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- Ashley, a suburban heroin junkie, smokes up to 100 hits of heroin a day. Is the new face of heroin addiction young middle class white America?
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You ever notice drug addicts have more money than the working poor. $1000 a week on drugs. WOW!!!!!
Right...
+girlofthex There are addicts in every social hierarchy; what point are you trying to make?
Donna King My people? Lmao I'm Asian, son, now you sound just ignorant; passing the buck to a different skin tone? And although I do agree that racism exists to an extent in form of systematic institutionalization, I don't think every black person should be released and compensated. Whose to say that half of those people are actual bums and will relapse into their old habits again when they're out on the streets? It's ridiculous that more black people are arrested than whites, but you have to take into consideration that those black "convicts" are from poor areas where crime is rampant; a majority of white dealers don't deal in those type of neighborhoods and avoid detection from cops altogether. Yeah, our country is a bit fucked up, but it's a bit lazy to blame whites for everything when you should be blaming the government. There are POC in the government too, you know.
If she wasn't a drug addict.
She'd be incredibly rich.
I can live on $1000 a month. Quadruple that, I'd be living the high life.
It makes me mad that they said "This isn't supposed to happen to you, you have money and a nice house" Just because you have money and a big house doesn't mean your life will be perfect and it doesn't mean that just because someone doesn't have money or a nice house that its "acceptable" to be a drug addict
Baley Hledsoe welcome to American media stereotyping! In their eyes only ppl(blacks) that live in the ghetto are junkies, when REALLY, it's the kids with money, in nice neighborhoods and two parent households that are the ones most hooked on heavy drugs.
My friend is very wealthy and his son does cocaine and who knows what else :/
+West African Goddess Exactly... All my rich white friends popped pills, cocain, xtc,Molly... etc
True!
That face ain't exactly new. Heroin doesn't discriminate.
I'm a recovering heroin addict and been sober for a little over 3 years. Getting and staying sober was THE hardest thing I have ever done in my life. It was harder than Basic Training and even my two deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. I destroyed friendships and family relations, though I am slowly getting everyones trust back. The thing that helped me the most was moving away. I was raised and lived in Portland, Oregon all my life. I left EVERYTHING behind and moved down to LA. It was the best decision I have ever made. You can attend all the meetings, work the steps, go to rehab, work with sponsors, etc. but if you go back to your using grounds you're going to relapse. PERIOD. There's no way you can stay sober when you're close by to your "friends", dealers, hang out spots, etc. If there's anyone reading this who is going through heroin addiction or any addiction, MOVE RIGHT AWAY. I know it sucks to move away from family and friends but this is your life we're talking about. YOUR LIFE.
+NoJokes11B Congrats
Congratulations for overcoming your addiction. Keep moving forward.
+NoJokes11B well done
I am an addiction scientist and clinician with lots of experience. Your advice is right on! I just hope people take you serious. God bless and keep you safe and healthy.
BTW, The longer you stay clean, the easier it will get to continue staying clean.
Jim Jorquez Thanks!
Terrifying. It is absolutely terrifying that ignorant people equate marijuana with heroin. Even the reporter says "at first with marijuana, eventually escalating to heroin". Ignorance. Under that same principal of logic i could say, "at first with watching television, eventually escalating to heroin".
Haha! I love how offended you are at the fact that someone's calling your precious little drug a gateway drug. It's hilarious! Also, I don't think you know how to use logic. Go back to third grade and figure out how before commenting, please.
*****
I am more offended at the ignorance, which you have completely highlighted.
Whatever you say.
I have watched my 16 year old son start "just" smoking weed, then he was smoking weed from the time he got up until he went to bed, then he said the weed gave him anxiety so he started taking xanax, then he went to percocets. Once on the percocets it was ALL OVER!! Now, he does heroin, percocet, norco, morphine, pretty much whatever he can get. I used to be a HUGE defender of marijuana, NOT any more. The people today don't smoke "recreationaly", they are fucking weed head ZOMBIES. I am a person that believes in freedom of liberty, meaning if you want to do heroin or smoke weed or drink beer, it is your body and you can do as you please. We all make our own choices, BUT only an ignorant fool would not see that weed is NOT this harmless drug that has NO repercussions. It is absolutely addictive in nature, it is absolutely a gateway to harder drugs, and it makes the users into stoned out lazy ass unmotivated lying zombies.
Nobody starts with heroin.
"I dont look like a heroin addict".....that is the most ridiculous statement ive ever heard in my life. Heroin dosent discriminate when it comes to looks. I would know...I am a recovering heroin addict. I used heroin for six years straight. Ppl used to say to me...."you dont look like a heroin addict"....and then I would take my jacket off or pull my sleeves up and say...."ok, how about now"....ive been clean for 12 years and looks wise...I still look the same as I did while using. Not every drug addict has rotting teeth and lesions all over their face.
How did you recover?
I was put on an MMT program. (Alot of ppl really wouldnt consider me "clean" but, I do bc im not using heroin any more, I dont live the same risky lifestyle as I did back then. I am just your normal stay at home mom, not a street walking junkie like I was 12 years ago)
Let me just add that, I really dont recommend methadone programs (MMT) as a good rehab. Its only supposed to be used as a last resort. I had already been to rehab seven times before I was put on the program by a judge. Heroin is one of the hardest things to kick, and so many ppl never get the chance. Most overdose and die before they get a really good shot at recovery. No matter what program path is chosen, it is still going to be a very long and hard process. It takes will power that ppl dont even realize they were capable of having. In the beginning of my recovery, I would just sit there and grit my teeth bc I was having such a hard time. I never really thought I would amount to anything other than a heroin junkie. But, it got easier and easier as the time passed that I wasnt using it. My tracks started to heal up, and the cravings got less and less. I very rarely think about using heroin now, and the few times that I do think about it, I just get pissed off bc I let something so stupid ruin my life.
Andrea Jimenez Andrea why do you think people that can notice and admit to heroin turning their life and health for the worse lack any willpower to try to change. Some wont even make the effort when given multiple chances as you stated. Addiction of any kind is not welcome. I am happy for your recovery and I am glad you have come back to the side of the living. For those who are still heroin addicts and are reading this ..there is no future in heroin only misery and death..You must rise above your addiction or die a slow death. There is no other outcome
MediaLies2012 you are right, heroin will bring nothing but misery. Some just havent hit rock bottom yet, and still feel that they can use heroin while maintaining a normal life. I can, with 100% certainty, say that it is not possible. It takes some ppl longer than others to wake up and realize that they have destroyed themselves. Some will never realize it at all, and they will die using. Its a shame.
She doesn't look like a drug addict? Yeah, right...
You just don't know what to look for.
Alorand Exactly!!
lol I thought hmmm you look exactly like a heroin addict
Exactly what I thought, did you notice the way she looked at the interviewer for reassurance that she was right lol
Alorand shiiii the voice and her dead hanging muscle face also
Alorand yup
The heroin epidemic wasn't an issue when it was in the inner city. Now the NEW face of addiction is "shocking" All addiction no matter who it is is shocking.
It's because so many people are now doing heroin after they cracked down on pills back in 2005 the dea and Fda has made it almost impossible to get pills and if you get them they wont let you get them for more than 6months than they cut you off cold turkey and then your left dope sick and then your buy heroin cause its cheaper and the only thing you can get and people have to work and be able to function and can't do that when there dope sick
I think people don't care till it starts affecting young Christian white people
@@andiimedranoo897 so true
Exactly. Same with the crack epidemic. Drugs used to be a public security issue, now its public health issue.
Wonder what changed...
So she just admitted on live camera that she stashes illegal street drugs. Why aren't the cops pounding on her door to search her house? I hate to say this but had she been black or living in a broken down trailer the authorities would have ransacked her property and thrown her ass in prison (and her parents too). It's fucking disgusting how this country separates race and wealth.
That's What You Get For Waking Up In Vegas She probably had to agree to enroll in a rehab program for being on tv.
Chichi Chichi Oppai That's a good point.
Thats what i was thinking, can never understand people who come on documentary's about illegal drugs and tell the whole world where they use them, where they gget their money and whatever else, and waiting all day for drugs? Here in the uk if you have a dealer, you can meet up as soon as you want
Must be nice in the uk where im from shits hard find no smack and everyones hooked on pills so lots so its expensive and thats y in areas like this u find girls like this lots i never met her but ive seen this lots cuz they have the money but all the money isnt shit if u cant find ur fix
I don't believe they should throw addicts in jail, waste of tax payers money and it's just utterly stupid, what they need is help not punishment.
Oh, that's cute. She doesn't 'look' like a heroin user because she's pretty and not poor and not 'inner city', so NOW. NOW it's alarming. This is the MOST RIDICULOUS form of racism, sexism, and "classism" I've heard in a long time. Aww... Ashley's like OUR kid so NOW it's not Ashley's fault, she's like, totally a victim of these inner city pieces of trash sneaking her heroin when she thought she was smoking hash... What is this shit? REALLY!?!? Someone who's poor or ugly or 'inner city' (read: ethnic or "different from us"), they're excusable, expendable, and not special enough to be 'drug-free', but LET'S ALL SHIT BRICKS if it's like, totally Ashley or, like totally OUR Justin! *gasp* That's not acceptable cause THEY'RE *special*.
+Heather Southall I'd bang her, but I wouldn't bang some bony, ugly, greasy herion addict missing 13 teeth. So yeah, I wouldn't say she looks like an addict.
+DellortGaming VIDZ the small-minded ramblings of the average internet basement-dweller lol.
centerrightpunk yep, not banging something ugly makes me a basement dweller.
TRUTH
exactly
"I don't look like a heroin addict..." Newsflash, yes you do.
Yes, she definitely does looks like a druggie .
Totally ...most of them think that.
I always laugh when I hear people say. " She doesn't fit the demographic of drug addicts" . Rich people think that they are immune to being a human and making bad mistakes like the rest of the population. Tough when you found out you weren't a special snowflake you thought you were lol.
The majority of heroin and fentanyl addicts are white. I am not saying that any other race cannot succumb to this drug, but it sure seems to be predominantly white. Now, they have narcan, and these addicts know that they can get as high as they want. In fact, the more dangerous the drug; the more they chase it. I personally think after saving them 3 times and offering help to get them off the drug, they should just let them kill themselves. I know this is harsh, but that is honestly how I feel, and I know many many people feel the same. Oh, and I am white, by the way.
@@ginajoseph8776 meth, crack and heroin are mostly used by Americans, black or white doesn't matter. This needs to stop
@@j3in725 You missed their point entirely. It's the fact that they have narcan now that the demographic has changed, rather than jail and letting them die from withdrawal.
I hate people that have never suffered addiction talk about addiction. The whole, "With just one hit, you could be hooked". Thats such an untrue statement. That is the equivalent to saying, "With just one bite into a donut, you could be hooked" since sugar is as addicting as cocaine. Being a former addict, you can't just do something once and get addicted. Thats not how it works. I've never done heroin, but I've known many people that have tried heroin, and surprisingly, none of them got hooked. Of course there are some people that do. But thats more because of Mental illness. I went to rehab, and EVERYONE there, including myself, has a certain mental disorder. These are diagnosis that are given to them before drugs became a part of their life. Its not a coincidence. Most people that are addicted to drugs have, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder, constant depression, extreme anxiety, delusions. Making it harder for these people to part with drugs because their mental illness has intensified. Instead of the bullshit, "War on Drugs" maybe America should wage a war against Mental illness since time and time again it has constantly ignored its existence. Fuck this ABC guy, he doesn't know shit.
Completely agreed. We can't truly address these issues because then we'd have to actually look at our government, society, economy, media etc etc. Mental illness is the least of people's worries because it keeps people spending or consuming... anything from prescription pills, food, clothes or property. Mental illness kills but not before it profits sadly.
OMG YES YES YES. 3 of my friends have done heroin. 2 of them didn't get hooked and one got messed up from it. I dated a guy with an addiction problem and he was really depressed and had deep emotional issues
Natalie Melendez If you like those kinda guys I'm currently single.
Mostly people make heroin wrong
Instead when they make it they think it is heroin
But it's not its morphine so please shut the fuck up
Ur not chemically hooked but u get an overwhelming sense of euphoria that's pretty addicting. Like sex addicts. Sex itself isn't addicting. It's the endorphins u get when u orgasm that makes u want to keep doing it.
Same with gambling addiction, the euphoria or rush u get is the same as actually the same when u orgasm or take a hit of heroin. While heroin has chemicals that bind to the mu receptor and cross the blood brain barrier which make it a little different.
It's the euphoria that's addicting at first. After about 7-14 days of straight and consistent use does it become potentially physically addicting. Making ur body go thru withdrawal (withdrawal is from ur body not producing the natural chemicals that opiates enhance and ur body doesn't know how to make those endorphins without the opiates anymore).
To say u can get hooked after one hit is misleading. Just after 1 welfare check, u could get hooked. Their will always be that middle upper class picture perfect teen that trys drugs and doesnt want to stop. Epidemic... I think not. There are more ppl on this earth than ever before. Hell we grew like 4 billion in about 100 years so statistically, yeah there will be more numbers of teens using drugs.
I love national television BS about drugs tho. Fear mongering words of fire and brimstone and how fucked up the world is. I guarantee u they ended the news with some feel good "fireman saves kitten from fire" story to trick the audience they watched some positive news when 99% of it was filled with "is ur neighbor a murderer?" Or "ur teens are all drug addicts" or "cats are causing squirrel genocide and becoming the next Nazi's!" stories.
AND WHY ARE THAT GIRLS PARENT ALLOWING HER TO STAY AT THEIR HOUSE AND CONTINUE WITH THE HABIT AND BETTER YET WHY ARE THEY GIVING HER MONEY ???
+EM R because they care a lot about her, and in order to have control, and security for their daughter they prefere her to stay at home, rather than in a bad environment.
My parents would have kicked me out into the street.
+KatjaCrea IS THAT CARE ?
Enablers.
They're enablers!!!! They're in denial
That’s such a horrible feeling, I was a heroin addict for almost 10 years and the guilt and shame that keeps you using is just horrible. I came close to suicide so many times, now I’m 4 and a half months clean
Stay strong bro , I hope you’re clean & thriving 🦋
She really thinks she doesn't look like a heroin addict? I take it she hasn't looked in a mirror in quite some time, then...
J R she looks terrible. I
I didn’t think I did either. Now I can clearly see I looked like hell.
That’s why they say someone is “blinded”, they’re blinded from literally everything. Including how shitty they look.
She doesn't have black circles around her eyes, she does have nice skin, clean hair, clean room, nice clothes on. She didn't even look high. I don't believe she spends 1k a week.
Mark Prange She doesn't charge one thin cent, just pump her with her dope of choice and man.... YOU'RE GOOD TO GO!!!
Don't be mean
So people are sitting behind bars for possession of this drug, but here she is being recorded with it in her possession, labelled as a victim..
So? Are you saying she should be in prison and this would make everything better?
@@solanum6039: She would be healthier if caged away from heroin.
@@solanum6039yes lol it would stop her and get her clean
I'm not buying that she thought she was smoking hash...that's a line of bs she sold her parents to make it seem she wasn't responsible for becoming a junkie...
Seriously. Two veeeeerrrrryyyyy different feelings. She's full of shit
+peteyguitarguy IT's their fault for putting their little shit of a kid on a pedestal and buying it.
but hash does look like heroin (to an idiot) so she was fucked before she got hooked
+Shelby Wallace you don't know the high before you smoke it, black tar can be mistaken for dark colored hash
+peteyguitarguy Right? I mean if ya do this bullshit, be honest at least.
Addiction DOES Not discriminate!!
if heroin affected black youth , this wouldn't even be a topic of discussion.
it did during the 80s and early 90s. and nobody else cared.
oosh79 u got it wrong..the ONLY reason its a topic is because its effecting white youth, its been affecting black youth on multiple levels
oosh79 If black youth were the only ones using heroin and dying from it, not only would it not be a topic, but this racist system would be damn sure to find a way to get excessive amounts into the black community.
Same with meth
@RNE2224U fixed it. Happy?
I've been clean 9 yrs :-)
Congrats
Congratulations :)
Congrats
That is awesome congratulations !!!
Good job keep up that strong backbone that you carry life is too short don't end it with heroines or any type of drug you're truly remarkable being able to beat it !!!
"The New Face of Heroin"...ummm, what was the old face?
Blacks. Now white people are the face of heroin so now it's a problem
+Billie Dahling The face of heroin had no color then nor does it today. Look how many musicians, actors, and politicians have fallen victim to it. And unlike some fools think there is nothing funny about it. The biggest problem is denial, the not in my neighborhood, not in my family attitude.
heroin has no face
I highly doubt her parents did everything right.
could be, it happens that there is not a manual to be a parent. The good news is that there is a solution for heroin addiction
Well they are feeding her addiction hardly the right thing to do
Yeah, it works real well.....it only has a 60% relapse rate, working real well.
Which is a shame, because we are often taught a two-parent system works better than a one-parent household (single mothers, etc). I say they had bad parenting. If this keeps up, our country is fucked.
My grandmother and grandfather did everything for my uncle . Upper middle class, white kid, who was badly addicted to heroin. They put him on suboxin (however you spell it), rehabs, went to prison and got good for a long time. He had started back up for only three weeks and sadly od'ed April 3, 2016.
everyone starts out looking normal.... she won't look like that for long
+Pr C U no that
True. It is already destroying her voice. I hope she quits while she is young and it’s not to late.
Her parents are enabling her.
I was a clinician doing Tx in the community. I have known countless parents who have wasted fortunes in trying to save their addict kids. Yes, enablers..true. But what would you do in their situation?
This is not suppose to happen to her😳 ..... Then who is this suppose to happen to? Crazy
tinisha28 for real
tinisha28 It's suppose to happen only to black folk...... RIGHT?!
Black people
Racist fucks
Addiction can happen to anyone
there implying that weed is a gateway drug. Not true.
Matthew Rees totally not true at all! I've been smoking weed sense I was 14 and I'm 25 now and have always had stable jobs and manage a salon now and I've never wanted to try any other drug and it has never affected me in a negative way at all.
If that were true then sugar would be a gateway drug because it's ten times more addictive than cocaine.
Matt Rees you can EASILY die from withdrawal. That is the worst idea to get someone clean. Getting clean requires medical attention and help.
I go cold turkey to really give it up,rehabs can't make me kick the habit ,I just realised one day I can't live my life like that so I go cold turkey and got out from it.Heroin was so cheap where I'm from like 1pkt like that balloon packet cost only like 1.50 in dollars so a whole day worth is like 7 to 8 in dollars,life is so much better now that I've been clean for 8 yrs now.
Congratulations
Junie Ralte good for you!
cobgrads
Thanks ya all
Can u hook me up with your pulg?
Are we suppose to feel sorry for this chick?
You sound like someone who has been indoctrinated by TYT. If you are disgusted by whites then please feel free to leave. I would be glad to help you go if you need some assistance :)
Fuck people like you. Its too bad we don't line all of you up and do away with you like Stalin did with his degenerates.
You can donate to my Go Back to Africa Fund at GoFundMe... I'll come back when you all die from overdose...
+B Chi2016 Exactly, and then, like a white person on this comment thread did, they get pissed at u for telling the truth, and giving them a taste of their own medicine. When black and brown ppl's neighborhoods were IMPLANTED with drugs by the white government, the white public response lacked empathy and they felt we should be locked away. No help/care was given, but when it hits them, they want understanding and call it a health crisis. Then some have the audacity/balls to say "go back to Africa" as if they don't need to take their asses back to Europe. I swear some white ppl feel so entitled with that bs line.I don't feel sorry for her, she KNOWS the effects.
Everything you accused whites of committing blacks have done as well lol. Anyways I am glad you think this way because it is just more evidence of why multiculturalism does not work. I really hope we can split the country up by race and avoid all of this.
The sad part is that it can be anyone's daughter. And you just wouldn't want it to be your own. Something has to be missing. You can have all the money in the world but that still can't buy u happiness . Hope one day she finds it. For her self.
Christ, she's 21 and looks 36. What a shame.
My parents would stomp on my face until I die if I even was in the same room as heroin..beyond me how her parents let her live with them and even fund her!
Don't do drink or drugs and you will live forever in perfect health.
kkkkkkkkkkkk
William S. Burroughs, a user of many drugs, lived to be 83. He was even addicted to heroin for a while.
capitalist4life Well that makes it fine for everyone then.
No, just an example.
capitalist4life Sounds a lot like my granddad smoked 80 Park Drive a day and lived to be 80.
Super rich kids with nothing but loose ends. Super rich kids with nothing but fake friends.
This video provides my definition of loser. Given every opportunity to succeed and through a few bad choices leads to this. Gosh what a lot of people wouldn't give to have their opportunities.
Yep, THE definition of spoiled.
There voices are ruined too. As you can tell, the girls voice is a croak, and is husky,
We know she already mentioned it in the video
Actually that happens because the vocal cords are effected. But it is not a permanent condition.
Be careful we do not start new myth. There too many popular believes that are more myth than facts.
Maya Karl layne staley is a rare exception
my son just started a treatment program for another relapse. please don't judge us----it is very hard to know what to do. my son has abused various drugs off and on since the age of 15-he is now 23. Eventually, if nothing else works, I guess I will have to kick him out into the streets-but it is hard to do that to someone that I carried in my womb for 9 months and have loved so much. Pray for us, please….
Have you heard of methadone clinics? I also started using around that age im 22 now... I wont say say im 100% clean & sober now cuz im not.. but methadone did help me cut down on using to the point where now its only every once in a while. .
+Eduardo Vazquez can i contact u on face book add me ryan fast cat c to talk
I deleted my facebook my email is linked to this CZcams account tho. Wuts up?
+Karen Katz put him on methadone, that is what works for most to get off of herion,
but since he on anther drug hope the program works.
poor choice is only in 10% of the cases so most likely if it is
either incest or PEDI teacher or preast or coach who distroyed
your childs life. If it was a famly member who abused him
you should turn that person into the Police, if not family then look
into who the PEDI is who abused him.
Karen Katz God bless you and your son❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
I wonder where they are now - 5 years later?
actually she quit. which you would know IF YOU WATCH THE VIDEO
A Ma
People relapse all the time. There's no follow up so we don't really know that for sure...
Probably dead
I wonder where all this compassion was in the 1980s?
My uncle was a long time user & I just got news an hour ago he passed away his heart couldn't take it & it finally gave out :( I wish these ppl knew that not only are you hurting yourself, but the loved ones around you & it kills us to watch you suffer & know that any second could be your last shot. #RIP to my uncle & all who suffer from this disease. Just know you are deeply loved. 💔
Do you know how addiction works? How powerful it is? It’s not that they don’t know that it hurts other people and it’s not that they don’t care. It’s how powerful addiction is. It completely pulls you in and drags you under. It consumes you.
We see the devastation that surrounds addiction but we also see the amazing advantages of recovery. It can happen to anyone, both addiction and RECOVERY. No one thinks "In a million years, I could be THAT person." Shira, host of The Addiction Show
Don`t listen to that propaganda. I`ve been consuming heroin since 8th grade on a daily basis and yet I smoothly finished school and now have a degree in philosophy, psychology and mathematics. I earn 125.000 $ a month and I married a Swedish lingerie model who I have 14 angelic kids with, all of whom I introduced to heroin and still they promise to become successful, hard- working, honest adults just like their father. I am a luminary in axe throwing, heel-and-toe walking , cricket, checkers and unicyle hockey and I was awarded the title of 2nd sexiest man in Swasiland.
Troll alert!
Did your dealer pip you for first prize?
I was always told Swedish chicks didn't use underwear.
*****
Loss of appetite causes harm to the body.
You don't see fat junkies.
This means when they become ill they are more vulnerable.
well, I not surprise because all drug addicts think that life is great for them, that everything it's ok, and everybody is wrong.
***** I agree that physically heroin doesn't harm your physical body, but it sure as hell screws everything else in your life and tears it to shreds, family, friends and anything and everything else it can destroy it will, it's probably one of Satan's greatest achievements introducing mankind to a drug that will grip you for a life long battle that still calls to the addict after 20-30 years and longer of being completely sober.
I hope she’s doing ok after all these years
she passed away rip
You just don’t become addicted......there is something deep inside she cannot cope with that pushes her to take these drugs!!
He hides a spoon in his cereal box but its not for breakfast :D lol fkn news reporters I see what you did there
"one hit and you're hooked" is not true. I have smoked heroin before and am not addicted and don't crave it.
Bet you base ur morality on a book and god but ignore the fact that same book says rape in moral genocide is moral inficide is moral slavery is moral......by what you said ur extremely uneducated on the subject of addiction it has been proven that ppl have a genetic disposition for addiction so that alone much less all the other factors blows ur opinion ur wrong opinion on the subject clear out of the water.......please educate yourself on something before spewing and perpetuating such blatant ignorance and possibly influencing other to think in such a shallow way......and maybe re read you so called holy book cause you clearly don't understand it very well ither
Ive done it too.cocaine..extasy...heroin..Benzos.
Weed..hash..and im not an addict.
I want to try DMT.
+Eden Grey Addiction is not a CHOICE. It is not a moral issue, many people see it as such, & that is the PROBLEM, not the solution, or it would be solved! ADDICTION IS A DISEASE AS DEFINED BY BOTH THE MEDICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC COMMUNITIES. It is not debatable, so continue with your ignorant beliefs & feeling superior to a sick person, that makes you just as sick as a junkie, IGNORANCE KILLS.
+Brad Younger Actually, drug use initially went down due to scare tactics/propaganda like "one time & you're hooked" (which is just stupid) with young people, then they figured out it was 90% lies, & drug use among young people rose to much higher than it was prior to the "war on drugs". How do you have a war on a inanimate object? They should call it what it is, a war on addicts, a war on sick people who need help. In countries where they've taken a harm reduction approach (such as Switzerland), the rate of addiction plummeted. They have one of the lowest drug use rates in the World. As well as the lowest blood born disease rate, such as AIDS. Why can't we learn from them? It's illegal in my State to HAVE a harm reduction program! The thinking is it will allow/encourage/endorse drugs. This goes back to the antiquated thinking that addiction is a CHOICE, in the face of all medical & psychiatric definitions that it's a DISEASE. The ignorance on this matter drives me crazy, it's so persistent!! Good point about it morally (& legally as well), your body & not a matter of law, unless some other law is broken.
+Eden Grey If you were at educated, you would know the answer to that. The propaganda/lies/scare tactics worked for a very short time, then backfired big time. More young people tried/have done drugs since the '60's following the "war on drugs". If you had half a brain, you would realize you can't have a war on an inanimate object, & a war against people with a disease is the ultimate stupidity. Since 2/3 of addicts were abused in childhood, having a war against people that are already traumatized is inhumane as well as IGNORANT. So don't comment any more, I don't have time to keep trying to educate the ignorant, although that is my job. Questions like "How do you know things are worse since the war on drugs?" prove you have no business arguing this matter, I strongly suggest you educate yourself before making an even bigger ass of yourself than you already have (if possible).
I'm a white, middle class heroin addict with great parents that are still together. I support myself and my habit delivering pizza. It's not the most glamorous job, but it's perfect for supporting a heroin addiction. My paycheck goes to bills, and I go home every day with at least 30 bucks in tips, to cop my fix. The only downside is that, well, I'm a heroin addict.
I hope you are not an addict anymore.
Justin: I was high in that picture.
Um, hate to break it to you dude, but you were still high
I shot up a gram and a half of heroin a day for 3 years straight, and happy to say that suboxone DOES save lives, because I have been clean for 3 years this April because of it. I was always the one that drug dealers thought was a cop because I didnt look like the typical heroin addict... good luck to anyone out there who's addicted, just know that you CAN be sober.
Thanx Katie Kennedy it does affect everyone, doesnt matter where you come from!! Did you manage to get off the Sub too? Im on a program but its still using to me, cant wait to be completely clean again i did 2 years 9 months since i was 14 im 33 now!!! Oh well it's kept me looking young :)
I hear ya, Katie...the Big H, the Big C, and the Big CM were all part of my life. That was 25+ years ago and all praises to God by whichever Name one wishes to call Him & Her, I've been free of that triple nightmare. Didn't have Sub back then...one went on Methadone and that shit just made me sick, so I did the cold turkey thing (gobble! gobble! LOL). I'm still a freaken lunatic, I'm still a party animal, I'm still into my jazz, hip-hop, soul, acid rock, astral projection, lucid dreaming, Kabbalah, Bhakti Yoga---and I long to meet the cool alien chick from a real hip planet far-far away. BTW: I'm 70 Big ones. Hey The Mick made it, Bob Dylan made it. What I mean to say and I would say it to all young people is that if you kick dope (smack, doo-jee, p-funk, whatever), that doesn't mean you're gonna become a square and your fun will now end. Quite to the contrary...when I got a rig outa my arm, my life began!
I did the Big H thing for 18 years and was able to get help in 1988...been c&s ever since. Now, at age 70, I've got Myalgia and the pain is freaken unreal! So my doctor has given me Tramadol--and I have 2B careful.
Sober? Wrong drug, me thinks.
sober = being off mind or mood altering chemicals, not just drink, me thinks. barrel89
This was almost 8 yrs ago I wondered how she's doing now....
I've lost a cousin to this drug years ago , and from that day I pledged to never experiment with drugs , as I saw what it did to him and everything he and my family went through with heroin . A 13 year addiction ended with a battle that can't be won .
I myself am 19 now , and when I was in highschool (Average middle class public school) opioids became a huge option of high for many of the people I went to school with . First it was weed , then it was xanies or Bars and after that for the few unlucky few it was heroin . I had a close friend of mine as well get hooked on the drug for about years time . He is clean now and I pray everyday he can stay clean throughout the rest of my life . This is the worst thing on this earth and wouldn't wish this addiction on anyone . Rest in peace Jamie you are now at peace with your life long battle
What's wrong with these parents giving their drug-addicted children money, that's pure child abuse
I definitely agree .....it's hard they just don't know what tough love is.
I don't see a 'new face' here. Same old same old...
She doesn't want her parents to find the foil in the trash so she does a interview showing where the foil is . She also tells on herself on what she does with her parents money wtf
They should put her in rehab. N
Don't give her money and lock her in her room she's not working any way .
She could die of heroin withdrawal.
many person i know hate addicts,i also watch them or their loved ones becoming addict.may
God help them.
I will never, ever smoke anything harmful like drugs, I have been trained well.
Its all about the training and being "smart" enough to just do what your told eh? Has nothing to do with the way you perceive life?
but you will eat your processed foods etc?
have fun missing out on life in general..
i'm 19 i'v tried every drug out there, for that reason.. to see what it's like
only try it once, now i already know what every drug is like so i have
my whole life ahead of me to live while you type of people "straight edge"
will spend the rest of your life wondering..that's why your here now...
That's what I used to say...
@@RPcropland yes, its all about training. My parents all my adolescent were constantly repeating that drugs are very dangerous. It’s stuck in my mind. So many people offered me to try, but i even afraid to touch it. I am addicted only to coffee ☕️
see kids thats what happens when you go to college! Not only do you leave with 50K+ in debt but you also leave with some sort of addiction!
DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE!
I used to smoke fetty off the foil and dude I would have so much foil hidden in a drawer. Black soot on the walls, in my purse, on the door. Smh I’m so happy I’m clean.
I found Jesus was the cure..
I am a retired clinician who has known over 1000 opioid addicts. Happily, for a select small percentage, Jesus "is" the answer. So is Narcotics Anonymous.
I believe the aluminum ("tin") isn't doing her any good too...
SMH the reporter in the beginning trips me out so this is not supposed to happen to you he says you're smart you have money you live in a nice house your white with blonde hair and blue eyes , okay so he didn't say you're white but he wanted to. come on people drugs and poor decisions happen to people of all walks of life and all races had this woman been anywhere else in another city without the parents she has this would not be a surprise.
"That's your resin soot" 😂😂
Those figures have not just increased recently.
When I came to the US for the first time, about 20 years ago, I was already shocked about the number of people I met doing drugs.
I love how they "urbanize" the music in these stories....FOH!!!
Smoke weed girl. Non addictive, makes you relax and keeps you hungry.
i dont think shes smoking it right
Exactly what I was thinking. Tf was that shit? 😂
Shes not, her dumbass is supposed to let it trail down the foil..
yeah, noticed that one to, i guess thats why she blows a 1000 grand a week. she burns 70% of her stuff for nothing
anyone know where i can find the announcement/speech given by Plano, Texas police commissioner about the "dangerous nature of heroin"?
I am addicted to cigarettes/tobacco (12 years) since I was 15 years old and at first it was just for fun now I cant stop, I'm easily influenced and haven't got much willpower so basically people like me can get addicted to any drug fast. I had the opportunity and willingness to try crack and heroin but I was saved from it both times. thank god.
thank you very much for the kind words my friend. I have tried a few times but people like you give people like me hope, and I will try until I succeed. it can be done the main thing is to never lose hope :)
cultureisa birthright ok you seem like an expert. I need to get myself out of situations where I'm willing to smoke I guess, like meeting up with certain friends that do smoke. I will try a substitute, nose spray what kind is that? I have tried the patches doesn't do much or maybe its its just me lol thanks.
cultureisa birthright Yes smoking has some rewards I admit. Of course its less harmful then then other drugs.But it's still not something I wish to continue in future. And I will also have to speak to a counsellor, are you one yourself? You have given me some great advice thank you.
cultureisa birthright Thanks counsellor you are great :)
dtastl what YOU said! well almost Tobacco itself is NOT as dangerous as alcohol because of the messed up shit alcohol causes and you still think ur fine.
She's so beautiful, shoulda just gone into modeling or something. Hope she's ok
Modeling is really bad, she should have just stayed away from hard drugs.
NeovisionX modeling is what you make of it actually.
HATE how she gets sympathy points because she's "pretty", well she's pretty fucking stupid
misstery THANK YOU
Why do i suspect both the narrator and you would have less sympathy for Ashley if she wasn't beautiful or middle class (or White).
You know what? Ive been an addict, clean since April, and Im 16. I was using for a year, and I fucking wasted my time. But my parents werent lenient, they put in me rehab, didnt work, called the cops, didnt work, and they decided to cut the crap, cut me off all money, cant go out, and hired a private eye to watch me, but you know what IM CLEAN! I LOVE IT! And the hard things to do are usually what happen to you
Congrats !!!😄
congrats!
+Jerry Wards Consience that's so ignorant how would you know
***** and how do you figure that?
16 also, addict to oxy for about a year and a half, parents didnt know and still dont. I cleaned up myself for bout 4 months, relapsed, had a suicide attempt, clean for 7 months now
Aw, and just as I was getting used to the old face of heroin addiction.
We need to start questioning everything about drugs and addiction. Most of what we claim to know is not based scientific research but rather we are guessing at it. It is based on revelation of people who claim themselves to be authorities on the subject.
If we knew what we are doing the solution would be obvious. The outcome in rehab are horrendously poor. More than 90% relapse. And what is worst the patients are blamed. No other field of medicine does that. Most rehab do the opposite of what is expected in science.
Would give you 1000 likes if I could!
Now there's a thing to add to my list of absolute fears.
Heroin
Ashley looks super spoiled, but at the same time her parents don't seem to care that much about her... Like, they don't even ask her what she's (supposed to be) doing with her friends and stuff like that...
what he meant was "too privileged"
I just think that most people do know how addictive it is, heroin that is...so...why even try it? I actually have, however, I researched enough to know that if you do it for more than 3 days in a row, you then become addicted physically and you THINK you need it, but you really DO NOT. It is beatable. I know people who were hell bent on it and they managed to beat that addiction. I say now..the hell with them if they choose to be addicted because most of us know that there is a way out, there is ALWAYS a WAY OUT! First of all, don't be stupid enough to keep doing it. Everyone experiments perhaps with certain things but some take it beyond the experimentation stage and embrace it wholly. I have little sympathy, truly. It doesn't much matter if someone chooses to do this drug and wreak their havoc on those around them then they deserve to OD and go away. Sorry if this opinion might upset someone, but like I said...I have no sympathy.
after getting clean i realized that addiction is giving up on your life and withdrawals are you fighting to get your life back. you could be the next mozart or einstein, dont take your potential to the grave the world needs you.
I lost my son June 2nd of this year to a heroin overdose he's been clean a little over 3 years from being in jail and from being in a in treatment program I didn't even see it coming he fooled me that good but he was also seven and a half hours away from me meaning how he died June 2nd he was 25 he would have been 26 years old June 26th how does that happen how does that fucking happen I miss him dearly I will pray for everybody that's going through addictions no matter what kind of addiction it is also the families that have lost loved ones due to drug overdoses!!!😢😢😢
I would gladly support capital punishment against drug dealers and drug manufacturers!
Bet most, if not all addicts said once upon a time, "I only smoke a little weed."
***** No, it's just a start. Thankfully most don't take it further but a lot make that next step.
Bruce Jenner where is he ?
***** it
rick charles they all started drinking milk too!
***** Another fun fact!
seven years ago... i hope she made it..... what beautiful eyes....
This shit pisses me off. The girl is dying and her parents are watching it happen put the poor girl in rehab for gods sake
Did this reporter just say, it all started out with "MARIJUANA "😒😂😂😂😂 GTFOH
Yeah but she doesn't inject it like a real badass.
You sound as though injecting is something to admire... I'm really happy for her not injecting. It's bad enough smoking heroin and in my opinion equally as addictive. You wouldn't feel stronger withdrawal symptoms from injection. All injecting does is make u feel like a even lower down scumbag. So sad.
Its just cheaper to inject, nothing else. She might as well snort it if she was richer.
matt jenks you dont make any sense Jenks.
She probably started to inject and now she's dead.
***** In Pulp Fiction she snorted the pure heroin as if it were the sort of shitty jumped on coke clowns in nightclubs sniff. Hence the massive heart stopping overdose.
Parenting is more than accumulate money, we have to be present in their lives because if we aren't drugs would be always there as an option that of course you always can say no.
Family plays a big roll in every decision a kid makes, when your family gives you support (not economical support) I am talking about Love, the fact that they care, be present in your kids life, always talk to them about how bad drugs are and how life can turn into nothing if you go there. All this can save your kids!! I feel for all the ppl in the world poor and rich black or white who fall in this path.
How come they don’t arrest her for drug possession 🤔
I don't understand why everyone has to argue about color further fueling and ignoring this huge problem! We need to band together and realize it's a people problem and help each other get smart and clean.... And ultimately happy
Poor thing, they told her it was hash and tricked her into doing heroin. She is so innocent. We should set up a paypal account to contribute her worthy cause. Worthless junkies.
when I was a a teenager someone put coke in a blunt that I smoked with them. When I found out I didnt say give me more I knocked them out. This idioty found out and said GIVE ME MORE
It's just nature's way of weeding out the stupid ones.
They put heroin and she was so stupid not to notice that she is getting to high and feeling too good?
Love you heroine addict sister.May God give you strength to move on to the right path.
"We need to share the dangers of heroin!"
"Great idea, David! Let's show the viewers how she smokes it!!"
So let me get this straight!! I struggled all my life but i never did drug"s!!!!! YES ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍😂😂😂😂😂
Lol 👍
Suzinnie Bizzie I know really 💛
it is possible to get cleani am now clean more then 8 years
All I’ve gotta say is I smoke weed EVERYDAY and never once have I ever thought about trying heroin 🤷🏼♀️
I've went both to a school in a poorer area and in upper middle class area and there were always more drugs in the the suburbs.
I like how they use marijuana as a starting drug... first marijuana and then went on to heroin. How about first started smoking ciggs, than alc, than smoked weed (too expensive) and went on to other drug. I know for a fact that weed is not going to be a reason why you ever start heroin, because instead of grabbing the needle I would get more food (=
Thank u! seriously! i'm a ex junky and booze was waaayy more of a gateway! Pot made me think logiclly and reasonable not when I was drunk..wtf..right on!
More people should realize this. The people who are heroin junkies typically start with oxycodone, dilaudid, opana.... Eventually they move to heroin because it is cheaper.
pot was a gateway for me instead of alcohol or cigs because it's illegal, and for me one illegal substance led to another. under control now though :)
+ The reason why Weed is illegal, is because the goverment cant make money out of it.
I agree alcohol and cigarettes come first, I went straight to coke and smack, I hate weed it's boring!
First world problems
This chick is the picture of an entitled youth. Please spare me the empathy for these two. Wealthy upper class parents fueling thier kids addictions.
currently addicted to h in California. I continue to use bc I don't want to withdrawal for ten days. withdrawal is pure hell
i fucking lost it when the picture of Marilyn Monroe showed up and he was like "Ohhhh yeahhh that's my girlll."
"Bad associations spoil useful habits" (Bible)
Say no to all drugs including weed!