71-year-old Roy has the honor of cutting the ribbon on ‘user space’ De Overlast. Roy is addicted to heroin and cocaine. And has its own home. That is why he is no longer allowed to enter the user space on Flierbosdreef. “I don’t come in. We are sent back with the message ‘we don’t have room for you’. I happen to have a roof over my head, yes. But every now and then you look for fun with the boys you know. We are all together. They have taken that space away from us. And what happens then: then you get nuisance from the neighbors. Because the boys then sit everywhere and smoke. Which should not be the intention.”
Max – still addicted, but no longer addicted to heroin or cocaine – adds: “And if you have someone who does have a house, you get a rush of people who don’t have a house. They give some dope, are let in, and then there is a nuisance again.”