Flood: The Overdose Epidemic in Canada (Full Documentary)

I’ve lost over 25 people I know since 2020 alone. My best friend took his own life after not being able to fight it anymore. Shits getting worse by the day.

Such terrible stigma towards addicted Canadians, no help, no resources that are available, combined with no money, housing, health care....the most important resource canada has, its people, are in pain, being destroyed, neglected and dying....wake up canada. Blessings and love to all those struggling and the families of those who passed..thank god for those who are helping them. bless you

I’m very conflicted, and there’s no harm approach. I think I understand what you’re saying. You’re just trying to keep people alive until they eventually can get clean in my mind, it’s more like giving a bottle of vodka to an alcoholic he has no reason to get clean.

According to addiction and trauma expert Dr Gabor Maté, addiction is NOT a disease, neither is it genetic, but due to childhood trauma and stress and social dislocation endemic to systems of inequality and injustice. In his book "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" he tells real-life stories from his 12-year-work at Vancouver´s Downtown Eastside, to show that all addictions originate in trauma and emotional loss. So, the question is not: "why the addiction, but why the pain", meaning that we need a trauma- inforned society resulting in a much more compassionate view on ALL addictions, including drug addiction.

"Addiction begins with solving a problem, the problem of human pain, emotional pain"

"By recognizing addiction as a cry for help, we shift from judgment and blame to empathy and understanding. It allows us to approach individuals with compassion and seek to address the root causes of their addictive behaviors rather than solely focusing on the symptoms."

“It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.”

NIMBYism is so deep rooted in societies. I got my Abitur 1997. And I remember my mother being totally angry, because it became known that a kid from our village bought drugs at school. She asked me, if we had drugs at our school. I was typical teen and told her. Sure, which one shall I get for you? Then she was beside herself with worry. Truth was, there were all these drugs at school or at central station and I knew where they sold what. Still, I was trauma informed as well as having addiction and substance abuse in my family. I avoided substances starting with alcohol completely. Not having had help for my own trauma before I could chose to do that myself, through me into a long, long eating disorder. So there is no "being safe" when you've got an unhealed trauma. It will find a way to damage you and your life. I have healed from all of it, but I've lost many friends.

I’m a couple weeks away from four years clean. Every time I watch videos like this it’s a reminder to keep doing what I’ve been doing. I’m only 30 and I have more dead friends than my parents. I know it I go back to my old ways I’d be dead sooner than later.

Teaching people the truth about their reality, the lies, the mass deception and corruption of our elite class, the full intent on people with mental health problems, to kill them off, to make millions with the Mexican gov, the entire creation of the false reality we live in, religious reprogramming is the current recovery model. we jumped strait to harm reduction without ever addressing a recovery designed to wake human beings up... Its so much more complicated than people yet realize...

Its not an Epidemic if the government creates it

Ground glass In the ice/speed supply?!?!

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Sadly couldn't imagine being lit, in the bush knowing there are Big Bears. I'm good.
Yeah like to know when this Fetty problem gonna stop!! It's non stop killing our family and friends and Children.
Channel Texas Pictures says and documents parents stories! 🕊️

So it's gov't and societies fault for these people taking drugs??? Anybody else to blame, except for the one actually doing the deed.

I first tried smoking Cannabis at the young age of 15yrs old, way way back in the last century when the police were still throwing people in a steel cage for simply changing how you felt and thought.

So the people of Canada who believed that the Laws were unjust fought for nearly 30yrs. by continuing to grow and sell BootLegged Cannabis with the sole purpose of overThrowing/overGrowing the Federal Government. We finally got the sale and consumption of Cannabis here in Canada legalized which has not only saved the justice system an unimaginable amount of finances but lets not forget about the unimaginable amount of tax dollars now from the sales of Cannabis.

Now we should reinvesting all those unimaginable savings and put them back directly into a different and new form of treatment in Canada which shouldn’t be to difficult considering the amount of savings now and newly available. If we then legalized all illegal substances, the criminal aspect would disappear, overdose deaths would serious reduce and all those unimaginable savings from the justice system, health system and the taxes from legalized drug sales could go directly back into the future of Canada and a new cutting edge form of drug treatment.

“Being a drug user doesn’t kill, the life style of being a drug user kills”

I read this in a novel from one of my favourite authors:

Everyone counts, or nobody counts. SO EVERYONE COUNTS.

Thank you everyone of you for your beautiful truth.
recovery is connection

It's sad that their brains crave a living death more than life. That's how you know something is seriously wrong in addiction. That way of thinking is literally the opposite of survival. Your brain is tricked into falsely associating drugs with your autonomic "survival" response. Dopamine is a liar.

IT is sad that do mamy people are killing themself but its not Like i am gonna pay any donation, diablo 4 is coming out and IT is not cheap

annoying voice trying way too hard.

Absolutely correct! Our premier is “all business!” “All business to the point he want to privatize all our systems! You can easily see where that will lead us! Thanx! 🤬

I feel for everyone that's in the grip of addiction. There are always reasons for it. There is hope out there for you. Want better for yourself, you matter! You deserve a better life ❤

They should offer services for sex addicts and MAP people.
They have an addiction and their urges are still valid and need attention.
Don’t stigmatize grown up men/women who have the cravings of having sex with something /someone and please don’t stigmatize MAP people. They have the craving and urge to have sex with a little child.
Please provide them with services to accommodate their needs. They are addicted too.
Not all MAPs can afford to smuggle or kidnap a child, so please provide them with whatever he/she needs.
We need to be compassionate with everyone suffering from an addiction.
MAP people deserve to have free access to children.
It should be legalized just like drugs.
They have a mental illness and they sexual preference shouldn’t be an obstacle.
Don’t discriminate.
Be compassionate and understand that some parents should be forced to allow MAPs to have access to their children.
It’s ok. Mental illness is everywhere so it’s ok if your children get some mental or physical damage.
It’s ok. It’s about compassion. Share your child and teach them to comply and please someone else who’s suffering from an addiction/mental illness/sexual preference.
Don’t discriminate. MAP people are human beings too.

Let them die.
It’s MAID.
Drug addicts don’t want to live if they are not able to get their dope.
Be compassionate enough to let them die the way they choose.
ODing is a choice.
Let them be.
They can’t manage the challenges of being a grown up and face the challenges in their lives.
It’s ok. No Narcan will save them. At the en of the day, it’s their body, it’s their choice.
Just like abortion.
Let them choose how they die.

These people are a bunch of crybabies. They want the best, prime real estate for their causes, without working for anything. Let them be inconvenienced. What do they expect, it’s free.
Now they want us to buy them heroine and let them get high on us. Incredible. No way. Offer them methodone, or Subutex. They’ll never be sick a single day. But, no, that simply blocks the withdrawals. These people want to get high.
And, as far as businesses, they’ve invested their money, sometimes their whole life savings. The drug users haven’t invested a damn thing.
How a place looks and it’s environment has a lot to do with its value and earning potential. Set the government services out of the way, where they won’t destroy the property value.
I feel like these people have got their nerve, demanding to set these ups in the best neighborhoods. The places are only desirable because of all the work and investment by hardworking people. No way should the best locations go to those who work the least.
I am an addict and an alcoholic.

It is important to understand why some people are able to cope with often appalling pain and still manage without taking drugs. Drug use is a consequence of a problem and their use is essentially a palliative, so unless you address the drivers that lie behind the motivation the situation will remain unchanged.

I wouldn't be surprised if the fentanly was purposely injected within our society on purpose to kill off huge portions of our undesirables within society (usa and canada).

The amount of valuable information in this documentary is huge.

From an ex drug dealer . Liberals made the drug problem worse ..

It is pride in our own agency that allows us to play with fire with addictive substances. I can handle it. I would never become an addict. I can stop whenever I want. But if you are genetically susceptible, you can be a goner in a couple of weeks.

I was an addict for 15 years one of the hardest things i done was get sober.the elites done care because its by design its pop control people have to understand that we are at the hands of the enemy once you see you cant unsee its a evil world we live in thats clear

Bad to say but we don’t care, one down ,one less to break into my house.

This is just heartbreaking .What's even more upsetting is the fact that the government is doing so little to help addicted people. What we need is safe supply and better treatment programs .This is a health emergency!!!

USING PSYCHEDELICS MIGHT AVOID THIS!

This may sound cold, but I personally believe overdosing and dying is a self-solving problem. Its just one less drug user on the streets. Nobody forced these people to start doing drugs, if anything their deaths should be a cautionary tale of exactly why not to START.

Because most opioids are a depressant most addicts don't care if they die of an overdose...plus they don't see an end to the vicious cycle of addiction. They feel like they have no future . Some might feel like it would be a release if they died .

Why would a fifteen year old be in the bush when you have social services, foster care and rehabilitation services? You don’t leave a kid in the bush. These free needle clinics are not helping but harming. Don’t make it easy for children get started. I do not agree with the Portuguese model.

I overdosed in my car on a hot day and someone came and took the $500 in my wallet and walked away, I was lucky to survive. Another time in my car while parked a guy moved me to the backseat and took my gold chain off and started joyriding my car around town. When I woke up confused I asked him wtf he's doing he claimed he was taking me to the hospital, lol. I haven't touched the shit since...

Glad we are no longer criminalizing the sick and injured.Iits time to decriminalize all drugs. Human nature is Human nature, No one wants to suffer, and its time provide a safe supply and space. Glad Canada has started to drop their archaic religiosity and are finally beginning to move forward. You can"t mange and achieve recovery if you're dead. These are human beings. If you don't like the policy, too fookin bad. Be quiet and get out of the way. Between the Immigrants, the Youth, and the Indigenous, there will never be another Conservative majority here in Canada.

all this is all touching and all, but dealers only exist because addicts can freely be addicts.

It all started with ox .wake up its be going on since early 2000

This is the perfect example of where the Gospel should be used!

As sad as this situation is, but there's only so much anyone could do to help those who self-inflict harm. Offering them safe injection sites is not changing their lives for the better, rather, making life a bit comfortable for those seemingly hopeless. First step is to get clean and only they could do that for themselves, no one else can. And if one hasn't touched any drug yet, just don't do it.

I wonder if this movie mentions Sarnia? I've lived there most of my life and it's a fucking shit hole.

Let’s get honest…the gov is not looking out for our best interests, do not look to them to save u. They will use our tax money and make it look like they helping but in reality our money goes directly into their pockets bc they are never accountable…a good example-all the money mean for Ukraine, never went to Ukraine!. Wake up folks!

It’s a little unreasonable, comparing a drug dealer to a landlord. Landlords very often are hard-working and immigrant people who saved up everything to buy a building. And also in California we are not allowed to evict anybody there’s a moratorium and it’s very difficult to evict tenants have a lot of rights and we have not been able to give rent increases for three years so just want to clarify that maybe Canada is different. If so, they should have protections.

Addiction is not a disease. It is a choice!

simple, totally legal in PRIVATE . Get caught using making or selling in public? 25 years first offence . Im a 20 year coke/meth addict .

So strange and an American drunk can't get into Canada😂😂😂😂

The failures of Canadian drug policy are in large part responsible for the crisis. Let's treat this as a scientific (social) problem, not a religious one.

Why are people in North America so depressed that they get into heroin? Seriously, that stuff is not actually "on every corner 24/7", junkies have a serious network. If you don't hang out with whiny junkies all day looking for dope, it's not going to magically seek you out. Please come to my country, where kratom and low-potency opioids are legal and OTC. We do not have anything like your fetty crisis... This is probably also because we have better families here and the cost of living is really reasonable, so there's nowhere near the level of depression as there is in your failing West...

thats what happened in saskatoon saskatchewan. 44 beds turned to 13 beds because of budget cuts!1 blame the government! keep your mind occupied,go to church ,pick up a book! i pray for these ppl cause ive been there!