DTES Vancouver Cracktown Edit

DTES Vancouver Cracktown Edit – This is a clip I edited to show what life in DTES Vancouver looks like. Just so you people understand my motivations, well I lived at the Regent Hotel on Main and Hastings for two months while working on a construction site nearby, and I was fascinated by the neighborhood because it was like waking up in a zombie movie each and every day. My main objective when I moved there was to shoot a documentary on poverty and drugs in DTES with some historic facts and all, but since I worked full time and did not have much time, I ended up filming less than I expected so I decided to edit a short but shocking clip so people can realize in what kind of world they are living in. Of course, my intention was to show the shady side of DTES, but I wanna point out that there is a lot of support for homeless people and drug addicts, a lot of good people trying to help, social workers, street nurses, volunteers, and not only drug addicts and prostitutes…

More Maine Kids Placed in Foster Care Due to Increasing Bath Salts-abusing …

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Cahill-Low said she is working with Maine's Office of Substance Abuse to find out how state agencies can better respond to the problems that bath salts drug abuse is creating in the state. “The problem with bath salts is that when people are taking …
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Alaska sex-trafficking task force holds hearing

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