In 2016, in the midst of the newly declared public health emergency that will come to be known as "the overdose crisis," self-described "renegade safe injection site" Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) began operating in Vancouver’s Downtown Inside (DTES). Today, the organization provides several safe spaces where users can test their drugs, get needles, inject safely and access various services.

In his film Love in the Time of Fentanyl, director Colin Askey, a veteran of work in the DTES himself, follows the OPS team as the work to save lives daily.

Today, he talks with The Pulse before the showing of his movie, on June 14, at Frames of Mind, a mental health film series presented at The Cinematheque in collaboration with the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry.

Interview with Colin Laskey, director of the documentary Love in the Time of Fentanyl: