Instead of giving me a few minutes outside the supervised heroin injection site he asked me to follow him inside so he could get in line.
Not thinking about the rules, or perhaps thinking more about my deadline, we exchanged words quickly under the concerned eye of an attendant manning the front desk.
A brief account of Terry's opinons on the feds decision to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to turnover a lower court ruling keeping Insite open along with Terry's story of recovery appeared in Vancouver 24 hours today.
It's amazing what you can do in 120 words.
Terry wrote me after apparently reading the article.
Re injection site, I've been upstairs as well to the detox. There are a lot of things to know that most people can only wonder about, not just insite, the whole scene in general. I got off a plane five years ago, on parole from a place that could not even exist out here, hit the Regent Hotel, to the Decker Residence, one month suspended to Matsque, ten days dope sick in a two men cell, we all go the round one way or other. Five years down the road, I'm still a free man. As for change, close insite, war on drugs, throw away the key, It's a dissease that shows itself at the weakest part of society, but it's effects are everywere. My little story about life in the DTES, I've never been free this long anywere else, is only one of thousands, pull the plug on insite, and you got hosp. emerg, and jail. You think that whole place is an eye sore now? Everyone figures they're not going to have to live in in so they don't care, they don't live in it now so why piss on insite? Two biilion dollars to see who can go faster, higher, get more points for style, the olympics, what a stupid time to try to make any kind of a piont about closing a facility that is probably saving millions in revenues. Terry
The full story I filed to QMI Agency can be found here.