A senior Vancouver police officer has released a startling picture that she says depicts the "sad reality" of the opioid crisis in the city - a bird nest constructed of used hypodermic needles.
The photo, tweeted by Superintendent Michelle Davey on Wednesday afternoon, depicts dozens of needles heaped in a disused washroom sink, in what she said was a single-room occupancy hotel in the drug-plagued Downtown Eastside, which neighbours the city's Chinatown.
Three tiny eggs sit in the middle of the nest.
"Pigeons spotted making a nest out of needles in a DTES SRO room. Sad reality of the opioid crisis," Davey wrote, with the hashtags #fentanyl and #notstaged.
