Mother fights to save son lured by Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | Investigates
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2022
- Last year, more than 2,200 British Columbians died from toxic overdoses, according to the BC Coroner Service.
Ann Marie Sexton’s son, Chad, was one of the many people who died in 2021. Now she's fighting to help her firstborn enter recovery.
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I just drove down to Vancouver to pick my son up off of hastings. Thankfully, he came with me back to Québec
God Bless you and may He protect and strengthen your son and his resolve to remain sober.
Mom's love is unconditional. Tim is lucky to have her supporting him so much. Compassion is the key. I hope everything works out for this family. I will pray for you 🙏
This is breaking my heart. I just happened upon this video. And there is a wonderful kind woman with a red hat and black coat that says Eastman on the back of it. I am in tears as she is helping my son. He is wearing the green coat at the beginning of the video. I live in Ontario. I feel hopeless and have tried to get my son off the street many many times. It is nice to know that there are beautiful people who help the most vulnerable. Thank you nice lady for being kind to my son. May God keep you and everyone safe.
And, I pray for your situation....that God may put people in your path to offer solace, guidance & faith...and to keep putting the right people in your son's path, that he may open his mind & heart to recovery & back to his family. God Bless.
I think all addicts, especially dealers should be sent to prison. This would be good for the addicts because they will at least have a better chance of recovering from their addictions. If the addicts are not mentally suitable for prison, they then should be forcefully held in a mental rehab program until they can show they're able to function properly. I know many will find this offensive but this will save a lot of lives, so if you care about people remaining alive, you should be supporting solutions like the ones I presented🙏
Her coat actually says EASTVAN, short for East Vancouver.
Praying for you Cindy. Don't lose hope.
@@CDN1975 Thank you so much. I will never lose hope and pray to my Angels every single night to keep him safe. Be blessed.
One of my siblings , an addict, overdosed and died here, behind the Patricia Hotel. The other addict in my family ' made the choice' to do recovery; she is a model citizen now, and helping many others. Addiction is tough, but it is a CHOICE. Trudeau is partially to blame for now allowing consumption of untested, lethal drugs openly.
My adult child has been sucked into the dtes 10 years now, I just want her home clean safe healthy
I am praying for your child and mine May God give them courage 💖🙏 and you as well.
It is heartbreaking. I pray those who are going through addictions and mental health get the healing they deserve and support to in their recovery.
I'm sick of comments like this. What about the businesses these druggies steal from and the unsanitary conditions they create for everyone else who doesn't take drugs. Enough with being sympathetic for bad behaviour.
@@woyaochinidedoufu2753 read my comment again. It's obvious you haven't.
@@woyaochinidedoufu2753 People who are on hard drugs, their minds aren't working good and it's very hard for them to get off drugs and the cycle unless they get real help.
I am tired of comments like yours, a person who most likely has a wonderful life, no addictions, no money problems, nice family etc smacking down the downtrodden instead of supporting the addicted to get off drugs and get the help they need for recovery.
IMO you are very apathetic and a miserable human being. My 2 friends got off drugs because they got help and now are both working and doing much better. They wouldn't have if people like you ran the show.
@@andrewjohn2124 They get plenty of government help and help from various other entities which is why they're able to live so long in such poor conditions. You should go f urself u pee ussy. In fact, take a very large object and shove it up ur u know what
My brother has lived there for years now and tries to get clean all the time. So far he continues to relapse!
@Barry Dingle you're totally right, it'll never work
Pfft. You don't get "lured" by DTES, you go there to get away from something/somewhere else, and the longer you are there the harder it is to get out.
Addiction lures people there. Unaffordable housing leads people there. You need a reality check. How about going down to the east side and talking to some of the people down there. They’ll tell you their story. Coming from other provinces to Vancouver, trying to work, make ends meet to pay the rent, rent is too high, they end up homeless, and either selling drugs or get wrapped up in using them. And the provincial govt only looks at temporary solutions rather than permanent ones to help the homeless. No plan to get them off the street only to give the a “safe spot” to continue using, that isn’t a solution, they need to get them into housing, get them the help they need to deal with addiction, then move past it, deal with other issues, help them find work and then be independent providers for themselves.
Most have traumatic issues. Most in DTES are people who were adiCted to Drigs in the Burbs but are now hiding because of the bad reputation they have in the Subs. Tons of Rats and goofs down there I. fact u can’t help a skid or a thug. There’s two types who love Dope so of your trying to help a Skid or a Thug? Stop cause they are just playing U.
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 Sorry but this is a common excuse used. The reality is that most people who take these kinds of drugs have serious mental problems and the drugs only make their situations worse. The problem stems from not having enough resources and support for their mental health, so they turn to serious drugs to help cope. Lack of money is an issue but isn't the reason
@@Liberal_From_Prairies689 as if addiction is a person or something. Calling out your name and tempting you with good times.
The video makes me angry. The current government does not do anything to help young people to avoid the drug issues. Instead they legalize it and tell the children 17 and above about that they have the rights not listenning to their parents. It is either stupid or evil or both.
As the mother of a recovering addict this grieves my heart. I wouldn't wish the pain of a child's addiction on anyone. God bless those struggling with addiction and the trauma it brings. There is hope.
Ty for this documentary
God bless all the people they rob and steal from to support the habit aswell? None of those DTES lowlifes have jobs.
I think you're wonderful, helping the lost souls, great you have turned things around 🙂❤️✌️
Sad that so many young people are just giving up because of the sad state of the economy and the lack of real positive help.
Its just the culture also and lack of good role models
Prayers up for all affected by addiction. As I have a daughter who is down there. I feel the lure is this is wair they're able to hide and fit in with the lost ones .
(Addiction kills
How meany started there addiction at the Dr office!.. )
Or the exportation of opioids such as Fentanyl from Asian black market dealers
Thank You for this Information♡♡
Sandra is such a sweet heart. Was especially cute when she was offering them Tim bits
After you've lived that life in addiction for so long, its so hard coming back to live a normal life again trying to be a normal person doing normal things, thats the hardest part.Maintianing your sobriety is a battle in itself.
Its more than just addiction its a social thing, people get stuck down there not only because of drugs because they have a community down there, of like minded people and thats really hard to find anywhere else. You have to leave behind the only people in the world who truly understand your struggles.
I totally understand. Seek out and find others in recovery, make a new community ❤
this is old achool thinking..now its every addict for themselves..theres no such things as friends in addiction
@@tiggercampbell6198 no, there is. Just few and far between. I found out who my true friends were after I got clean, they still stay in touch every now and then, the same ones who urged me to get clean, to never go back to that place.
@@asleepcloud I totally get that..I m native and was looking for other natives..well I found them and they became my family..back in the 80s was just weed and booze..I'll never forgive myself for trusting those that turned me onto hard drugs..
That's something people often don't understand is that street life is often like a family and you do feel better around those who understand your struggles.. joining community with recovering addicts will help.
Garden therapy pet therapy...I am going to focus my dreams and goals on making life better on the east side
Every other parent thinks your kids are the Wrong crowd!
Sad all around🙏🏽❤️🇨🇦
:) THANK YOU for Sharing! All too SAD and I understand, as I grew up there in DTES / Strathcona in my eqalry years, and YES the GOOD People I still remeber that treated all with RESPECT and KINDNESS! We are ALL of the same Family still :) ALL the BEST and Cheers to ALL :) !
I sure hope Tim makes it
They should give us an update
How could anybody in their right mind, be lured to the Downtown Eastside.
I really feel for her and hope she is able to help we lost our daughter a year ago january to these drugs
i am deeply so sorry that you have gone through this painful journey, a parent should not have to suffer the lose of a child its the most painful thing to go through . i too lost my child . i hope you have lots of support and love around you .
Great straight forward video. Honestly, all things most of us already know but need to be told. Lol Really happy this came up on my feed. 👍
I hope Tim finds his pathway to success.
He will be successful ❤
Ugh that detox centre SUCKS
they messed up and cost this dude his chance at recovery
Precipitated withdrawal is no joke
It’s absolute hell on earth
Puking, shittint yourself, skin crawling everything hurts you can’t stop moving
Chest is on fire with anxiety and everything in you is telling you to go use
Relief is there for you… you just need that drug
You’ll tell yourself anything just to justify it
“I’ll just use a bit, enough to stop this suffering,”
Should have thrown him on methadone if they can’t figure out how to use suboxone properly
I agree I’ve been through pw it will scare you off getting clean. Now I’m on slow release morphine and it works a hundred times better then methadone for me and subs were useless for hardcore addicts.
no, once you succumb to the lure of drugs you are beyond repair. Just wait for the inevitable
Heartbreaking
my sons addiction is killing me
You’re not funny
Wrong mindset.
You poor thing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
God bless you for your efforts and may God be with you and your family 💕 🙏🙏I am preparing to go to East Hastings to try to help save my daughter...I had to get off my medications the doctors prescribed for all my issues...I've been doing good and a friend is helping me with my landing.
I was born on the island but my daughter got lost in that scene after her dad died.
I need to try to save her.
This video was posted a year ago. I sincerely hope things have improved for Tim since then.
Y'all should be looking into Gabor Mate for advice.
I work in an addictions clinic. We can recommend people read Gabor Mate's books or look to him for advice, but if they don't have the proper social or economic support, the advice can be hard to "follow." This is not an issue of personal discipline, but a larger societal issue, unfortunately.
Look into alternative treatments. Psychedelic therapy in a clinical setting has 95% long term success rates. 12 Steps? 3% who try it are still off Dope a year after leaving. The Sytem is set up to Fail. The government supports 12 Steps because it almost 97% guaranteed that the addict will be back. Cops,lawyers,judges,jails etc all depend on these Addicts 4 a paycheque. End war on drugs is the best solu
NOW OCTOBER 14, 2022////I WONDER WHAT EVER HAPPEN TO THE MOM AND SON NOW? ARE THEY STILL AROUND?
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It starts with a stable childhood upbringing. When you don't come from a stable two parent family, you're gonna be more at risk for life developments.
Its many things but this is not the ONLY thing and it can all happen at the same time
The point is to help before they die. Its someone baby.
this is a pathetic vidio ,,they choose to live like that
Anybody like me, has has spent many years away from Canada, knows how drug use and heavy drinking, so common in Canada, is really weird and abnormal.
You don’t know what your talking about. It’s closed minded people like you that makes life for the homeless and addicts a lot harder. Try walking in someone else’s shoes. Do you really think people wake up and decide to be addicts. No they don’t.
No. They get high to feel good. Then they get high to not feel sick. Ever had a drink mr.Ferguson?
I wonder how many of them make a conscious choice with full consent of the will "Yeah, I think I am going to become drug addicted and hang out in the DTES because it's cool." Or are they people who fell through the cracks of society, lost hope, couldn't see light at the end of the tunnel and took drugs because they wanted to be numbed out.
IMO it's easy for someone like you to make a value judgement without knowing people personally.
poor mom this is heartbreaking.....i would take my son in a country like Cuba were is almost impossible to find drug
He so lucky to have her
This is awful. She likely won't succeed unfortunately. The only examples of addicts coming clean did it on their own, they must decide for themselves they don't want to live like that anymore. Then the system will help them.
Just watching the video the thinking errors are clear. It's not his fault, it's other people's actions that caused it. It's always someone else's fault. His friends, the hospital, drug dealers. Not it isn't.
Until the pair of them admit it's their fault, there will be no recovery.
Politicians ŋeed to spend. A day down here and see what they r partially responsible. This is how they r helping people. Dam sad to see.
I don't hear anything about. How about educate the youth about the dangers of hard drugs this is done on purpose? I live in the middle of it. It's absolutely a nightmare I call it a concentration camp and I can see that people look like. They are in a concentration camp you know I do-it-yourself walking concentration camp. There needs to be mental hospitals not to let people just flounder and die looking like concentrated victims.
That looks like a lookout society s*** show i'm glad you fought for your son❤
Regardless of your age lady, it's still gonna be way easier to just have another one
He should look into Plant Based Treatment. Ibogaine is a life changer for people struggling with Addiction. 12 Steps is starting be more and more looked at as a path that just doesn’t work for many and Yet 4 whatever reason it’s the only Taxpayer funded path. It’s almost as if the System will only support the least realistic paths.
What is that?
12 steps work of your ready to work the program with the right sponser and they are self supporting no affiliation to government or any sect unless treatment centres ore using them but they aren’t gonna work in a treatment centre only for those of us who decided on our own to commit ourselves to sobriety. Rehab needs cognitive based therapy instead and we need way more rehabs. It’s sad it takes almost a year to get into one
Can you imagine spending years or decades fighting someone else's addiction ? It sucks the joy, energy and resources out of you. Instead of working, looking forward to retirement, taking walks in the park or traveling and hiking adventures, you spend your spare time fighting someone who is not themselves half the time. No joy, little hope, few resources. Instead of living and enjoying your life you get sucked in through love, manipulation and spend all of your time and emotional energy on someone else's misery.
The courage, strength and resolve of Tim's mother is impressive.
when bringing oeone to a detox they were sent away because in front door was a death due to OD SO YEAH WE NEED HELP
I think all addicts, especially dealers should be sent to prison. This would be good for the addicts because they will at least have a better chance of recovering from their addictions. If the addicts are not mentally suitable for prison, they then should be forcefully held in a mental rehab program until they can show they're able to function properly. I know many will find this offensive but this will save a lot of lives, so if you care about people remaining alive, you should be supporting solutions like the ones I presented
@@woyaochinidedoufu2753
How many times did you copy and paste this? Addiction is not a crime! How would you like being thrown in prison because you developed an addiction due to pain relief prescribed by your doctor? You have no idea what it’s like. Your “solution” won’t work because Canada is not China!
@@sharong8511 If I were an addict who couldn’t function normally in society and was a danger to myself or others, I’d too deserve the same treatment I just proposed. Would you rather let people sleep in their body waste, inject drugs out in the open and possibly OD?
People got to stop doing hard drugs,and save money for rent.
How on earth does one save money when your Income Assistance is $575 per month? Stop eating too?
@@sharong8511 doesn't sound right people should be able to eat.
Families of drug addicts needs to get responsible , not just government take care of them
The first opium war to The chinese now The second opium party comes home like What mr kung prophesied dont do to others What you dont want
I'm sure many are in debt. I'm wondering if there are some who don't have debt because the banks refuse to lend them and if so, there has to be a glimmer of hope for them.
and what does our government do? closes out the only weed shop in the neighborhood and closing down community services, even 7-11 backed out, a fucking 7-11. We now have nothing but junkies and criminal operated corner stores, and junkie service centers for dopers to get a clean kit and a meal and juice anytime they want. But homeless mental cases get nothing not even 5 seconds on the walk timer at the intersections in this neighborhood because of the causeway one way streets running through the neighborhood. The population grows and the services have become dramatically overwhelmed its very sad to see as the city spends more millions on art sculptures.
What do you mean home less mental cases? I understand and agree with the first part but the ending doesn’t make sense.cause way one way streets? Not even 5 seconds on the walk timer? Why would you want that lol
@@Rajonrondoo99 yes like a highway just runs through the neighborhood one way there are 2 of these and they encircle Oppenhiemer Park actually, sadly. Powell and E Cordova. And yes the timers on the majority of crosswalks across these roads in the downtown eastside portion are literally about 5-10 seconds including the timer and the traffic lights, in the highest disability pedestrian traffic area I've ever seen.
7-11 shut down. Probably because of too much shop lifting from the store. I dont blame them, I would have pulled out if I was them.
@@lawrencelawrence3920 you're 100% right it was notoriously hounded by shoplifters constantly and 24/7 street life standing outside, always someone sleeping in the corner near the door, i know.. but now that is gone, the virus and the economy is not helping either.
What was 7-11 supposed to do? Be a hero in a cape for all the addicts?? Hahah smart decision to pull out
Blah blah blah who cares... just endless cycle and yet we on the hook for these junkies who choose not to get clean, make up all these excuses.. I feel sorry that this mother goes through this but she needs to wake the hell up. Love is strong but reality is that her son does not want to change not even for her. So tell me, did this junkie change? Nope, probably has huge criminal record, I do not sympathize for these junkies. It's always the government fault but no one wants to take responsibility for how they choose to live life.
Ya his mom is sweet and caring but that’s not her son anymore.. as in not the same guy he once was he’s a junkie now that’s all he cares abt
Were some of those deaths from toxic overdoses happening to people taking prescription
Opioids while healing from an injury during forest fire season which now thanks
to people like Kim Jong-Un who are often trying to put on a really big ugly show that happens sometimes more than once a year.
try going to pender clinic who offers hypnotherapy..
I do not feel sorry for people who want to take these drugs drugs are a choice you either choose to do them or you choose not to😮
Ya we made a choice that first time and life obvious isn’t great if you made that choice but there is no choice after that if we have the true illness of addiction we were predisposed to that and yes we can recover I am but it truly becomes a sickness that is so hard to break.
The heart of the problem is when users "don't know what is in the drugs they are buying"? (8:50)
If drug addiction was Good, then this is like saying: The problem with child pornography is only when the child does not verbally consent. Is the human heart Good; other-centered by nature? Do we honor Humility, or hate Him?
Making this documentary, if you do not stand for Truth, you are a channel for lies.
All the relatives of all the victims of China's drugs, had cell phones that are chock full of names, numbers and addresses. VPD never look, but the families do. It seems the VPD have left the ball in our court. Let's go get 'em.
China won't stop sending it over and the government is happy about it.
What makes people want to give up on themselves, do drugs, commit violence on themelves, waste away and foreclose on their lives. I don't get the attraction to self degredation. Reminds me of Plato's cave dwellers.
Cry me a F-ing River and take some personal accountability and responsibility for your actions and your outcome ... I could've been one of these people when I was 16, but I refuse to lose, I fought, scrapped, dumpster dive, starved, and worked hard for what I have and is still fighting and scrapping by now, the fight with life NEVER Ends until you dye, and that's how you're defeated or throw in the towel. No one give me nothing or showed my sympathy ... I earn what I have.
Cell phone is not cheap and also the hookup monthly fee. How a homeless can afford that but no money for food have to go to soup kitchen and food bank? They got lot os money from selling drug. I know that but if the food bank and the soup kitchen are not supporting them to do so. Situation may be different.
I’ve heard a lot that family pays for the phone
I know it sounds crazy but these people have family.. people who love them and worry about them
要做個生活正常的人 還真不容易 因為父母都沒有給基礎
我這一生也實在太厲害了
每個人想要被還原清白身世 首先要能獲得生父生母的賠償費 這種事簡直是天方夜譚
Ha this is a. Shame what is going on with the world Why not help people billionaire and millionaire. Look when you die have you every see a uhaul in the back of a hearse (casket) carrying billions and millions of dollars well you can’t take it with you so help people while you alive don’t let the government get it (help)$$$$$$$$$)
Imagine the government putting all of the money used on de-stigmatizing drugs, harm reduction and "safe supply" and putting it into treatment?
Women Center on columbiiiuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh eh
You are a little late to the parent table, instead of being his buddy you should have been his Mom!
Would you have done better as a 16 year old?
@@Tribuneoftheplebs Should have opened your mind and closed your legs.
@Sara ._. If you really do the best you can, it will go the right way 9 x out of 10, but if you do it the wrong way, well you're odds of failure?
I don’t want to blame the mom but I do blame the son and his own actions
they dont have any control over it.... talk to the people who actually wanted to get clean and use the services to get there