To say. It is fire i think it is so named yours its like the most. Apparent terror you can imagine and his legs im slowly i just pulling away for so many you and then you get tunnel vision starts in smaller and smaller and around this tunnel and just darkness right small hours are blows and. Youre dead and to think that you know youre dead youre a flatline are be dead. Thank you for a city were known for is not true b. C. A quote from a to earth sport. But beneath the Mountain Vista is the city the tragic underbelly. Despite being known as one of the worlds top 3 cities in which to live the tiny neighborhood known as Downtown Eastside is experiencing a huge drop. Thousands of lives have been lost and in nearly 9 months of an autopsy is 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 bent now at an all that all fatal dose of fentons now that we know the potent opioid thats supposed to tranquilize elephants a scent that a painkiller 100. 00 times more powerful than morphine just 2 milligrams of the pure drug which is about 4 grains of salt is enough to kill the average adult friends die from the lethal amount of the painkiller fact general boy in florida has become one of the more wrong more than 63000 people died of monster drug feels far more people than gun violence if you dont know what that no is it is basically the new heroin but much much stronger. Point i dont know. But it was a brawl. You know a whole lot i want to documentaries right now brother. Not a documentary were talking about opioid use and yeah ill come talk to you in a minute hey we dont hear our guys off the road just a minute you know from the you know the fellow bro in the hood you know. Friend that you as a good friend of mine you know that doesnt matter. No ask no questions ill tell no lies. Here in Downtown Eastside addiction is nothing new heroin has flowed through think evas pull this to private parts of town since the 1970s. But Market Forces have seen that heroin supply replaced friend snow is stronger cheaper and much less baucis with books. Where are we going to have it where would you like to go i mean if you want to see what its really like show us go. Go. This is east hastings street now this is where and you know start changing. What youre looking at is the mecca. Of drug addiction. We have been an act there narcotics for. Ever since i can remember maybe thats why i came here on air yeah i think that is probably why i came here. And this offense who hasnt flooded the street drug supply outside north america yet 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 its not going to be pretty. It is wildfire people will try and love it and theyll never quit. These streets were crowded were talking about 1500000 people died just in this walk. On put my job on the street the ground. Is a huge problem United States lost 72000 people those deaths last year canada lost 8000 all right these are these are large numbers of people dying and. Will not be any different Australia United Kingdom anywhere in the western world. Just you never did. The stuff will kill you. For once but like how easy. It would be pretty much be simple for me to get down on the impossible for you harold defend us for this so that even if there is there a way hes got all that house budget oh. Yeah one just to do. A lot. A lot. Whats your name but thats the thing you know in the streets or the exhibits. Some phone phone all you know trying to get by i live on the street so ive got to make a living somehow i dont want to rob stores and often i get about 10 years in the pen this way here i stereo. And house business selling looking woman man like you can never have enough. So how many people buy a pencil from school. 100150. Every day every day. Is the to make a quick open ice is there like a bit of a kind of change a few months yeah different gangs run different alleys i want to 12 hour shift. How do you get that job is that in their offices in the newspaper i dont know you know through connections mostly coming out of jail. Spend small times 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 did from friends from friends now is it possible any of them and some. Possible. Somebody. To an extent but theyre going to get it from somebody right. I mean i guess apart from anything else its not great business practice to be killing. Customs or no i dont think anybody wanted anybody die but the thing is. Heroin used to comment its here on this front now were 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 pay an extra 50. 00 next days to liberate your door you take that 400. 00 with a friend. And you make a 1000 grams of down and youre getting anywhere between 10120 programs so do the math. Jesus. Money time and just. Like the old you take your 400. 00 and you make it a 100 grand. But well its lucrative illicit street since it always being coops but its a gangstas in their basements making the recipe up as they go along and the final product is synthetic and why would the system. Customers its old as the world they buy on the street can be any color of the rainbow thats it like right now everybody wants the dark green. They come out nasty get the dark green you dont get it they shop around like that one thats the highest but not that she said its going to. Be playing russian roulette and people are coming to the state on dates soon as they know that that stuff dropping people run into you who got that green stuff. Because they think they can theyre the ones that take half the data recorder out of it or the people dying from it must you know thats the logic. Last night. This girl just came out in detox and i know she just got back she thought healthy and everything she sees me all semester come right 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 im just going to use a little bit of it have some whats more i still use it all i can you know when you know your tolerance is no no i wont. 10 minutes later yeah move in the alley they will work on or i will she live in i. Dont know and when Companies Come i leave. So how much do you sell it for more to get 10. 00 for a flat. I say. Its 10. 05 to fatten off and not stop doctoring thats dropping people you know its 15 percent fat. 3 percent heroin the rest is the reactive sugar. Is a post but i diet that. All depends how high your immune from know it all and i mean ive never taken pencil before if you took that you die 100 percent. And if i put the same concept. But im not definite no definite on. She said its me you want to buy it if i want to buy it but give me 10 bucks but some of. Your life bro. Get to make your own choices right. And i get it. So. Its like that. The candid way in which sylvester discuss this is day job is conflicting its 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 its one of the very few tradeable commodity. Vancouver is a very rich city surrounded by very rich real estate and unlike most canadian cities think arista side of the ghetto wise poverty. As the city gentrified is people get squished and scratched there used to be 15 square blocks now its down to 6 or 7 square blocks of people and most of them are in search of some sort of trouble and they. Say just the blockade that way i just purchased this it got the fence will think it could be you know i mean it comes in all different shapes and sizes whether you think that im good at cisco the baby. Brother and over. This i mean its a surprising is the 1st all weve heard is theres a multiple overdose calls in this Little Community per day and some sometimes its just been horrific like its just been because wall to wall ambulances and fire trucks and people riding on the street can look like a war zone. Or greased water down here at very very dear friends with somebody its one that isnt even sure it was a little under. This system was very very no youre really not a you think afghanistan was just on regulated ships 3 times the ones dying because of the look of the crisis the strain here was my last 10. 00 and my only 10. 00 that i sold a crowbar and an angle grinder for i got a coffee and some dope. Yeah usually you dont eat and if you live breathe and work for this how can you know really whats inside so i guess its but no hes also got the powder version there. Oh i think you never know what youre going to get a surprise all the time so these are both offensive but the boomers looks like doing drugs and it does you never know. Like its always looks different. Its just. Goofing around really is sorry for the language but its you know. Food clothes shower drugs its constant its. A walk on the wild side that way. Theres a reason idea here that it might be dangerous down here at my dream yeah Mainstream Society is a little bit of all intimidated by it d or great of it. And yet as i said it in jest because. Its not the wild side at all its just that its 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 theres theres theres all kinds of people thrive all kinds of trauma from Early Childhood abuse. You know relationships and you know just yes. People have gone through a lot. To think it actually is a disease it is an illness you know what starts out as an original choice to use substances to self medicate from the pain turns into a lifetime of suffering and i became dependent on using. Heroin because reality is painful. Opioids like heroin unfenced know belongs to the same Pharmacy School family is moved and like morphine they were intended for pain relief everyone in this self medicating community has a back story and pain both physical and mental its all around. Just personal. Check right now im sure theyre probably breathing that i how are you or where you were filming the moment we want we want that. For. The story to enter its origin. Very come into your space maam. 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 used our product i cleaned up and 997 i cleaned up to raise money and money. And i raised my and 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 im really proud of that but i didnt. And then i had an accident and it kind of brought me back. Im i got hit from behind on my bike i broke my leg by published by hit by a bridge rip my rotator cuff crushed both hands but my back in 4 plays with my skull and more placement my face my nose my teeth with a hearing brain haemorrhage. Yeah it wasnt a good day in my world. But it may sound 10 years ago with a different something. Youre probably you were interviewing him at me and you want to apologize to me so completely different than just be apologizing for a problem for something ive done. Or 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 him probably a good 600 bucks a day. Since who is now sweeping through north america a horrifying writes since he hit the streets drug overdoses become the leading cause of death for those under 50 you cant find anyone in these early ways who hasnt lost a loved one its scary how commonplace its become. He lost any friends there is there this. Is not me. Im so sorry to hear that how did you put it on the show. Thats a fact not trying here no. Offense and most 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 were going to go to washington knowing how its paralyzed and we have there. Harm reduction supplies to the community with a lead means that the people of the south that what theyre used to is some cells will help but its absolutely yeah its really important people in the community are the ones laid out i guess. 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 an h i c its open 24 hours a day im really in syringes a year. Sekali how many needles would you give out and then the whole shift all over. One through one of these boxes have 500. Rigs in it and one day i went through 4 boxes of brain scan one stance that was obviously. Why is it so important that people around take time difference just basically needles what they will theyll use still use it when you need to use the use a gurney ring that you find you know thats how people get have seen their name credo sherry they will use toilet water puddle water whenever they need to to use get water and i guess that water is going straight into that blood stream and that is not so great one can imagine give revisiting the israelis or people urinate 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 ship i have my. Best on i have a 8. 00 american way to go i have my bike my helmet and they always have extra knockin on me so in case i come across multiple overdoses at that rate here in town. Workers like jen patrol these alleyways administering life saving medical interventions the secret weapon is no locks on the fence no on today its commonly known by its brand name narco. Sentinel its an opiate and what it does is it shuts down your respiratory system so for 10 that this this here this is such all coming in your system right so we should show up in our can its like a wall goes up and so the french helps the wallet taking one gulp more narcan whats the sense of that figured out walgett so what youre saying is this is actually quite easy to reverse and i guess that it so then if its not easy service leap days why do we have so many people telling of my place in history where he isnt by myself and people are really ashamed about their drug use theyre labeled as a criminal or a junkie or a crackhead so they use by themself in dark places you know they are people cant see or cant find a health relate to find someone over those how long would you go if you got treatment and that the fans i mean usually it starts off they dont observe clue and then you feel you only got so much time to react if you find their faces purple it means youre saying thats done or interest on the face class would have like a slim chance and so would you do find someone the so j h you were able to stomach around to save the life how does an extremely stressful and you manage to. Be able to remind yourself as to why you took the strong so for myself personally in the last 2 years i responded 31 programmer news. One trying to be 103 overdosed and then a week later we had 12 people die in the city of vancouver. One. When they. Come in how does it feel to work in a place like this where youre saving lives every day. And. Then you can. Earn in move and move their lives around lost their lives and i. Have. To i like it feels good to save a life instead of just part of the problem for being part of the solution. The city of vancouver has invested millions trying to combat the crisis and while Health Responses like this have made some inroads sensible has at times been an impossible challenge from the old me because its become so bad the average Life Expectancy is officially reducing the Public Health emergency has been declared i. Its caused a deep mistrust from those in the community towards pleasure and power. Trying to keep the hearing began around this side of the street not on the right hand side and then down to find out as well that. British columbia has full times the amounts of the u. K. And yet 7 percent of its mine one cruise came from these 2 clubs. Is another one of that spike is the 3 place doesnt that they are horrendous to you know really out here there are the lowest they can wonderingly and ways want to move further into the ground like it makes sense not to rain if im bleeding to death i dont want to help but thats down i dont want their help theyre not my friend. You know what im here ive played a part in every single interaction im not yeah im a colorful vocab you. Ive been known to have been added here however theyre professionals right im not in the fashion. Im at im not in im not imagine out there. Theres always gonna be some are there certain cars are here. Anytime me honest i think a lot of me just say p. R. To show that theyre on their own as if they dont give us the cops are literally watching them shoot out and they do not arrest of theyve got a bunch of drugs on them they do not because their name again you mean anything to keep it away from the city keep it away from from where people are screaming bloody. And if the cops approach on when you do something to them and you believe the rest looks now they tell you to they grab me put me against the wall search me take my and tell me. Its a gold claim that your boss. In spite of the ill feelings towards the police say their approach is based on pragmatism and its sunny trade that theres been public drug use in full view of. You guys live on the streets yeah weve been Downtown Eastside for over a year. Sleeping rough out when it gets to winter here its last night was out there and it was very cool very rough yeah you know we got there was rain the blankets requests we had. Our we had weird. Weird people like washing out. And we just looked at him yeah yeah you know heres weird people like that came up and just like were standing at the end of like the photos like are that and this is scaring us. Its kind of creepy it is crazy and is very creepy this stuff happens here every single day 000000000 no not to turn this rock around im for cold 3. Free speech for you and i believe that most of you know me or you know. I dont know at that moment. How did you guys meet. You might have a library. And i ran after a cheese. But 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 after her and i freaked her out the place a. Big play you have to admit to all 5 minutes later we were making out for it one other that. I know thats what i mean every we were we did we did