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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social

Trey Helten, an advocate for drug users whose willingness to speak searingly about his own battle with #addiction provided hope to many in Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside, has died. He was 42, by @andreawoo.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comTrey Helten, prominent advocate for drug users, has diedAs manager at Vancouver’s Overdose Prevention Society, he helped people schedule medical appointments and find housing – and reversed hundreds of overdoses and trained others to do the same