PIX11 News drove to Philadelphia to get a first-hand look at the effects of xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that is turning fentanyl addicts into "zombies."
For any young people that has not used drugs or has no drug dependency, don't do it, it's just a trap. If anyone tries to pressure you to it, that person is not a friend you should have.
better advice, get educated on the subject because it is like food, what you put in you can have consequences, Some food is better than others, drugs are just more potent so require more care. Drugs are not inherently bad, they just need to be treated like what they are, messing with your mind for better or worse depending on your education and responsible use of said substance. Educate yourselves, don't think in extremes.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporessss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
We may be dirt poor here in the Philippines, at least the majority of us, but I’m still glad we don’t get to witness such a horrible sight. My country has its own drug-related problems and I’m not blind about it, but I believe for the most part we still have more sanity left in us to not end up like this. I’m proud to say I’ve never done drugs and I feel sorry for those who depend on it for...perhaps “fleeting freedom” from whatever struggles they may be facing.
I seen video of you Philippine's trying to be happy even when living in trash town's. Here in Philly everyone stealing,killing,rape,junkies,trashed places. I think i'll take the Philippines over trash Philadelphia any day.
we have on going drug war here in the Philippines so that we wont end up like this, the ICC is sadly interfering w/ the aid of some narco politicians..so sad
How are they going to stop it? People been doing illegal drugs for many years. When people stop calling drug addiction a disease and hold them accountable then maybe progress will be made but as long as they are being coddled it won't happen.
It’s happening everywhere as big pharma got thousands of people hooked and now they’re forced to seek illegal drugs on the streets. US corporate greed at its finest.
Should be here also but the so called leader is decriminalizing all the drugs that kill. The dealers just make sure to have under a certain amount and claim they are users if caught bit the cops dont bother them anyway been like that for years and I live in Canada it's almost the same just less people
@Roger “Guilty” Forbes dumb logic. This is much bigger than dealers, targeting the dealers won't do anything at all to solve this issue. There is proof of this dating back to before the US even existed, drug wars are dumb and just make illegal drug use an even bigger problem.
@@puffpuffpass3214No. Allowing this nonsense to go on is just dumb. Denying the reality that every single major leftist hellhole city is currently facing with the drug use and everything that comes with it is just stupid. This is what happens when you do nothing. There is a difference between the "war on drugs" aka busting people's balls for weed or even cocaine, and letting there be essentially open drug markets on city streets. Junkies everywhere living on the street. Commiting crimes everyday to get their drugs... Ruining entire streets, neighborhoods and cities in the process. Only a damn fool thinks something shouldn't be seriously done about this nonsense.
I feel so sorry for all these people, really. I'm from Spain and I've never seen anything like this. Of course there are problematic areas, like everywhere else, but this is too much. I wish the best for every one who lives in that area.
I grew up seeing these kinds of homeless people laying around I remember getting up for school at 5 o’clock in the morning having to walk through Kensington to get to school knowing that I was going to see a bunch of drug addicts it was a normal morning now that was less then ten years ago it’s even worse now 😢
I used to have an addiction years back, by the grace of God I am four years sober. Even if I wanted to get high again, I would be too scared. Look at all the stuff that they’re doing to drugs nowadays. You never know what you’re going to get . Screw that! I’d rather be sober any day.
This even includes the Rx meds. Though these meds weren't always the best choice, they were always beyond much more safe to take. Even the OTC ones and a few types of vitamins have been tampered with.
You are-as are most people in and around Denmark. As an Americana I'm sad to say, America has become a sh*t hole. If I could afford to I'd move from ere.
For the people out there that have kicked a drug or alcohol addiction I salute you and wish you nothing but the best in life but to the people who don't wanna quit it is what it is can't fight for someone that gave up
@@astraldim shit some people ready just shits hard thats all hat's why I would never touch anything besides weed. Not even a cigarette I would never try
Just last year i quit buddy almost 2 years clean from fentynal now after being hooked on oxy first for about 10 years then fentynal for 3 years. What a war it was. Feeling fantastic now. Canada has some amazing programs to get off drugs. They are popping up all over the place and truly helping ppl get better. Hope BC can sort things out since they have the worst epidemic in all of the country. YOU CAN GET BETTER.
yeah it's def the worst, especially opioid withdrawl.....ppl say benzo withdrawl is worse but i dont see how that's possible lol i wanted to die detoxing from H and fent.....
Withdrawal is living hell. At some point, it becomes all about avoiding that. It's a huge deal when someone gets clean and something to celebrate for sure. I hate when I see people making fun of addicts. It can happen to pretty much anyone.
Take care you guys, please try to overcome the addiction, try very hard, we got covid and now this drug? Somebody or a group is making a living out of your addiction. Be strong. Never give up, never give in. I will be praying for you guys.
Good god… thank you for moving away and being off H since September 27 2008. I moved to nyc which sounds crazy but changed my world completely coming from the sticks knowing no one but my wife and wanting to quit.
I live in this part of north Philly and it’s traumatizing for people who don’t use drugs to live in this environment. Children aren’t safe to go to school, needles going into their shoes and they are at risk to be assaulted hurt or robbed. We need a safe passage to school program like Chicago has so that kids can take the trains and buses safely to school. People don’t realize how many schools and colleges we have in Philly. Also, the young people and teenagers are also highly addicted to the weed now because they are adding these things into it, so now we have very young kids and teenagers exposed to chemicals and drugs that are not safe.
I can relate to that feeling. Same happens here in Sãp Paulo, Brazil. Eventualy it makes you sick, both literally and figuratively. Walking by people in that condition crushes your soul and makes you numb, otherwise you'd fall into depression with so much pain and suffering. I don't like the idea of living your home, that's running away from problems and by experience I know it's not the solution but sometimes it seems like the it's only option.
As a non drug user, I get that life can be hard and we want to escape our problems. But this ain't it. Please seek help. Try, try and try again. Don't give up. You matter and I want to see you happy, healthy, thriving and alive.
The sad thing is that some drug users ended up getting addicted due to accidents/severe trauma and abused pain medication that at one point they truly needed and not to “escape our problems” It is scary that one accident or physical trauma can cause you to become addicted. This is happening more often than you might think.
It’s not about escaping problems most of the time lol thanks for trying to relate but a human is not physically or mentally capable of even comprehending the feeling of being hooked on drugs or even grasp the concept in their head and nail it without being a user👁 god bless tho. I am not coming at you at all btw... I do not believe in getting angry at someone who is uneducated about a certain subject.
As someone who has an alcoholic drug addict father who gave me my very own first dose of opiates at 15 you have no idea. I'm clean now.. 3 years but my brain is so fried I'd rather be dead. I get zero joy out of much of anything just neutral anger or sadness. The only way I feel any happiness or even normalcy when from the pills. It kills your brain and crushes your soul. Even tying my shoes is a chore.
It's so sad that people want to hide their mental and physical pain to the point that, they can't even live in their own reality, and they have to black it out this Way. Remember, some of these poor people have had very few kind words spoken to them in their lives. So at least remember to be Kind. You have no idea what someone has gone through.
During my career when younger, I had to deal with drug addicts. Then tho it was Angel dust, cocaine, marijuana, heroin. At times it was mentally draining, because the passion to be their support and get them through the process took extensive energy. But now,at 72, it is absolutely heartbreaking to see a loved ones child, family member in such a deep destructive state. At this point, way too many really are beyond help, especially now using Tranq with other hard core drugs.
OMG, yes, exactly this. I have a friend that keeps hanging on by a very fragile and thin thread of addiction to alcohol. Though she's been sober for a bit, she doesn't see hope or find a point. She's on the brink of relapsing as I know her patterns much too well. She has cPTSD, severe depression, abnormal irritability, and crippling anxiety. Her health has declined drastically. Her doctors and ERs keep putting her in circles, claiming not to find anything wrong with her, are discharging her from their practices, having the most helpful ones suddenly leave the practices or turning sour and changing for the worst, and/or her medical insurance has become more strict and limited. She's on the verge of a serious nervous breakdown due to bad things or events happening to her almost non-stop, left and right. However, her getting help at a psychiatric hospital is entirely out of the question due to the declining care of the medical system, and she's been further traumatized at those places and ERs much more than she's revived the help she needs. The way society and the system is is why so many ppl are basically "rotting" into their own demise, dying by suicide, getting involved in crimes, or losing their sanity completely...
This is pure evil. There are ppl out here intentionally hurting ppl who are already down. This is wicked. WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND....I HOPE, THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE CAN TAKE THEIR OWN MEDICINE
Its not medicine its drugs. No one compelled them to take this drugs but they did. They can choose not to but they did. This zombies are not victims but willing participants. P.s when youre down you dont take drugs. Thats their choice, play stupid game get stupid prize.
It’s not the drug dealers fault it’s their own fault for taking them in the first place. Nobody put a gun to their head and made them take drugs. They did it because they wanted to. I took pain killers for my back between 1980 & 2010 even though they were completely useless. I didn’t get addicted or even think about taking them just for the hell of it. No back problems since 2010.
are you forgetting the opiods that doctors shelled off to everyone and got them addicted??? big pharma did this on purpose. are you forgetting that they lied and told everyone it was not habit forming or addictive???
@@LastbutNotFirst dr’s don’t shell off opioids….people keep asking for them because they refuse to deal with short term pain….you do realize drs DEA # is tracked right? You conspiracy theorist are nuts….
@@tioswift3676 Hopefully the children of the users steer clear and learn from their parent's mistakes instead of falling into the same trap......unfortunately it's much easier for the latter to happen....
Exactly I always thinking to myself and living in the Northeast US. What is so special about major cities from Boston to Washington D.C.? In reality these cities are gritty, depress, crazy, overcrowded, expensive, Ice cold winter and humid summer, hard find jobs. Keep it 💯
In a new study, researchers analyzed data on overdose deaths in Philadelphia from 2010 to 2019. In particular, they looked at deaths related to heroin or fentanyl, the types of opioids most commonly associated with Xylazine. It turned out that in the years 2010-2015 xylazine was detected in only 2 percent. overdose deaths, but by 2019 that figure had risen to 31 percent.
This is different nowadays. Wanting help won't save you. People are losing limbs to necrosis and infection after using this stuff just once or twice. You don't even need to be a hardcore user and you still will eventually suffer necrosis and bone decay. And even if you get sober that damage is already done forever. Nothing will undo it once you've put it in your body.
Wanting help isn't the only issue. Drugs, alcohol, even nicotine causes a chemical change & imbalance in the brain resulting in the addiction. So, those that actually want to quit find it difficult to quit &/or to remain sober. It's best to go through detox before going to rehab, but some may still struggle with the addiction. It's a sad viscous cycle.
I remember that Those were good stable times I don’t know how it got this bad so quick now , the 20’s starting to look like 80’s NYC just without it’s charm
@linda loefflad EXACTLY!!! All this whining about them . They had a CHOICE NOT TO START THEM. this victimhood mentality in America is taking us to a drain. GET THEM ALL INTO REHAB AND CLEAN UP THE STREETS. LET COPS DO THEIR JOB. NO PITY.
@@LanaW123 Yeah I agree they shouldnt be given a pass but people like you are as bad if not worse than the pass givers, thats a real human being thats suffering not some fcking character they have a family they were a baby they didnt choose 1 day to become an addict over their life who knows how many small choices within or out of their control lead them to that position, an unbelievable amount of nuance goes into this which is clearly too much for the room temps on either side of the spectrum.
Why isn’t the pharmaceutical company being held accountable for making this EVIL drug??? No animal or human should consume this drug!!! SUE THE COMPANY
@@dougcollins8232 Most people who use fentanyl do so on accident and they die if they overdose crack was worse because people were actually living and it affected society outside of users. This is nothing compared to the 90’s.
Find these drug sellers and put them under the jail. How could your soul let you take any part in this devastation? I would never profit off of someone else's pain or self-destruction. This is horrible. We've got to do better as humans!
if no one was willing to buy drugs there wouldn't be anyone selling. no one held a gun to these people's heads and forced them to take drugs. this is weak self control. i have no sympathy for the weak minded. we are grossly overpopulated and humans are the only species on earth that try to help the weakest among us.
They put them in jail all the time. All the good work dismantling the 1980s Sicilian Pizza connection led to this. The only way to deal with this is to negotiate with cartels/gangs.
All I can do shake my head because I don't know what it's like being addicted to anything other than sweets. I have no idea how hard it is to get off drugs. This addiction is real because no sane person would want this for themselves. I've quit saying "if I were", or "if it were me, what I would not do. I don't understand but have known folks, including family members addicted to drugs and alcohol. I've come to the conclusion that I will never understand because I can't relate. But damn, an animal tranquilizers? Then I remember how big PCP was when I was a child. Didn't understand why someone would use embalming fluid either. As a child, even I knew that was terrible. I still feel the same way about this and fentanyl. I wish it would stop. What the he'll happened to people using crack? Is that considered weak now. Like damn. This is all bad. All bad.
Ya, you’re right, but unfortunately, it still comes down to their choices ( so there’s really nothing no one can do for them, they’ve got to do it themselves)
Neighbor, you answered your question in the first sentence. Drug addiction is very much my sugar addiction. Addiction is addiction. And it’s both hard and sad
According to Marijuana Smokers, if you drink coffee you are an addict. But in the same breath they'll say they aren't addicted to Marijuana even though they smoke it every chance they get, and no matter where.
i see my neighbor uo on her 2nd floor balciney hunched over like this or sittin on her foot stool all bent over, but if i go up there shes talks just fine, but has had alot of bruises, falling and cuts, do they talk just fine wen they are on that crap
Human nature is always concerned about the outward appearance. Losing your mind is much worse than loosing a leg or an arm. This drug brings to light the fight that they’re struggling with from within. I pray for total healing.
That's EXACTLY why you need to legalize the RIGHT type of drugs. When people have no other option they resort to that poison, using nothing isn't an option for those people obviously! they would rather lose a limb than not use a pain killer drug. So make the fkn pain killer drug available to them! The gov and police are torturing those people by making other safer options illegal. No one uses tranq smack if clean and cheap oxycodone is made available to them. That's the lesser of two evils and it's the correct and moral approach. The war on drugs is malevolent! it's torture by proxy!
The people mixing these drugs and selling it are monsters….fentanyl on its own is dangerous but mixing it with a tranquilizer….God have mercy, please help these people, lord father in Jesus name I pray 🙏🏽 Amen
I’ve been working along Kensington avenue for 33 years - and seeing zombies is nothing new. In fact, there’s so many people laying on the ground that you don’t know who’s alive or who is dead, and people have now given up even calling the ambulance. I know people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who actually live in cardboard boxes that they sweep out like it’s a house. And thats their entire life; all they have to look to….
@@warmsunnytoday4535 you know that’s an interesting thing that you say that. Two days ago a young black guy came up to me on my route and said, “could you help me out with some food ?” so I happen to have a hot sausage on me and I felt bad and I said here you can have half of this. And he said “ Does it have cheese, because I’m lactose intolerant? “ I told him no. Then he said “is it pork because I don’t eat pork” . I said I don’t know, and he turned up his nose and walked away……
@Donxa, I used to do that when I live in a big city. I would prepare hotdogs or sandwiches, fruit, candy, socks, sonetimes underwears ort-shirts, and the homeless were very grateful. But the homelessI gave to were not really the ones taking drugs. Mostly just folks who had a bad run of life and needed help.
Reminds me of Krokodil. People's brains were being eaten from the inside. And their body was also rotting from the inside too. I'm so glad I don't mess with that anymore. Clean and glad.
In India we hear that USA is a beautiful country so much cleanliness around. Look here people are so poor and drug addict. They're literally unhygienic. What happen to the US education system.
I think drug addicts not only need rehab but also mental health assistance. They turn to drugs as a coping mechanism with their internal struggles. What they really enjoy isn't drugs, it's the bliss produced by drug intake.
They don't need a pill pushing shrink. They are not mentally ill- they need some social workers and possibly psychologists trained in dysfunctional family dynamics to help them see that they can make better choices and release the anger from people who have screwed them over then they can live lives without pain, guilt which cause them to reach for relief from drugs.
@@reginaangell5327 I think that's what Cal L meant. He didn't say anything about "pill pushing shrinks". Besides, what you just wrote is the same as what Cal L said - mental health assistance. Isn't that what a psychologist is? A mental health professional?
Mental health issues are a major problem in this country (the USA) and not enough is being done. People are getting angrier and more aggressive. Drugs just makes it worse. The future scares me.
@@ThroughTheHaze Thats capitalism for you. When you try to do something you are socialist. Human society cannot function on pure capitalism as in US. This leads to cutting in social programs because it "doesnt produce anything" it only produces social value not economic.
@@Zoltan1251 Capitalism has a lot of issues but socialism has many issues as well. There is no simple solution. I was on my state's healthcare program for a few years (up until 2020). The quality of it was very very poor and no doctor really wanted to take me as a patient because of it. I had to change primary care doctors often. So I did not receive good care. The problem with universal healthcare is that the system becomes overloaded and there is not enough money. I think the US needs to do something about the cost of healthcare in this country (everything is so expensive). But if universal healthcare is implemented, I think the quality of care will go down (I've seen it firsthand). The people who have a lot of money will just pay for better care, while everyone else will receive poor care. As I've said, there is no simple solution. Something needs to be done, I just don't know what that is.
I'm up in Canada and ,... I was in the Sandman hotel in Lethbridge , Alberta, last week , talking to the concierge .I complained about all the drug addicts hanging around the hotel foyer and she noted that they seemed to be all bent over and that something new or different seemed to be affecting them , not just the regular opioids or ''bath salts''.
I live in Medicine Hat Alberta, Canada. I was in Lethbridge a few months ago. I noticed how much worse it has gotten there as well. I never thought that I would feel unsafe there especially in broad daylight. I hate to think how soon it will be like that here as well.
Wtf! is wrong with humans to do this to others. I'm so sick of the abuse, the indifference, the crime For those who've never done drugs, but have 'friends' that may push it onto you - a) they're not friends, and b) don't ruin your life.
As a baby boomer, I grew up as a kid in the 60's, a teenager in the 70's and a young adult in the 80's and with each decade a new street drug was added to the already available street drugs. But thru all those years, I still don't get the attraction of why try any of them.
This used to be called soldier's disease. The heroin that saved a life on the battle field made it impossible for the soldier to function after coming home. Today, an insurance company can pay $300 for a non addictive script or $30 for an addictive one. Guess which they prefer. You don't have to go to war though. Strain your back at work, wreck your car, trip on a curb, or just have the bad luck of weak joints. Rich people get new knees. Poor people get scripts that dull the pain so they can continue working. How many of us can expect to never have surgery or an accident. Sure there are stupid kids experimenting, but we might be surprised to know how many of these situations started with an accident. You wake up in the hospital to find you have been on a high dose of an addictive drug for a week. Three months later your doctor cuts you off and the neighbors kid offers an alternative.
I got around that by telling my doctor I'm allergic to the most addictive ones. Which is actually not far from the truth. They give me migraines, the shakes, and make my pain worse. They give me tramadol instead. It's cheaper, and not habit forming. Managed my pain so well I hardly needed to take it as often as prescribed, and it didn't give me a "high" or a "low" 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah same, broke my wrist a few years back in college and I told the doc not to even write the script for whatever synthetic heroin they were trying to prescribe, but they did it anyway. I filled the script ibuprofen 800mg instead, and it worked perfectly fine. Absolutely no reason to take a KNOWN highly addictive substance. Had a few people offering to buy the pills off me. Tore up the script and burned it. Shit really shouldn't be prescribed at all
Unfortunately, that's how a lot of people get hooked. Trying to escape the pain of a medical injury and then once the prescriptions are gone, they go to street drugs. Everyone have a blessed day. If you can read this, that means GOD has plans for You. Seek HIM and let HIM guide you. HE loves us so much.
This must have been a tough news story to cover, but it needs to be brought to the public's attention. A nightmare ahead if this is the future of homeless drug use in America.
Never touch any drug because you'll not only lose your loved ones, you'll lose your conscience, you'll lose yourself. You never really realize this until it you lose somebody close to you cuz of this. If you think that's worth it then think again. You've been warned...
So can the tranquiliser itself be banned or is there some massive pharmaceutical company that is currently seeing a rush on their shares? What a sick system we live in.
[Qur'an 90-92] O Believers, wine, gambling, (ungodly) shrines and divining devices are all abominable works of Satan therefore refrain from these so that you may attain to true success. Indeed Satan intends to sow enmity and' hatred among you by means of wine and gambling, and to prevent you from the remembrance of Allah and from Salat. Will you not, , therefore, abstain from these things? Obey Allah and His Messenger and abstain from these things; but if you disobeyed, note it well that Our Messenger's only responsibility was to convey the Message clearly.
It is sad that they are addicted to this filthy thing to the point of self harming and even destroying their bones. One only has to imagine what it must be doing to their liver, kidneys and other organs.
President Bukele stopped crime. He understood an armed gang is an army and an armed gang with territory is an occupation force. That occupation force was killing civilians. So he sent the army to recover sovrerignity over that territory. Murders went from 6656 in 2015 to 495 in 2022. Instead of executing those who killed people, he put them in a jail that looks like a fortress. You should see it.
@@user-yo9jo2fy5e Who told you that nonsense? U.S. grew drugs in Afghanistan when it was there because by American law, American aid money can't be used to grow those crops in occupied territories which would be competitive to crops that America produces. That leaves very few options. Taliban banned drugs in their country and put thousands of people in Rehab. Opium is used to produce many medicine by pharma, producing and exporting it is not a crime, it is legal. How you use that opium is important.
I just lost my mom 2/22/23 to “fentanyl”. Addiction is a monster that eats away @ everything even the people who have to watch a loved one go through it. 😢
Drugs are probably the biggest cause to homelessness. As a human you no longer care about anything other than staying just barely alive and finding drugs until the point you are homeless and at that point it’s too far they just say fuck it.
This is cocodril. Drugs Inc did a special about it a few years back. They ended the special with evidence and footage that it was in Niagara Falls , NY. I'm in Buffalo,a hop, skip,and a jump away. This is exactly that and the DEA been knew it was coming. Hell, I did. Trust me, they don't really care. I grew up in a drug house. It's the main reason that I don't do drugs now and never have. I attended a prestigious high school and many of those kids were addicts of some sort. I grew up in the hood in the midst of all this shit and every day I'm thankful that I witnesses what I did and had the experiences that I did that made me never ever ever want to experiment with anything other than a good ass weed strand. Bless those folks. This world is something else. I feel for them. Edit:. Y'all right. It just has all the classic effects of krokodil
It's so sad that anyone has drug addiction but what in the hell are they cutting the drugs with these days? It's just horrific and beyond predatory. What a horrible way to live.
I’ve been seeing this where I live for months and always thought that whatever they took was strange because I’ve never seen such a reaction, to be hunched over and swaying on bent knees. This just helped of what it was. It’s terrifying!
I noticed that too in some of the videos on YT of Kensington Avenue taken I believe in late December 2022. It was weird seeing those poor people swaying like weeping willows and now we know why. Praying for them to find healing and peace...
I've been for long asking the question whether here in my country or elsewhere in the world, why the authorities do not target the drug trade?, these stafs seems to arrive to the hands of people easly i can go out now and check rendomly a guy on the street and i'm sure i have a great chance this guy can show me where i can buy a drug pile or any available drug from people who sell drugs in the region, so why the authorities are effortless agaisnt this?
We must heal from the things that are leading us to smoke and drink because at one point in time, that " high" won't be enough and that pain will just keep getting worse- forcing you to feel like you need a stronger drug. Philly native here born and raised, drugs ain't no joke and everything is laced. The laws are more relaxed to make these things even easier to chase. Much love to my city and to those suffering with unhealed pain. Healing is possible its just not linear. Much love ❤️
That's EXACTLY why you need to legalize the RIGHT type of drugs. When people have no other option they resort to that poison, using nothing isn't an option for those people obviously! they would rather lose a limb than not use a pain killer drug. So make the fkn pain killer drug available to them! The gov and police are torturing those people by making other safer options illegal. No one uses tranq smack if clean and cheap oxycodone is made available to them. That's the lesser of two evils and it's the correct and moral approach. The war on drugs is malevolent! it's torture by proxy!
@Odyseeone unfortunately if you ask some of them they stated from prescription drugs and again at some point they weren't Strong enough. My point in this post is if you ask these same ppl about the pain that they are trying to get over through a false high you'll realize that it ain't no toe of drug that will ever cure that. You have to actually do the spiritual work attached to the physical pain. These doctors are just licensed and legal drug dealers their drugs are just as harmful they just kill you slower. I'm not speaking from ignorance, I know too many addicts of all types of drugs and prescription drugs or " legal" drugs are still drugs. If it ain't natural 9/10 it's just gonna keep triggering bigger issues unfortunately. Often times ppl don't even know this until they are actually taking these drugs and paying attention to how even the prescriptions change your natural form. And even with the legalizing of certain drugs there are many harmful chemicals in those as well. If there's a direction to go for relief it's something that can be grown in your own back yard with nothing added to it but nature. It's truly not as blk and white as it may seem. Much love
@@Real_Queen_Reflections I do agree with a lot of what you're saying. Understand though that you have nowhere near the experience of drug use that I have personally gone through and I've still managed to get a handle on it and bring it under control. I've tried every single category of drug literally thousands of times. I've had my drug use get out of hand before and suffered the pain of that as a consequence. Learning from my agony during tolerance build-up and inevitable withdrawal, I understood that respect and discipline must be given to drug use. ALL people gain tolerance to whichever drug is being used therefore ALL of them must be used briefly along with a disciplined break period to allow tolerance to reset. Most people understand that fact but a small minority of dumb people don't and those people are who the media focuses on. Those dumb people keep moving onto harder versions of that category of drug because they don't respect the law of tolerance. They need proper education and the cheap availability of the safest version of that category of drug. It's a matter of providing the lesser of two evils as that's the moral approach. I know for a fact that no one is shooting up $10 worth of street laced tranq smack when they can get a $1 pill of pure oxycodone at the local pharmacy (Without a prescription). The war on drugs is immoral and the lesser of two evils should be provided for those who suffer from mental anguish and use drugs to ease that pain.
@Odyseeone I completely understand that. And dhout out to you for being able to find something that works. That's amazing. It's truly tough out. I agree with what you are saying also. Cause going could turkey when you had a drug addiction isn't easy nor suggested. If anything it's ppl like you who change the game as well. In this view they did highlight certain things where what you're saying would be helpful to those who it applies to so that they aren't losing limbs and what not. My message was moral to those who aren't as deep into drug use just from my observation and experience on how severe drug addiction can start from something as small as alcohol and smoking habits. I truly send you love on your journey and I thank you for sharing. 💯
@@Real_Queen_Reflections Thank you for the kind words and for being friendly cooperative with our comment tennis. I'll reiterate that our Gov has let down its citizens to a degree that's intentionally malevolent IMO. There are lessons that can be taught to prevent misery but the hard stance of making this topic taboo and illegal means that people continue to suffer needlessly.
Shit is crazy man. People just try any drug at this point. People just wanna be higher than high. Happy I don’t even smoke weed anymore. Shit is crazy man.
I've seen ppl bend over like that here in Toronto, from their appearance I knew they were addicts but literally had to Google to find out why they all bend over like that looking like zombies. It's tragic, I try my best to stay out of their way bcuz I know they're not in their right minds and tend to lash out randomly.
For any young people that has not used drugs or has no drug dependency, don't do it, it's just a trap. If anyone tries to pressure you to it, that person is not a friend you should have.
better advice, get educated on the subject because it is like food, what you put in you can have consequences, Some food is better than others, drugs are just more potent so require more care. Drugs are not inherently bad, they just need to be treated like what they are, messing with your mind for better or worse depending on your education and responsible use of said substance. Educate yourselves, don't think in extremes.
And it might feel good at first but you can never get back to that high you first get. After a while you have to to take it just to not feel awful.
young people dont listen to this man, tranq is tha coolest!
The youth is not watching news clips on YT.. they’re on tiktok & instagram
Rightly said
These were all somebody's baby once--just heartbreaking.
Truly
Yeah, its tragic.
U r absolutely right
That blonde one can be my baby now 🥰🥰
@@ashleywilkonson386 💀💀💀GIRLLLLL
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.sporessss. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is. dr.sporessss
We may be dirt poor here in the Philippines, at least the majority of us, but I’m still glad we don’t get to witness such a horrible sight. My country has its own drug-related problems and I’m not blind about it, but I believe for the most part we still have more sanity left in us to not end up like this. I’m proud to say I’ve never done drugs and I feel sorry for those who depend on it for...perhaps “fleeting freedom” from whatever struggles they may be facing.
I seen video of you Philippine's trying to be happy even when living in trash town's. Here in Philly everyone stealing,killing,rape,junkies,trashed places. I think i'll take the Philippines over trash Philadelphia any day.
Winners don't do drugs
we have on going drug war here in the Philippines so that we wont end up like this, the ICC is sadly interfering w/ the aid of some narco politicians..so sad
Just say no
@@hassanas.benjamin3818Only weak people do drugs. That alot of people
These city officials need to be held accountable for allowing their cities to become such a wasteland
Exactly,
Liberal Democrat cities.....these are the policies of the Democrat party in action.
How are they going to stop it? People been doing illegal drugs for many years. When people stop calling drug addiction a disease and hold them accountable then maybe progress will be made but as long as they are being coddled it won't happen.
It’s happening everywhere as big pharma got thousands of people hooked and now they’re forced to seek illegal drugs on the streets. US corporate greed at its finest.
Because they get zillions in tax money that they can split up and now with this new stuff they get even more money from the government. Sad times.
In some countries, it is a death sentence if you are caught dealing drugs.
In the Philippines they kill you outright
Should be here also but the so called leader is decriminalizing all the drugs that kill. The dealers just make sure to have under a certain amount and claim they are users if caught bit the cops dont bother them anyway been like that for years and I live in Canada it's almost the same just less people
In some countries it's a death sentence if you don't.....
@Roger “Guilty” Forbes dumb logic. This is much bigger than dealers, targeting the dealers won't do anything at all to solve this issue. There is proof of this dating back to before the US even existed, drug wars are dumb and just make illegal drug use an even bigger problem.
@@puffpuffpass3214No.
Allowing this nonsense to go on is just dumb.
Denying the reality that every single major leftist hellhole city is currently facing with the drug use and everything that comes with it is just stupid.
This is what happens when you do nothing.
There is a difference between the "war on drugs" aka busting people's balls for weed or even cocaine, and letting there be essentially open drug markets on city streets.
Junkies everywhere living on the street. Commiting crimes everyday to get their drugs... Ruining entire streets, neighborhoods and cities in the process.
Only a damn fool thinks something shouldn't be seriously done about this nonsense.
I feel so sorry for all these people, really. I'm from Spain and I've never seen anything like this. Of course there are problematic areas, like everywhere else, but this is too much. I wish the best for every one who lives in that area.
I grew up seeing these kinds of homeless people laying around I remember getting up for school at 5 o’clock in the morning having to walk through Kensington to get to school knowing that I was going to see a bunch of drug addicts it was a normal morning now that was less then ten years ago it’s even worse now 😢
They want the "zombie outbreak" to happen so bad.
Sounds like it
This drug is not as bad as "krokodil"
Fr
I agree. Finding someone's weakness and using it against them. Drugs, money, religion etc .
You act like people put a gun on their head and said take this drug 🤣
Kudos for interviewing these people and talking to them with respect.
Yes! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Absolutely.
Impossible to respect a zombified junky
Respecting indicates that you know one is not what one seems to be, a human being is beyond what the mind can ever decipher, ah, love you all.
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I used to have an addiction years back, by the grace of God I am four years sober. Even if I wanted to get high again, I would be too scared. Look at all the stuff that they’re doing to drugs nowadays. You never know what you’re going to get . Screw that! I’d rather be sober any day.
This even includes the Rx meds. Though these meds weren't always the best choice, they were always beyond much more safe to take. Even the OTC ones and a few types of vitamins have been tampered with.
This is so damn sad. I pray that they can just get help and clean themselves up. I know it's easier said than done. 😢🙏🏽🙏🏽
Coming from a small town in Denmark, I suddenly feel like I’m living in a dream town in a dream country. This here looks like a nightmare 😳
Denmark has one of the highest drug overdose rates in Northern Europe. Don't kid yourself here.
You are-as are most people in and around Denmark. As an Americana I'm sad to say, America has become a sh*t hole. If I could afford to I'd move from ere.
It's all over the US.
@@leonardothefabulous3490 Would love to leave the US.
You’re so lucky
For the people out there that have kicked a drug or alcohol addiction I salute you and wish you nothing but the best in life but to the people who don't wanna quit it is what it is can't fight for someone that gave up
yeah especially in this day there's so much help that you don't have an excuse really except i still wanna use and am not ready
I'll also say I bet you this is probably more of an iv thing and people who smoke or snort it aren't having these effects
@@astraldim shit some people ready just shits hard thats all hat's why I would never touch anything besides weed. Not even a cigarette I would never try
@@astraldim true but you gotta be in a different galaxy to use a drug that can cause your arm or leg to rot 🤦🏿♂️
Just last year i quit buddy almost 2 years clean from fentynal now after being hooked on oxy first for about 10 years then fentynal for 3 years. What a war it was. Feeling fantastic now. Canada has some amazing programs to get off drugs. They are popping up all over the place and truly helping ppl get better. Hope BC can sort things out since they have the worst epidemic in all of the country. YOU CAN GET BETTER.
Everything we see in movies eventually manifests in real life. This is like watching The Walking Dead.
Predictive programming
This is horrible, sending love for those people from Zambia. I feel so bad for those affected by this addiction, full of despair.
Being addicted to drugs has got to be the worse thing ever. So sad!
yeah it's def the worst, especially opioid withdrawl.....ppl say benzo withdrawl is worse but i dont see how that's possible lol i wanted to die detoxing from H and fent.....
Tylenol, and Coffee are also drugs... dont pile all this stuff together. Even Caffeine has withdrawals.
Withdrawal is living hell. At some point, it becomes all about avoiding that. It's a huge deal when someone gets clean and something to celebrate for sure. I hate when I see people making fun of addicts. It can happen to pretty much anyone.
@@kjm1529 root cause is trauma and inability to cope plus genetics also makes people more likely to become more prone to addiction
@@dfweurocars you can die a lot easier from Benzo withdrawal. Alcohol and Benzos are the only things where just the WD can kill you.
No one in their right mind would willingly do this to themselves. This people are deeply deeply traumatized, and they need help!
Help needed probably NOT WANTED
Help needed probably NOT WANTED
Too late. There is no going back from Fentanyl and Tranq. Welcome to Zombie land.
They don't want to be helped.
Yeah they just need hugs and it will make everything better.
Take care you guys, please try to overcome the addiction, try very hard, we got covid and now this drug? Somebody or a group is making a living out of your addiction. Be strong. Never give up, never give in. I will be praying for you guys.
Who makes the fentanyl, who will be the leader of the world? Think
government.. just like they made a killing on the covid..💰💰💰🛒
Good god… thank you for moving away and being off H since September 27 2008. I moved to nyc which sounds crazy but changed my world completely coming from the sticks knowing no one but my wife and wanting to quit.
I live in this part of north Philly and it’s traumatizing for people who don’t use drugs to live in this environment. Children aren’t safe to go to school, needles going into their shoes and they are at risk to be assaulted hurt or robbed. We need a safe passage to school program like Chicago has so that kids can take the trains and buses safely to school. People don’t realize how many schools and colleges we have in Philly. Also, the young people and teenagers are also highly addicted to the weed now because they are adding these things into it, so now we have very young kids and teenagers exposed to chemicals and drugs that are not safe.
It’s horror….Sara, if you can run from there. I used to leave in Baltimore MD, I’m so glad I moved to Columbus oh.
@Sara Da Silva you live by Kensington
Then they blame the children for the decisions of their parents.
I can relate to that feeling. Same happens here in Sãp Paulo, Brazil. Eventualy it makes you sick, both literally and figuratively. Walking by people in that condition crushes your soul and makes you numb, otherwise you'd fall into depression with so much pain and suffering. I don't like the idea of living your home, that's running away from problems and by experience I know it's not the solution but sometimes it seems like the it's only option.
@@nunquamobliviscar yes I’m also a Brazilian my family is from Recife Brasil. But I was born here in Philadelphia.
As a non drug user, I get that life can be hard and we want to escape our problems. But this ain't it. Please seek help. Try, try and try again. Don't give up. You matter and I want to see you happy, healthy, thriving and alive.
Most of these places have closed clinics that help, and the mental health facilities that they need after they manage to get clean.
The sad thing is that some drug users ended up getting addicted due to accidents/severe trauma and abused pain medication that at one point they truly needed and not to “escape our problems” It is scary that one accident or physical trauma can cause you to become addicted. This is happening more often than you might think.
God Help!!!
It’s not about escaping problems most of the time lol thanks for trying to relate but a human is not physically or mentally capable of even comprehending the feeling of being hooked on drugs or even grasp the concept in their head and nail it without being a user👁 god bless tho. I am not coming at you at all btw... I do not believe in getting angry at someone who is uneducated about a certain subject.
As someone who has an alcoholic drug addict father who gave me my very own first dose of opiates at 15 you have no idea. I'm clean now.. 3 years but my brain is so fried I'd rather be dead. I get zero joy out of much of anything just neutral anger or sadness. The only way I feel any happiness or even normalcy when from the pills. It kills your brain and crushes your soul. Even tying my shoes is a chore.
It's so sad that people want to hide their mental and physical pain to the point that, they can't even live in their own reality, and they have to black it out this Way.
Remember, some of these poor people have had very few kind words spoken to them in their lives. So at least remember to be Kind. You have no idea what someone has gone through.
During my career when younger, I had to deal with drug addicts. Then tho it was Angel dust, cocaine, marijuana, heroin.
At times it was mentally draining, because the passion to be their support and get them through the process took extensive energy.
But now,at 72, it is absolutely heartbreaking to see a loved ones child, family member in such a deep destructive state.
At this point, way too many really are beyond help, especially now using Tranq with other hard core drugs.
OMG, yes, exactly this. I have a friend that keeps hanging on by a very fragile and thin thread of addiction to alcohol. Though she's been sober for a bit, she doesn't see hope or find a point. She's on the brink of relapsing as I know her patterns much too well.
She has cPTSD, severe depression, abnormal irritability, and crippling anxiety. Her health has declined drastically. Her doctors and ERs keep putting her in circles, claiming not to find anything wrong with her, are discharging her from their practices, having the most helpful ones suddenly leave the practices or turning sour and changing for the worst, and/or her medical insurance has become more strict and limited.
She's on the verge of a serious nervous breakdown due to bad things or events happening to her almost non-stop, left and right. However, her getting help at a psychiatric hospital is entirely out of the question due to the declining care of the medical system, and she's been further traumatized at those places and ERs much more than she's revived the help she needs.
The way society and the system is is why so many ppl are basically "rotting" into their own demise, dying by suicide, getting involved in crimes, or losing their sanity completely...
This is pure evil. There are ppl out here intentionally hurting ppl who are already down. This is wicked. WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND....I HOPE, THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE CAN TAKE THEIR OWN MEDICINE
Its not medicine its drugs. No one compelled them to take this drugs but they did. They can choose not to but they did. This zombies are not victims but willing participants.
P.s when youre down you dont take drugs. Thats their choice, play stupid game get stupid prize.
Population control. Thin out the herd.
☹️
@@berrybloom2000 This is all extra made from the riches !
It's your elected leadership.
This is why you don't use drugs in the first place.
Exactly. No pity. That was their CHOICE TO START.
It’s not the drug dealers fault it’s their own fault for taking them in the first place. Nobody put a gun to their head and made them take drugs. They did it because they wanted to.
I took pain killers for my back between 1980 & 2010 even though they were completely useless. I didn’t get addicted or even think about taking them just for the hell of it.
No back problems since 2010.
are you forgetting the opiods that doctors shelled off to everyone and got them addicted??? big pharma did this on purpose. are you forgetting that they lied and told everyone it was not habit forming or addictive???
@@thestooges333 if they were useless, then you just had a tolernace that most people dont.
@@LastbutNotFirst dr’s don’t shell off opioids….people keep asking for them because they refuse to deal with short term pain….you do realize drs DEA # is tracked right? You conspiracy theorist are nuts….
this is why us government must stop meddling in other countries' issues and start focusing on helping their citizens!
I am sober from fentanly for 9 months, I am so glad I am sober I am so glad I am not doing trank!!
Philly is crazy its been like this for yearssssssssss. And the children involved is what breaks your heart ❤️
Exactly
No sympathy from me. Darwin awards being handed out left and right.
@@tioswift3676 Hopefully the children of the users steer clear and learn from their parent's mistakes instead of falling into the same trap......unfortunately it's much easier for the latter to happen....
Exactly I always thinking to myself and living in the Northeast US. What is so special about major cities from Boston to Washington D.C.? In reality these cities are gritty, depress, crazy, overcrowded, expensive, Ice cold winter and humid summer, hard find jobs. Keep it 💯
Goofy-ass wokes are zombies.
Being addicted to this drug ain't no joke. This is so sad
On the upside, you get first dibs to star in any zombie 🧟♀️ apocalypse movies 🎬. 😶
the book " The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease " by Marc Lewis PhD
So glad to have made the turn in time at the beginning of last year fuckin blessed. Keep up the good fight if you struggling its worth it to live
In a new study, researchers analyzed data on overdose deaths in Philadelphia from 2010 to 2019. In particular, they looked at deaths related to heroin or fentanyl, the types of opioids most commonly associated with Xylazine. It turned out that in the years 2010-2015 xylazine was detected in only 2 percent. overdose deaths, but by 2019 that figure had risen to 31 percent.
As the quality of life goes down drug use will go up and up
Agreed. Alcohol too
That's not necessarily true in third world countries drugs are not a great problem.
@@markovangelo in America people create there own problems
True🙏‼️
Use of drug brings down life, as life quality goes down drug use go up.
A vicious circle!
One thing I learned people have to want help. They have to want to change in their heart.
This is different nowadays. Wanting help won't save you. People are losing limbs to necrosis and infection after using this stuff just once or twice. You don't even need to be a hardcore user and you still will eventually suffer necrosis and bone decay. And even if you get sober that damage is already done forever. Nothing will undo it once you've put it in your body.
Absolutely! And until then there is nothing you can do to change that. All you can do is let them know you will be there to support them when they do.
Wanting help isn't the only issue. Drugs, alcohol, even nicotine causes a chemical change & imbalance in the brain resulting in the addiction. So, those that actually want to quit find it difficult to quit &/or to remain sober. It's best to go through detox before going to rehab, but some may still struggle with the addiction. It's a sad viscous cycle.
Truth A made of mind to stop!!
Agreed...you would think loosing parts of your body would be enough for you to stop...very sad to watch
we’re in saddd sad times. this is heartbreaking. this is someones child..
i hope all these people find peace in their lives!
I used to have an office on 34th street in NYC for 5 years, 2014-2019. They’ve been zombies there for years sadly.
Yeah it’s still like this by One Penn, 8th and 7th Ave are the worst areas.
Lol
Indeed!.. the ones that dont use drugs are zombies too
I remember that Those were good stable times I don’t know how it got this bad so quick now , the 20’s starting to look like 80’s NYC just without it’s charm
By the new york times building and behind the port bus authority is were they all at from 12am-6am sleep and shit
This is so disgusting and sad. I really hope it’s not some conspiracy to get rid of all the homeless people, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Highly probable. Nothing should surprise anyone anymore.
Thats how the government work !
these people CHOSE this life. They don't want help.
@linda loefflad EXACTLY!!! All this whining about them . They had a CHOICE NOT TO START THEM.
this victimhood mentality in America is taking us to a drain.
GET THEM ALL INTO REHAB AND CLEAN UP THE STREETS. LET COPS DO THEIR JOB.
NO PITY.
@@LanaW123 Yeah I agree they shouldnt be given a pass but people like you are as bad if not worse than the pass givers, thats a real human being thats suffering not some fcking character they have a family they were a baby they didnt choose 1 day to become an addict over their life who knows how many small choices within or out of their control lead them to that position, an unbelievable amount of nuance goes into this which is clearly too much for the room temps on either side of the spectrum.
The American dream???? This is way many people ask for legalize drugs?
Why isn’t the pharmaceutical company being held accountable for making this EVIL drug??? No animal or human should consume this drug!!! SUE THE COMPANY
Between this and K2, I'm starting to miss the days when people just smoked crack!
Exactly. Society let the govt interfere with a thriving coca trade just so this new shxt could be here...
They still do, at least in NYC where I'm from.
Crack was literally several times worse than this
@@KnucklesWTD not even close! Fentanyl is 200x more addictive than crack.
@@dougcollins8232 Most people who use fentanyl do so on accident and they die if they overdose
crack was worse because people were actually living and it affected society outside of users. This is nothing compared to the 90’s.
I have multiple family members who are drug addicts and that was enough for me to never want to get into it.
we had that for years over in puertorico, people used horse tranquilizer, u would see the addicts on the street just barely holding on.
It's here in the Seattle area too. See it omw to & from work.
This remind me of Flakka in Florida. Prayers for all suffering with this addiction.
That was a beast 😢
Find these drug sellers and put them under the jail. How could your soul let you take any part in this devastation? I would never profit off of someone else's pain or self-destruction. This is horrible. We've got to do better as humans!
if no one was willing to buy drugs there wouldn't be anyone selling. no one held a gun to these people's heads and forced them to take drugs. this is weak self control. i have no sympathy for the weak minded. we are grossly overpopulated and humans are the only species on earth that try to help the weakest among us.
They put them in jail all the time. All the good work dismantling the 1980s Sicilian Pizza connection led to this. The only way to deal with this is to negotiate with cartels/gangs.
You blame the drugs sellers 🤔 ok so do you blame the gun store for school shootings? Think about it
Do you think the CIA poured crack into black neighborhoods for profit?
That would be the CIA
How are people getting this animal tranquilizer to sell?
All I can do shake my head because I don't know what it's like being addicted to anything other than sweets. I have no idea how hard it is to get off drugs. This addiction is real because no sane person would want this for themselves. I've quit saying "if I were", or "if it were me, what I would not do. I don't understand but have known folks, including family members addicted to drugs and alcohol. I've come to the conclusion that I will never understand because I can't relate. But damn, an animal tranquilizers? Then I remember how big PCP was when I was a child. Didn't understand why someone would use embalming fluid either. As a child, even I knew that was terrible. I still feel the same way about this and fentanyl.
I wish it would stop. What the he'll happened to people using crack? Is that considered weak now. Like damn.
This is all bad. All bad.
Ya, you’re right, but unfortunately, it still comes down to their choices ( so there’s really nothing no one can do for them, they’ve got to do it themselves)
Neighbor, you answered your question in the first sentence. Drug addiction is very much my sugar addiction. Addiction is addiction. And it’s both hard and sad
According to Marijuana Smokers, if you drink coffee you are an addict. But in the same breath they'll say they aren't addicted to Marijuana even though they smoke it every chance they get, and no matter where.
Actually sugar is more addicting than cocaine. And everyone in the world is an addicted.
@@DeesMuse there’s many ways, corruption, labs/pharmaceutical companies like you said or they might import it
God help these people. Prayers for all homeless, especially addicts.
Your sweet.
I don't know where they get the $. Hard enough for me to pay my bills.
@@mse7501 Prostitution, selling other drugs...plus the kind of drugs the homeless use are usually pretty cheap.
They homeless because they’re addicts Where you from?
Sure, let's pray and the problems will disappear. Because that's how the world works
i see my neighbor uo on her 2nd floor balciney hunched over like this or sittin on her foot stool all bent over, but if i go up there shes talks just fine, but has had alot of bruises, falling and cuts, do they talk just fine wen they are on that crap
Step #1: never address the housing issue causing these people to be homeless in the first place. Such FINE journalism.
This is one way that it seems like they are knocking them off without knocking them off
Human nature is always concerned about the outward appearance. Losing your mind is much worse than loosing a leg or an arm. This drug brings to light the fight that they’re struggling with from within. I pray for total healing.
That's EXACTLY why you need to legalize the RIGHT type of drugs. When people have no other option they resort to that poison, using nothing isn't an option for those people obviously! they would rather lose a limb than not use a pain killer drug. So make the fkn pain killer drug available to them!
The gov and police are torturing those people by making other safer options illegal. No one uses tranq smack if clean and cheap oxycodone is made available to them. That's the lesser of two evils and it's the correct and moral approach. The war on drugs is malevolent! it's torture by proxy!
You can't "pray away" a drug addiction. You either acknowledge that you have the disease of addiction or you die.
But is it worse than loosing your bowels over someone's face?
Like my friend who was practically like my brother said “a real friend doesn’t offer you drugs”
Prayers 🙏🏽
Are completely useless get a grip
The people mixing these drugs and selling it are monsters….fentanyl on its own is dangerous but mixing it with a tranquilizer….God have mercy, please help these people, lord father in Jesus name I pray 🙏🏽 Amen
That’d be your nice and shiny government
Your God and Jeez aren't helping anything cuz they don't exist.
The Fent / Tranq combination seems to be quite effective at decreasing the number of homeless.
@@esotericknowledgecollector Yes, our government is forcing these people to use drugs.
Uh huh.
Right...
Jesus is importing the drugs for the Sinaloa Cartel after they import them from China.
I’ve been working along Kensington avenue for 33 years - and seeing zombies is nothing new. In fact, there’s so many people laying on the ground that you don’t know who’s alive or who is dead, and people have now given up even calling the ambulance. I know people in their 50s, 60s and 70s who actually live in cardboard boxes that they sweep out like it’s a house. And thats their entire life; all they have to look to….
Do you give the food, socks, underwear, water bottles, etc too?
@@warmsunnytoday4535 you know that’s an interesting thing that you say that. Two days ago a young black guy came up to me on my route and said, “could you help me out with some food ?” so I happen to have a hot sausage on me and I felt bad and I said here you can have half of this. And he said “ Does it have cheese, because I’m lactose intolerant? “ I told him no. Then he said “is it pork because I don’t eat pork” . I said I don’t know, and he turned up his nose and walked away……
@@MrSanford65 I'll bet if you sprinkled some meth on that hot dog he wouldn't have been so picky
@@MrSanford65 theres no accounting for taste 😄
@Donxa, I used to do that when I live in a big city. I would prepare hotdogs or sandwiches, fruit, candy, socks, sonetimes underwears ort-shirts, and the homeless were very grateful. But the homelessI gave to were not really the ones taking drugs. Mostly just folks who had a bad run of life and needed help.
Reminds me of Krokodil. People's brains were being eaten from the inside. And their body was also rotting from the inside too. I'm so glad I don't mess with that anymore. Clean and glad.
In India we hear that USA is a beautiful country so much cleanliness around. Look here people are so poor and drug addict. They're literally unhygienic. What happen to the US education system.
I think drug addicts not only need rehab but also mental health assistance. They turn to drugs as a coping mechanism with their internal struggles. What they really enjoy isn't drugs, it's the bliss produced by drug intake.
They don't need a pill pushing shrink. They are not mentally ill- they need some social workers and possibly psychologists trained in dysfunctional family dynamics to help them see that they can make better choices and release the anger from people who have screwed them over then they can live lives without pain, guilt which cause them to reach for relief from drugs.
@@reginaangell5327 I think that's what Cal L meant. He didn't say anything about "pill pushing shrinks". Besides, what you just wrote is the same as what Cal L said - mental health assistance. Isn't that what a psychologist is? A mental health professional?
Mental health issues are a major problem in this country (the USA) and not enough is being done. People are getting angrier and more aggressive. Drugs just makes it worse. The future scares me.
@@ThroughTheHaze Thats capitalism for you. When you try to do something you are socialist. Human society cannot function on pure capitalism as in US. This leads to cutting in social programs because it "doesnt produce anything" it only produces social value not economic.
@@Zoltan1251 Capitalism has a lot of issues but socialism has many issues as well. There is no simple solution. I was on my state's healthcare program for a few years (up until 2020). The quality of it was very very poor and no doctor really wanted to take me as a patient because of it. I had to change primary care doctors often. So I did not receive good care. The problem with universal healthcare is that the system becomes overloaded and there is not enough money. I think the US needs to do something about the cost of healthcare in this country (everything is so expensive). But if universal healthcare is implemented, I think the quality of care will go down (I've seen it firsthand). The people who have a lot of money will just pay for better care, while everyone else will receive poor care. As I've said, there is no simple solution. Something needs to be done, I just don't know what that is.
I'm up in Canada and ,... I was in the Sandman hotel in Lethbridge , Alberta, last week , talking to the concierge .I complained about all the drug addicts hanging around the hotel foyer and she noted that they seemed to be all bent over and that something new or different seemed to be affecting them , not just the regular opioids or ''bath salts''.
I live in Medicine Hat Alberta, Canada. I was in Lethbridge a few months ago. I noticed how much worse it has gotten there as well. I never thought that I would feel unsafe there especially in broad daylight. I hate to think how soon it will be like that here as well.
At least they are getting rid of themselves. Otherwise we have to do it with assault rifles
@@daniyalbbd5281right cause it’s always the addicts fault 🤪
@@cenecasful of course it is. It was their decision.
I've been seeing this in Puerto Rico and Salt Lake City before the pandemic. They just weren't reporting on it..
I’ve seen people hunched over like that for years in San Francisco
And people still think drugs arent bad. And people still think they should be legalized - that people know how to use them responsibly.
Wtf! is wrong with humans to do this to others. I'm so sick of the abuse, the indifference, the crime For those who've never done drugs, but have 'friends' that may push it onto you - a) they're not friends, and b) don't ruin your life.
I agree but I think the question that needs to be asked is why would you want to put a drug like this into your body in the first place?
They do this to themselves, no one forces them to
They do it to themselves
Isnt it exciting? Hahahahajaja
Jews and hippies thats what's wrong in Cambodia you get executed for drugs but not here in hippyville
As a baby boomer, I grew up as a kid in the 60's, a teenager in the 70's and a young adult in the 80's and with each decade a new street drug was added to the already available street drugs. But thru all those years, I still don't get the attraction of why try any of them.
This used to be called soldier's disease. The heroin that saved a life on the battle field made it impossible for the soldier to function after coming home. Today, an insurance company can pay $300 for a non addictive script or $30 for an addictive one. Guess which they prefer. You don't have to go to war though. Strain your back at work, wreck your car, trip on a curb, or just have the bad luck of weak joints. Rich people get new knees. Poor people get scripts that dull the pain so they can continue working. How many of us can expect to never have surgery or an accident. Sure there are stupid kids experimenting, but we might be surprised to know how many of these situations started with an accident. You wake up in the hospital to find you have been on a high dose of an addictive drug for a week. Three months later your doctor cuts you off and the neighbors kid offers an alternative.
@@StevenfromTX 100% right!
They want to make God's of themselves.
@@StevenfromTX One of the most truthful and dignified comments on here
"The Pusher" by Steppenwolf 1968, kids take heed of the lyrics !
Is this different than kroc?
I was afraid to even take a pain pill when I had surgery many years ago. Because of seeing people get so easily addicted.
I get anxiety taking aspirin. I rarely take it
I got around that by telling my doctor I'm allergic to the most addictive ones. Which is actually not far from the truth. They give me migraines, the shakes, and make my pain worse. They give me tramadol instead. It's cheaper, and not habit forming. Managed my pain so well I hardly needed to take it as often as prescribed, and it didn't give me a "high" or a "low" 🤷🏻♀️
Same when I had my c section, until that pain kicked in.
Yeah same, broke my wrist a few years back in college and I told the doc not to even write the script for whatever synthetic heroin they were trying to prescribe, but they did it anyway. I filled the script ibuprofen 800mg instead, and it worked perfectly fine. Absolutely no reason to take a KNOWN highly addictive substance. Had a few people offering to buy the pills off me. Tore up the script and burned it. Shit really shouldn't be prescribed at all
Unfortunately, that's how a lot of people get hooked. Trying to escape the pain of a medical injury and then once the prescriptions are gone, they go to street drugs. Everyone have a blessed day. If you can read this, that means GOD has plans for You. Seek HIM and let HIM guide you. HE loves us so much.
This must have been a tough news story to cover, but it needs to be brought to the public's attention. A nightmare ahead if this is the future of homeless drug use in America.
Lowering the carbon footprint.
no the news loves this to be honest but i agree this needs to be made aware of and dealt with
@@MA-yl1er thats both funny and disturbing
It'a already a nightmare. The people around all of this who have to deal with these poor lost souls as well.
They don't care about any of us. The very reason why they cover this, is to get into your head. Play with your emotions
Never touch any drug because you'll not only lose your loved ones, you'll lose your conscience, you'll lose yourself. You never really realize this until it you lose somebody close to you cuz of this. If you think that's worth it then think again. You've been warned...
Heartbreaking 💔
Zombies are the normal sights in America.
This is Very SAD As a HUMAN to Another HUMAN
Is that what you think you are?
🤣😂🤣
So can the tranquiliser itself be banned or is there some massive pharmaceutical company that is currently seeing a rush on their shares? What a sick system we live in.
Don’t do drugs kids. It’s that simple.
God, that's so sad. Imagine how many families have been torn apart because of adiction. Hope these people find a way out.
[Qur'an 90-92] O Believers, wine, gambling, (ungodly) shrines and divining devices are all abominable works of Satan therefore refrain from these so that you may attain to true success.
Indeed Satan intends to sow enmity and' hatred among you by means of wine and gambling, and to prevent you from the remembrance of Allah and from Salat. Will you not, , therefore, abstain from these things?
Obey Allah and His Messenger and abstain from these things; but if you disobeyed, note it well that Our Messenger's only responsibility was to convey the Message clearly.
It is sad that they are addicted to this filthy thing to the point of self harming and even destroying their bones. One only has to imagine what it must be doing to their liver, kidneys and other organs.
@@blackpanthar906what are you talking about. U muslim produce tons of drugs every year and export it to world wide
President Bukele stopped crime. He understood an armed gang is an army and an armed gang with territory is an occupation force. That occupation force was killing civilians. So he sent the army to recover sovrerignity over that territory. Murders went from 6656 in 2015 to 495 in 2022. Instead of executing those who killed people, he put them in a jail that looks like a fortress. You should see it.
@@user-yo9jo2fy5e Who told you that nonsense? U.S. grew drugs in Afghanistan when it was there because by American law, American aid money can't be used to grow those crops in occupied territories which would be competitive to crops that America produces. That leaves very few options.
Taliban banned drugs in their country and put thousands of people in Rehab.
Opium is used to produce many medicine by pharma, producing and exporting it is not a crime, it is legal.
How you use that opium is important.
I just lost my mom 2/22/23 to “fentanyl”. Addiction is a monster that eats away @ everything even the people who have to watch a loved one go through it. 😢
@ArayaDay, 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Ohh babe. I'm so sorry 😞
sorry for your loss
Hey im sorry I wish I could give you a hug stay strong 🚀💕
May your Mom Rest In Peace 🤍🙏🏽 God bless you
This is so sad 😔 stay blessed
So sad 😢. Where is this coming from., How r the streets getting it.
It’s so sad to see how casual they are about hurting themselves 😢
Drugs are probably the biggest cause to homelessness. As a human you no longer care about anything other than staying just barely alive and finding drugs until the point you are homeless and at that point it’s too far they just say fuck it.
This is cocodril. Drugs Inc did a special about it a few years back. They ended the special with evidence and footage that it was in Niagara Falls , NY. I'm in Buffalo,a hop, skip,and a jump away. This is exactly that and the DEA been knew it was coming. Hell, I did. Trust me, they don't really care. I grew up in a drug house. It's the main reason that I don't do drugs now and never have. I attended a prestigious high school and many of those kids were addicts of some sort. I grew up in the hood in the midst of all this shit and every day I'm thankful that I witnesses what I did and had the experiences that I did that made me never ever ever want to experiment with anything other than a good ass weed strand. Bless those folks. This world is something else. I feel for them.
Edit:. Y'all right. It just has all the classic effects of krokodil
Кroкodil dil dil плывет
Только я все лежу
И на солнышко гляжу
Yes. This was in Russia several years ago.
Yes i was about to say the same thing.
Kicia weed still a drug, so you do drugs
Facts!!!
Never to be forgotten
Omg I was wondering why so many people with signs on corners legs be busting open... Dear lord please help these people and us all
This is beyond sad
This drug is nothing NEW, it's been in the UK for years!!!!!!
Other countries yes but fairly recent here
That and that gasoline mix Krocodil or whatever. Yikes.
@@comradewolf4901 that was eating through people’s flesh as well smh
It is not a pissing competiton mate.....
It's so sad that anyone has drug addiction but what in the hell are they cutting the drugs with these days? It's just horrific and beyond predatory. What a horrible way to live.
That's scary and extremely disheartening. 😳
This is so sad and our Government doesn't care at all.
I’ve been seeing this where I live for months and always thought that whatever they took was strange because I’ve never seen such a reaction, to be hunched over and swaying on bent knees. This just helped of what it was. It’s terrifying!
I noticed that too in some of the videos on YT of Kensington Avenue taken I believe in late December 2022. It was weird seeing those poor people swaying like weeping willows and now we know why. Praying for them to find healing and peace...
i've heard fentanyl addiction does this to people too (stooping/bending over while standing on the sidewalk), but yeah it's scary to see.
I hope these prople fibd the hope, strength,and courage to quit. I just wan kno what is tranq, how did they get it
I've been for long asking the question whether here in my country or elsewhere in the world, why the authorities do not target the drug trade?, these stafs seems to arrive to the hands of people easly i can go out now and check rendomly a guy on the street and i'm sure i have a great chance this guy can show me where i can buy a drug pile or any available drug from people who sell drugs in the region, so why the authorities are effortless agaisnt this?
We must heal from the things that are leading us to smoke and drink because at one point in time, that " high" won't be enough and that pain will just keep getting worse- forcing you to feel like you need a stronger drug. Philly native here born and raised, drugs ain't no joke and everything is laced. The laws are more relaxed to make these things even easier to chase. Much love to my city and to those suffering with unhealed pain. Healing is possible its just not linear. Much love ❤️
That's EXACTLY why you need to legalize the RIGHT type of drugs. When people have no other option they resort to that poison, using nothing isn't an option for those people obviously! they would rather lose a limb than not use a pain killer drug. So make the fkn pain killer drug available to them! The gov and police are torturing those people by making other safer options illegal. No one uses tranq smack if clean and cheap oxycodone is made available to them. That's the lesser of two evils and it's the correct and moral approach. The war on drugs is malevolent! it's torture by proxy!
@Odyseeone unfortunately if you ask some of them they stated from prescription drugs and again at some point they weren't Strong enough. My point in this post is if you ask these same ppl about the pain that they are trying to get over through a false high you'll realize that it ain't no toe of drug that will ever cure that. You have to actually do the spiritual work attached to the physical pain. These doctors are just licensed and legal drug dealers their drugs are just as harmful they just kill you slower. I'm not speaking from ignorance, I know too many addicts of all types of drugs and prescription drugs or " legal" drugs are still drugs. If it ain't natural 9/10 it's just gonna keep triggering bigger issues unfortunately. Often times ppl don't even know this until they are actually taking these drugs and paying attention to how even the prescriptions change your natural form. And even with the legalizing of certain drugs there are many harmful chemicals in those as well. If there's a direction to go for relief it's something that can be grown in your own back yard with nothing added to it but nature. It's truly not as blk and white as it may seem. Much love
@@Real_Queen_Reflections I do agree with a lot of what you're saying. Understand though that you have nowhere near the experience of drug use that I have personally gone through and I've still managed to get a handle on it and bring it under control.
I've tried every single category of drug literally thousands of times. I've had my drug use get out of hand before and suffered the pain of that as a consequence. Learning from my agony during tolerance build-up and inevitable withdrawal, I understood that respect and discipline must be given to drug use.
ALL people gain tolerance to whichever drug is being used therefore ALL of them must be used briefly along with a disciplined break period to allow tolerance to reset. Most people understand that fact but a small minority of dumb people don't and those people are who the media focuses on.
Those dumb people keep moving onto harder versions of that category of drug because they don't respect the law of tolerance. They need proper education and the cheap availability of the safest version of that category of drug. It's a matter of providing the lesser of two evils as that's the moral approach.
I know for a fact that no one is shooting up $10 worth of street laced tranq smack
when they can get a $1 pill of pure oxycodone at the local pharmacy (Without a prescription). The war on drugs is immoral and the lesser of two evils should be provided for those who suffer from mental anguish and use drugs to ease that pain.
@Odyseeone I completely understand that. And dhout out to you for being able to find something that works. That's amazing. It's truly tough out. I agree with what you are saying also. Cause going could turkey when you had a drug addiction isn't easy nor suggested. If anything it's ppl like you who change the game as well. In this view they did highlight certain things where what you're saying would be helpful to those who it applies to so that they aren't losing limbs and what not. My message was moral to those who aren't as deep into drug use just from my observation and experience on how severe drug addiction can start from something as small as alcohol and smoking habits. I truly send you love on your journey and I thank you for sharing. 💯
@@Real_Queen_Reflections Thank you for the kind words and for being friendly cooperative with our comment tennis. I'll reiterate that our Gov has let down its citizens to a degree that's intentionally malevolent IMO.
There are lessons that can be taught to prevent misery but the hard stance of making this topic taboo and illegal means that people continue to suffer needlessly.
Lord Have Mercy 😟
@Jack Riddance You're a POSitive one who POSites a POSition without any POSsible understanding.
Shit is crazy man. People just try any drug at this point. People just wanna be higher than high. Happy I don’t even smoke weed anymore. Shit is crazy man.
Im 19 and i have not done any drugs. What my pop always says “dont start none and there wont be none”
where did this come from?
I've seen ppl bend over like that here in Toronto, from their appearance I knew they were addicts but literally had to Google to find out why they all bend over like that looking like zombies. It's tragic, I try my best to stay out of their way bcuz I know they're not in their right minds and tend to lash out randomly.
that can be just a regular opiate high. it's amazing that they can keep their CoG, soon there will be a yoga guru advocating opiate yoga seminars
Did you find out why?
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My GOD MY GOD MY HEART IS SO HEAVY NOW …. I so thankful and grateful to have dodge the demon of addiction
This is proof of what we have been told about the Devil. He will take as many as he can get. Personally, I think God and Christ are our only hope.
Oh my God. Is there nobody who can help them? 😪
Lab tested? Did you get that?