Supervised consumption sites in the Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada give addicts who use fentanyl, opioids, crystal methamphetamine and other drugs a place to use and get harm reduction supplies; clean syringes, alcohol swabs, sterile water, tourniquets, spoons and filters. On April 14, 2016, provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall declared a public health emergency under the Public Health Act due to the significant rise in opioid-related overdose deaths reported in B.C. since the beginning of 2016.
- A woman looks at her reflection on a window to apply lipstick along East Hastings Street, where there are high levels of drug use, poverty, homelessness and crime.
- Medics with the Vancouver Fire Rescue Services attend to a man who overdosed on drugs in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood.
- Shyan Willow and Kia Haim smoke fentanyl along East Hastings Street.
- A man displays his sign selling kush, a strain of cannabis, along East Hastings Street.
- Ramzy Diryas tightens a tourniquet to find a vein to inject fentanyl while using an injection booth at a supervised consumption site in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood of Vancouver, Canada.
- Kendal Scofield cleans up her belongings along East Hastings Street.
Alley ways adjacent to East Hastings Street are used to consume drugs in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood.
- Shyan Willow, 27, smokes fentanyl through a glass pipe along East Hastings Street.
- Medics with the Vancouver Fire Rescue Services attend to a man who overdosed on drugs in the Downtown Eastside neighborhood. Read the story at https://lat.ms/3woFLlV
Copyright © All rights reserved.