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B.C. failing most vulnerable amid toxic drug crisis, critics say: ‘It’s heart-wrenching’ - BC | Globalnews.ca

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A man has been hovering over a steam grate on the sidewalk in downtown Vancouver for weeks .

Dr. Paxton Bach , an addiction medicine specialist at St. Paul’s Hospital , said we are seeing staggering amounts of visible poverty amid a toxic drug crisis.

Bach said we should be saddened and enraged to see people who are forced to live outside in conditions similar to the individual clinging to a sidewalk grate.

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