Mark Schnell walks into the injection room at Providence Health Care's Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Crosstown Clinic patient Mark Schnell injects his medicated dose of hydromorphone, a heroin replacement, into his shoulder. Patient Mark Schnell gets his dose of hydromorphone from a booth before injecting it at Crosstown in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Prescription heroin user Les Kaczorowski, 48, says being in the injectable therapy program has completely changed his life. For Schnell and the others in the program, the urgency of the opioid overdose crisis couldn't be any more obvious.

Source: CBC News January 31, 2017 19:52 UTC