab or get any mental health of any kind. The healthcare system in the US is broken and all the "fixes" that have been tried have just been a bandaid on a gaping head wound. Not worth the time it took to even open the bandaid. We h
This is Canada. All the person had to do is go through Free Detox and get into Free Counselling then recommended for Free Rehab.
I went through Addictions for years doing Binges. I finally quit everything except Cannabis, Caffeine and Sugar. I use Cannabis/CBD and Caffeine to control Pain and Hyperactivity. I won’t take any Pharmaceuticals except for Flexural because they are so Addictive. I smoke Pot sparingly when my mind races too much.
I feel so sorry for these people. I used to get High in the Lower East Side back in the 80s.
I've been clean for 8 years and I can tell you that drugs do medicate mental pain as much as physical pain. A lot of people don't understand how much a drug like heroin can take the pain of depression and abuse and erase it for a short time. It can make you feel mentally, I guess...normal. It's hard to put it into words.
I got three years sober and yes I numbed myself for many many years
All of the people who don't understand are probably themselves addicted to something, but because they get it legally, they see nothing wrong with it, food, coffee, sugar, nicotine are all also addictive, but let me sip my tea
15yrs off soma
God bless you jen well done
@@MaddHeather well done Heather god bless you
i live in vancouver and this documentary is a fresh light as to whats happening here in my city.
This is so unbelievable and sad. I legit don't know what to do about this.
*Do NOT support drug legalization* because it will result in more overdoses and addictions. Instead support drug treatment programs and if you really wanted to be a good Samaritan drop by a local out reach once in a while and put in a bit of community service.
I think handling clean needles and supplies like safe spaces to use drugs encourages people to use it, they should do the opposite and take it from them, otherwise this will NEVER stop.
Thank you so much for making this documentary. I have worked for the people and pets who call the DTES home for the past 5 years. If you saw me you wouldn't guess that I am 13 years clean from narcotics and alcohol. I love the downtown Eastside community. There are a lot of political, health, mental health issues and brutality but the DTES has a lot and I mean a lot of love with that community. Everyone deserves a second chance. Don't judge a book by it's cover. One love ❤️
Thanks for taking a stop in Vancouver.
this is sad. we as a people should not let this happen to any of us. let help each other
Revolt against the powers that be
I know the pain they in I had never touched an opiates then one day at work I feel from a wire 30 feet up straight to the ground my shoulder dislocated Doctor put me on oxy cotin at 24 it destroyed my life I’m 42 now and still fighting from oxy to heroin to fentanyl been to rehabs now I’ve been on methadone for 10 plus years liquid handcuffs
May you be successful in your recovery journey... I just need to know, if you can explain, why is Methadone referred to as liquid handcuffs? Thanks....
@@bigpumpkin49 because the government controlls u, u have to peetest 3x a week, be there certain hours, and if u miss 3 days u get cut off and go threw withdrawl. the testing is to see if u have any other drugs in ur system and if u do there r consequences. Sometimes if u test pos for other drugs the police find out and follow u, there is alot snitches.
I was on methadone for almost 10 years.
Your right uts handcuffs.
I am now on subxone and it works
@@jimmyc6686 remember when methadone was supposed to be confidential? not any more too many people on it to keep secret.
ya methadone was supposed to be a confidential treatment now if the community sees u entering a facility they will follow u to see where u live. TRUTH!
10 years of abuse and I'm 30 days sober bless everyone who has helped me become myself again, we can all be free if we care and help one another ❤️
I have been addicted to opioids past 10 years almost, i can tell you this is not fun now ive been recovering the drugs isnt bad for your body like amfetamine but when you get dopesick it is so fucking bad that i cant describe the feeling, if u are addicted please dont lose hope i know it is freaking hard but you are strong ! REMEMBER THAT !
I've done both heroine and amfetamine. I can tell u the amps fucked up my body and mind more than the opiates but ur right about the horrible f*cking withdrawals from heroin/opiods. Still on 80 mgs of methadone
@@birdofparadise9436 there is methadone treatment here aswell.necer tried it ive heard/saw it makes people eat very much and it has some kind of effects on skin also and u have to go get ur dose every morning at 10 so meeting at local junkies every morning sounds very bad to me
Yeah it slows down metabolism that's true. The meeting with the other addicts is also true. But now here in Holland we get it home delivered once a week to prevent that situation but methadone is a horrible prison of it's own
15 913 days clean and sober.
My old roommate is on the streets down there or maple ridge now. So sad. I worked down there for yrs as well. It's hard to see it just getting worse 😞
Compared to Kensington Ave. in Philly that's like walking on 5th Ave. But addiction is addiction no matter where you go, and the pain and suffering addicts go through is the same. It's miserable and it takes a lot of courage and to really hit bottom to resurface as a human being. Help is available and you need to be committed to change your lifestyle and live drug-free.
I grew up in eastvan, this shit is never gonna change fam. Part of Vancouver at this point.
My heart wants to disagree.
But my head knows it’s what is called Tragedy....
I just call it avoid that part of the city at all cost
15:48
real emotion, made me cry
these are the most polite junkies ive ever seen...
I lost my good friend due to an overdose. We lost contact for a while so I didn't know he had started back using. He didn't show up for work so his relative went to check on him and found him dead. Too bad noone was around him to give him Narcan. I miss him so. 🙏💔🥺
Literally going out putting themselves in danger to help people bless them all heroes without capes.
Such a great documentary! Vancouver DTES is the area that lots of people avoid and ignore. The residents there, in fact, are as human, as kind as everyone else in the city. They need help, not ignorance.
Canada is so kind even the worst parts look safe and inviting
That is a completely unaffordable city brought by political regulation. We have the second most oil to Saudi and we get none of it. We have among the highest agricultural land per capita in the world and cannot use it. We stare out the window and see land as far as the eye can see and are not allowed to build houses on it. More timber than we can harvest and it wastes on the mountain side. Canada is a deeply flawed country. These people did not have to be homeless. They were just unfortunate not to be born millionaires. A house in Vancouver is a million dollars. Canada is so kind. How about no. Pretending to be charitable and virtue signalling is more what it’s about
You can get clean! We MUST HELP ADDICTION!
I’m 20+ years clean and sober. It can be done.
I would have your head spinning with my story. Despite the fact that I suffered from the trauma, abuse assault! I’ve been to jail, institution’s by 19. My Dad died suddenly Xmas Eve 1996 and I was done. I’ve died. I’m 48, two children with special needs, both born in sobriety and I’ve done it alone. But F#ck the drugs, if you need a chat. You have a friend here.
🕉🇦🇺💜
I visit Vancouver in 1999, and watching this video makes me very sad. But this is not news, North America is just falling apart, very sad. Take care all of you.
Sending prayers!
Its very hard to be on the reciving end of a drug addict teenager . being a perant it's heart breaking to watch and also be the reciver of a violent outburst ....the dealers dont care they sell to kids ruin families, have the nerve to hang around pushthere way in to your world...i hate drugs and i need to push away ppl whom trend in it ...no scenes.
Its hard enough trying to survive in the world .this ahould be a wake up call seeing this documentary to some I hope.
I've seen this before few months ago this is not new..it months and months old
It feels like anyone could end up here without the right guidance in their life... It's insane how much we need leaders now more than ever
the tent city by the port, it reminded me of Los Angeles or Seattle, I didn't expect that in Canada
Been this way here for 20+ years. Getting much worse lately though.
I really hope to recover from this disease one day,I wish I had never gone to work the day I broke my legs and back,then was pushed into this world.starts with pills,then so on .
7 years using.
Come on already
You can get clean I was on heroin and homeless for 3 years and I am now over 3 years sober with the help of suboxone and therapy
I've done the Suboxone course....it made me vomit all the time...I'm pulling through... thanks for your message.
@@brendanwielders8113 you are very welcome... I'm in the process of switching to the vivitrol shot.. maybe that would work for ya.. keep your faith in yourself you got this
@@MaddHeather thanks Heather, that's awesome....I'm going to mention it to my doctor this week... love from Victoria Australia 🇦🇺💯💐💖
@@MaddHeather your a strong person,stronger than anyone or anything you walk past.... you know exactly what I mean.
7 years clean from heroin , you guys can be too. Addiction is a curable disease, don’t give up.
knowing a bit of life by now, these are probably the kindest and nicest people out there... they get hurt the most.
Is this a current documentary, please, or a re-run of an old documentary? Thank you, if anyone knows.
On the documentary, something that would help would be an analysis of drug composition, so people know how much they're taking.
I shot dirty alley waters in my veins daily in the early 90's. We fought very hard for harm reduction equipment and safety injection sites. Every SkyTrain route was my injection site I lived and slept in the skid row streets. Some months I walked around with black garbage bags in my feet because I sold my boots for a fix. I picked up dirty used needles in the back streets of Hastings. Rats were in the size of cats. My spouse was picked up by the serial killer William Pickton many times and lost her life to an overdose. This was only 1% of my life in the 90s
Your wife was picked up? What do you mean?
@@danyellg3079 I'd assume his wife was a prostitute
Damn bro, crazy
@@danyellg3079 he sold his wife for drugs, that's what the weak dudes do.
They guy at 12:10 is a jagg off , saying arrest addicts. They need to arrest the big-time dealers. Not the guy selling bundles to feed his habit. But to me the guy said arrest the guy shooting up on the street. They should take him to some kind of detox maybe but not arrest them
Hes not saying to arrest them hes saying why the cops dont
I'll pray for all of you. Because you are worth it!!!. I love you all. Please be safe
Despite all those negatives I want to move to Vancouver.
these people never grew up with or without drugs
I've been clean & sober for 25 YearsI. I got tired of "Ike" Crack beating me everyday!.
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Congrats Madeline
Several yrs old but good piece
its actually not that old 3 years tops .
reupload?
Kind of cute and kind of creepy how they have to look at each other to answer your questions, lol!
Codependency
🤣 I thought the same thing too
15:47 so powerful and overwhelming feelings there
These people all need help. Mental health and addiction services. We cut off mental health funding 40 years ago and now we are paying the price.
Anyone reading this DON’T DO DRUGS!!!
Don't tell people what to do.
You're telling people what to do.
Too late unfortunately.
LSD was a significant factor at healing my Depression that destroyed a lot of my childhood and almost made me kill myself. Cant complain. Rather advise not to use the WRONG DRUGS cause NOT ALL DRUGS ARE BAD.
Studies are showing that psychedelics can be very effective in the treatment of PTSD, depression, anxiety (with micro-dosing.) Also, one study involving psilocybin showed that 25% of participants were cured of depression after one dose. Very promising!
It is so bad every where!! There is not enough help!!
WTF!! THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH HELP. FREE NEEDLES WELFARE ALL THE MEDICAL INTERVENTION REHAB. NOT WHERD I WANT MY TAXES GOING!!!!
@@galegrazutis964 too much help? Are people still dying? Yes they are and that is a real situation u don't care about. Hope all you're money goes to people who NEED it. That's the Christian thing to do.
@@user-ub2jp7tg6k they're dying because they stick needles in their arms, this is not a disease. big pharma didnt force any of these people into shooting up street drugs, its natural selection at its finest.
@@Cheesemane they are dying because the drugs are toxic. Addiction is a disease, it is treated as a medical condition. If you know anything about the opioid crisis, the main issue is that opioid were prescribed for chronic pain disorders. Small amounts at first. And it was life changing for a lot of people. But the nature of opioids are that they change effect over time. Patients would need more and more for the effects they once had. This creates a cycle until you need it every day no matter. Eventually, usually because of cost and insurance issues, people turn to the street. Many have lost everything to opioids. Many come from good homes and good lives but get trapped by their destruction. This is well documented (literally there are so many documentaries about this).
@@user-ub2jp7tg6k that was 15+ years ago, people on the street these days because of opioids put themselves there for the most part. No dr prescribed them fent and told them to stick in into their arms and thats a fact.
I love the work here because even tho the addicts know what they are doing pushing them through a reverse program to clean up your area and space and be somewhat responsible if you want to get our help. I've never walked this journey but I did with alcohol for about 40 years and I went through very similar losses by family I pushed away or ran as I used to think but today being sober for over 17 years and in a relationship for 20 and still, I learn more about others than about me. It's not about me here it's about them and my prayers are with them and any group where addiction is just as bad we don't see that because this is the story of the PIT of Hell ~They do have a choice every day but society accepts they are NOT ready to commit yet. Jails don't help at all but treatment centers do so take care this is a sad story of the ending of lives.
That story time segment is one of the only times you'll see true love captured on camera
I’m so sad to see in the comments that Spike has died 😭😭😭😭
I’ve used heroin to come off Subutex rather than Subutex to come off heroin isn’t it weird how they both work the opposite ways I abused the substitutes though which are worse to come off and the heroine helped. The First Subutex addiction was Hell stopping but the second was a doddle with gear six days of suffering sweet and short but the first detox was post sub 2 weeks of hell after 4 days Of physical hell so I haven’t abuse gear luckily only the opioids but I’m just a dabbler mainly Been so since I was 19. Painkillers are godsend if not abused. I’ve had to learn through 2 habits they are not to be messed with too much aha. All the nice ones take 5 to 6 days to actually leave the body hair test 3 to 4 weeks. Crazy mad.
I knew that was real love the way they both looked at each other
I recognized that neighborhood a few seconds into the video. I live and work not that far away. A few blocks either way and the streets are fairly normal.
its like the zone in the WIRE, like Camden , a open drug market but contained
Looks like America
Sad. As an outsider, I was under the impression Canada was a smarter, kinder, gentler country.
I thought because of more social safety nets, opioid use would not mirror that of U.S.A.
I pray for their souls.
Lolz where did you get an idea like that?
Canadians are over worked, over taxed. We can't afford houses in our own country. The "free" healthcare that everyone loves to talk about it is mediocre at best. There are so many problems I could write a book in the comments section. Alot of what people think Canada is is just a illusion created by our media propaganda machines.
Good amount Fent and other pre-cursors are made in China, shipped to Canada and then brought to the U.S...
Their so sweet! Take care of each other!
This is a perfect example of " it's not the gun , it's the person that uses it"
No it isn't.
It’s a choice NOT a disease in case anyone 20 or younger is watching this and thinking they will end up that way because it runs in the family but in reality if you make better choices and not put your self in those situations you’ll live your life by your design not someone else’s 👍
I guess at first it is a choice by real quick it becomes a DIS-EASE... think about it. Nobody in their right mind would want to live like this... ninety-nine percent of the attic we get sober in a heartbeat... Unfortunately it's not that easy
Your name reflects your views and no doubt your lifestyle... that you're white daddy paid for that gives you this sense of entitlement and princess syndrome.
Your comment shows how ignorant you are, and how little you know about the subject, some addicts are prescribed opioids by a doctor, not knowing what they are taking is highly addictive, is that their choice!? A lot of addicts have had some of the worst childhoods you wouldn't even want to imagine and are trying to escape their reality, did they have a choice!? You have soldiers taking drugs because of PTSD, did they have a choice!? The pharmaceutical companies are pedaling this sh!t because they know they will have life long customers!! There are very few addicts that took drugs just for fun, most addicts have a story, so before being such a judgemental
pr!ck, find out a bit about what you are talking about!
More people in the comments are talking about there recovery just by doing a quick scan which in itself should tell you how much of a problem this is. I've never been addicted to drugs myself but they've always been around me. This fentanyl craze has killed at least 8 people I can think of that I know. Sad . Stay safe everyone.
It's strange how people work though, I had my first smoke of weed at 12 im 42 if i don't have it i don't care but after 30 years of smoking it I've never ever had a desire to do anything else.
One year clean! And it’s was not easy but worth it
Is that Reggie Yates doing the commentary on this? That guy's has done a lot of truly great documentaries. I definitely recommend checking him out, even if this isn't him.