let me just go and get dressed up, and look like i m homeless, and sound like i m on drugs. on a sunday morning i decided i was going to go. and i said to them that i wanted to get off drugs and that i needed help. and you know they laughed at me. and the guy at the door said, we can help you do drugs. but if you want help getting off drugs, you re going to have to come back tomorrow. tanya, shut up. no. someone at the door of the tenderloin linkage center yeah. if you want to come in, you can do drugs. but if you want help, you can come back tomorrow. so i was like, obl, well, i have some drugs on me, but i don t have anything to use them with. and he was like, well, we have everything, but we don t have papers. i ve got to tell you, my
face almost that i look at that s out on the street. so this was when he was homeless. this is last year. when you look at this picture, you look into his eyes, you look at the state of him, what do you see? i don t see my son. tanya raised roman here in this north beach apartment. she says his addiction started in high school. first with prescription drugs, then cocaine, then meth and ultimately fentanyl. things with her son got so bad that she attempted suicide three times in her desperation. i was really excited to hear that there was a place here in the tenderloin that, you know, roman could get help.
him, what do you see? i don t see my son. tanya raised roman here in this north beach apartment. she said his addiction started in high school, first with prescription drugs, then cocaine, then meth, and ultimately fentanyl. things with her son got so bad that she attempted suicide three times in her desperation. i was really excited to hear that there was a place here in the tenderloin that, you know, roman could get help. what started as a beacon of hope for so many soon swirled in controversy. officials apparently aren t stopping people from doing drugs now in its recently opened center in the tenderloin. let me ask you about the tenderloin center. how did you get inside? and what did you see when you entered? so i just had this idea of,
services, including a lincoln center that we opened that was supposed to be used to help transition people into treatment on demand, help, and services and support. when the mayor declared a state of emergency and wanted to open the linkage center, i was really happy about it. bick thought, that s awesome. my son might be able to get some happy. this is jackie berlin, mother to 32-year-old cory. and tanya tillman, mother of 23- year-old roman. when i got out of the bart stay, like the first thing that i was asked is if i wanted to buy drugs. for years, they have both scoured these streets, searching for their sons, both of whom have struggled with addiction. it s really heartbreaking. i want to go ask him if he s okay. hey, buddy, you okay?
reporter: what started as a beacon of hope for so many soon swirled in controversy. officials apparently aren t stopping people from doing drugs now in its recently opened center in the tenderloin. let me ask you about the tenderloin center. how did you get inside, and what did you see when you entered? so i just had this idea of let me just go and get dressed up and look like i m homeless and sound like i m on drugs. on a sunday morning i decided that i was going to go. and i said to them that i wanted to get off drugs and that i needed help. and you know, they laughed at me. and the guy at the door said, we can help you do drugs. but if you want help getting off drugs, you re going to have to come back tomorrow. tanya, shut up. no.