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Christopher Bucktin

'Ground Zero of drugs' where zombie addicts lie in street as heroin and crack made legal

Walking along the historic East Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver, I’ve just bought enough fentanyl to kill myself. Paying a mere £15 for each “fat point” of the drug they call Murder Eight here, I have enough collectively for someone to fatally overdose.

“For a guy like you, who has no tolerance, our fentanyl will kill you,” Les Vans, once a successful chef and now hopeless addict, tells me after dealing me some drugs.

“If you were to smash [inject] that, you too will become another statistic.”

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