‘I’d probably rather overdose’
Liam knows what he’s doing is dangerous, but he is addicted to drugs and hides his dependency from family and many of his friends. He’s so worried that people will discover his double life that he risks overdosing alone.
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“I just don’t want people to see how bad it is,” he says. “If [there is a risk] my family finds out about my addiction, yeah, I’d probably rather overdose….
“It would be much, much smarter for me to have someone with me when I’m using, but it’s just not something I can really do.”
Liam gets his fix from a site called Dream Market, a one-stop shop for drugs.
With roughly 100,000 listings, Dream Market is believed to be the world’s largest market on the dark web and the biggest dark net shopping centre for drugs. A little more than half of the listings are for substances that are illicit, unregulated or diverted from legitimate sources.
Dream boasts almost the same number of listings for other products, including items that purport to be designer clothes, counterfeit money and stolen online banking information.
A screenshot of Dream Market, below, shows drugs on offer, including crystal meth, cocaine, hash and MDMA.
(CBC)
Liam buys only from Canadian drug vendors, fearing that importing heroin and meth across the border would put him at risk of investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency. The CBSA has the authority to open and inspect any package entering the country. For domestic mail, however, police must obtain a search warrant or have reasonable grounds to open packages.
In a recent scan of the site, Dream featured roughly 1,000 listings for drugs that ship within Canada, ranging from opium, morphine and fentanyl to ecstasy, ketamine and date-rape drugs.
‘I’d probably rather overdose’
Liam knows what he’s doing is dangerous, but he is addicted to drugs and hides his dependency from family and many of his friends. He’s so worried that people will discover his double life that he risks overdosing alone.
• Calgary’s fentanyl crisis: A close look at the numbers
• ‘An absolute crisis’: 42 recent overdose calls near Lethbridge linked to toxic batch of drugs
“I just don’t want people to see how bad it is,” he says. “If [there is a risk] my family finds out about my addiction, yeah, I’d probably rather overdose….
“It would be much, much smarter for me to have someone with me when I’m using, but it’s just not something I can really do.”
Liam gets his fix from a site called Dream Market, a one-stop shop for drugs.
With roughly 100,000 listings, Dream Market is believed to be the world’s largest market on the dark web and the biggest dark net shopping centre for drugs. A little more than half of the listings are for substances that are illicit, unregulated or diverted from legitimate sources.
Dream boasts almost the same number of listings for other products, including items that purport to be designer clothes, counterfeit money and stolen online banking information.
A screenshot of Dream Market, below, shows drugs on offer, including crystal meth, cocaine, hash and MDMA.
(CBC)
Liam buys only from Canadian drug vendors, fearing that importing heroin and meth across the border would put him at risk of investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency. The CBSA has the authority to open and inspect any package entering the country. For domestic mail, however, police must obtain a search warrant or have reasonable grounds to open packages.
In a recent scan of the site, Dream featured roughly 1,000 listings for drugs that ship within Canada, ranging from opium, morphine and fentanyl to ecstasy, ketamine and date-rape drugs.
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