0:00:18 > 0:00:26This programme contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting and some strong language.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31People use drugs for all different reasons.
0:00:32 > 0:00:36People use drugs to forget about things.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41People use drugs to get a buzz, to get a high.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44People use drugs...
0:00:45 > 0:00:49..because they've had things happen to them when they was a child.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51People use drugs because they've been brought up
0:00:51 > 0:00:53and they don't know any different.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00For years, the rolling valleys and sprawling towns of South Wales
0:01:00 > 0:01:03have hidden a pervasive underground drug scene.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06High levels of injecting mean thousands of users
0:01:06 > 0:01:09experience a serious wound or injury every year.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Overdose is the one that catches all the headlines,
0:01:13 > 0:01:17but there are so many problems associated with injecting drug use.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19According to the NHS, places like Swansea
0:01:19 > 0:01:22have seen a recent spike in blood-borne viruses,
0:01:22 > 0:01:26infections, abscesses, and even amputations.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29We're talking about life-threatening conditions.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31You can lose limbs, you can lose your life.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34Over six months, I met a series of individuals
0:01:34 > 0:01:38who invited me to film their lives and see the devastating consequences
0:01:38 > 0:01:41of what happens when injecting drugs goes wrong.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43January this year, they amputated my leg.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05At the age of 12, my mother gave me some heroin to sell.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08And I ended up using it myself,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and I became an addict at the age of 12.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17I love my mother to bits, you know.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19I just perhaps...
0:02:19 > 0:02:24went the wrong path with the drugs and everything, you know.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29I grew up in some care homes sometimes.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34I'd end up running away from those...
0:02:35 > 0:02:36..just to get back home.
0:02:38 > 0:02:39Oh.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44The first-ever time I had any needle, it didn't do nothing.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49The second time I done it, and I done a little tiny bit more...
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Phew, I was on my knees.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57I was literally on my knees. I thought I was going to die.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01What dog's that, mate? Boxer, is it? Boxer?
0:03:01 > 0:03:02American bulldog.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06- What?- American bulldog. - American bulldog. Lovely dog, innit?
0:03:09 > 0:03:11I've had three drug overdoses.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14I've nearly lost my life a few times.
0:03:14 > 0:03:19I had been in intensive care for 28 or 29 days.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Had a big abscess on one lung
0:03:23 > 0:03:28and I had more than five and less than ten on my other lung.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32So I was close to death.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35But I was performing to leave the hospital,
0:03:35 > 0:03:38cos I'd run out of drugs and I wanted to go and get more drugs.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47I know a friend of mine who's lost his leg
0:03:47 > 0:03:49through injecting down below.
0:03:49 > 0:03:54I know people who've come close to losing their legs, as myself.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56I missed the vein in my groin.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00It was the biggest vein in your body and the easiest one to go in,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04but little did I know the damage it could cause.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08They cut a large part of my leg away
0:04:08 > 0:04:11and ended up stitching it back together.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15I'll just show a small part of it.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Right to the underneath on my leg.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23So it goes three quarters of the way round.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26The doctor had said I had nearly lost my leg.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29He came that close to taking my leg off.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Lower parts of my legs, scarring.
0:04:34 > 0:04:39So I advise anyone at home looking at this
0:04:39 > 0:04:42just to not use heroin,
0:04:42 > 0:04:44because this is what it does.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Michael only narrowly avoided amputation
0:04:50 > 0:04:53as a result of his drug use.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55The longer he continues to inject, the more at risk he is
0:04:55 > 0:04:59of these types of severe, life-altering consequences.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10My name is Brandon Miles, and I was born in Swansea in 1969.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Grew up on these hills,
0:05:12 > 0:05:15catching horses, playing in the dirt and eating worms.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20I was an intravenous user of heroin,
0:05:20 > 0:05:24methamphetamine, and EP, ethylphenidate,
0:05:24 > 0:05:26for a period of 14 years.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31Every single day, several times a day.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33Here I am...
0:05:34 > 0:05:36..well, look, a mess.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Ah, my toe, my leg.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43My other... My right leg.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45My hernia, my cochlea.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48My nose, my teeth.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50I'm in a mess.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55Ah, it's all to do with just... I was taking drugs, I think.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Brandon recently had his right leg amputated
0:06:03 > 0:06:07due to injuries caused by years of injecting drugs.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10At 47, he's found himself newly disabled,
0:06:10 > 0:06:13adapting to life as an amputee.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15He was on his way to pawn his laptop
0:06:15 > 0:06:17after his disability benefit had run out for the week.
0:06:19 > 0:06:25I need about... £60, £70 for the laptop
0:06:25 > 0:06:30to cover the cost of living for the next few days.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32It goes on bills, it goes on food,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36domestic products, takeaways, taxis,
0:06:36 > 0:06:39if I need any painkillers.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41It's hard. I'm demoralised, I suppose.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51Yeah, cheers, man. See you again, yeah?
0:06:51 > 0:06:54Thanks a lot. Bye. OK, I'll see you shortly, then.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00Despite having spent money on a cab to get there,
0:07:00 > 0:07:02the pawn shop wouldn't take Brandon's laptop,
0:07:02 > 0:07:05meaning he was out of money for the rest of the week.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Argh!
0:07:07 > 0:07:09It's ridiculous.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12It's like I'm in a trip. It's so surreal.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14It's just like, what the fuck...?
0:07:14 > 0:07:15Chin up, mate.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18I don't want sympathy. Or empathy.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20I want a fucking leg. I want it to grow back.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Later that day, Brandon talked me through
0:07:30 > 0:07:33how injecting had led to his leg being amputated.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35I missed a vein.
0:07:37 > 0:07:42And I think I blew a capillary, because I used a super-fine needle.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Brandon showed me pictures of the abscess
0:07:44 > 0:07:47that he'd taken during his stay in the hospital.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50I was like that for two years. It got bigger and bigger.
0:07:50 > 0:07:55That's the 31st of the 12th 2015.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57After two years of fighting infection,
0:07:57 > 0:08:00doctors amputated Brandon's right leg below the knee.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03I didn't set out with the intent, you know, of doing this.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05This here, this is... You know what I mean?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08There's a lot of things I can't do.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10You know, I can't just run up to the shop.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13And that's depressing.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17It's made my life 100 times harder.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Just injecting it. Trying to, anyway.
0:08:40 > 0:08:44This is the trouble I've got to go through.
0:08:44 > 0:08:45All the fucking time.
0:08:56 > 0:08:57(Yes.)
0:09:00 > 0:09:01I'm just pushing it.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Thank fuck for that, man.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Takes all fucking day otherwise.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18HE INHALES DEEPLY AND EXHALES
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Sorry about that.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Them people out there watching this, don't fucking touch heroin.
0:09:32 > 0:09:37It hurts, you know, just to find a vein in my body.
0:09:37 > 0:09:43I don't know the reason why human beings hurt themselves.
0:09:43 > 0:09:44But...
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Yeah, I wish I had the answer, because...
0:09:51 > 0:09:54..perhaps I wouldn't do it any more, you know.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05Since losing his leg,
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Brandon has had to adapt to life as a disabled person.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11For the past few months,
0:10:11 > 0:10:14his friend Ed has been coming round to help him with day-to-day chores
0:10:14 > 0:10:17such as cooking, cleaning and doing the shopping.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19- Bran...- Yeah?
0:10:19 > 0:10:22- Tea or coffee? - I'll have coffee, please.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26Whilst Ed helps out when he can, Brandon has recently asked
0:10:26 > 0:10:29if he would consider becoming his full-time carer.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32He could claim carer's allowance
0:10:32 > 0:10:35and I'm allowed to claim severe disability payments,
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- or scheme or whatever it is, I don't know.- Yeah.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40- So you'd be Brandon's official carer?- Yeah.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42I've been thinking about it for a while,
0:10:42 > 0:10:44but we'll see how it pans out now.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46It all depends on, you know,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48if Brandon is serious about committing to this
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- and doesn't, you know, go off on...- 100%, Ed.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56- ..a mad scheme for a week and disappears.- No. No.
0:10:56 > 0:10:57Cos I know he does get...
0:10:57 > 0:11:01After a few months, he does get, like, "Ahh!"
0:11:02 > 0:11:04On top of losing one leg,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07it became apparent that the ulcer on Brandon's remaining leg
0:11:07 > 0:11:08was refusing to heal.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11This meant he was facing the real possibility
0:11:11 > 0:11:13of becoming a double amputee.
0:11:13 > 0:11:15Brandon was now relying on Ed
0:11:15 > 0:11:17to take him to and from medical appointments
0:11:17 > 0:11:20to have his wound cleaned and re-dressed.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24I'm in pain.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27- The infection's getting worse on the toe?- Yeah.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28HE GROANS
0:11:28 > 0:11:30See, that's...
0:11:31 > 0:11:33That's my leg.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Underneath this area, this dressing, is an ulcer
0:11:36 > 0:11:39roughly the size of the dressing.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Can you see the discolouration of the skin?
0:11:42 > 0:11:44That is what they're going to soak off. I can't take that off.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47- So if you take that off, it rips off the skin?- Yeah.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50- In pain?- Yeah, of course.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53..I'm filming at the minute, yeah?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55All right, bye. Bye.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- How often do you have to go to get this wash?- Three times a week.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- Does it hurt when they do it? - Yeah, it does, yeah.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05After speaking with Ed,
0:12:05 > 0:12:08it became apparent that Brandon was resorting to more
0:12:08 > 0:12:11than just prescription drugs to deal with his pain.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13None of the medication they've given him
0:12:13 > 0:12:17is having the time to work because he...can't stop smoking drugs.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21So his body's basically just going round in circles.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24He's discharged himself from hospital, I think, eight times.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28He was even smoking crack in the hospital at some point.
0:12:28 > 0:12:29BRANDON GROANS
0:12:29 > 0:12:32- Is that a bit better? - BRANDON GROANS
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Oh, God, I'm dead.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Well, lucky you're not a horse, innit?
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- Oh, yeah, they'd shoot me.- Yeah.
0:12:39 > 0:12:41If I do all this and it ends up to be in vain,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44I'm sorry, I'm just going to say, "Brandon, I tried,
0:12:44 > 0:12:47"it's up to you, mate," and just walk away from it.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48You know?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Bad enough losing one leg,
0:12:50 > 0:12:52but two through your own stupidity is...
0:12:56 > 0:13:00In Swansea, for injecting, is terrible.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06It's all squats where people just go in, inject,
0:13:06 > 0:13:09and just chuck their syringes on the floor.
0:13:11 > 0:13:16It's really bad for people injecting in Swansea. Real... Real bad.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Although the squat Johnno was living in
0:14:45 > 0:14:48was filled with used needles and dirty injecting equipment,
0:14:48 > 0:14:51he'd managed to clear out a room for himself to sleep in.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Injecting in squats like the one Johnno was staying in
0:15:27 > 0:15:30comes with a much higher risk of infection.
0:15:30 > 0:15:31It turned out Johnno
0:15:31 > 0:15:33had only recently had a very close call himself.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35I had an abscess that started eating away at my leg.
0:16:35 > 0:16:37I got a lift straight to the hospital
0:16:37 > 0:16:39cos I knew it was going to open up.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51It feels like as if someone's pouring
0:16:51 > 0:16:55a boiling hot kettle of water over your leg.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58It was a mess. It went outside the vein.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01It was...really painful.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07As you can see, it's healed up now.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10But I've known people to walk round for weeks
0:17:10 > 0:17:12with their leg...
0:17:12 > 0:17:15out...massive,
0:17:15 > 0:17:19all red raw, all the way down, and it's just like a balloon.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24The rise in injecting wounds and abscesses like Michael's
0:17:24 > 0:17:27has become a serious concern across South Wales.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34In Newport, needle exchange coordinator Mike Mallett
0:17:34 > 0:17:37has decided to take things into his own hands.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40A third of all injecting drug users
0:17:40 > 0:17:43will suffer some kind of wound, abscess,
0:17:43 > 0:17:46open ulcer, at some point per year.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50In March 2016, Mike opened a specialised wound clinic
0:17:50 > 0:17:52to treat injecting drug users.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56This is a mess, this is, in my leg.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Cos I'm on the streets, I can't look after it as well as I'd like to,
0:18:00 > 0:18:02clean it and all that.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03Not looking too good,
0:18:03 > 0:18:05but it's looking a lot better than what it was.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08That black skin is what we call necrotic, OK?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10And that's basically what we want to take out.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12So what the dressings do that I'm going to put on,
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- help to break that down and liquefy it...- OK.- ..and draws it off,
0:18:15 > 0:18:17so don't worry if it looks a bit wet or it gets a bit smelly.
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- That's what the dressings are designed to do.- OK.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24- So, this is just sterile water.- OK. - Just so I can wash it.- Yeah.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26'People in these situations
0:18:26 > 0:18:29'can become very, very isolated very quickly.'
0:18:29 > 0:18:32There is that stigma attached to being a drug user,
0:18:32 > 0:18:37and that's often what restricts the drive to go and seek help,
0:18:37 > 0:18:40because they're worried about how they're going to be perceived,
0:18:40 > 0:18:41how they're going to be met.
0:18:41 > 0:18:44If you hadn't have been able to come here, what would you have done?
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Do you know what? It would have been...
0:18:46 > 0:18:48I would have left it, get really bad,
0:18:48 > 0:18:50and probably got rushed into hospital
0:18:50 > 0:18:52with septicaemia or something,
0:18:52 > 0:18:55cos like I said, I've got no access to any doctor
0:18:55 > 0:18:58or any medical help, so it's only the hospital,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00and I don't really like going there.
0:19:00 > 0:19:05I'd say 95% of doctors are very anti-drug
0:19:05 > 0:19:08and, you know, they say, "Oh, it's self-inflicted."
0:19:08 > 0:19:11The vast majority of injecting drug users
0:19:11 > 0:19:16are highly stigmatised by health professionals,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19who perhaps are less than sympathetic
0:19:19 > 0:19:22and treat those individuals differently.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25If you know you are not going to be treated well,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28you are less likely to come forward for help.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31To explain just how bad the problem had got,
0:19:31 > 0:19:32Mike decided to show me pictures
0:19:32 > 0:19:36of some of the most serious wounds he'd treated in the past few months.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37When she came in to see me,
0:19:37 > 0:19:40she didn't have a bandage or anything,
0:19:40 > 0:19:42so when she presented here,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45she actually had a tea towel covering that wound,
0:19:45 > 0:19:47cos that's all she had in the house.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49It is like battlefield dressing sometimes.
0:19:49 > 0:19:55If you're injecting four £10 bags of heroin a day
0:19:55 > 0:19:57and you're still feeling that pain,
0:19:57 > 0:20:01my God, what would it be like without the heroin?
0:20:01 > 0:20:05There is that potential for much greater damage than we currently see
0:20:05 > 0:20:09because of that inability or reluctance or difficulty
0:20:09 > 0:20:13in accessing treatment, and however relatively minor,
0:20:13 > 0:20:15if it doesn't get any kind of intervention,
0:20:15 > 0:20:17it's going to get worse.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19It was clear from speaking to Mike's patients
0:20:19 > 0:20:22the wound clinic was the only place many felt they could go
0:20:22 > 0:20:23and be treated fairly.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25If it weren't for places like this,
0:20:25 > 0:20:28I know there's half a dozen men walking round town
0:20:28 > 0:20:30that'd be in chairs with no legs.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32You don't get it...
0:20:32 > 0:20:33You can talk to people about it,
0:20:33 > 0:20:36but you ain't going to find anywhere else like this.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40For Mike, early intervention wasn't just about helping people in pain.
0:20:40 > 0:20:45There was also, potentially, a serious knock-on effect for the NHS.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48There's a human cost and there's a financial cost.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50More drugs, different types of medications,
0:20:50 > 0:20:52possibly even surgery, hospital admissions.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55Eventually, it costs everyone.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58You know, wounds can develop into septicaemia, into sepsis,
0:20:58 > 0:21:00you can lose limbs, you can lose your life.
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Although Mike's clinic offers hope for younger users
0:21:05 > 0:21:07seeking treatment in the future,
0:21:07 > 0:21:10back in Swansea, Brandon had already lost one limb
0:21:10 > 0:21:12and was in danger of losing another.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14RINGING TONE
0:21:14 > 0:21:15When I caught up with him,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18he was desperately searching for alternative treatments
0:21:18 > 0:21:21in a bid to save his remaining leg.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24I did lose my right leg in the end.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26- WOMAN:- 'Aw, bless.'
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Now it's my left leg that's sore and what have you,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31and I don't want to lose my left leg.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32After weeks of waiting,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35Brandon finally managed to book a session with a local charity
0:21:35 > 0:21:38who offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- Hi, Brendan. All right?- Hello. Hi.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43You're going to be in there for an hour and a half,
0:21:43 > 0:21:47- so if you need to use the loo... - Yeah.- ..better go now!
0:21:47 > 0:21:48SHE LAUGHS
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Brandon was hoping the hyperbaric treatment
0:21:50 > 0:21:54would help to heal his abscess and save his remaining leg.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58'It's available for a multitude of things.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01'In Brandon's case, we're looking for wound healing.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03'It heals from the inside out.'
0:22:05 > 0:22:06AIR HISSES
0:22:06 > 0:22:08It gives your chest a good workout, too.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10- Because it...- Oh. - AIR HISSES
0:22:10 > 0:22:12- Because it... - AIR HISSES
0:22:12 > 0:22:15- It's what they call a demand valve. - AIR HISSES
0:22:15 > 0:22:18The charity offering the therapy was run on donations
0:22:18 > 0:22:22and set up for people who suffer from multiple sclerosis.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25I wanted to ask Christine, who ran the centre,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28why she decided to give Brandon a much sought-after seat
0:22:28 > 0:22:29in the oxygen chamber.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32'So, people with MS are prioritised.'
0:22:32 > 0:22:35After that, it's basically life-threatening.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41I had no idea that, you know, it was through drug use.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Not that that would make any difference.
0:22:43 > 0:22:48Everybody needs care regardless of how it happens, you know.
0:22:48 > 0:22:50Why did he choose to go down that road?
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Was it peer pressure? How young was he?
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Was it desperation? Was it despondency?
0:22:54 > 0:22:55Was it depression?
0:22:55 > 0:22:59Is it making me feel better? Initially, probably, it was.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Just because you've made that bad choice
0:23:01 > 0:23:03doesn't mean to say you're a bad person.
0:23:07 > 0:23:08My whole life fell apart.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11One of my ex-missus ran off with my kids
0:23:11 > 0:23:14and denied me access to my children.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18My business fell apart, everything, the home fell apart.
0:23:18 > 0:23:19Or I fell apart.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31You obviously had this sort of break-up of your family
0:23:31 > 0:23:32when you were 32.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35- Have you ever really recovered from that?- No.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36No.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43- Do you consider...? - Well, look at me. I mean...
0:23:43 > 0:23:46Losing my sight. I've lost my right leg.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51I've lost my left leg, almost, eventually, or soon.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Hopefully not.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57- You know. - How do you come back from it?
0:23:59 > 0:24:01I don't know.
0:24:02 > 0:24:06I don't know. Maybe I'm just lost and there's no way back.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09There's no breadcrumbs for me to follow, you know.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11And, um...
0:24:13 > 0:24:15I don't know what to do.
0:24:21 > 0:24:23Oh, God, it's snapped.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26- What snapped?- The pipe.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29- You snapped the crack pipe? - I have, yeah.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32- How have you managed that? - I don't know. Don't know.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Oh, bloody hell.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Just going to tape it back together.
0:24:41 > 0:24:42RINGING TONE
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Ed, can you bring some tape over quickly?
0:24:48 > 0:24:50(I've just snapped the crack pipe.)
0:24:50 > 0:24:53- 'You've snapped what?' - (The crack pipe.)
0:24:53 > 0:24:57- 'The crack pipe?'- (The crack pipe, I've snapped it in half.)
0:24:57 > 0:24:58'Sellotape, yeah?'
0:24:58 > 0:25:00Yeah, something, please, quickly, yeah, before they notice.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03'All right, all right. I've got a pair of tongs as well.'
0:25:03 > 0:25:04Oh, wicked.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- All right. - INDISTINCT SPEECH
0:25:07 > 0:25:08OK, see you shortly.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11'The crack pipe Brandon had broken
0:25:11 > 0:25:13'belonged to someone else in the house
0:25:13 > 0:25:16'and he was keen to fix it before they found out.'
0:25:16 > 0:25:20- Surely they'll notice when you tape it back together.- Hopefully...
0:25:20 > 0:25:23But they'll notice the Sellotape on it.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24BRANDON CHUCKLES
0:25:26 > 0:25:27HE COUGHS
0:25:32 > 0:25:33HE SIGHS
0:25:35 > 0:25:36Well done, Ed.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Ed, can you quickly do this?
0:25:47 > 0:25:48OK?
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Yeah, it's OK.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54- Yeah?- Yeah.- You look like you've done that before, Ed.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Yeah, I have. A few times.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03For Michael, Brandon and Johnno,
0:26:03 > 0:26:06there were familiar issues of coping with pain and trauma,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09whether it was a battle with addiction, loss of a limb,
0:26:09 > 0:26:12or the cutting isolation of homelessness,
0:26:12 > 0:26:14being kept away from your family.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Do you think when your kids grow up, they would understand?
0:26:32 > 0:26:34TEARFULLY:
0:26:49 > 0:26:53Heroin's not going to ruin my life any more, you know.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56I know perhaps I'm doing it now,
0:26:56 > 0:26:59but I'm going to cut myself down slowly
0:26:59 > 0:27:03till it's just me and my script, and that's it.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Sometimes it brings me close to tears.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11I know the damage I've done to myself.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13I don't want to lose my leg.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Since I've lost my leg,
0:27:18 > 0:27:23obviously my confidence has gone, depression's set in.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28You know, I've had suicidal thoughts and all sorts of things.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30And it's not me and it's not what I want.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32It's just too negative.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35I hope it doesn't prevent me from doing the things that I dream of.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02You or I enjoy family, friends, loved ones.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04When we're down, they'll back us up.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07A lot of injecting drug users don't have that.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10The more isolated they become, the more vulnerable they become.
0:28:10 > 0:28:16Drug users require specialist services where they are.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19We need to have a rethink.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28If I'm trying not to use and I end up using,
0:28:28 > 0:28:30I really beat myself up.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34But I've got to realise it's just one little step at a time.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40It feels like sometimes that...
0:28:40 > 0:28:42I need drugs to survive.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46And that's a scary thought.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07I went out on Friday night for my birthday.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11I had about eight cans of Bud as well, so that cheered me up.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13And I can't really remember much.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15It was quite a quiet night.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17- Happy birthday, Ed. - ED LAUGHS
0:29:17 > 0:29:19# Happy birthday to you!
0:29:19 > 0:29:23# Happy birthday to you
0:29:23 > 0:29:28# Happy birthday, dear Edward
0:29:28 > 0:29:30# Happy birthday to you. #
0:29:32 > 0:29:33- And a cake.- Oh, bloody hell.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36- I've got to blow them out now, have I?- Yeah, and a wish, yeah.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39- You've got... - PARTY POPPER POPS
0:29:39 > 0:29:41THEY LAUGH
0:29:41 > 0:29:43Put it there.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45- Thank you.- Appreciate that, right.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48- I know, I know. - He's a good man, honestly.
0:29:48 > 0:29:49Would anyone like some cake?
0:29:49 > 0:29:52Ed Walker, ladies and gentlemen!
0:29:52 > 0:29:54Thank you!
0:29:54 > 0:29:56BRANDON PLAYS A TUNE
0:29:56 > 0:29:58I'd just love a girlfriend.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01I'd love a car, I'd love to be able to drive.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06I'd love my legs... I'd love new legs.
0:30:06 > 0:30:07Can you give me new legs?!
0:30:09 > 0:30:10See why we stay here?
0:30:12 > 0:30:16- Cos it's God's country? - It's all God's country, isn't it?
0:30:48 > 0:30:50- GUITAR STOPS - Do you know the words?!
0:30:50 > 0:30:52Huh? Sorry, I was falling asleep.