Tell you everything you need to know as america decides who bring you the number of issues the background as it happens and until the last is counted join us for special live coverage from berlin to u. S. Election november 4th until. This will be a new mans last wish is to go out for just one more ride in the car. Convinced slow wants to make her wish come true as hes already done for so many terminally ill people. Theres a lighthouse in the background. One more trip to the beach the movies or back home from the fence will cost them stan and fatten. Soft heart on a Mission Today is to pick up hostages old and summer solstice in kind of his sayings like. Frank then slow and his assistants are ready whenever a terminally ill person in northern lower saxony would like to go for a ride or the tours are free of charge the staff volunteers he has his own specially fitted ambulances they call the tours shannon fateh or make a wish trips today then slow and his team are picking up someone very special the woman is the daughter of his 1st passenger from 6 years ago this trip is an easy 5 and slow. Was our days since then we have always kept in touch with every call dark thats why for me this story goes around it simply climbs to the bathroom is not going to be safe there. Saw. This will be annoying man has been in hospice for a few weeks the 55 year old is in the final stages of terminal cancer. The doctors say her tumor is in operable because its located just behind her spine today she would like to return together with her son and his fiance to the town was ill be a grew up with her grandparents father van slow has organized the trip. To. The happiest time in your lives and then its just nice to be back there again. And to be quiet. Just to bree to feel. Well managed by well. This will be annoying one doesnt want to go far the town is only half an hour away then slow trains paramedics for a living he tries to fulfill his passengers each and every wish. Hes even driven all the way to north cape with them were going to rock concerts. Zille be a new man is unable to travel far before they set off she was given morphine for severe pain. To hear how small the sound of me. Was not feel. Yes thats mine everything it helps with the pressure and. Then slow and his colleagues head out up to 2 times a week some of the passengers regret their choice because once theyve seen what theyre leaving saying goodbye is too hard for them to bare. Their muscles or going to take it wasnt common and then you can handle things quite well right. The so thats just the wound im song was under now things which is calm van dongen it up there and not just keep on a guy thats really i certainly hope. They arrive in her hometown band. Yes here its just the way it was back then. The silliest shows in the church as her 1st stop the attendance must roll the stretcher carefully over the cobbles every bump is painful for the terminally ill woman. This will be a went to church here when she was a little girl later on she didnt go very often but on this day the memory of the services prayers and hymns is somehow comforting. Yeah i have my health and yes ive decided that id like to be buried here as well after. Fitting. That. Sylvia wants to take one more stroll around the cemetery with her son this will be her resting place. For many relatives the last journey like this is even tougher to bear than it is for the dying person themselves zildjian oilman son wants to get married in a week and hopes his mother will still be there to see it at 1st he says he feared the emotional stress of a trip like this but now hes happy hes here. To now were better. Off now i can say about this hes doing it for him and how valuable these moments are im not in the next days maybe weeks i havent much time shes got laughed show draw strength from it this is not important and beautiful in. The trip continues on a ferry across the v. A. s a river for sylvia its another childhood memory. She wants to see the waters of this mighty river one more time. Trying to bend slow reserved a special place with a view for her. Look theres a lighthouse in the background aboard that small of water again. In the middle of the waterway the ferries captain turns the boat around a few extra times so sylvia noirmont gets the most of the view. You really get to see something. Dance dance and thanks again. Thanks very much. Its time for the last part of the tour. Zillion noirmont was happier living with her grandparents that her parents. Thats why she wants to take a little stroll around the house where her grandparents once lived. Down this was grandma and grandpas house while grandpa always said when the house is finished the man dies and lets just but happened. Shed like to take one more look inside but the people who live there now arent at home. You know thats the way it is. And they go for another walk around the neighborhood they had to push the stretcher along the narrow main street then slow fulfilled this wish is well. What are sylvias thoughts on the coming days. Concentra ponting pretty relaxed i think i was back here again and thats really beautiful. And i will look at the pictures again. But theres something more to it now why dont turn a lot of old baby out to fall. Here. The tour takes 4 hours then its time to go back to the hospice franklin slow hasnt counted how many last wishes hes made reality. He says his guests shouldnt be reduced to numbers or statistics. Then its time to say farewell to the passenger and like every time its goodbye for good even for the young volunteers who go along on the journeys. Few of their friends understand why they would want to spend their free time looking mortality in the eye. Has to feel as are lots of people sorry hats off to you i can only do that as when i say no nonsense weve got all sorts of people on tearing here and theyre not all working joints that deal with our dad with thought control nevertheless we still manage it conveyed to us which often to us or and and i think anyone can do it is you know you just have to give you something a little potion say im going to do it. But doing it even after 6 years from vincent says is still hard. To produce not goodbye and i said you dont see each other here any more than someplace else with what else can you say. Were back outside the associations headquarters donations and fees from 1st day courses that far then slow his colleagues off or pay for everything here. The ambulance is being readied for its next trip from the time a last wish tour is booked every day counts. Am just outsourced and we often have a problem that the person whos built the tories in such a rough state that they dying during the planning fax what is going on and its a lot like you all called order was another thing that happens often was that i was sent to go out of i started in a ts crossed and the passenger is told that the torah is happening in the title justified and without also as i thought in mind isnt he falls asleep and doesnt wake up because ive. Just got off oil. All the associations vehicles bear the name of van slows late wife elizabeth. 6 years ago when she was dying of cancer she wanted to make one more drive to the north sea but events low couldnt find an organization that could fulfill this last wish for her because Health Insurers wouldnt pay for it. But when you get down to and when our fellow human beings sense of what is a surety that our very end wants to send the dying off with a last bit of humanity kindness if we dont honor that purely financial reasons then theres something wrong because that was the last straw or the clock pulled. After his experience then slow founded his own taxi service for the terminally ill he regularly invents new things to help passengers get the most of the trip the much more bill for example these are the stuff we get off to this is designed for people who dont have time lying down during bad tong. Says its uncommon as a mirror it enables them to travel across title files on through the water so they can do it once again. That only works because of these bills and the balloon time in recent. Years since then many people have imitated vents close concept of helping the terminally ill go out for just one last spin the 59 year old however is turning the operation over to his son bit by bit but the name of stan in fact will always be connected to van slow his very own story and stana the german word for star has. A smell of horror strongest on the night my wife died i was standing out in the yard smoking my favorite cigar and looking up into the sky. But i must add by the naacp on sodomy the lady from the couple next door when i was friends with her was standing next to me cooked with a washer looked at me and said frank there is a star out there shining for you to this is our band feel now and just like vatican came to mind us we are there we often think of death in relation to the stars i say the shining up above now are those left behind for posterity hurdles and thats why the concept shannon fountain but i just came to me out of the blue. It is known as the poor mans cocaine from a town. In iowa coast more and more young people are taking the pain killers. The drug is cheap but often impure and almost always comes with a high price hard to cure addiction to the 77 percent. Just on. Every 2 seconds a person is forced to flee their home. The consequences are disastrous our documentary series displaced tomatoes in greenwood the exodus of gonna stars. Factories are being deserted. Farmers are facing bankruptcy that cause 6 free trade. In 45 minutes on g. W. What secrets lie behind small. Discover new adventures in 360 degree. And explore fascinating World Heritage sites. P. W. World heritage 360 get here now. Hello and welcome to this edition of the 77 percent i am my committee and its great to have you with us. Coming up on this weeks show. We find out why so many young people to get. The meat and nigerian musician who has become a local celebrity on the italian island off is that the. Right successor round them up. For. Big topic today is drug abuse they are also sold drugs alcohol Prescription Medication and even my wana most of these have become accepted and legal in different parts of the world other drugs remain illegal and for good reason drug abuse has been linked to crime and addiction and drug use is unharmed themselves and obvious to start off weve got a video message from. 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Welcome rhona and congrats on your emmy i was the very life or the feeling is amazing i mean more than a year after because i have a tongue up on my wall man every day i look at it and i say oh was that me. Its amazing thats all im going to 2nd describe it mike oh yeah now you know when on Prescription Drug abuse is very personal because your brother struggled with rob addiction housesitting 1st of all oh hes doing very well for a long time hes being totally clean. And hes doing so well that that my just be whether bells ringing in the family that is really really great news you thank you and you said this in your documentary that if in one person changed or decided not to use corbin after seeing this documentary you must would have done your job yes you feel like you have done their job i think i have because ive had this whole deluge of press now emails to me. Even more than 2 years after last week i had one of the emails i had was from a 40 year old who told me he was very he had watched my documentary and was piece to say that now hes free he said his addiction a 55. 00 so that just goes to show that drug addiction current grip anybody young or old and regardless of social status your film streets recording which was aired on b. B. C. Led to the band of quid in production in nigeria vs on how well is that done what can. Well survey honest mike i think its a mixed bag yes it did lead to the ban of production of cording and selling of coding it also meant that nigerias food and drug agency was allowed to now return to the port after many years so they can immediately inspect a consignment of food and drugs however as we know we. Drug addiction been a business. And addicts have moved on to or that drugs are the opiates so while you may not see coding in the markets as much youve seen an optic op rise in demand and supply of opiates like tramadol and this is now becoming the main problem how big of a problem is that it is such a big problem got. More than a quarter of all the trauma doll seized in the world if you years ago was from africa where seeing spikes in all sorts of social classes some people take it just really creation ali markets women take it to just get by but this we were back on a functional taking up to 12 pills a day so its becoming a problem interesting points there ana now from the abuse of cording to trauma or west africa is experience in a drug crisis in 2017 west africa accounted for 77 percent of all tramadol seized worldwide in the following story really not excess to liberia where we meet a drug peddler who makes a profit from selling tramadol. Monrovia liberia the abuse of the painkiller tramadol is on the rise. Officially the synthetic opioid is only important in 50 to 100 milligram pills but criminal networks smuggle in tramadol tablets 3 to 5 times higher in dosage. Those pills are then passed on to Street Vendors like henry kane the 19 year old makes a profit every day. I used to sell electronic gadgets but then my business went down because of the call in a pandemic so i started selling tramadol people who have nothing to do people who dont have jobs they all come to me to buy my pills. Kane says hes tried the drug and knows its effects but hell keep selling as long as theres a market. Sometimes i think it myself because i want to know what it is like the feeling of it i think it and i like it i see why people come to me and bite every day i know its not food to people and it is illegal ive got nothing to do with the people that have come in to buy it or what it will do to them i just want my money to live. Across town godwin tyree sees the effects of this cheap drug on addicted individuals his group with its neighborhoods and small teams to meet users today there in boston quarters a Slum Community in monrovia. People weve talked to theyve said that they abuse drugs because they dont have a job to do. So in this regard we recommend the government to create if you posit a building that you yourself would help young people from being idle the library regular authorities should take a supervisor role. In observing all those promises selling pharmaceutical drugs. In the meantime tyreese group tries to counsel drug users as best they can 2 across the border in the ivory coast tramadol is known as the poor mans cocaine young people use tramadol on a massive scale. If a construction worker started using tramadol 8 years ago. Said it almost instrument all the other. And you take it before going to work yes i always take it to go to work and how much did you buy it for 500 francs for 1. 500. 00 francs because about 75. 00 euro cents if taken orally at high enough doses the opioid can produce a stimulating euphoric effect useful for long working days and to escape daily hardship. Tramadol is sold legally in ivory coast its not essential medicine used in hospitals and to treat chronic pain this pharmacist however suspects tramadol is often used for nonmedical purposes. And the other is that. Its some of those we see that some of those in prescribe more often and more and more young people come in asking for it recently the demand was really high or people realize that we wouldnt give it to them without a prescription so now they dont come in as often as you go. On a bus. And so. Most of west africas tramadol is manufactured in labs in china and india it is then imported legally and illegally to west african countries. Tramadol sold in the black market can come in dangerously high doses and can also be laced with other substances about 2 years ago authorities in abidjan realized that they were facing a massive problem on the new due to some pretty interesting 18 we seized more than 40 tons of from a dog and among what we see discovered some tramadol with dozens of 300 milligrams so we intensified our efforts and started tracking down people selling tramadol on the black market to live under the thumb of those in russia. But the epidemic hasnt stopped at the blue cross clinic the number of young people who have experimented with tramadol worries doctors addicts are often brought here by relatives who cant deal anymore with aggression constant need for money or mood swings. The addiction comes very quickly some of those the type of drug that you can say hi to one day and the next day it has taken over the rest of your life. Long term consumption and highly concentrated tablets increase the risk of overdose and side effects like anxiety convulsions and trouble breathing but these arguments are not enough to stop using tramadol. Party the 1st time it was out of curiosity but 1st time i tried i felt good so i thought its a good thing and from then on i started using it i was feeling well feeling good about myself i was taking it almost every day almost all the time really the. Financial pressure Recreational Use and eventually addiction pushed young west africans towards the drug. Trial model seems to be a very complicated drug on the one hand its legal for the management of pain but clearly based on the film weve seen their money in which these people use it makes it a problem what does fall in this increase in the use of tramadol so i think what mainly fails the increase in the use of tramadol is its very nature if you had to move think of it as a business if you had to move cough syrup you would have to handle bottles you would have to think of packing it so it doesnt break on the way this is liquid but when it comes to trauma it is in the night team for packs it is in. All sorts of capsules i mean theyre coming up with really creative ways to transport trauma door just in september i think 2017 you have 3000000 tramadol pills in need that were disguised in you and logo boxes so the nature of commodore means it can move very fast also you can easily and thats what selle