The heroic life and tragic death of Trey Helten

The heroic life and tragic death of Trey Helten

The fixture of the Downtown Eastside was a hero to everyone but himself

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I saw Trey Helten for the last time in September last year. It was a typical day on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A steady drizzle fell. People huddled in doorways, slept on the wet sidewalk or stood slumping like broken dolls as their drugs took hold. Trey had been there himself. He spent years homeless and addicted on those streets, then more years working in a supervised drug-use site trying to help people survive the opioids crisis. Now he …