The Flesh-Eating Drug Taking Over America | Documentary
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Step into the heart of Seattle, Washington, at the intersection of 3rd and Pike similar to kensington avenue, where a chilling tale unfolds. Join me on a journey into the depths of despair as we uncover the stark reality of life on these streets in 2024. Here, amidst the hustle and bustle of urban life, the scourge of fentanyl, mixed with tranquilizers, now ravages the community, leaving a trail of unimaginable horror in its wake. In this documentary, I delve into the heart of this troubled district, immersing myself in the lives of its inhabitants and capturing their stories. My objective is to provide an unfiltered, firsthand account of the struggles faced by those living in what has become known as Seattle's own "Zombie Zone."
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This channel deserves way more subscribers than it has this is real journalism props to you man
Nice 👌
I am injured from blue. 🤔
From past experience w them... find someone else!
Making Ads for these kinda lawyers who only make society more and more about money and less about people. Can we please live without being afraid to be sued.
it's a negative trend that does not make society any better. I know its something normal in the US, but here in Europe it smells like creed, something that has destroyed this world since day 1 That said,..thx for the doc !
I'm in recovery and I'm 7 months sober today. I watch these videos when I have cravings to use because it reminds me why I don't want to live life as an active user. This country has gone to hell and there's something huge happening behind the scenes. Right before our eyes we are seeing the fall, but there is something much more larger. Addiction is insidious. God help us.
Well done for overcoming the addiction
@@rhh176thank you but I haven't been cured. I work hard everyday to not become one of these people. Everyday it does get a little easier.
7 months is a seriously impressive achievement my friend. Keep it up, do whatever helps 2 stay on the right road. Clean living beats addiction hands down!! Stay strong.
Hi. Stay strong and take each day as new day staying clean.
Am lucky I live in England Croydon
Trust I do understand starting a new good life without any drugs
Trust 7 months we'll done .
Well done! You're doing so well, it's not fkn easy! It's good to hear these videos are helping sum1 stay clean.. Keep going strong!
Last two nights been up getting my son off fentanyl. Stay strong folks. I'ma get him back to good. God bless you all 💗
Maybe try a little Kratom tea for your son the withdrawals must be horrendous
Get him on suboxone, never methadone
❤ You’ve got this. ❤
Hi Angela- Wow that's not going to be easy, I will Pray for you and your son.. GOD Bless you Both...
Stay strong. Don't judge, Stay calm. Hug him.
I was addicted 30 year's, my beautiful husband died so i put that addiction in the coffin with him to take away, the last time i used was the night before he died, i miss him and i miss my addiction id be a lier if i said i didn't, but ive made my mind up and am doing well ..15 months clean. And feeling so strong..
That had to be the absolute hardest time of your life. And I'm sorry you went through it but glad it helped you find your way out.
LOVE
Wishing you all the best from now.🙋
What an amazing tribute to your husband...and gift to yourself. He would be sooo proud of you ❤️
That's amazing!!! I know how hard it is. It's an everyday struggle. You can do it, you are loved❤❤❤❤❤
February 14th I hit my 6year sober milestone! 💪🏻 Can’t believe how hard it can still be day to day🤦🏼♀️ It truly is a lifelong struggle but it’s also a lifelong commitment to myself to keep pushing & fighting it for my kids & my grandkids!
Great job! YOU are doing it.
Drive on! Me too 6 years after 25-30 years addict.
Stay on great Path .life still tuff. But a lot easier w/o addiction. Respect and have nice day!!
Many blessings to you in your life & success🙏🏽 Congratulations on 6 years🎆👏🏽 I'm 3 years clean & 12 years sober. I wish I'd never put that Poison in my body, but the guilt is worse than anything💔
@@Mark-gn5rw Many blessings to you in life, love & success🙏🏽 6 years is amazing, I hope to get there, I've only got 3 years.
CONGRATS 🎊🎈🎉
I had 14 years and 7 mos clean then went through the death of my closest family member then was displaced from our home after a flood. I’ve been living in a seedy hotel that has triggered all my fears and anxieties. On top of that stress, the person who raped me as a child tried to contact me after he got out of prison. It was the perfect storm of pain and instability and I had that drink which led to many more. I am highly disappointed in myself and super ashamed. This is the first time I’ve said this. I will do that work to get back on track, I just pray for the strength. Sorry to vent. Thank you for any support
So sorry to hear about what you went through. Be strong and take care of yourself.
You went through a lot at once, don't beat yourself up for the relapse as this will keep you in addiction. Reach out for help, I pray you have the strength to get sober again, you already made it to 14 years which is a great accomplishment so you can absolutely do it again. I believe in you!! Sending hugs and prayers!
You go girl...
W post, my lady. You are not attempting to defy or run from your conscience, but instead broadcast your lowest lows to the entire world, that perhaps we might know of your struggle and hold you to your proper account. By not running from it, but confronting it, you take the first step necessary to challenge its influence over your life. And you know what? You will do it, because you show courage and fortitude. Keep facing it and keep fighting it, and you will prevail. And if ever you lapse and get knocked down again, that's okay too, because one bump and a fall doesn't throw you off of the entire mountain, as long as you get back up, reclaim your footing, and keep climbing it again with that same determination.
You will win. You must win. I believe you can do it.
@@youngsomalia1511 🥹 thank you so much! I’m gonna fight to get back there. Thank you for lifting me up!!! It means the world to me
To the young man who gave up his kids, please don’t stop trying. My own dad was in your situation, and my sister and I your kids, once upon a time. We never hated him for being an addict, we just missed him. He got clean, and we forgave him. And when he relapsed, he got clean again, and we forgave him. Again and again. It took him twenty years to get off cocaine completely, and he’s a living a good life now, and he is everything to his grandkids that he couldn’t be to us. Your kids just want you to try. Please don’t stop trying. They’ll resent you more for not trying and for giving up, than for trying and failing.
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Yes! Thank you for sharing ❤
Absolutely right!!! The young dude was the one who really got to me and I do hope he keeps trying and never gives up. Congratulations to your dad! I'm happy for you and your family.
He's the one who got to me the most also. 😢
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My son is 2 years off Fentanyl. Suboxone saved his life. It’s a long journey. It is simply a miracle and luck he is still here. So many of his friends are gone. Stay strong and never give up.
I'm carrying on with Suboxone as well, took a long time to realize there were other paths. I maintain a great life with the prescription and couldn't be happier.
- Don't let anyone tell you that its just as bad, I made a complete 180!
Suboxone saved my life too from Dillaudid(hydromorphone). Im from Montreal,Canada. Here it's THE drugs in the moment...
@@My1upshroom Suboxone is fine, so is methadone. As long as the person is staying clean and it's causing no issues in their life. That said, weening down is very doable. I have seen many people do it. It's a personal choice though. As long as someones not using drugs anymore and is happy with their life then I say they're doing great. Glad you're clean and doing good man, that's awesome.
Glad you're son is alive and clean. I have 8 years years myself, and have built an amazing and successful life for myself in my 30's. In my 20s I did absolutely nothing other than drugs and alcohol, so it's possible to get clean and achieve a lot for sure. It's always possible as long as the addict is still alive. I was using for like 12 years straight every day multiple drugs and alcohol, so I was battling so much at the time. I have to know 20 or 30 people that have died. Not all friends, but names that I knew of. Glad you're son made it. I feel you on the luck too. I feel there was some luck in my success too, there always is going to be some, and there is bad luck for others, like people who die. You're son is doing awesome, just make sure he keeps it up
Been an addict for almost 10 years. Fentanyl meth crack. 1/2/23 sobriety date. I pray that everyone makes it to recovery. Unfortunately I know that’s not the case.
Me and you are on the same boat bro lol we stopped the same time crack n heroine ❤l
Yeah, most don't even want it unfortunately.
Glad you're clean and doing well. I have 8 years myself.
I just celebrated 10yrs sober in February. I am beyond grateful that I live everyday actually happy being sober. I never thought that would be possible. Utilizing any and every program has helped me significantly.
When I quit, that's when fentanyl started hitting my area. To anyone struggling in active addiction, getting sober is possible, once you're ready❤❤❤Don't ever give up hope!! I was in active addiction for 15 yrs, and I am clean. No relapses. Please, be safe!! Lots of live, and big hugs!!
You got out right in time. I got out too B4 Fentynal started to get real bad. I couldn't find H anymore so I started doing Fentanyl but I knew it would kill me so I got clean. I'm clean 2 years now. Fight the Good Fight, God Bless
Well done , not-many Make-It ! They should give olympic-medals to those that Do Dave nz
@@73monochromeI live in the Western New York area and I got out in 2016. I moved about an hour and a half southeast of Buffalo to get clean. It was the best thing I ever did I met a man who's not my husband and he helped me to get into a methadone program I work the methadone program and now I'm fine. I still get cravings But I deal with them and my life is fine.
Its only possible for a very small percentage. Lets be real. I am addicted myself for 22 years
going on 6 years myself. It was almost like some kind of light came down and saved me right before this world went completely off the rails. We are in some kind of war maybe the oldest war of them all. We all need to pick a side and soon. My heart goes out to all these kids man.
Want to clarify two things for other viewers:
1. Narcan (naloxone) is not like "smelling salts" and doesn't just wake someone up. It directly negates the effects of opioids by preventing them from acting in the body. It does this through a mechanism known as competitive inhibition; fentanyl hugs the opioid receptor but Narcan hugs it even tighter meaning fentanyl can't exert its effect. This is why it's so life saving but also why it leads to point 2.
2. Narcan makes people who were "sleeping" suddenly "anxious" because by directly blocking opioid action through competitive inhibition, it puts the person into withdrawal. This is very uncomfortable but generally safe - not all withdrawals are safe, but opioid withdrawal will very rarely result in harm to the individual. The person may be anxious/uncomfortable, but they won't be dead.
Thank you
Heroin withdrawal can kill
@@koolkitties8552So can fentanyl.
Good explanation. I work in the ER. We use a lot of narcan 😢
Opiate withdrawal kills people all the time
Got flown out to seattle when I started at Amazon about 7 months ago. Went to pike market and on our walk back ran smack into this exact place and was absolutely bewildered. I've never seen anything like it and I've lived in Indianapolis and downtown Phoenix. Unbelievable. It was crazy to see locals just walking on the opposite side of the street from the homeless, just talking to each other, not even looking at them. Saw people shooting up, nodding out. Saw some guy pull a hatchet on another guy. The mcdonalds they call mcstabbys up the street is even worse than that area by Ross. In fact I can't believe Ross is actually in business. Or that Chipotle on the opposite corner. Holy shit what a sight to behold.
mcstabbys hahahahahahhaha
I drive past 3rd and Pike every night, walked straight through it yesterday. It's nowhere near as chaotic as this video intially portrays it to be. Fentanyl is definitely a problem and I've seen my share of shit working in the area, but it's not a constant mess. Mostly just folks asking for money or Slurpees.
I used to shop at that Ross. I ate at that McDonald's. It wasn't as bad as this video shows. Most of the drug action was in Pioneer Square. But this was over 15 years ago. Google maps show that most businesses on that corner are permanently closed.
I worked near that McDonald's 20+ years ago. It's always been sketchy. Sooooo glad I moved.
Probably not a popular opinion (?) but if people are determined to kill themselves with drugs, even accidentally, why waste valuable resources trying to resuscitate them? Surely the afterlife has got to be better than living like this?
The guy in the orange jacket is 100% spot on. I live close to downtown- walking distance from 3rd and Pike. If you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you. Most of these people have gone through unimaginable trauma and mental illness - healthy people don’t just end up addicted to fentanyl hanging out at 3rd and Pike. We NEED real services and not just lip service and hand wringing
Hes not spot on not one bit. These people want hand out they dnt want to stop using .Healthy people can also end up addicted to fentanyl. People very rarely say "Hey I think Im going to be a junkie" Ive seen my share. Been in those shoes. Programs work but the person needs to want it. As long as people cosigning their bs they will keep doing what they do. Thats 100 spot on.
We need community and rehabilitation. Then they can choose a home, one they can happily keep.
Totally agree
@edie4321 The thing is all states have rehabs and programs. Here in Baltimore I spend most of my young adult life as a junkie. Was the same as the people in this video. Homeless, addicted, prisons and Od's. I've done all that. Even with help available. I didnt stop til I had enough. Got clean at 30 and I'm 46 now. They need to want to get clean.
@@goat2hell524, Yes, I'm talking about once they get clean. Sadly, in my state, you have to be in jail or on the streets to get treatment. They make you wait until you're in trouble. Not everyone's bottom is so deep. There's a lot of people in need.
Sad to think these people were once someones innocent little babies.
and PPL with hopes & dreams of a future at one time. What would they tell their teenage self?
That these are parents of those little babies! WHY ARE SENDING ALL OUR MONEY TO OTHER PEOPLES WARS, AND NOT HELPING OUR OWN BEAUTIFUL CITIZENS?!
Very sad ..god bless them all 😢🙏
I feel bad for them, no help from Democrat America either,
They are damaged people with traumatic childhoods that got left behind.
The denial is strong in some of these folks. That was me, once. I'm a heroin addict, been clean for almost a decade now. I still watch these type of things as a reminder that I never want to go back to that lifestyle (sometimes, after awhile, I remember the good times, but forget some of the really awful bits).
We do recover! Stay strong everyone ❤
I like how you said I AM, it's a healthy reminder that one doesn't ever really heal, you just learn to cope and stay the fuck away from it. Godspeed.
Stay clean the drugs are trash now a days anyways lol seriously tho there's no real H around it's all this china fet mixed with God knows what!!!!
Congratulations on your sobriety!
Wow I applaud you for your will and intelligence!!!!!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏾✨✌🏽
Girl same, 10 years off heroin and I freaking live 15 mins away from Seattle!! It's so f***ed.
Congrats on your sobriety! You’ve done a lot of hard work. I’m proud of you!
The best thing to do is not touch any hard drugs in the first place.
Truer words were never spoken
It's an irrelevant opinion here mate. You haven't tried substances possibly because perhaps your life hasn't collapsed in some way..? Perhaps you can handle your suffering nobly sober but you are in the minority there.
'Just don't do drugs' is just a useless position to take.
Your home has probably got medicine in it?
@paulrummery6905 TEN year heroin user that has been clean as many. It's a simple statement that you can never argue with. If I didn't do hard drugs, I wouldn't be a past addict of heroin.......should've stuck with weed
@@paulrummery6905 I tryed Marijuana before and might of drinking enough liquer to fill a liquer store,but can't drink anymore because I have to take medicine.
@@chesterfieldthe3rd929 sure, & fair enough but we never learn anything from some else's opinions, only from experience.. Like yourself and myself. You can't understand substance abuse until you have fallen amongst that set of choices and culture, often in circumstances you can't control..
Being puritanical, like 'thou shalt not kill' never stopped a Christian killing anyone or a nation going to war with another Christian nation.
What helps is understanding, education and compassion, not 'you're an idiot for getting high' in my opinion..
And well done mate for sorting out your own addiction.. Salutations and love.
We need to start showing this in schools. No one ever thinks this could be them, but it only takes a few bad things that can really jade your appreciation for life. If you can't cope w/ those things, you fight or give up...and it's really easy to give up
I was a truck driver & hauled lumber from BC and Washington and Oregon to Nevada in the 1970's . Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco were such great cities back then . Now those cities are dangerous and filthy. I do not see how we can pull out of this. I just feel fortunate to have great memories of these epic places. 😢
I moved from Ireland to Vancouver last year, visited Seattle and was in absolute shock. People walking around screaming at night, rats everywhere, people defecating on the roads… mental stuff. East Hastings over here is just as bad
I bet that was a time. I’m a regional northeast driver done a few years otr. Pacific northwest is stunningly beautiful
I’m an Iraq/ Afghanistan combat veteran that served 7 deployments and I came back to drive a truck every time I was stateside. I grew up riding in my dad’s KW and Mack cabovers in the 80’s. I THANK ALL TRUCK DRIVERS from the “good old days”. I’ve driven for 27 years and the country that we have around f us now isn’t the country that I and many like me signed up to stand for and lay our own life on the line for.
They were great cities even in the early 2000s, though the current problems were already present, just not to the same degree.
if the powers that be let all this new meth & fet in nice and fast- with literally no option to buy H- then they can switch it back or change it up- or get rid of it- the jails and clinics wont have as many customers though.
Lived in Seattle for a year from 2021-22, had to take a bus to 3rd and Pike at 4AM for work. Loved Seattle, but man this side of it sucked, and I never carried pepper spray with me until going on that commute. I feel for the people who suffer, yet at the same time, it's out of hand on so many levels.
My heart bleeds for these poor lost souls. I am a recovered meth addict of twenty years. I was so close to living on the streets. I am so grateful to have gotten a second chance.
Over 20 years ago as a kid we were arrested and harassed by the cops over pot and now they ignore this terrible drug.
Same
So true , it’s crazy how much freedom this nation has to the Point it’s backfired
I have thought of that before but it's still jarring to read. Even I have seen that same progress. Lord help us, whatever Lord you pray too.
Police aren’t allowed to do anything Politicians made it legal.. I mean dam people always blaming cops and Seattle is the epicenter of the anarchy defund the police movement. This is what the beginning of lawlessness looks like and it only goes downhill from here. Same devolution that occurred after the 60s in NYC. The Bronx looked like a bombed out London in the 1970s, subway system was nasty, burned out stripped cars, trash, graffiti, etc Zero Accountability = zero sanity and they all have sob stories and “wisdom” until your in the way of their next fix
Biden's America.
I've watched alot of these videos where youtubers are going around these kind of streets and I would like to say you have been the most respectful person and only asked questions that were important or relevant on how there journeys started and the effects on their lifes rather than filming a side show,well done sir.
but why did this video get so many dislikes? I dont get it.
@PM-vv3uc maybe it's after getting to the end, and hearing this guy @24:43 saying, "tax me...tax me...take another 5%"...yeah OK, sparky...keep that liberal 💩 to yourself! 🥴🤦♂️
@@mr.nobody10101 this is a documentary. He goes around to see what these people are like, what they think, and how they feel about it. He never said he agreed with him or not.
@@Popcorn_Pillow no, I know. But I was just "spit-balling" ideas on why so many dislikes. 🤷😉
P.S. And for the record, I liked & subscribed. 😊
@@mr.nobody10101 Fair. I guess people disliked it after seeing a strange number of dislikes along with the fact that the video would seem in bad faith before you actually finish it.
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
Congrats on your recovery. Most people don't realize that psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in Switzerland. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably 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 knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
The older man at the end talking about openness to increased taxation but also a bafflement about the inability for society to intervene...I broke into tears. 10+ years ago, I was addicted to heroin in the PNW. Seeing an older tax-paying citizen who's done well for himself show empathy & helplessness to address this problem moved me. The answer doesn't lie in increased funding, more relaxed laws, or tighter jail sentences. The problem is rooted in decades of governmental decisions that have led to horrific outcomes. What's the answer? I honestly don't know. I do believe government opened the door to this irreversible mess, starting with decisions made during the Reagan administration that dramatically increased #s of homelessness over the following decades. Now, we are reliant on government to fix the mess. How many generations do we have to lose until society rights itself?
I've got 25 months clean. The thing about addiction is that you are trapped before you know it. By the time you get through that realization, you are ass deep and it feels like you are just resigned to your fate. And the further you fall the harder it is to see light again. No one aspires to live like that but it happens so fast. My heart goes out to anyone struggling with addiction.
If you are addicted, get help. You can do it. I KNOW you can 💙
I just smoke weed, idk what the fuck the rest of you idiots are doing.
did you not know drugs are addictive before you even took the first time??? are you saying that you didn't know before partaking the first time that drugs are destructive? no one told you? I just don't get the mentality of doing it KNOWING the path it will lead down, its like standing on a highway knowing a car is going to hit you, then being surprised when a car hits you.
Nobody plans on being a drug addict. Of course everyone knows it's bad for you. Same with alcohol all of that. It's usually a more subtle thing.. Little by little sometimes it can reel you in. That's why I agree that pot is just the beginning. We are going to watch this whole country go down.. soon. It's a combination of everything. When they took prayer out of schools it was just the beginning. Look where we're at now where kids think they're animals and parents let them. Everything is so subtle. America is just too nice. Pretty soon we're going to find out how stupid we are . May we all repent and turn to the Lord.. He's the only hope and the only way out 🙏🙏🙏
Opiates are stupid and ruin you, coke is fun and expensive and is a choice even if its annoying to stop
-Former sleep deprivation hallucinator
@@_Y.Not_
You do realize a ton of people’s addiction started from doctors writing them scripts right?
My 33 year old brother passed away on one of those streets June 2023 from fentanyl overdose…they tried but couldn’t save him. I wish so badly he was in this video so I could hear his voice one last time.
I am so sorry😔 God bless you❤️
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I'm sorry I lost some one to fentanyl back in 2018 on their mother's birthday. They tried to keep the use age a secret but people could tell right away some thing was wrong. It was only after their passing that their mother discovered about it in their journal. Some where in the time-line I feel that he was on borrowed time and nothing could help at this point. He died a very painful death
one of my best fucking friends overdosed and died in the work trucking just making a pit stop on the way home from work. we worked together and lived together and he was the funniest guy and always made everyone feel like they would be ok he died in the middle of covid when everything was locked down and i just wish he couldve got to have a better year before he passed. he was only 22.
im still a little mad he decided to use alone though. but no one is sure that he really was. he might have been ditched by someone who got scared when he didnt wake up and after he passed out he was alone without help for about 8-9 hrs. will never know.
I have a son who is addicted to meth living somewhere in Seattle. Most likely on the streets. It's heartbreaking!
I’m so very sorry.
Sorry to hear it... I hope he comes home safe someday!
That last guy speaking - short dreads and beanie - what a beautiful positive attitude. He loves the city and really believes it will recover. He’s seen the dark side, but hey, hopelessness is a killer.
Was addicted to opiates, benzos, and amphetamines for 20 years.
Been sober since 1-1-24. Quit cold turkey and never looking back. With God all things are possible.
Amen to that! Sending you Best Wishes from Canada on ur continued your journey of sobriety. ✌🏼
Good for you JJ! My Dad quit cigarettes & alcohol cold turkey in the 1940's when he was 19. Started living for God....never looking back. I wish you Joy in your journey with God my friend.
That's only 3 months. Ur talking like u been sober for years
@@88Petryzip it
Glory Amen 🙏🏿
that guy broke my heart when he mentioned his kids and started crying . You can tell he dont wanna live like that and misses his kids a lot. God help him to get out f it asap.😔
if god wanted to help him, he would have
@@myfoodishere There can't be just happiness because if there's just happiness then there is no happiness. In order to have happiness, you also have to have sadness. Just like a loving parent taking your child to the doctor to get a vaccine, you allow your child to have some sadness--that to the child feels senseless--in order to have happiness later down the road. The child has inferior intelligence to the parent so the child doesn't think this is good. The parent has superior intelligence and thus knows it's good. God is so much more than you or I, if God deems that helping him in some fashion will bring the correct amount of happiness either to him or someone else, God will do that. God knows what's best just like your parents knew what was best for you when you were a child.
@@jeremias-serus god is not real and this is really stupid. i live in a country that has zero tolerance for drugs. it is safer, cleaner, and people are better off without drugs.
unless have 50k for lawyer and the ex lies then not much u can do. System run by perverts
@@jeremias-serus Or maybe things just happen, god or no god. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We’re ALL accountable for our OWN behaviour.
We have a genius on our hands 😂
I was an addict for 30yrs, I’m now 7 yrs sober. These people need to want to quit. Don’t feel sorry for them, no one felt sorry for me or any recovering addicts. Its mind over matter, only the strong survive and the weak will die.
I was an addict for a decade or more and couldnt agree more. I been sober for almost 5 years and now i view it as weakness. It makes me sick to know i was this pathetic at some point. If anything people should have treated me worse so I could see the truth faster. It's revolting how this society infantilizes adults nowadays. Normalizing drug use is a dumdest thing we can do
how did you quit?
I just quit. Just focused 100% on working. Every ounce of energy I had went into being clean. I set goals that I could achieve to build my confidence, then I made my goals bigger, I just bought my first home, I’m a superintendent of a major company, I have a 4 yr old daughter.
@@Dirtbagoutdoors-qh4nk you're amazing, I'm happy for you🤲
@@davidabest7195 that's really sad you view these suffering people with such disgust. I have 12 years sober and my empathy is stronger than ever for those still suffering. I suppose the revulsion and hatred maybe helps you stay sober in a way? Is that your motivation? Sounds like there's a lot of self-hatred in there. 'If anything people should have treated me worse' wow.
Tough love kills. It can be done in a beneficial way, but so often it's not done right and it makes things worse. Medication assisted treatment is the most effective treatment method we have. And a 25th/30th birthday, when the brain is fully developed people make better choices. Doesn't work for everyone, but I know many for whom it has been effective. You don't have to hit 'rock bottom' to recover.
The Morgan & Morgan advert was the most terrifying part of this video
He never blinks
Lawyer epidemic
Juice pushed opiates on America in the first place... Look up the Sackler family... They specifically targeted White communities with pills because of their hatred for Whites... And now they advertise while you watch their destruction. Truly sick and awful people.
Why…?
This Indian brit wanna be is just another profiteer from this tragedy.
Doesn't help just profits from the misery. India is a worse country btw.
I do the same thing. I had about 4.5 years clean and my sister died, I lost my business and got a bone infection in my hip that rendered me bedridden for the past 1.5 years. I was on methadone which I stopped last week. I'm still having withdrawals it's really hard but I know I can do it.
💜 recovering addict thinking about you and hoping you're ok. Keep fighting the good fight luvey.
You got this!! F hard drugs!
You can do it and those are the magic words you tell yourself Everyday ! Great thoughts and prayers in your corner .
Life your life, not the life drug dealers want you to
You can do it 💪🏾
We believe in you 🙌🏼
I work downtown Seattle and it is sad to see. I worked nights as a garbage man and I work in the very dangerous part of downtown EVERY NIGHT!!! It is going to get worse and there are no cops, no drug helping places, nothing. They just push people along and let them do their thing. It is sad and heart breaking. The city is dying slowly and it is almost DEAD!
I appreciate the humanity on display in this sort of film. No judgement, no telling the people off, just reminders that almost anyone can become a victim of addiction.
im sober from meth crack and heroin, 7yrs on thanksgiving of 2023. and im glad i got out. God opened a door by my downstairs neighbor apartment caught fire due to electrical wiring. I thank God every day for getting me and my kids out of that situation. moved from Minnesota where most of the people i knew and was related to did drugs and i had to get away. i took that opportunity to start over and be a better version of me. and a better mom to my kids. im glad i moved across country where i know no one. and i will never go looking for them drugs because i don't want to end up on the street. This looks absolutely frighting out there on the streets.
Its NOT about god, its about your strength of character and will, good luck my friend, dont give your power away
@mikedonnarumma5337 How dare you denigrate someone's praise to their Creator? Why would you? Perhaps you don't yet have a personal relationship with The One who made you. I urge you to use that critical thinking organ and reflect on that... millions of people in addiction have reached and obtained sobriety through starting with surrendering to their Higher Power... but you know better? Ask God to manifest in holy presence to you and see what happens.
Good for you and especially your children, giving them a life away from drugs. God be with you sister!
@@tahneamariabeareaglebrown265 you see the anger you people carry around for others that dont believe in the all powerful,all giving,all loving god who stood and watched as his child almost destroyed his life on drugs, a god who gave permission to sell your daughter, that my friend is the essence of disgusting
Yes, God is the only one who can help you, but you have to ASK Him for help. He gives you the strength to resist temptation. Otherwise, the evil one has control of your life and the evil in it!
I lived in Seattle and worked at Pike Place Market in the 90's. Even with the heroin epidemic of the time it was nothing like this. This is some Mad Max shit here. It's heartbreaking
I see this on the daily, all over the city. It's disgusting & terrifying.
Early 2000's SF for me. Same thing. It's gotten better, but it's nothing like it used to be. The drugs and homeless are a problem, but it's the crime. There are zero car chases here, cops aren't allowed to unless they see a murder. So 99.99% of crime just happens, and you stop reporting it
My heart breaks watching people going through this. MY wish for all humans that are suffering from addiction is to find their way out of this situation and step on to a better path. It's never easy but don't give up. You all matter to us. You all are loved. You are love. God Bless you and the ones out there helping people on a day to day.
I live a couple hours outside Portland, I don’t think it’s as bad but it’s close. I try to never go into the city, had to a few weeks ago for a buddy in the hospital, decided to take a walk around town, so sad it’s a war zone, zombie land. Used to be food trucks, music everywhere. None now. As I approached a dumpster I saw a body behind it, stuck between the dumpster and the brick wall. Abnormally twisted, like a rag doll, looked like someone had dumped it over the wall. Very freaky, I yelled at it, no answer, no I wasn’t going to get back there and touch it. Called 911, police never showed, fire truck and emt did, one of them squeezed back there and kicked the body, it responded. They started to leave, get back in their truck, I asked “that’s it, what about a danger to someone or themselves “ they just shrugged, said there was nothing they could do if the person didn’t want help, thanked me for calling, drove off as I walked away, shaking my head. What a world. I’ll never walk around Portland or Seattle again.
I stay overnight once every week or two in Portland, near downtown. Yeah there can be weirdos here and there but it is nothing like the hellscape you describe, although I do agree it was more vibrant before covid. But I don’t think that’s due to mostly to drugs and homelessness, so much as many office workers now working from home, so downtown is quieter and some businesses have closed.
@@Sashazur so, I didn’t see what I saw because you think everything is just fine? Next you’ll say wheeler is a good mayor and brown and Kotek are good governors. Some businesses have closed? Yeah sure 👍. All Walmarts have closed, countless other stores. That city is nothing like it was just a few years ago. Walking around at night is sketchy af. I feel safer walking around Tijuana. It’s not only the politicians, it’s also the public, people like you that placate it. Toxic Compassion is just as destructive as the problem itself, if not worse.
I am confused.......Was it a zombie or what?
@@brianmaitai7685 yeah, a new breed of zombie, a fettyzombie
"War zone" and "zombie land" are a bit much. It's safe to walk around at night if you don't bother anybody, people tend to leave each other alone. Is that a happy way to live? No. Are there still a lot of problems? Yes. Covid absolutely decimated businesses out here and most people just tend to stay indoors these days as a result of lockdown and working from home, which is the perfect environment for houseless folks to wander the streets and openly use drugs. It's prevalent but not constant, and until businesses recover it's going to be really hard to fix the issue. There's just too much freedom for folks who live on the street - They have very few excuses to quit or make something of their lives because there are almost no jobs and very little rules.
I'm from eastern Europe,a poorer country and we hear the stories all the time about how great America is... and then i see something like this and i go "nope,we're just fine over here.." What the hell happened ? How did it get to this ?
America is Capitalism. Everything is consumer-based. When you have a country like that, you have the wealthy and the poor, with not much of a middle class. That's how.
stay in eastern Europe broth, enjoy life
@@DIVISIONINCISION Theres other Capitalist countires that dont have this problem, nice try
America is Canada to Chile. The U.S.A. doesn't consist of one intersection in one city. Don't be ridiculous.
Democrats
Beware of the streets of Seattle when the sun starts setting. It's like someone flips a switch and instantly you're amongst the walking dead.
Same here, in a small Canadian town, just like all the towns around us…
every major city =-(
gotta be armed like the walkin dead
It's a societal problem, impacting all aspects of life. Seattle is an example.
My ex moved out to Seattle over a decade ago. I hope she made it out, but I had to cut off contract so I will never know.
The moral of the story: You use, you lose. It is crazy that strangers to you know how to control your weakness better than you.
You have to remember that this is only the start of it. Most of these people are in fact kind hearted people. Imagine what the streets looks like when it's not just the kind hearted people who falls into this. Imagine people with no care for others before the addiction becoming addicted to this. It's actually gonna be like a zombie apocolypse. Cause they'll just run at any breathing person to take everything from them in order to get their next fix.
I felt heartbroken seeing the guy crying about his kids. You can tell underneath he is a really good guy.
I watch these from time to time to stay clean. After 2 yrs i wanna get high but know what I'm facing. At times life jus kicks your ass and you don't know where to turn. U just want things to go away. But they never do😢 cheers to all that are going through this
You're doing the right thing. Find a new outlet for your focus when you feel drawn. Some paint, take up photography, music therapy, poetry, rock-climb.
Dude you’re doing great work. It breaks my heart to see their pain. I pray eyes will be opened.
Great work, what an insightfull documentry. I hope that these efforts shine a light on these lost souls in need of guidence. If you listen, people will tell you what's wrong and how to fix it.
All love for the guy @18:36 . Grew up in shelters, never not struggling, and still has a smile on his face and his level headed given his circumstances. He inspires me to show compassion understanding and strength. God bless that man. Take care of his spirit. Everyone and everything is light. The people in this are better off because of him. Hope he continues to share his heart . Sending blessings and thankful to know there are men in this world with that much Grace.
He’s on fent
"Trauma makes people wanna be less than they really is"
That's so true. Dang.
TRAUMA+DNA+ENVIRONMENT +PERSONALITY =ADDICTION
@@Jenny-uv4dlPure Capitalism makes the negative environment
@@michaelandrews4783 Yes blame everything EXCEPT for these disgusting lowlife junkies
Can go the other way, too. Trauma can make one stronger and more resilient. ;-)
Dang is not a word.
incredible doc, thank you
I moved away from Seattle before all this happened, and to see the despair, the pain, and the degeneration that has happened is absolutely heartbreaking.
Man, I remember 2005 down there and being worried about a joint.... look at them now....
I remembered when I went to Seattle for my first time to the Bon Jovi concert at the King Dome and I visited the Pike Market area in 1988 and around there were a lots crackheads , nowadays it’s worse 😢😢😢😢😢
And that's the problem. Some people thought they could raise hell over a joint and .... Look 👀😐 y'all raised hell to come populate your streets 🥀😑
I would never think the guy with the face tattoos would have a DRUG problem!
the homeless guy wandering around that absolute dump of a city with a biden t-shirt was super ironic.
Haha I remember even here in SF we would have to not smoke around cops. Now you can deal pills right in front of them, and they cant (wont) do anything.
One of the things that does not get mentioned or addressed for a often is the hypoxic brain injuries that some of these people are walking around with. I have 2 family members that are addicted to this drug and I have watched their mental health and cognitive function decline steadily. You see their lips turning blue when they look wide awake. You see them becoming more impulsive and less sharp and intelligent. It's almost like they are truly becoming a vegetable or a zombie from it - especially when they have had multiple severe overdoses with long periods of time without oxygen to the brain. This makes it even more dangerous, as you become even less intelligent or controlled with how you are managing your drug use.
Wow
Yep
Neuroplasticity is a wonderful thing, but to your point - it is possible reach a stage of “no return”; I myself have overdosed more times than I’d care to admit, but I’ve been shocked by how much my mental wherewithal has returned at even 2 years clean. Most noticeably in terms of impulse control (as you mentioned), but also in practical areas like memory & verbal acuity. Getting here has not been easy, but I do believe that with the right recovery supports + the right environment around you in terms of everything UN-related to recovery (so - work, hobbies, physical health, interests, passions, learning and growth opportunities, etc) remarkable leaps of recovery are quite possible.
Wishing the best for you & your family members.
pharma drugs are the problem, not decriminalisation. open drug use being policed is not the solution. this use culture also consists of people who have migrated to escape harsher consequences elsewhere. sure you can imprison all of them, but it will solve nothing. most of these people are coping with something or were presrcibed opiods or tranqs by a doctor. The prolem isn't grass or acid or mdma. it's almost all pharma based, even crack, comes from coke, that doctors once presribed.
How many brain cells die everytime they OD? 🤦
20:23 as hard as it is to watch somebody register that thought an emotion and see the response that their body has to it, it’s actually a good thing. He’s in there still, it’s not too late. There’s hope. I genuinely hope that he receives the help that it’s going to take to get him to a good place a good state of mind, and eventually to have his babies back. I just recently hit 5 years of sobriety and it wasn’t easy but it was so worth it.
Amazing interviews, very respectful.
G'day from Australia. I'm from Sydney & I took a trip to Los Angeles and San Francisco back in March 2023. Big cheers to Aaron for speaking his mind. I've witnessed the same scenes in downtown LA & SF, if not worse. Skid Row & Tenderloin are two suburbs I'll never forget. Homeless folks were crashing out inside LA metro trains at night, doing their business right there & leaving needles behind. Even Hollywood's flashiest streets with stars on the footpath were covered in homeless tents. Utterly shocking and completely different from what both the American and Aussie media show about LA and SF. What's worse, I met loads of Yanks who were really open about how bad things are in their country. They felt they could share because I'm Australian and not likely to judge them like their own mates would. It's truly gut-wrenching to see our Big Brother nation falling apart from the inside.
Don't judge All America by these Shit hole Cities Run by Democrats for the Last 50yr s Watching from Beautiful Bedford Virginia home of the National D day memorial because we lost so many Brave young men from this small Town come visit my friend.
Come to Canada. Your other sibling ain't that much better.😢
I live in Wisconsin. You only see one or two homeless people, and they’re the same ones you see year after year. Clean streets, no litter. Nothing like this.
Yeah, the major cities are awful. But to be fair, there are thousands and thousands of really clean cuties all over the US. But not to get too political, the extremely liberal cities without fail, are exactly like the one seen in this video. Every one. They just have such a "soft on crime" mindset that it not only excuses those who already live there from their actions, but it has cause tens of thousands of other misfits to flock to those cities, because they can do whatever they want without consequences. It is so infuriating having to wath this happen, while many are too brain rotted to admit it is their extremely liberal politicians and lawmakers who are running these once great cities down the drain
Yes it's 5th Generation Warfare. They're destroying the people this way..
I went to Seattle in the mid 90’s on RnR from the British Army and seen none of this.
I seen one Vietnam Vet begging on the street which we all gave willingly to as Serving Soldiers.
No addicts ,no one lying in the streets.
Nothing.
What a mess America is in now and it’s taken what 30 years?
I have lived in seattle for my whole life im 44, i would never bring my kids or anyone, my mom, sister or any family to downtown if my life depended on it, all it is, people who work at amazon that make $50 an hour who dont even look away from their phones as they walk past countless homeless, homeless, crazy homeless, drug addict zombies, people boosting from stores, hookers, and good people trying to get from point a to b as fast as they can and not get attacked. Seattle is rotting from the inside out. Its disgusting.
I’ve got a little over 3 years clean from fentanyl. This absolutely breaks my heart to watch 😢 prayers to every addict suffering, you can do it! I believe in you ❤
Congratulations. It hasn't "hit" here as hard in Ireland..but it's coming. I'm on MMT myself (heroin) almost a yr and a half at this stage...today is one of those days where my head won't stop attacking itself (well,that's how it seems)..i run out of my monthly scripts for Val's/zopiclone (28 of each) much sooner now and I'm not too sure what to do. If I go to the doctor he'll take me off them altogether 😮💨..kind of a catch 22. Once again, congratulations on your sobriety.
I celebrated last Sept my 10 years sober... If I was able to achieve it.. So are you..
No excuses.. Take the beast by the horns and squashed it..
Learned about addiction, go to therapy but stop making excuses and value your life and your worth!
I can get behind this comment. Someone actually telling the truth.
1,000 fent overdoses in one year in one city is .... Just very, very, very tragic. No words for it, really.
It's the whole west coast too.
All part of the 1%'s plan. Government isn't going to fix anything because the 1% own the government.
And also shows not a single individual in authority is doing a single thing about this clearly massive problem.
@@Delicious_J blame their bosses
@@rallokkcaz Its even worse on the east coast. West Virginia in particular is notable for drug problems, though hardly unique.
It's not especially new either. People have always turned to substances to escape hard lives. Fentanyl is relatively new and horrible, but heroin and meth and crack and anything else you typically think of as a "hard drug" has gone through the cycle over the past half century or so. Even before the advent of chemistry-based drugs last century, natural drugs like cocaine, opium and even alcohol were rampant.
Hell alcoholism was such a problem that the US invented an entire amendment to try and combat it - and the people still wanted booze so badly that they had to go ahead an unamend that amendment again.
The biggest thing that's new is exposure. Starting even in the 1980s when 24 hour news came around and started needing to find stories to fill an entire 24 hours we were already seeing these kind of videos around places like Skid Row in LA, and now with social media, the exposure is orders of magnitude greater. We're not seeing increased overdoses on the streets because overdoses have been increasing - we're seeing increased overdoses on the streets because the number of incidents we're able to see has been increasing.
Of course the number of overdoses in general has likely also been increasing, but it's not because the police are more lax - it's because the economy has gotten worse and worse for the lower classes - GDP has skyrocketed but almost all of that is going to the top 1% or so - even middle class people are struggling to make ends meet. And as noted at the top, people have always turned to substances to escape hard lives.
You just want to hide the problem so you can pretend it doesn't exist? Sure, heavy-handed police brutality will do the job. For a while. But if you want to actually solve the problem, you need to find a way to make life without drugs more bearable for those who have given up. You'll never get 100% of them - some peoples' are hard for reasons that aren't purely economic - but you'd get a large majority of them.
And there's been efforts to do just that of course, but this is not a problem that was created in 4 years and it's not a problem that can be solved in 4 years, so politicians who live and die on a 4 year cycle aren't really willing to invest more than a token effort as the payoff won't be visible before their next campaign season and their opponents will attack them for "wasting taxpayer money".
That leaves it up to charitable organizations to deal with a problem that's fundamentally not just municipal, or state or even national but global. They make a difference to be sure, especially for those they help, but they simply don't have the scale and scope to change the systemic issues that cause people to get into these bad situations in the first place.
From 2003-2006 I lived 2 blocks from 3rd and Pike and it was fabulous! Great stores, restaurant and coffee shops. I walked to my office and at night it was safe. Now it's a place I would never visit.😢
What’s sad is they let these people dictate How a city is run and operates.
@@johndeere8594 when you have a wimp for a governor and a half wit for a mayor this is what you get.
Me too 2008-2010. I feel the same. Belltown was a little shady and down by Chinatown but otherwise I felt safe. What a freakin mess now! I moved away in 2010 and just came back it’s soooo sad!
Yeah I remember that place in 1993, 2003. It was called The Blade and it was crawling with junkies, crackheads, and dealers. Joker and Burns (no joke!) were the cops that policed that strip, busted the dealers. It's always been rough. 1st and Pike was a little rougher back then, it's crawled towards Capitol Hill over the years but it's always been Skid Row, Hooverville, Fet City, whatever you want to call it...
You’re a little extra for this. First off call me when it’s more than a three year visit. Try growing up and spending day to day here. Second since when was there a lack of drugs and violence in Belltown or pio. Possibly the 50’s? Third try still living here and frankly… sure there is some bad stuff, but THAT bad? Not if you’re not completely bubble wrapped. I walk through this corner everyday working, commuting, on my way to get dinner etc. Its not that scary. There are indeed a number of jugs and addicts but I’ve rarely ever, if ever, personally never, felt threatened as I’m not involved in any trade etc.
I got stuck on a layover flight from Sacramento to Texas in Seattle and ended up being homeless for 6 months. Everyone homeless around me were doing drugs and I was super depressed because of my circumstances so I began using too. It left me even more depressed as well as suicidal. Then I met my now husband, who stuck with me through my severe depression and now we are happy and I’ve been sober four years and will never look back.
Your flight was from SMF>SEA>to HOU or DFW? That’s a strange flight path. You were homeless in Seattle or Texas? If Seattle, why couldn’t you complete your flight?
@@bluedressable My flight was up on Alaska airlines, going from my employers could find to Texas. Apparently, that was the most cost-effective flight they could find. But I left at a later flight from Sacramento and that lead to a later flight time from Seattle and my original ticket says something different, so I spent six months homeless in Seattle, because my parents didn’t care, and I had no one else to help me.
@@AmazonEspionage that is so horrible. I am sorry you experienced that. 😔
I thank you so much. you’re so much an encouragement to us regulated!!!
I grew up in the Seattle area and now live in TN. It's such a sad thing to see this once great city a dystopian nightmare now.
Good move TN is beautiful I hope to relocate there out in the country have some nanny goats and chickens, bunnies puppies and kittens go bird hunting and gathering and canning, I got tired of Seattle decades ago and sorry to say I seen this and worse coming U.S. is in a full communist takedown the RCP used to run all over the place hating capitalism and preaching utopia even carrying Mao's little red book, I'm not joking. The UW Campus was even called Red Square, and not because of all the red bricks in the plaza. . . Yeah, people could study Marx and learn a lot but time is so short now.
Iam 2 years sober. Watching this breaks my heart. Many of these people don't see an out or their life getting better. If it wasn't for the support from my family to get clean i would most likely be still using it dead. We need better help out in place for the homeless and addicted. Lord be with all these people. 😢
Same here, and I agree 100%
I'm queer and do street work on my free time in Berlin. we have a lot of runaway soldiers here from the russian war of aggression. a lot of refugees that have been denied services against eu and german constitutional law. a lot of left behind germans. in any place the vast majority of the unhoused, you will never see. but when unhoused folks have addiction problems it's for all to see. queer folk, deaf folk, folks with disabilities often don't have family to fall back on so they are more likely to find themselves worse off. drugs aren't even the route that most people found themselves on the street with even when it's a current problem and when it is it's often pharma related.
we all need to be angels, I say that as an athiest that loves partnering with kind and rightous people of any faith.
In capitalism or the punk seen it's always "do it yourself", but the only people I ever see truly succeeding have extended support networks. We need to open up our lives to more chosen family, I believe Jesus and the criminals/disciples shows this too. He lead his life by example whatever else you believe about him, that fact is undeniable.
the timing of that dude walking by looking so unhinged just as other dude says "these people need more loving" lmao
"it's part of my process almost passing away" -Darren
My dad left me for drugs when I was 16, breaks my heart seeing the man cry for his kids I know my dad feels the same he's just ashamed and too dependent on drugs. Watching videos like this always brings my mind to him and how he is in the streets doing drugs like them. On another note why does it feel like the government is pulling strings to make laws on drugs less strict or making it legal as a form of population control?? It's so dystopian to me seeing so many people on the streets tripping out on drugs it's getting a lot worse. I feel like our government does not care about homelessness in our country. They are funneling billions of dollars into other countries to help them but won't even help our own people, everyone else matters more than us and that's the bottom line.
We have fentanyl in London. I cringed when you said that. Fentanyl is worldwide bro
I believe he meant at this type of level. Their are homeless in London and drug-addicted in London, but London does not look like Seattle like Portland like Los Angeles like Kensington like San Francisco....who's next?
You probably do.Fortunately you’re not bordering Mexico and it’s drug cartels.
Oh but it will just wait it's heading in that direction and I know believe me on that
@@adspurFentanyl & oxxies and others opiates were in Seattle before the cartels
Not in New Zealand, we don't inject nothing .
All these fent users etc done it to themself - too bad
As a European/Australian, our countries are just a step away from being the cartels next marketplace.
Cartels huh try governments throwing it from the sky. Like they did cocaine. I’m sure 10 years from now they’ll be a news alert the govt trafficked fentanyl into neighborhoods.
I heard that fentanyl is now in Denmark, and young people take it... i'm completely speechless as to why people would want to take this
Bro the cartel is already here, they in control of most the coke trade
@@jacla666 because its cheaper then heroin buddy
@FPV_Viking ... Too late mate ... Watch this documentary on the Aussie cartels, posted about 6 days ago: czcams.com/video/5nMvKz2fIjc/video.html
My brother died last year on opiods, his behaviour got so bad my family had to distance from him, he paid the price. I live in a small city about 100,000 people, theres tranq zombies hunched over all over downtown and other places. Its getting to the point they need to build drug camps to contain the crazy people. They built housing for them and had support people to try and help but the drugs are so strong and addictive it just doesn't work for most addicts, they relapse over and over. I undersatnd addiction I'm an alcoholic, its really sad when I think thank god I'm just an alcoholic.
The government is 100% to blame for this country's drug and homelessness problems . There is zero reason that the wealthiest country in the world has so many homeless people and drug addicts . Politicians have zero desire to stop either of these problems, because they make too much money from the creators of these problems . There should be rent control in every state/county/city/town in this nation and the pharmaceutical industry should be held accountable for their disgusting behavior . But, like I said before, Politicians make far too much money from these ppl
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other countries must think what is the matter with the U.S. yikes maybe instead of all the money spent on wars, clean up your own dirty streets gross
I'm from the US and couldn't agree with you more.
I'm not from America and I'm gob smacked from all the doco's I've seen on homelessness , drug problems, the lack of health care for those that can't afford insurance. My kids would not know what to make of seeing a whole group of people bent over swaying on the spot or sleeping on the street. What a huge problem America has, it's extremely sad to see.
@@nickeljims1532 you are correct. I feel that if we had a better mental health system, it would make a world of difference. It seems no one gives a shit about people who struggle. So sad. More pathetic. I hate that part of the US
Other countries' people don't have to wonder, they know. This is asymmetric warfare. And it's winning.
@@nickeljims1532I live in Florida. We have fentanyl here, but you don't see people getting high and nodding off in the street. They would be arrested and put in jail.
I grew up in Seattle and watched this scene ramp up in the mid 80s after the funding cuts for mental health treatment. It’s been like this ever since except the drugs have gotten stronger and more dangerous.
Imagine if helping the desperate individuals in your own community had just half of the brownie points as international and cultural issues.
Love your work Aaron ❤🙏🇬🇧
It’s far worse in Seattle than this. It’s everywhere RVs and rents line the city. Fentanyl addicts nodding out in the thousands everyday. The police and everyone is afraid of them and it runs rampant. I just moved to San Diego and people think the homeless problem here is bad, it’s far worse in Seattle than San Diego for sure!
Moved to SD from Seattle in 2017. Homeless problem here is nothing compared to Seattle.
Why is it that Seattle is so bad? 😢
This is your city on secular progressivism.
Ex IV opioid user here, narcanned frequently enough. There is no "high" from narcan. It's just instant withdrawal. Not always instant though. One time I was still kinda of high for a while after getting home from the ER, went to bed, woke up maybe an hour or two later with the worst anxiety, sickness, etc. and puked from outside the bathroom into the toilet. Not pleasant but it was actually pretty impressive. I love narcan though. It saved my life and many others. Not every gets sober on their first try. Harm reduction helps people people get there. Stay strong.
Naloxone
I think you may be delusional. I bet not even half of the people in this video will ever kick their addiction or even improve to the point of becoming a productive member of society. They have a greater chance of dying.
Narcan is naloxone literally
@@user-cs1fz4jw7r It's the same thing... narcan is just the patented nasally administrated version and most normies aren't familiar. I would call my Suboxone sublingual buprenorphine films at the pharmacy but to the average person I would just say Suboxone or Subs. Quit being a sperg this isn't r/drugs.
Yeah, I thought that when he said it... You can't get high of narcan, it instantly puts you into withdrawals, WICH is why soo many overdose instantly after it being used on them as it puts them into full with draws and blocks the opiod effects so thay will use an even bigger amount of drugs after being narcaned to try n stop them feeling the symptoms of full opiod withdrawal WICH is absolutely an horrendous feeling the worst feeling in the world... Once that stuffs gotta hold on you it's the hardest thing to brake ever, and to the ppl who have managed to get clean and stay clean then WELL DUN, to those ppl as thay managed to beat the worst well 1 of the hardest addictions in the world🙏🏻❤️✌🏻❤️❤️✌🏻❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Visited Seattle in May 2022 and I think it was even worse then this... I was stationed at Sheraton Grand on 6th Ave & Pike for a week and a half. It's a big shame to have such a beautiful city plagued by this problem. Walking down Pike to the Market was sometimes so surreal!
I work in Pike Place Market. The fentynal crisis sucks, this country needs to re-invest in psychiatic healthcare that started being glutted by the Republicans under Reagan, and now here we are. But the majority of this video is shot on one corner...at the Ross Dress for Less on 3rd and Pike. I don't know why, but 3rd Ave. in general has ALWAYS been skeezy. From Pioneer square thru Belltown, 3rd Ave has always been sketch. I tell tourists to stay away from the Ross Store and the McDonalds one block away on 3rd.....and you're fine .The rest of downtown is way more chill.
"Government keeps creating program after program without perfecting a one". This man has it figured all out.
That's the problem with "programs", they are not solutions.....they just raise taxes & delay the inevitable.....ppl must be accountable for themselves. Government programs don't save anyone.
These people are free..You cant do anything,you cant make them stop unless,same with guns..Dont allow nobody access..Thats the only way..Otherwise nothing will solve that..But they make money lots of it,same with guns..Thats why they will never remove them..!!!
They need a substitution program that has more type of Opiates.
Not only methadone and Buprenorphine.
Some European countries you either get pharmaceutical heroin at a clinic or you get a script for let’s say Oxycodone you can get at the Pharmacy.
As long as the lawmaker's friends got the fat government contract, that's the most important thing. Second most important thing is for the voters to be fooled into believing the lawmakers are doing something. The least important thing is helping these folks
@@Rocketman0407Jesus Christ has freed millions and millions of people from all kinds of addictions throughout human history and you're babbling about taking more drugs. Just shut that idiot mouth 🗑️
I work the frontlines here in Canada with our homeless population, never seen anything like this before
San Francisco and Oakland are WAY worse.
DTES? crab park is nuts right now. union/main gets pretty weird at night.
pain and wasting's ( main and Hastings) it dont get much worse
@@tonyroach6297 for sure, tunnel vision and dont look like a mark! never had an issue
Where at in Canada. I have heard some of the big cities like Vancouver are the same way
The Bermuda Triangle analogy fits soo well it's sad...
One of the guys even said, "I came here and got lost..."
Thankful to the universe my family myself I AM IN RECOVERY BEEN IN RECOVERY FOR A LIL LESS THAN TEN YRS AND MY LIFE IS LITERALLY THE BEST .. my mental health is what I’m working on now really hope these people can want the change .. ❤❤❤
It’s astounding how nonchalant people discuss their drug addiction. It’s like it’s all normal. It’s so scary.
We don't have any services in the USA to deal with this. I'm not sure anywhere in the world does. We're what everywhere else will become. It's like those Cyberpunk novels and books of the future you read about and see in the movies. It's actually happening.... It sucks.
When all you look forward to every day and every second of the day is getting high that's all you can talk about without a problem there's an old rehab saying it goes "you live to use and you use to live", that's how addiction works.
@@Projectmayhem82 Play stupid games win stupid prizes and then complain about it for the rest of your life.. I was introduced to drugs and I turned them down, what the fukkk is your excuse? All lame excuses
It is normal, for them.
I used to live in Seattle and when I visited in January of 2023 I couldn’t believe the state of the city. I was down at 3rd and Pike on a Saturday afternoon and there were more homeless people than normal citizens and tourists. It was heartbreaking to see so much suffering.
Seattle used to be so beautiful. 😔
I avoid the downtown area at all costs. And Belltown, that's a particularly terrifying area. Capitol Hill is still decent, though I did get attacked by a homeless man back in 2022. Was walking down the street at 9am, guy approaches me and shoves me hard into the street! It was so scary. I'm so grateful there were no cars or I could've gotten my skull crushed or who knows what. Of course the man was never caught. I reported it to security and turns out they never submitted the report! -_-
That being said... I still think Capitol Hill is overall pretty chill. I haven't been attacked since. That happened at a time when the homeless random attacks was at its worst. Pioneer Square is actually pretty chill nowadays. Gotta be vigilant but it's much cleaner than it was 10-15 years ago.
I'm sad at what Seattle has become. I remember as a dumb teenager, my friends and I would dress up in our fun raver outfits (admittedly a bit skimpy) and feel safe walking all around the city late at night to early in the morning. Nothing scary ever happened back then. Now there is no way I'd do anything like that or let my younger sibling / future children do that sort of thing. Too dangerous!
I also used to live there. I worked at the Kress on 3rd and Pike. It wasn’t like this at all back then 😢
16:20 I feel so bad for this guy because I can tell he's a genuinely cool, genuinely good person. Sometimes I could cry for these lost souls.
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Seattle and San Francisco and Portland used to be such special, quirky cities back in the 70's and 80's when i grew up in SF. I cant even stand to go back to SF now it is so upsetting to see what they have allowed to happen. The politicians who presided over this are disgraceful. So much suffering they have caused
i live in washington . 10 years ago it was night and day difference. it is so sad to see something so beautiful get destroyed. i wont dare go to san fran at this point. Portland is nuts tooo, its like apocalypse now........fires on the sidewalk......rampant crime and open drug use. So sad
I think that a lot of you have poor memories. I've been in and out of the city my whole life 35 years, and some of my earliest memories were from homeless openly using drugs and bathing in public fountains on the waterfront around the viaduct. The area where this is filmed has always been notorious for open drug use and murder/ assault. Really the only difference between those early memories in the early '90s and now is that it's just easier to be homeless now because cops used to round up the homeless and concentrate them around the viaduct. The only thing new is the acceptance of tents on the street. But the drugs and murder have always been there as well as the apathy. I remember at the age of five so around 1994. My dad reviving somebody who had stolen toothpaste and then passed out on the street and when he awoke he threatened to kill my dad which terrified me for many years. Needless to say, all of this talk of Seattle used to be better is simply by people that haven't been around long enough. It's more open now but the prostitution the drugs and all that have always been there. It's just more visible now.
it is all by design, the Government's project!
The suffering was there then before anyone saw I like this it just pulled them out of the woodwork to get closer to the dope these folks were hooked long before the laws was changed
just came from Frisco, Stockton is wayyy worse
"Addiction is a lot like an abusive relationship your not ready to leave it until you had been hurt enough",. -Oz Rivers
This is so true
The one kid said he died after the _first_ time he ever tried it.. so why the F%CK WOULD HE CONTINUE TO USE IT?! Insane how dumb some people are..
Actually this is NOT true. Addiction is really CAUSED by a person not feeling loved or connected in any meaningful way. Most often without identifying and working on the actual causes, like abuse (as a child), neglect as a child, and even some less obvious things like surviving narcissistic parents or significant others. There is a DEEPER root for most ailments, particularly addiction. It is NOT just a substance that grabs ahold of a "regular" person and then they just lose control. That may happen here and there, like 1 in 10,000. But MOST addictions are patterns of essentially trying to escape the harsh reality of THIS world... THIS country... THIS crappy society. I argue that if you consider multiple generations, which MANY psychologists and sociologist are now FINALLY looking at; you can find that MUCH of our crappiness, addictions, and coldness have been born from greed. It often started with greed and Capitalism from several generations ago. People's grandparents and before were given rough expectations. Often older generations ended up taking out their frustrations on their own kids. Then those people ended up doing bad stuff to their kids and so on. Sometimes it's just a particularly difficult child. But MOST OFTEN, it is our funnel-of-a-system trying to FORCE all people to be equal. This is mostly in school. Humanity no longer just lets people BE WHO THEY NATURALLY ARE. We're all EXPECTED and really FORCED to do work that nobody really wants to do. But much worse is how they treat people, who are not "on top." I could go on and on. But, I already have... :-) It's a COMPLEX problem though... not a meme or platitude type of topic.
@@hhaste > why the F%CK WOULD HE CONTINUE TO USE IT?!
Because to him, dying was better than whatever he was dealing with in life.
> Insane how dumb some people are
Not "some people". All people. There are things you do that are bad for you as well. Some you probably are aware of, some you probably aren't. We all do what we can to cope with problems we face, and there is rarely a "smart" way to go about that. I'm happy that you've never been hit so hard by life that you think dying might be better, but you're only one anecdote among 8 billion stories. Your (lack of) life experience is not indicative of everyone else'.
If you’re struggling with addiction, please reach out for help! You are loved and worth it!
The kid who got hit with a gun is a dead ringer for a young Bill Pullman (detective Harry Ambrose, the dad on Casper)
Such beautiful people. I’m 5 years clean today from fentanyl and crack and stumbled on this. I’ll never forget that hopeless feeling.
Dude @14:00 saying its racist to lock up the people publicly doing drugs its crazy.
He was making no sense anyway was he chairman Mao. His head was fried. "Almost racial." I mean what the hell is he talking about?
Yep libs say everything is racist
@@Mongieboy The war on Drugs was entirely racial. Do your research.
@@Mongieboy he was saying that it would possibly reflect on the city badly since the majority of people arrested would be of color
Yeah, I didn’t understand that. I walk that area a lot and see ALL races, fighting their addiction.
As a society, we need to make more of an effort to reclaim individuals from the fringes of society. Their experiences can be an extremely valuable tool for preventing others from falling into the same trap - but only if we recognize that these individuals have that value. So many people see the homeless/drug addicted as societally "worthless", and that needs to change. They are probably our greatest resource for solving the issue.
Yes. The issue will be solved when each individual realizes enough is enough and walks away from destroying themselves. May God have mercy and reach down. God already has many times. They keep refusing the call. Life is hard for almost everyone that has ever walked through this world. We have a choice. I choose to abide in God's commandments and walk by faith in Christ. I also, had to deny my own lust of the eyes for the things of this world and the lust of the flesh and pride of life.
All these people on the street have family somewhere. Why are their family members not doing everything they can to help them?
My family had it's share of alcoholics and drug abusers and the family stood by them, some died of their alcoholism and some got clean.
If families abandon their own how can you expect the stranger to care for them, we are busy caring for our own. It's a shame really.
God gave us families, the point of a family is to grow in Christ with.
One person can't save them all, hence, families.
Where's the love of Christ in families today? Marriages? Maybe it's absent because people hate Christ and prefer the darkness and their evil ways. Smh
"One person can't save them all" is rather frank denial of the primary tenet of Christianity. Also, all are brothers and sisters in the Lord.
the political party in power has made this happen in all ways.
@@doriangray7723 I consider myself agnostic at best. It's great that the Christian framework provided value in your life - religion does have value, a lot of great things can happen when people come together. I'm just not a huge fan of the magical thinking associated with religions - it's just too primitive of an approach to abstraction (what I mean is that complex systems don't have to be abstracted into some "magical" idea, you can just as easily just recognize the abstraction for what it is because we are intelligent creatures - no magic required).
Take out the religious aspects of your comment, and I think we are agreeing that these individuals can be helped if they had a better support network. You mention family, but really anyone can step in to be that support network. Family is a natural support network, but these individuals have often lost touch with their families - or simply don't have family.
I think correcting the perception that these individuals are "worthless" can go a long way to building them a worthy support system.
@@scottfay3553 Thank you for that absolutely worthless observation, Scott. Politics hasn't provided a solution, so I'm weary of continuing to pass the buck to politicians. I'm not really interested in discussing politics as a solution given its track record.
This looks like fun. I'm going to get hooked on this stuff.
That's hilarious. Not.
I'm in recovery 4 years clean. Man my heart breaks for MY PEOPLE 💔. Hoping they find the road to recovery soon.🙏❣️
I am 26 years Sober from alcohol, 30 years clean of cocaine, 14 years off cigarettes..and I have NEVER been SO GRATEFUL to be allergic to opiates!!! It is hell when you live with chrionic pain...but Tylenol and Organically grown Marijuana see me through!
Weed might help a bit - But NOT for me. I have SEVERE Chronic Neuralgia in my skull - I Tried to kill myself so many times I can't count doctors can be absolute Bastards - But Five Years ago that ended WHEN I DISCOVERED RED STRAINS OF KRATOM - THE ULTIMATE 'FUCK YOU!' TO MSMEDICAL AND FAT & DEADLY CHEM-PHARMA!
Kratom SAVED MY LIFE! - Try it - It's Nothing Short Of A Miracle from Yeshua! Cheers....
I went to court in the 90s for seeds and stems
@@charjl96 I wish I could go back to the 90's such an amazing time to be alive.
Then you aren't sober. What does your sponsor say about your marijuana use? Marijuana is a powerful psychotropic and SUPER ADDICTIVE mind-altering drug. I know people like to argue about it being addictive- IT IS. If you disagree, try to stop. I think it's time to stop treating weed like it's a folk hero and look at reality. I dealt with crippling chronic pain for years, then I met an addiction medicine specialist 20 years ago who changed my life. Your condition cannot be properly diagnosed when you're using weed. I know I'm just a random person on the internet, but if you'd try stopping for 60 days (under medical supervision) I'd be willing to bet that the chronic pain would magically go away. BEST WISHES.
Have you tried growing your own shrooms?
I went to Vancouver Chinatown in 2019 and it was a ghost town and the people you could see were serious homeless junkies.
It was so sad. There were barely any tourists because it was known as a haven of drug affected people. It was really sad to see a commonly vibrant place be silent with the weary.
thanks morgan and morgan