Inside Detroit's Fentanyl Overdose Epidemic | Documentary
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- čas přidán 2. 12. 2023
- Embark on a gripping journey into the heart of America's latest and most unsettling societal challenge with our documentary, "The World's Most Scariest Drug Taking Over America," shot amidst the haunting landscapes of Detroit, Michigan, including the notorious Kensington Ave - often referred to as "Zombie Town." Delve into the chilling and pervasive influence of this potent substance as we unveil the sinister realities through in-depth interviews, shocking footage, and expert analysis. Join us on a compelling exploration of the alarming consequences this drug imposes on individuals and communities, shedding light on the dark corners where this menacing drug has taken root. Brace yourself for an immersive experience that exposes the unsettling truth of a looming crisis, compelling viewers to confront the urgent issue at hand.
Shot By: @phundoart8705 - @phundoart for the IG - Zábava
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I hope you pay these poor people and not just exploit them so you can be comfy.
@@vasil3089 it used to be 10 dollars an interview but it must be much more now...everyone getting high/shooting up would have scored that from what he gave them..
My husband and I would be willing to be part of a doc, we definitely have a lot of war stories,but our situation is slightly different than some. We are in Delray, SW Detroit,and we are a different breed,here in the neighborhood of Delray. Let us know,we'd be happy to help educate the public.
When was this filmed
There's a couple that comes on CZcams daily 2-4 times a day. They beg for 🤑 to feed their drug addiction.
And CZcams allows this BS, there subscribers report every video they put out. The name of the channel is "Maddie's journey to success" They have been on the streets over 8 years.
They lie & scam people on YT. She gave up her kids for a life on the streets, she's a pathological liar & a malignant narcissist. She and her partner or prostitutes. They are in Detroit as well.
Thank you to the people giving kind words and support. My son is now with us and has been clean for a month. Please keep the prayers coming for him and all the others that need help.
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I am now eight months clean, a couple of these people interviewed were my former acquaintances, i even saw some of the abandoned houses i use to be in. I am now thanking the good lord for delivering me. I just randomly selected this documentary. That is God telling me too continue staying clean.🙏🙏🙏🙏
Help I can't quit. How did u quit
Heck yes ! You keep it up! You're amazing and you're doing great!❤
YOU got you clean. Please don't let imaginary friends take that credit. You're extremely strong. I hope you continue staying clean.
I pulled a semi over on 6 mile by John R to go inside a crack house. The man in charge had had his chest opened up and sewn back shut a few times. I was glad no one stole my semi while I sat there and got high. The man in charge was a total trip. He kept telling me that he be working with the police, and they was parked around the corner.
@@jeffguzman6497you are cared about !! And somewhere someone is waiting so patiently for you... I pray that you go through the darkness to find the light 🙏
"Living like what, what you mean". Dude, he meant living like a strung out rat in an abandoned house.
Hope all these dudes get well.
every other word from his mouth was either bullshit and massively exadgerated. i mean i guess smashing bags of amphetamines will do that. its so methed up.
Yes, get well soon. That guy was testing him.
dude was extremely lucky he didn't get smoked right there and then.
They get well everyday when they come up on dope 😂
I got scared for him in that moment 😢
When he declared he wasn't living any type of way because he has a room and food and the interviewer just stared at him blankly😢.
Seeing my son in this video is truly one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen. I pray everyday that him and all people that are addicted make it one more day and get the strength to get out of the situation. If they could only understand what it does to the people who love them 💔
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the one with the stepdad?
If seeing your son breaks your heart so much, then GO FUCKING SAVE HIM! FUCK A COMMENT!! GO AND LOVE YOUR SON! BRING YOUR SON HOME!!!! Go SAVE
YOUR SON!!!!!!!
@@GenEXodus we’ve tried and every time he gets clean he ends up back in the same situation. Obviously you have not had to experience anything like this, which I’m glad about but if you don’t have experience then don’t post an uneducated comment. You have no idea how hard this is for a parent to deal with.
Man I am so glad I left Detroit. I was just like the girl with tat on her face. Never thought I'd be clean and living life right. Recovery is possible. You just gotta want it. I am 8 years clean . I can never see myself falling back in to old habits.
Hopefully your still clean and healthy, just checking up on you, I'm 10 months sober from alcohol which nearly destroyed my life, I can't see me ever going back to it either....😊
Screw Detroit
@steves3649 You ever been? It's suburbs are some of best in country. Michigan is a beautiful state. Every state has its issues an outside dwntwn D is where its tough (within city limits tho). Ironically dwntwn Detroit is WORLD CLASS. I'm from east coast sayin this. I will retire in a beautiful small twn in mid-michigan on a lake & 3 acres. 💯
@@Davido50I grew up in a place called Brightmoor in Detroit, I’m white and went to mostly black schools and wouldn’t have traded my experiences with anyone, my teachers were tough on us kids I literally was spanked so hard by one big black art teacher I should have had bruises up and down my backside and legs. I had much respect for her, that’s what’s wrong with schools, kids don’t have respect. The neighborhood looks like a war zone now, just like in this video. I thank Jesus he set a little church on school craft road to give me life and set me on a good path. My parents Were selling weed, my Dad was counterfeiting and shoplifting and literally had the feds come shake our house down with at least 10 undercover agents pulling up in front of our house. He went to prison and I continued to go to that church. I’m in Minnesota now on a farm. I miss Detroit, I miss the music and the people, I flew into Detroit recently to visit and when I landed, I saw black people from Detroit and I started to cry, it was home and it was something I couldn’t explain. This video breaks my heart, all these people are Gods creation and somebody’s little daughter or Son.
The most important step is to want to do it. Without that there is nothing . .
The dude driving around with you is the worst of them all
Yeah he was a scum bag the way he treated the old guy was bang outta order
Now, that’s journalism I want to see. Sheer truth. You risk your health for us. Kudos for that.
Had a friend was a great bassist guitarist , music nut had 10k stereo set up, nice house, good family. Turned to heroin and i saw his life fall apart. Last time i saw him all he had was a bed with an axe under it. I tried my best to help him but it made no difference. Someone needs to realy want to change themself you cant change them.
I started doing drugs since my teenage, got addicted to fentanyl for over 6 years. Fentanyl addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until a friend recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 3 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, fentanyl, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Australia. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. 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'm really happy for you that your friend decided to help you...I hear about alot of family members or so called friends shutting an addict out of their life, which since most addicts do it to mask emotions to me is the worse thing someone can do to an addict.
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
Zack seems like a really smart and great person. Hope he gets out of it
agreed but why did the guy filming the documentary absolutely body Zack when he tried to shake his hand
my boyfriend i met in 91 from D. was smoking crack, he hid it quite well for the first year or so, then strange things started happening such as car missing, cars wrecked, not coming home for days at a time while stealing my car, he was beat up with broken jaw and went to bed all bloody till next day took him to the hospital, beat up again, hit by a car, my bikes missing, my money missing, jewelry missing, more lame stories from him. tried to remove him tons of times with no help from sheriffs or courts, they seemed to enjoy my heartache and even laughed when called so many times for him beating me up. Sometimes removing me instead of him. Well fast forward i retired in Jan 2011 and he od'd at a drug house in the Clem on june 2011, finally i was free from his drugging. it can go on a real long time, 2 decades in my situation and no one will help for the most part. they know how to manipulate the courts and family. just stay far away from them if possible cause they will ruin your life
Why didn't you just leave him?
Greetings I read your story yes they ruin their life's and others ..the same happened with me except no stolen cars but the lies violence taking my money stealing and at the end betrayed I'm happy with my pets they're loyal
So, for 20 years, it took him passing away for all your problems to end? I think he wasn’t the only one with an addiction here…in a few ways. Authorities probably didn’t do anything because you kept letting it happen over and over. You could’ve walked away at any moment and don’t say you couldn’t. Sometimes you need to take extreme measures for extreme situations. Don’t blame anyone but yourself here
@@r7kelley553Stockholm Syndrome
My ex smoked meth didn’t know was pretty normal i guess it was only a few years and he got better then worse bunch of times i got out of it couple years thank god cuzz I knew it would have gotten to that both had mental illness too feel bad for him but it’s his choice he’s still alive u can beg and cry for someone to get better and they can only help themselves
I'm from the UK and i can tell you this, this is the moment when the full reality hit Aaron in the face no filter... That's the problem drug users have, they don't actually realise how sickening the Squalor they are living is, just because he's got food clothes and a room makes his conditions superior. That's so far from realty it's mind boggling for him not to see it's a Squalor... Wow, that's the power of drugs, it binds you from seeing the true reality... 4:48
The denial is utterly delusional
It's true yet he still has more than some people🤔, some people don't even have food or a roof over their heads!🥺
That guy is just a straight up a******
But they could if they chose too....@@jamiecurran3544
You don't need to be using drugs to feel or think like that? People can get in the root for lots of reasons. Strong drugs just make your situation a lot harder. It's sad and frustrating at the same time. Crack is lethal and ruins people's lives you are spot on there. These young kids, hopefully God will intervene.The UK? Me too .👏🇬🇧☺️
“What do you mean living like this? My room is right there “
Shoutout from Flint; big ups for making this video. To all the folks in it who spoke, it was truly an enlightening experience, and I hope you make it out of this.
810 here 2 doe
People on meth are scary. The dude at around 5:10 had that wild-eyed crazy look and had an aggressive tone in his voice. I was actually worried for a minute. Fent addicts are so subdued from the opiates and don't usually get violent. I feel much safer anytime I've had to interact with them.
Sad seeing so many cities and Americans in this state. You're hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't have a family member, friend or co-workers who's an addict.
Yeah i had a neighbor with a meth addiction and his eyes were always bugged, he spoke loud, he spoke fast, and he got all up in your personal space when he spoke to you. I had to constantly tell him to back up. He was intense. And was bipolar on top of all this. I once witness the police come take him away to the hospital because he was walking around the apartment building with a knife thinking people were hiding in his apartment.
A meth addict coming off the stuff is equally scary. They become enraged and have demonic eyes. And it's weird because they'll be self aware one second and apologize but then that demon takes over again. They can't help it.
No drug addiction is better than the other
I done meth a couple times is all, I definitely felt on edge and unpredictable and hella paranoid after not sleeping. It's a recipe for disaster. Luckily I only did it the two times and learned.
Lmao poon most tweakers are really 14 year Olds in an adults body they're mostly harmless...
Notice he didn't say that he was innocent but that he had beat the charges.....
"Im not like all these other girls out here."
what the biggest lie starts with
@zen7349 there billions of females on this earth, so you know every one of them?
no but the ratio good girls to bad girls is sad i dont want a girl with 40 bodies when i got under 5@@pyramidhead138
@zen7349 I've never said that in my 42 years of life, and I've never heard any of my female friends say that either.
That's what I thought I stay home and get high I work and I sniff drugs and never use needles and I don't trick, but I was still a Junkie and I thank God for my sobriety and I don't know how long I been clean but it's been at least 3 years 😂
@@user-ju9re9ob2v ive never done drugs
This dude I used to work with was a meth head. Anytime I would say something disgusted me he would fire back with no hesitation,”You sound like you never been on meth before.” The stories he had made me amazed he was still alive. Stay away from that shit at all costs 🙏🏼
They should show this to highs school students.
Great channel ! Thank you for bringing a voice to the voiceless
I feel bad for that poor sick old man ☹️
me too. the guy in the passenger seat is extremely obnoxious and trying to act tough for the camera and the youtuber. he has no sympathy
@@mo777- dont play with peoples money and there wont be problems
@@haki4066 ofc bums like you care abt loosing pocket change to a old man who can’t even take care of himself. either way his approach was disrespectful
Whats with the user name?
@@mo777-that was a dealer my man. , Of course he gonna catch up his money.
Your escort shaking down the old man was wild? He said he wasn’t going to get too wild and immediately proceeded to getting wild. 😂
🤣🤣🤣 fr I know they instantly got nervous‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ I did
Strong arm robbery what that was
playing with my money is like playing with my emotions
- Big Worm
@@HowHighImHalfBakedI’m saying!🤣 I do have empathy for him but they’re acting like Unc didn’t smoke that money down in the form of a rock knowing he had to pay it back
@@_WOR your girls ?? I can only assume that passive aggressive dig really meant “I have a little pecker and an even smaller mind so let me find something to boost my ego.. oh yeah the most simple ignorant route I could take, racism!! Blah blah blah *racist shit spew* I can’t keep a woman why do you have one 😡” eat a frank
I live in SW Detroit,in a bando,and I'm an addict myself. This is a pretty accurate depiction,of what life looks like in Detroit. I go to the methadone clinic,over on the west side, bc if I have a relapse, fentanyl will most likely be my demise,without the safety net of a tolerance from the methadone. All my friends are dead,or in prison. It's a sad epidemic.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I hope you don’t relapse
Your bando has wifi?
@@BigJo-xv1et yes, we connect to the house across the street,and we have electricity too. Gas got stopped,bc there was a gas leak,and consumers shut it off and this house doesn't have a meter. We make do,with space heaters for heat,but those days we had that cyclone weather,it dropped to freezing in here and we literally almost froze to death,bc space heaters only do so much, especially when you got a lot of wattage that will trip the circuit breaker. This house has had its advantages and disadvantages,when we came to clean it up after two guys od'ed from tainted crack on Valentine's day,it was so nasty,I cried. So it took us two weeks, every day cleaning,to get it to where we could live in it. We live in Delray,and Delray is very rich in a historical aspect,there's a documentary about our neighborhood on YT. We live where they're building the Gordie howe bridge,so the City of Detroit is paying special attention to the infrastructure,and the demolition of all the bando houses,that became vacant and eye sores. They tried to get people to move from Delray,so they could put a park here,so they told residents that they would hook them up with a relocation house if they moved. Well,it made a lot of folks mad,bc the area they wanted to relocate these families ended up being the east side and if you know anything about Detroit,you know about the struggles of the east side. It indeed shares most heart ache,but is more dangerous of a place IMO. Bad things happened to me there,and I don't recommend walking alone if you're a female. I'm not even into prostitution,never was,never will,and it's what dudes think when they see a female walking up and down a place that's known as a "hoe stroll" I was a bit naive,back in the day,bc I was young,and stupid,those drugs made me invincible. My husband and I fell on hard times during COVID,and we used to own our last house which ironically right around the corner from where we are now. We lost our home to foreclosure,due to non payment of back taxes. We had nowhere to go,so we had a friend in the neighborhood of Delray,that let us stay in the house,that his two drug dealing friends were murdered in. That's another thing that happens a lot out here. If someone knows that you have no opiate tolerance,and they have beef with you or you just have something they want,and your an addict??? They will poison your crack cocaine with fentanyl,and get away with murder!,ng you,bc the police think that it's an accidental drug overdose. Imagine smoking crack/cocaine for 30 something yrs,and one day you get a bad hit,and die,and your roommate follows suit,a few hours later,and he dies. No coincidence,they were fighting over territory,and guess what?! Neither one got to trap out of here. It took us awhile to get it from a smoke house, to a property that was cleaner, and rid of all the users and abusers. We keep our circle small over here. Smaller the circle,less attention being drawn here,and .not going to jail for running no drug house!!!! Never again will I reaffend,and catch a case. I've haven't gotten arrested for anything new in 16 yrs,and I intend to keep it that way. We do recover and it is most definitely possible,even in a bando....
@b_m-gt5ze methadone makes your tolerance for fet higher ?
@@loganhullender2257 yes.
Just watched a doc on Tranq (Philly Streets by Channel 5) and it's crazy to see it slowly make its way to Detroit - this drug is scaryyyy
You gotta think about how quick when it hits the streets it gets taken right up there.
it’s a problem here in nashville too 💔 we don’t have many trap houses like these because of the lack of housing here, but you see so many addicts at bus stop and apartment complexes, it’s heartbreaking
Its a problem here in Connecticut too bro
This isn't something that's staying down in Detroit either its taking a major toll on the small towns and villages of Northern Michigan as well. It's a sad situation and I pray for all those battling addiction, as well as for their families.
I'm from Brighton, MI,and it's a small,very independently wealthy city,with a big time hard drug problem. Lost so many friends from there,it's ridiculous. It's not just an inner city problem,that's for sure.
Drugs have infested the entire country, rural to urban, rich to poor. Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s there. We’ve got to do something about this, or we’re not going to have much of a country left very soon.
Im an addict from northern Michigan the traverse city area the last like 5 years have gotten so bad with drugs it is ruining such a beautiful place the homeless camps popping up everywhere
@@KortlandWilson yeah I'm south of traverse in benzie county I hear ya it's sad
This is heart breaking but also kind of paints Detroit as a whole in a negative way. Detroit has a rather large city limit compared to other similar metropolitan areas. The downtown area is nothing like this, but the further you go into the outskirts towards abandoned housing you will find this. I doubt it is any different than any other major cities.
It's just as big as Dallas in land size. Just abandoned and the city can't make the tax money, so they tax us in the suburbs to death.....
5:30 what he’s now forced to go through, like millions of others, is one of the lowest forms of of living life and I lived the heroin life for a full decade. Got on methadone 7 years ago and I’m just starting the hard part of the weening down process. I’m at 9 mgs… the withdrawal process is harder than heroin to deal with and it was presented to the public as a “miracle drug.” Just like how they did when they introduced oxy’s. But because no one who hasn’t ever dealt with withdrawal, could ever imagine the pain you must endure to get off of it. That’s why people come to grips with their situation and they know the type of life they have ahead of ‘em. Less than 10% of those who are on methadone, ever get off it. Some people have withdrawals for months, some have singed the nerve endings right off… meaning they’ll withdrawal for the rest of their life without an opiate. This is where people should start awakening, but the drug enslaves their every thought. The ones who made this drug, but packaged it in the way they have, deserve to be locked up every time they reincarnate.
One piece of advise is to get on their level when speaking to them. You stood the whole time while speaking with zack. It would make them feel more comfortable and respected if you kneel and talk to people eye to eye. ❤
Why? They know where they're at
@@kenneth9874 You missed the point ;)
@@Dawg..... no I didn't, they know where they stand among others.
5:51 he does
Nah, stay on your feet, especially if you're alone or a female. A lot of addicts will rob you blind by any means necessary.
I left Detroit 40 years ago and moved to California. But much of my heart still lives there and this is heartbreaking!😢
@@DerrickMarkleymusic I never said it was worse than anywhere else. I could say the same thing about San Francisco where I lived 30 years ago. I could say the same thing about Vancouver which I visited 25 years ago.
Chicago is the same man
california is the hell next to detroit
Lions are killing it tho so
yeah i know you can buy some of these homes for a song, but if u fix it up who could live there surrounded by junkies/criminals ....
well done. thanks for posting. very interesting
My brother just passed away a few weeks ago in Detroit from drugs 😭 This is so sad he was 29 and we just lost our Mom 7 months ago. He tried crack at 16 and was addicted immediately! Don’t do drugs! Save yourself! Rest in Heaven Lonnie Bush! This world is so evil.
Being born and raised in Detroit i can admit there is definitely a problem far as drugs are concerned but detroit is and always has been a wonderful place. Being from the city i can honestly say we appreciate the city for way more things than what outsiders view us as......the motor city! Its great ppl here who genuinely do care to change things.
I live in Brazil, in a big city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, and I watched these videos of the Detroit suburbs, I started to notice how beautiful the nature of this place is, with very tree-lined streets, land with varied plants, wide avenues and without tall buildings blocking the sky and polluting the view. I imagine that if it weren't for all these drug and violence problems, this place would be a very pleasant place to live.
i agree im from ontario and love detroit
Yeah, no. I’ve lived in the metro Detroit area my whole life, worked downtown for years. It is not a nice place and it is not safe. Anyone trying to say it’s changing is kidding themselves.
@@daniellepolselli7153 the nature of the place looks beautiful, and the architectural style and the avenues. But in the social context, things are ugly. Here in Brazil, even the urban architecture style is ugly.
@daniellepolselli7153 you can't say that. Change sometimes takes time. And you don't know what a lot of people in the City and suburbs are hoping and doing for the city!!
And this is why I never judge nor disrespect addicts. They deserve love, respect, and chances.
nice words x
Been really good watching you over the years John, thanks for sharing your journey.
Thank you for sharing.
I pray for their healing 🙏🏽
This is truly heartbreaking, I hope they can all find the help they truly need.
But we all know that it's not going to happen.
They don't want to change
Where do they get their money
Yup. Stronger drugs
They love that life style they will never change
There a real problem here in Detroit you bearly even started to tuch the the start of the issues here
From the comment section it seems like all the good ones got out
I really enjoy your content and hope to see much more!! Stay safe!
As a x heroin and metherdon aditct of 33 years wen your stuck in that trap its so hard to get out no body wants to be this way dont juge i only got out couse i started again in a nouver place im now over 2 year clean i trewly hope even on no all of these young people can sourt thir lives out ❤.
Stay in school! Hardly made it through your comment....
@@janine5540 thank you to be honest i wished i had and betterd my self im dislexic can you understand me now all the best
Jesus CHRIST, 33 years an addict means you're probably in your 50s or more, and you can hardly form a sentence let alone spell EXTREMELY basic words, and I mean EXTREEEEEMELY simple words. Fucking sad. Wow. I mean you can't even spell the drug you are addicted to?? "Metherdon" LOL it's called "Methadone"
@@janine5540 He'd be in his 50s at least and look at the grammar and literacy skills..... MIND blowing to observe.
I live 10 miles north of Detroit. I have a police scanner on 24/7. Interesting to 'see' what I 'hear' cops responding to.
I really enjoyed this video.
I live in England too.
Hats off to you for making this. I remember my cousin taking me around places like this in Glasgow when I was a kid so she could get high.
I'm suprised you didn’t bump into Jarryl and Maddie from Detroit. They're always posting live videos on here asking for $ and the sick thing is people send them money knowing it's for H&C. Crack and heroin takes your soul. If you survive you're a f***ing warrior!
Prayers to everyone fighting addiction and mental health🙏
This is a powerful documentary…
my mom was born and raised in detroit. she moved out into the metro area because of the danger. sad to see a city go so south so fast.
I’m a recovering heroin addict from Cincinnati n Thank God I’ve been clean since September 4th 2014 n got out before all this shit there is now.
Hope all them lost souls in this video get the opportunity n support they need too get out.
don't watch or pay attention to any of this SHIT! bro stay clear & clean 🤙🏻
I did the same brother got on h for awhile but ended up realizing this isn’t life and got out before all this new shit thank god I’ve been clean for 13 yrs now and never planning on looking back
I was a heroin addict 18 hears ago. The crap drugs out there now are insane. Rotting flesh and shit. It makes old school H look like vitamins lol
not just detroit, across the river in windsor ON its absolutely terrible.
I feel sorry for people living like this, I been there before thankfully got through the low lows that came with it.
So sad, I pray for all of you.
It's so heartbreaking.
These people enjoy this life it's is very sad.
Damn I feel for these people, I’m from the UK like the presenter and trust me there’s parts in the country especially the north where addiction and urban decay is almost as rampant as this part of Detroit. Once had a promising career and good friends but I threw it all down the drain to keep getting high… the further you go down the drug road, the harder it is to get off it. I’ve been on methadone and clean off heroin for about a year now. Today I moved back in with my parents and left the sin city where my worst addictions started, seeing this video made me realise how lucky I am… I mean it does take a lot of willpower to get off heroin injections but when you have no family to go back to it’s just sad any way you look at it. I’m about to start tapering down the methadone and be free of all crutches maybe in time for my 30th birthday. I hope to find success again and help, motivate and inspire people like me and those in this video… I had collapsed veins in both arms and radial nerve palsy rendering both my hands useless for 6 months after I quit but somehow by the grace of god I’m back in working order and hope to see former addicts do the same.
I understand addiction as it has ravaged through my family. However, when your life is spent doing anything to be able to get your next dose and it being the last thing you think about before you fall asleep and the first thing you think about when you wake up while living in a vacant house with other addicts and having no money and no clothes and nothing to your name and absolutely nothing to do with your own kids…you really need to take a long look in the mirror and demand a change in your life. This fentanyl crap…you can literally drop a tiny piece on your shirt or on your dollar bills and it land on a gas station counter and someone can touch it and next thing you know you just killed somebody possibly a child. Fentanyl makes heroin look like caffeine. Nobody is forcing you to do this and the only person who is making you do this is YOU and only YOU can’t stop. Your body is your temple and you only have one life. Please, if you’re an addict, get help get well and get your life back together. Stop ruining your only chance on this beautiful Earth and stop hurting others that love you and that really need you..
Sad to see, i grew up in detroit right in these neighborhoods. Was homeless living off the streets after my dad killed himself and ended up addicted myself. I will say the majority of these people dont aim to be addicts/fentanyl addicts. At least half these people think they're buying other substances, not knowing they're cut with fentanyl. By then its too late. They're either dead or so addicted they
Need medical assistance in order to detox. Even after a couple of days of using you’ll still go through the worst most painful detox you can imagine in your life. Some of the scariest streets to try and survive on.
How horrid that one young guy began three years ago because of a tragedy in his life. Our society has created these people. Our system of materialism and valuing only money and not human beings and animals , is disgusting. So many fall aside the way with capitalism because not everyone has their health or mental health to work . I've been chronically sick many years and my pain untreated cuz I'm poor...if not for having my kids to care for, I could have gone that way too.
Good shit Aaron. No fear, asking the questions that we want to know the answers to.
It breaks my heart watching people go through life like this. I know because I wasted the best years of my life using heroin n crack, lost everything relationship house car and job. Now im 2 years drug free it hurt me seeing my fellow people struggling
I use to be homeless and caught up in the system. Eventually I went to a rehab for 4 years and then a sober house for another year afterwards. I recently got in trouble for driving without a license because I got my license revoked for life almost 10 years ago. I know im going to do atleast the mandatory 15 months in jail. I've completely rebuilt my entire life with all my own stuff and got married. I started drinking again after I was caught back up in the courts. I fear being pulled back to where it all began so many years ago and its depressing honestly. Drinking has always been a big problem in my life and its also how my Dad died. Watching these people and knowing what state of mind you're in while living like that is rough. I hope I don't slip back to where it started but losing everything is certainly going to throw me off. I wish everyone in this video the best for themselves and hope this isn't the beginning of my end. ✌️
Don't let one mistake destroy all the progress you have made. Surround yourself with people who will support you, who don't drink, who will hold you accountable. Is it possible to have a new environment? A new neighborhood, job, and different contacts would help. Remind yourself every day of all the success you've had - you did it, and you want to keep it! I can't imagine how hard it is, but I admire what you have survived so far. Best wishes to you.
😊 well done 🫡 stay clean
just think 50 yrs ago this was a nice community
I left Detroit, MI in 1978, I was 16 years old, I've looked at my old neighborhoods, on Google maps, Glazer Elementary School, is still there, Chesterfield Market, was demolished a few years ago, Fred's Party Store., long gone, Longfellow Jr Highschool, Mc Kenzie Highschool, demolished , Munger Highschool ⁉️. Kelsey Hayes Plant.... White Castle Hamburger's, on Livernois and Warren , just closed ☹️...
will visit this coming 2024..
Exactly and it has been under Democrat Rule ever since the 60's. I was born in 66 lived on Eastwood 1 street south of 7 and Gratiot. It was NICE ! 7 and Gratiot was a Shopping Meca . Chatham , Great Scott, Farmer Jack, Sears, Federals , Montgomery Ward, you name it it was there 7 to 6 mile. A few years ago went by the street Eastwood and there isn't one house on that entire street. 😢😢😢
yeah u can see from the houses and yards they were great homes once....it happens in all cities.....like south central LA etc.....i do know that democrats can not run cities.....have GOP city leadership and leave the democrats in DC....
Democrats destroyed this city, yet they still vote for the slave party....crazy
@@wirelessuser4943did Democrats stop y'all from buying American cars and destroying the motor industry that Detroit was founded on?
Great doc ...i shared it on threads
He counted 73 times. Ok...
Meth does strange things and when you cant hit a vein there is so much time
I mean, as a recovering addict there were times when I was using that I could poke myself upwards of 40 times before finding a vein, so I doubt he’s far off… especially if shooting meth/coke as it’s super hard on the veins. I’m just endlessly grateful I made it out alive & made it out before fentanyl & meth really exploded in my area. If I was still using with fentanyl around? The way I use? I’d definitely be dead. 7.5 years clean thank god.
It sounded like he was proud about it which was weird
I don't do anything under a 100 but sometimes 60.. this shit sad I lost my sister 4/5/21 to a OD. I wish I could change the lives of addicts.. by the time we finished this episode 100 people would have OD'ed and passed on.
you cant change anyone. stop whining. and do something or just shutup.
I'm so sorry about your sister.
Every 11 minutes rip
@@CallMeSteve88 it was almost 14 an hour in 2021. But think how many people actually OD and don't die. That's a number that would be something never known.
Love your channel mate
Thank you for showing these humans respect.
I literally used to live there with several of those people... Don't miss that at all..
This is so sad and hard to watch :(
Zack reminds me of a friend of mine...he's a Doctor by now and studied pharmacy with me.
It reminds me of my hometown Rutland VT. People here are overdosing on fentanyl on purpose. Lots of cities are like that nowadays. It’s truly depressing and hopeless.
Oh man, somehow Zack especially broke my heart. He seems like such a bright and good-natured kid. Like the kind of guy I’d have been friends with in college. I really hope he gets clean and back to his dreams.
Im from warren/Detroit ive lived on the streets 7 mile and gratiot shit is wack its a struggle some of these people choose this lifestyle. Theres no real good heroin on the street anymore. Those days are long gone. Ever since meth hit the street its fucked a lot of shit up and fucked a lot of people up. Some bitch tried to run me over in her car now i got plates and screws in my pelvic bone. I got out of that life this shit is for the birds.
These are the exact people that choose this this is exactly them
@@CC12398 yea when I watched this I just laughed
why would meth fuck shit up but not heroin?
@@r.g9044 there is no more heroin. Only fetty. Because meth is so cheap all the dope dealers pass it out for free and you can buy a shit load of it for like $20. It makes people act absolutely insane and I hate being around people that do it. When I did it I couldn't even get high off anything else and it made me hallucinate and think crazy shit it's fucked up.
You meant fent?
"i heard 7 mile is really dangerous" 🤦🏽♂️
I managed to get clean for the last six years but seeing this broke my heart. I can't stop thinking about where my younger brother is. Im from NY and he has been missing on the streets of Los Angeles for the last two years. I pray for all addicts to find the strength to make it.
I pray that everyone in this vid gets clean. This isn’t the way to live.
As a student of Wayne State (the university in the heart of Detroit), I’m trying to my best to inform other students about the fentanyl problem in the area. My significant other is from Flint and just got clean from fentanyl just this year, so this hits home. You’d be surprised how many students in my public health classes and pre-med students have a severe lack of knowledge about this epidemic. In general people are not too informed about the nature of addiction even with all the information out there because they choose to look away. If anyone knows any harm reduction work to do in Detroit let me know.
I graduated from their pharmacy school and there was research going on about drug use and abuse so it does exist.
Also, Wayne has a program that helped put narcan vending machines all around Wayne County in 2022! I wasn't involved in that program personally but I believe it was a program with Wayne's school of Social Work so you could find more information there!
@@Krystal_latsyrK that’s really awesome they did that! I was unaware so thank you for informing me. My best friend who goes to Wayne is in the school of social work and it seems more students in that field are aware of addiction and less judgmental about it. When addiction/substance use disorders would come up in my public health classes, I noticed a lot of pre-med students would question “why don’t they just do x, y, and .?” Or “just stop” and simplifying addiction. They were very unaware how complex it is and the barriers people sometimes have to overcome to get clean!
@breakerofstrings is in recovery from this lifestyle and she does harm reduction in Detroit.
in the 90s the drug houses were nicer wtf thats a serious statement , this city is so far gone its unfixable
this was exciting but sad at the same time
I worked down here as a construction inspector. So scary especially as a woman! Happy to work in an office now
I’ve spent so many years in my addiction just roaming those streets getting demos from every dealer I could. Going on 6 years clean now. Literally was spending 150-200 on boy and girl everyday! I really hope tranq hasn’t made its way to my streets.
Congratulations on your 6 years clean 👏👊
Tough video to watch, but good reporting though. Hopefully this sheds light on how bad the addiction crisis could get and encourages others to not use drugs.
And the part where the old man was being shook down was disgusting. No one deserves to be treated in that manner.
This made me so emotional. Breaks my heart. I know exactly what they're going thru. Please if anyone needs to talk please find me on here. We have an awesome commumity who understands you. Feeling alone is the worst feeling. I pray they can all make it to recovery. Never stop trying ❤
Remember one thing don’t ever believe what a junkie says I was a junkie myself who shot dope crack and coke everyday for over 10 years. All we do is lie
Not all addicts
@@joshmekhibridges ALL!!
that's not fair all addicts are not the same. some addicts are in denial other addicts don't have no shame in what they do @@American1clickout
I just can’t get over the thumbnail
I live in detroit in 7 mile and this was unwatchable to me because of all my friends I have lost due to drugs
18:02 I pray for that girl. She is my age and she is still struggling. I live in the same state as her... I have had addiction problems in detroit like her...I wish I could help her find recovery and a support system which won't send her to jail... I could talk to her and try helping... but sadly I moved far north from Detroit (for obvious reasons)
Aaron, if you’re gonna be going to places like Detroit talking to people the way you do, you NEED to be carrying. Detroit, Flint, and Pontiac peeps aren’t afraid to fuck someone up in a split second. Gotta be safe, man.
These are drug addicts, not gang members.
Bruh, the gangs don’t like you doing this kind of stuff out here, and the guy looks weak, he’s a target.
@@covenleaderlyzz he's not in their game. People aren't trying to kill others for no reason.
Oh, hun, that’s not how the hood works.
@@covenleaderlyzz you might be surprised
God bless you all and please get help you can do it 🙏🙏🙏
BRIZZIE! Come to Georgia! I went to a year long rehab here that changed my life. You would have support through your healing!
How was the year structured?
In patient for some time, then half way house, then to out patient?
She has support.
Her brother has offered her a way out MULTIPLE times. She chooses to stay.
Sending love and prayers for you all 🙏❤️🙏
The guy filming is putting himself in real danger, I hope he stays protected from above or whatever they call that. I will say it's not wise to stand in front of the flying cannonball so he should be very careful. As far as the story he brings, he needs to take the footage to Congress and they need to do something about helping all of these addicts, there aren't enough treatment centers and they know it.
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I’m so glad that me and none of my family ever went down a road of addiction I guess we never saw a need!
As a drug addict from michigan this feels like a documentary of my life
I pray that guy seeks treatment and gets better praying for all addicts in general 😭😭
Big up the people running this channel this is a really good documentary it's well put together compared to alot that I see on CZcams, keep the content coming I'll be tuning in!🙌
It’s BS. Pretend to know i guess. YT posters mostly suck Nothing of real value. Hoping to make a few bucks from YT and telling their mom they have a job. BS
@@griffini19don’t watch it then?
@@griffini19 exactly, those CZcamsrs are making money off those less fortunate people, Shame on them.
Our drug problem is real, real bad, real sad, real mad
May The Most High God bless each and every one of you with sobriety and good health!! Blessings ❤
Just say no, don't use or die! Live better or do WORSE!😢
They’re taking that old man’s money straight from his card?!? Where is his family? 😢
That’s what I was thinking how sad
Crazy what happened to Detroit. My aunt used to live there many years ago and the area was a normal working middle class area. Sad to see.
East side used to get all noise but that westside Evergreen 2 blightmoore roll deep..
Where we at wit it?