Within this post, ‘Our people are dying. . .’ is a candid look at Canada’s Vancouver Downtown Eastside, considered “the epicentre of the country’s opioid crisis. . . the deadly toll of fentanyl. . . laced into street drugs.”
“British Columbia has seen the highest drug-related deaths in the country.
“Last year alone, more than 4,500 Canadians died from opioid deaths.
“That’s one death every two hours.
“In the four years since the 2015 [federal] election, nearly 13,000 people have died of opioid overdoses.”
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As I gaze at the video in the article I see many of our Indigenous brothers and sisters in the throes of extreme addiction, often brought on by family patterns of childhood trauma, harkening back to Canada’s Residential School era, and before that.