{"id":160150,"date":"2023-06-13T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=160150"},"modified":"2023-06-15T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T19:58:14","slug":"is-there-still-love-in-the-time-of-fentanyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/is-there-still-love-in-the-time-of-fentanyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Director talks &#8216;Love in the Time of Fentanyl&#8217; movie, mental health film series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancityops.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overdose Prevention Society<\/a> (OPS) began operating in Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Inside (DTES). Today, the organization provides several safe spaces where users can test their drugs, get needles, inject safely and access various services.<\/p>\n<p>In his film <a href=\"https:\/\/loveinthetimeoffentanyl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Love in the Time of Fentanyl<\/em><\/a>, director Colin Askey, a veteran of work in the DTES himself, follows the OPS team as the work to save lives daily.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he talks with The Pulse before the showing of his movie, on June 14, at <a href=\"https:\/\/thecinematheque.ca\/films\/2023\/love-in-the-time-of-fentanyl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Frames of Mind<\/em><\/a>, a mental health film series presented at The Cinematheque in collaboration with the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview with Colin Laskey, director of the documentary<em> Love in the Time of Fentanyl:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, in the midst of the newly declared public health emergency that will come to be known as &#8220;the overdose crisis,&#8221; self-described &#8220;renegade safe injection site&#8221; Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) began operating in Vancouver\u2019s Downtown Inside (DTES). Today, the organization provides several safe spaces where users can test their drugs, get needles, inject safely&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":160157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,223],"tags":[939,9579,11352,27070,792],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160981,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160150\/revisions\/160981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160150"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=160150"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=160150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}