'They were poisoned': Fentanyl-laced drug kills five friends
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- čas přidán 14. 12. 2022
- Last February, a group of friends in a Denver suburb took cocaine, but five of them died. Colorado detectives determined it was laced with a deadly amount of synthetic fentanyl. Efforts to find out who was responsible for this mass overdose - and prosecuting them - highlighted another challenge in the nation’s fentanyl drug crisis. Subscribe to The Washington Post on CZcams: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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Just because these young adults made a bad decision to use cocaine does NOT mean they deserve to die!!!
Deserve death no. But I hope this wakes people up to the reality that you can NEVER trust street drugs. People in this country got way to complacent about the dangers. I can only hope people change their attitudes about it.
OF COURSE NOT
I’m still young but I’m glad I never tried anything like that. A lot of my friends moved on from weed to cocaine.
@@User-rka_zykx76 Cocaine is not a hard drug lol. You guys are funny
@@RedLineShortFilms crack is a form of cocaine and you're going to say that's not a hard drug? Crazy
This didn't happen 30 years ago. Nobody died from snorting a small amount of coke. What a nightmare.
Exactly..things were different ….this is horrible.
100 percent it's a shame. Legalize it imagine the people who's lives would be save.
@ gimpfoot. Weed is legalized in many states yet illicit weed is still prevalent everywhere. Legalizing it won’t change that.
@@toothrestorer6588 Hmm, that's not true. Legalizing it helped a lot. Weed is not legal in most of Europe, not even medically. Dealers put tires in the weed(it's true google it) and kids die of heart attacks because of it. Legalizing weed would save so many lives in Europe. Just like legalizing opiates would end fentanyl poisoning.
Things are way different today with China being involved with the Cartels.
I'm a 45-year-old man who doesn't show much emotion but when I seen the little girl innocently playing with her toy knowing she would never see her mother again then see the father break down I totally lost it haven't cried like that in years rip to these people
These IDIOTS CHOSE to DIE. THAT. DAY!!!!
The sad part is the gov we have right now , couldn't care less !
It's good to cry . It's a release sometimes.
@@weldorworx6858 This has been going on for years, where was the last administration on this or the million covid deaths?
@@weldorworx6858 The only way to care more is restrict the freedoms of addict and lock them in a room and have them clean up...but nope that'd be wrong too. Who knew freedom comes with responsibilities?
Derron breaking down over his heartbreak for his babies got me. I'm so sorry for all those left behind.
That was sad! That men is holding so much tear, if you give him chance to cry after comforting… he will so muchhhh
The father crying about his children's loss is just heartbreaking.
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Beyond
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Agree. He has to raise his children on his own and I could sense that it's not going to be easy for him.
Tore me apart!!!
I lost my 24 year old daughter to fentanyl in July. It's heartbreaking. I hope losing their sister has taught my sons that no drug is safe. I can only preach at them so much.
Sorry foe your loss. Thanks for taking the time to share. You are making a difference.
@@jarvisaddison8560 I really hope so
@Antoinette Ward thank you. Christmas was hard this year.
I'm so sorry.
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My nephew, who was like a son, 2 weeks after his 24th Birthday in March . I feel you madree. It hurts so bad.
I have overdosed on fentanyl before it took 27 things of norcan to save my life. I Thank God that I lived and I’ve been sober 2 years now praying for the families. All my heart goes out to them
Give it up. Drugs are not worth the chances of dying
I feel like we as Americans refuse to learn. We were already taught this lesson in the 80's and it should have been passed down generation to generation. It wasn't...so now people are dying again. We just refuse to learn.
@@user-jy3zl2vp4b 🎯 100% correct
Lost my uncle to fentanyl laced pills. He was only 57 years and survived cancer, asthma, and type 1 diabetes. To lose him this way was so incredibly painful. 40% of all street drugs are laced with fentanyl. Please don't play Russian roulette with your life 🙏🏼😢💔
40%? I’m calling bullshit
@@accuratealloys "In September, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration issued a public safety alert: More than 40 percent of black-market prescription pills contain lethal amounts of fentanyl." “It’s rare to see heroin by itself,”..."State Police Col. Nathan Noyes said. “When we do see heroin, it is routinely mixed with fentanyl. And while fentanyl can be found as the sole drug in some samples, approximately 70 percent of the time it is mixed with other drugs. … We’re seeing fentanyl mixed with everything, including counterfeit pills.”
There are inexpensive fentanyl test strips. Anyone who buys drugs off the streets should use them.
69%
@@adamblack6867 nice!
I visited a friend in LA after not seeing him for over 15 years. We just sat in his living room and talked for hours, lots to catch up on. Two weeks later he died from a fentanyl overdose. I have mourned quite a few tragic deaths in my life but that one hit me hard. The circumstances are so unfair. Don't think for a second this is a unique story. Fentanyl is the grim reaper incarnate.
Ya it's so bad I literally been telling my friends to stay away from the snow or anything that can have fent in it
Just recently in California, the Democrat controlled legislature rejected carefully crafted legislation to increase the absurdly low penalties dealing in Fentanyl. In California if you vote for Democrat legislature candidates, you vote for fentanyl.
That is what happened to
lil Peep 😢
@@allanfifield8256California is the worst.
So is Seattle where the City Council allows open drug use & free syringes - but You can't smoke a cigarette 20' near a doorway.
@@Kat.Evangeline Excellent observation.
It kills me that the father is hurting knowing his kids are in pain and don’t know how to express it or deal with it and it only gets worse as they grow up. Hopefully he can be that pillar of strength they need in their life’s.
Broke my heart 😢
That’s so scary, I’m glad my partying days are over, cause back in the day, we did take recreational drugs on weekends….And we didn’t have concerns where or who we got it from back then…
We didn't need to. Not like this anyway.. yikes!
Its really insane. I feel lucky too.
"Young and stupid" is said for a reason. You just got lucky, tho.
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@@krisrobb7709 that's just stupid. You're lucky you're alive
Lost my son to heroin laced with fentanyl 😥. What a horrible sadness for these families, my heart goes out to you all 🙏💔 It angers me as well, I'm sorry for all that this is affecting, hopefully they find who in the chain of sellers knew it was fentanyl!! It has to stop 😡
So sorry on the loss of ur son.
Sorry to hear about your son. I wish they would teach people in school how to use fentanyl strips.
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I'm so sorry
You killed your son. You knew he had a drug problem and you didn’t do anything
It's a shame people have no discipline. It's not okay to take drugs.
There is no such thing as drugs for socializing, recreation or for having a good time
Taking drugs come with risks, addiction, debt, crime, death erc, why do people act like they have no idea?
Yep
I wanna swim with an alligator.....dangerous,yes,could I die, more than likely....should I do it? Probably not.
This same thing happened to my friend 5years ago . Him and 3 others went out for a birthday celebration and all 4 decided last-minute to have a little recreational fun with drugs at his apartment after going out for dinner . The next morning all 4 were found dead from fentanyl overdose 🥲. I'll never forget how it impacted me and still does until this day .
Hope you have people around u to support u. I wish ur friend peace & just know their energy will never be absent.
All energies remain even after us passing on. Peace to u family.
So tragic and painful..I hope the drug suppliers were caught and jailed for these multiple murders..
If they used coke they would be alive.Fentanyl is very dangerous
One bad decision can have extremely serious consequences … just say no 😢
They were in Denver with the best weed in the country next to Oregon and they have to do that what the hell.
I agree. People need to realize that the gamble is not worth it.
@@Joseph-xe1ry some people don’t want weed they want the experience of coke…
Ok Nancy Reagan.
There are fentanyl test strips for people who use drugs occasionally. Obviously these people weren't drug addicts. They were celebrating a night out together, which is extremely common.
I grew up through the oxycontin period. I started using pain pills because they were easily prescribed, I went to using oxycontins because everybody had them and you could buy them from somebody and be high for multiple days off little pieces. Well little do you know your tolerance jumps up so fast, especially if you come back to the drug after being sober. Anyways I ended up becoming a heroin addict for about 15 years. Fentanyl started getting introduced into heroin towards the last 3 to 4 years of my addiction, I honestly didn't like any of my stuff being cut with fentanyl because the high is very strong and does not have a half-life like actual heroin. So you're sick within 4 to 5 hours, where is if you're using heroin you're actually okay for 10 hours before you start feeling the symptoms of being sick. These days people are getting pure fentanyl and we have just fentanyl addicts. It's actually such a dangerous drug, because if you're not using everyday and you don't have a tolerance it wouldn't take much for you to stop breathing and never wake up. I wish that I would have talked about my problems instead of trying to cope with it by self-medicating I wouldn't have had to gone through all the troubles of being traumatized just from the drug life alone. 15 to 20 years of addiction, got me 9 years locked up, homeless, multiple rehabs and to this day I still struggle with it, but I've been clean majority of these last 5 years. I pray that nobody ever has to go through the addictions of an opiate addict
Thats is such eye opening story. Thankyou for sharing. Wishing you strength, full recovery and healing and peace..🙏
I got started then too... Oxy 160's were still around when I first got going, but i would scrape the lining off an Oxy 40 and sniff just a quarter, for the first so long of my habit. Once my money ran low, I switched to the good NYC dope.
I actually got clean for some years, many on Suboxone, some just clean (but smoking weed, whatever) and then a few years into fent having completely displaced heroin, I got back into it.
I never overdosed once on Oxy or heroin, but I overdosed like, three months into using fent? It's such a goofy, crappy drug... lasts longer, way more side effects, but subjectively, doesn't get you nearly as actually high.
I guess that "fentanyl" is one of actually hundreds of fentanyl analogues, novel opioids, or combinations of multiple of those substances, and sometimes others as well, like they'll throw xylazine in there when it's real bunk.
But what happened with me is, one day I went and got some, and I was stupidly still injecting it, which i only did with dope because sniffing it inflamed my lungs so much. I shot some on this day and was pretty sure right away that, whatever it was, was not the same as what it had been. The high was weak and wack, but also, it felt a little off.
Three hours later i injected the exact same amount I injected the first time, which always worked fine for me with the stuff i'd been getting from that same guy.... I injected it, messed around in my seat for the better part of a minute, stood up, and...
...next thing I know I'm coming conscious from blackness, and aware that my heart is pounding, and my scalp is burning. I guess I overdosed, but not so bad that my body wasnt able to shock me back out of it. I just slumped forward into my PC, no clue how long I was out for. And, I was higher at that point, than i'd ever been in my life.
I was so scared i'd fall back out so i dressed as quick as I could and just went outside, walked up and down some main-ish street, slamming energy drinks for a couple hours until I was sure I was gonna be OK.
But yeah, it's so hard to gauge a safe dose when you never know if what you got now, is the same stuff you got last time. And especially when the high is so bunk that a dose that hardly got you high, is apparently nearly enough to cause an OD. Weird, wack stuff.
It also.... it varies so much depending on what fent you;re getting, but the stuff up here now, if you stop taking it, it takes a full WEEK before you actually fully enter withdrawal. Like if you want to take a suboxone, if you dont wait SEVEN days, you're going to have some precipitated withdrawal effects. The stuff that used to be around up here wasnt like that, but the stuff up here now, is.
It's such a weird and wack drug
there's nothing more selfish than a parent who continues to use
yep
Say no to drugs. Don’t do drugs.
This is heartbreaking I feel so sad for them and the family left behind. My heart goes out to them, may they rest in peace.
Amen! ♥
*My best friend and his partner ended up dying together because the drugs he was taking for his condition ended up being laced with Fentanyl. One of the closest people in my life, who had no type of history of addiction, ended up becoming a victim of Fentanyl poisoning. I wouldn't wish this type of pain on my worse enemy. I genuinely wish drugs like this never existed, then maybe my friend could have lived a long life. . .*
I’m so sorry for all they’re losses and my most sincere condolences and prayers are with them. My eldest grandson’s dad passed from an overdose of what he thought was cocaine and turned out to be pure fentanyl. His son (my grandson) was 3 at the time and still misses his dad and the trauma it caused all his loved ones is utterly devastating. I think it’s so cruel when people are misled and die like this. I hope to see the day when this poison gets off the streets 💔
Dropping your kids off " I'll be back (after I take stupid drug's I know I shouldn't)" just stupid decisions. Bless their hearts
*drugs
Same thing happened to my friends roommate in Upstate, NY! My heart goes out to to the families!
Who I am from upstate New York 😮
@@teshasmith3721 ?
@@teshasmith3721 What part?
I'm from down state does that help.?
@@rodolfobeans3531 lol NYC?
I know waaay too many people wrapped up in the drug scene and they're all very aware of the fentanyl but they "think" they know what they're doing. My cousin just lost her son to an overdose four days before his 27th birthday and she's still using, even after spending 30 days in rehab and getting a Rx of Suboxone. My stepdad overdosed last month and he still keeps getting dope. Families of addicts get to the point of accepting that they'll get " that call" eventually. We know that lifestyle leads to prison or death.
So frustrating and hearttbreaking to read..Cheap drugs also make it easy to buy them. We all need to fight this. Thats why never try it. Once you try you get addicted for life.. Addicts need purging and also some strong distraction from drugs. Hard core activities..+ Therapy + Meditation. And need to cut loose bad friends and people in their circle. And need to solve the root cause of their problem, what drove them to drugs in the first place.
This is scary sad. Omg my thing is you have kids try your hardest to not go through a bad way. This is sad 😔
What a horrible tragedy.
Why? Okay troll.
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You’re not wrong, don’t let these clowns here dis your comment, because you’re right
It sure is!!! I don't want any hard drugs touching my lips!!! This is beyond sad!!!
Entirely preventable. Everyone knows where this comes from.
Using street drugs is like playing Russian roulette.
Exactly. Game has changed
My condolences to all the victims families & friends. This is heartbreaking to watch.
"She wasn't a druggie, she was just having a little fun." Yeah, no. That is pure denial.
Man it’s so wild how much this is happening.. I’ve lost 6 ppl to it myself. It never ceases to amaze me how many ppl still do it. My condolences to the families!
Same. I am up to 8 people now. RIP Rahsaan, Ryan, Jay, Nadia, Amber, George, Brandon, and Josh. All gone too soon.
I'm grateful to have never tried drugs but I dread the day this epidemic arrives in Europe. I'm sorry this is happening in America
They DID choose to do "that". They should not be taking drugs period.
It must suck living in such a black and white world and honestly being okay with it. You are not the other billions of people on the earth who go through things different and worse than you. People deal with things in different ways and if they’re not hurting anyone while doing it, it is no one’s place to judge them.
That's foul thing to say
O.K.
@@HeatherSmith-momof4 people have their right to express themselves....this was such a waste.....BUT
@@janaepatmon6035 Wrong. There's a kid around and that points to drug problem. And effing w street drugs to start with that you know 0 about.
They tell us from the time we’re kids: don’t do drugs. We all grow up knowing the risks. The pain they left behind is heartbreaking.
You don’t need drugs to “have a little fun.”
Now it’s getting into the elementary and high schools. 2 people I know smoked something laced and haven’t been in their right minds since.
2 other people I know overdosed but thank God, they recovered. People are dying younger and younger.
Dude, come on. Elementary schools? Why the hell would a drug dealer Target Elementary schools? Kids that age don't have any money. High schoolers, yes, absolutely. Stop spreading this information, or else post your sources. Oh wait, you don't have any because what you said is b*******.
What? In the 1980s kids were taking drugs in middle school NYC, and probably before that too.
Kids are dropping dead everywhere. San Diego, we've had many kids die recently.
@@arfriedman4577 before fentynal
@@justagirlsd3000 yes, they died from speed, maybe cocaine.
My cousin died from a fentanyl laced pill 2 months ago. The risk is real. To anyone in the struggle, God Bless.
My heart goes out to all the families involved, I pray they catch the responsible ones
Since when is doing hardcore drugs considered an acceptable way for “having a little fun”? Come on people! Save what little brain cells you have left.
Finally! Thank you!!!
Meh cocaine isn't hard-core lol
You must be fun at parties.I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you weren’t a teenager like the 80 % of America were teenagers.
Probably a good idea to avoid it when you're pregnant.
Exactly!
I am so incredibly sorry for this loss.. I too lost my baby girl 6 days into her 22nd birthday.. theres no description that even comes close to the feeling of losing a child so unceremoniously. RIP and continue to spread the word 🙏
so sorry for the loss of your daughter bless you
I'm so sorry 💔 I've lost a daughter too so I understand the pain 💔
Please Don't call them friends when none of them are smart enough to keep each other away from drugs.
I didn’t realize cocaine use so was so “common”. I’m literally shocked they were doing it yet everyone appears to be okay with this. My my my.
It is shockkngly common and widely accepted, I'm really struggling to have the sympathy for the deceased that I once would of had. Fentanyl laced drugs are widely known about, some of these people were parents and yet they were happy to put money in the hands of criminals to have a fun night.
I know. A new baby and snorting cocaine? That’s shocking
If you play you pay. Don't want to pay?? Don't play
Geeze, where the hell have you been? Hop out of that bubble. Maybe it's a good thing being cloistered in that shell. There's nothing shocking about the drug use. What's shocking is when a person tells me they're training for a marathon or something like that.
It's actually extremely common. Kids were doing that before they were doing anything else because it's looked at like a party drug in Hollywood and all the stars are doing it for decades. I actually met kids in high school that we're doing that before they started using heroin, I was the opposite, I started pills, and then heroin, and then cocaine. But cocaine was the first upper I ever tried.
This is seriously heartbreaking and seeing that father and her kids just made me lose it. They didn’t deserve this! I lost my brother to a fentanyl overdose and I know he thought he was doing something else and my mom is grieving really bad this year and November 22nd was his 5yrs of being gone,the holidays are so so hard for my mom and family. He passed in 2017 & it was the day bf thanksgiving and even after 5 years it’s just not the same. What a tragedy 😢
That’s horrible I’m so sorry.
so sorry 😢
The kids and I appreciate your kind words ❤
@@derronreed1545 oh sweetheart I’m so so sorry 😢 I’m seriously so heartbroken for you and those kids and of course everyone involved. They absolutely didn’t deserve this! Honestly I know there’s no words for this loss,but my heart and prayers goes out to you ❤️
@@lukewilliams9428 thank you it’s so devastating for the loved ones.
That's the perfect thing he said "No Drugs are safe". Maybe this tragedy and others that are happening is a huge wake up to not use PERIOD.
I just lost my best friend to fentanyl. He and I were best friends for 8 years and he was everything to me.
"She wasn't a druggie she was just having fun."
Are you f%^king kidding me? This is sick. A druggie is a person who does illegal drugs. How irresponsible to take ANY illegal drugs with a child at home.
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i am not a drug user BUT using drugs should not be a death sentence
So sad the dad crying two kids no mom .
It’s been rough no lie but we’re managing
"She wasn't a druggie, she was just having a little fun." Complete dissassociation. Wake up. Say No to drugs.
My God can’t even imagine the terror that was going on in that moment 😢 my heart goes out to the family.. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Heartbreaking. This happened to a friends son, my sons friend, who thought he was taking a prescription pain killer.
None of this would happen if they legalized opiates. I've been taking pharmaceutical opiates for many years due to chronic pain. I've never even come close to overdosing. It's almost impossible when the stuff is legal. Prohibition is killing the youth.
Geesh! I’m so sorry!
They better find out who gave him that prescription!
Wait, what? How..??
Prescribed to him?
I'm glad to see this story being covered nationally. I was at this scene as a Crime Victim Advocate and at the time we didn't know really happened at all. The 911 called played in the video may have been a subsequent call to the original one.
This scene and story still haunts me.
Prayers to the families.
I live down the street from this complex. Just a sad situation. The 911 caller overdosed in November and the family had to take her off of life support.
@@susanhildreth1531 So sad & tragic. The caller died of OD too..Too many unnecessary preventable deaths..😪😪
Breaks my heart for those broken families. Terrible.
Omg when he cried over his kids wanting their mom, hurt so bad. I wish to God i could be in their life to help them. This is so horrible
So, the mother and father were with their four-month-old baby while they did drugs. I do not feel one bit sorry for any of those dolts. Who in hell does drugs while your baby is with you?!!! The only victim in this, is the baby, who couldn't depend on the two people he should have been able to depend on. They put their selfish needs of doing drugs over the care of their baby.
I agree that is so irresponsible. Nor saying they deserved to die but ahouls not allow drugs around their child. A vulnerable baby !
I am SO grateful I got help and cleaned up in 04, we had no fent in 415 yet to speak of and as an IV junky bum it would have def been in my story. I DO NOT miss the whole drug scene at all anymore.. The cartels dope has nothing to do w recreation in my eyes. RIP people
Glad you are in recovery, but no need to call your old self a junky bum. Addiction is a serious illness and none of us are immune.
Wasn't there an incident like 2 weeks ago similar to this one in San Francisco
I got clean before fentanyl came. 7 yrs clean. My ex died last yr
fent is so wack compared to heroin, the high is GARBAGE, but the addictive quality is pretty much the same.
Fentanyl killed my friend 3 days ago. He thought he was doing coke and it ended up having some fentanyl in it.
Breaks my heart this could be anyone and anyones families that is what is so scary and makes me cry.
I'm I'm 16 months sober and have survived three overdoses. Fentanyl is one of the main reasons I knew I had to get sober. I didn't want to have a loved one find me like that.
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Good choice. Keep it up. Stay safe and sober..
...and you arent blaming it on someone else like 45% of the comments here good for you!
Yes, that's true, but almost everyone had made a poor choice at least once in their life. All of us could be dead...it still amazes me how we are fragile and strong at the same time. I lost my aunt, dad, grandma and mom in last 4 years and I sometimes find it really hard to cope, so I understand choices that can, unfortunately, be fatal. However, I applaud those who can overcome this completely and have control over there lives again.
My best friend, my other half..the girl I would fly out and spend every summer with in Los Angeles from Michigan..the person who gave me all my craziest memories just passed away last month. 17 years of friendship all just gone. I hardly cry because I truly can’t accept it. Bad mix of legal meds, sui cide, fentanyl.. is how I’ve lost all the loved ones that are my age (32). WHY?! My parents lost ONE friend in a car accident and that’s it. My generation and younger is being killed off due to self medicating and depression (that goes hand in hand.). The generations before would probably just look down on ppl dying these ways but we’re educated enough now to know it’s not their fault now. Or maybe you have to be one of them to have understanding? I’m so sick of it. My first love that I dated for 5 years and then remained friends with him for the next 9 years took his life in 2019. The most important ones are just gone?! I feel like I’m losing everyone that truly loved me. My grandma just passed away a month before my best friend also so I’m just in trauma shock or whatever and needed to type out my feelings because I’ve been ignoring them since this double whammy death I just went through. I’m either numb or I’ve just accepted we only get ppl for a certain amount of time and that’s just life. I’m sorry to anyone else who knows this pain & envious of those that think I sound crazy. The way the world is now though, I’m afraid you, the one reading my comment will go through this too. Be thankful every day that you don’t know this pain.
I am truly sorry for the loss of your loved ones, especially the young people. Please talk to someone who can help you process this trauma, and it is trauma. If you have a church, and someone in it you trust, reach out. May GOD keep you and cover you with his love and grace. Shalom
Hi Kayla! I just read your comment/post and I just wanted to say that you are so amazing and have such a gift of putting your thoughts and feelings in writing that is so genuine and impactful. Perhaps, you keep a journal or something. I’m so sorry you’ve experienced so much loss. Please be sure to find good and healthy ways to grieve and cope. Journal, exercise, therapy, crying, mindfulness, anything supports your healing process. The world needs you, Kayla! Your kindness, generosity, resilience, message and grit.
On days when it seems overwhelming and your go-to coping skills aren’t enough, know that you deserve and are worthy of support, being heard and vulnerability. If you can read Brené Brown’s books. Her information has helped me through a lot of painful moments. Thank you Kayla! Shine bright! ✨🌟
My heart goes out to you. 😔 I have 19yrs clean from cocain abuse and Im 54yrs old. This group of 5 could have been me and my friends too. I recently attended an NA meeting with a girl who had 8 days clean. I hadn't been in those rooms for 15yrs. It absolutely devested me how many people were there. It was completely packed with so many young people. I sobbed on the ride home, when I considered that those were the ones seeking help, so imagine how many are still out there dieing. So, so sad. I realized how much grace I've been given in my life in that moment. Although I saw people die it was not to this degree. Things were much different when I was lost in addiction. God in heaven help us 🙏. These drugs are being pumped into our nation with intention. There is a horrific agenda being perpetuated on our youth. It's just devastating to me. 😔
@@lisastark8907 facts, well said
Yes it feels like my generation is dying I've lost my closest cousin and closest friend to meth and my other closest cousin and best friend to fentanyl I'm only 28 and feeling so lonely I'll never get back the life I had 😭😭😭😭
So scary, I’m 22 and it scares me how some people my age think they’ll be okay doing drugs the way past generations have. It’s different now. I hope they rest easy, gone way too soon.
I'm so sorry for your families loss, I'm praying for you all. ❤️
I just lost my sister last week to the same crap.
A friend, Brian. 2 months ago. Poor doggie was left alone 4 days. He survived and got a new home.
Tell people about fentanyl test strips if they're going to be doing drugs!
Heartbreaking. Just lost a friend to this drug.
I'm sorry for your loss
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Am so sorry this happened, RIP to all best wishes to the families. Your life is worth living. Finding help is easier then you think.
This is so unfair to the families left picking up the pieces. May God bless and comfort them. Everyone’s heartbreak was palpable. 🙏🏾❤️
My husband died and had to be brought back from taking an oxycodone for his back and was dead 5 min later. Paramedics didn't get him back until they got to the hospital 15 min later. It was the worst day of my life. He gave the other pill to the paramedic the Dr tested it and it was almost pure feytenol. They were surprised he made it. Not ever doing it and then ingesting that amount is almost always fatal. I've talked to my son so many times he just turned 12 about calling me or his dad if someone ever offers him anything I don't care if they say it's Tylenol never ever take anything from anyone except mom and dad. I pray it sticks and he's never in this situation. Kids make mistakes and it's so sad it ended these kids lifes. Praying for peace for the family 🙏
Why would anyone take anything from a dealer to begin with? A doctor wouldn't give him one?
I have back pain a good 50% of the days.
It can be severe. Had a chiropractor 20 years.
This sounds like crap. Stop making excuses.😊
@@darthsigil I'm not making excuses. My sister is a nurse. It literally happens all the time. You get pinpoint pupils when you OD. You can't fake that. You also can't fake your heart beat rapidly dropping or going into cardiac arrest. And I sound like crap? I'd say I believe any nurse over your personal opinions. Wishing a cop was lying isn't the same as them lying. Look up overdoses off feytenol. Your not very intelligent if you believe every day citizens can OD on it yet a cop can't from sniffing it. It's literally a grain of salt is all it takes. Look that one up too. Your uneducated about the drug clearly. And your arguing with facts not my personal opinions. my husband dying wasn't a joke and it isn't something to joke about we have kids. Go start unnecessary arguments with someone else. It's not needed here.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 did I say he took a pill or bought a pill from a dealer? No. That not anymore family member is in jail. And so is her husband for falsifying prescriptions. I'm not interested in negative or immature comments on a post about people who OD. Especially people who arnt trying to get high or even aware of it. This cop was doing her job and people still want to say it's fake. It's ridiculous. Go open a bag of it and see what it does to you. See if you fake an OD. They don't even give that amount to cancer patients who are dying. And it's not powder form it's liquid in an i.v. it's completely different. If I hadn't talked to drs or cops after the incident I'd maybe question my opinion. However these are not my opinions. These are things happening daily to everyone. Not just cops. Are the others who OD faking it too? Are their kids?
I'm so happy that your husband survived! He was just trying to ease back pain, and as you stated, from family, what should be a trusted source. I'm glad you still have one another!
This is so tragic. I’ve had friends pass away from laced drugs and have even had drugs laced myself it’s very scary… please be safe out here everyone I’m lucky to live in a state where weed is legal and that’s the only thing I do now because none of this is good for you anyway and you don’t know what’s in it. Don’t take drugs from anyone even test the drug if you can to make sure it’s not laced. One line is not worth your life. One pill is not worth your life. It’s not like how it was back in the day. I’m lucky nothing horrible happened to me but it only takes one time please be safe y’all
Or simply don’t take any drugs (other than aspirin or doctor prescribed drugs).
Please leave the marijuana, our souls are precious and there's a heaven or hell
@@ronreagan7950 obviously. But that’s like saying don’t have sex. People are going to do it anyway. But all you can do is hope they practice safely. Abstaining education doesn’t work.
@@logekarl8584 well I’m not actually smoking right now because it was giving me headaches and the fact that I’ve withdrawn from weed is scary. I’m not going to hell for smoking weed. The only hell that exists is in your mind.
@@ronreagan7950 what if the doctor prescribed you oxy for pain? You think that’s okay to take and not potentially harmful?
The children left behind without parents is truly heartreaking
My step Dad died in March of fentanyl. Sometimes it just hits me out of nowhere, that he's gone, I can't believe it.
Condolences to you and family. Sending you strength, healing vibe and peace..Stay safe 🙏💕🕊️
I am so sorry, Derron. For a man to cry, you know his heart is broken. I am so very sorry for your & your children's loss.
She said they weren’t druggies, they just wanted to have fun. They took drugs, just the wrong kind. They would be alive today if they said no to drugs. No one forced them to take any drugs. Some of them have kids at home, but let’s have fun and do drugs. 🤦🏻♀️
If you're willing to do cocaine around a baby then that says a lot about how far gone you are into your drug addiction & how far down the toilet your life is...
This is so sad and disturbing...it scares me to think "what if one of my grandchildren were to be given or take something that was laced with fentany?!" It would destroy my life.
Good time to give up drugs folks. We'd have lost an entire generation if this had been in the 70s.
Not everyone did drugs in the 70s. Quit normalizing hard drugs.
I just survived an OD on sunday my parents were mad that my brother found me and called cops they told me they wished i just died. I did too after hearing that. Id do anything to have parents like this who love me id be clean by now. So i left my home trying to get into a program they are all full. Im sleeping on the freezing streets waiting for a bed. I hope people start realizing that addiction is a sickness i dont want to be this way, none of us choose this hell. Its suffering 24/7.
I'm so sorry. 😔 "When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the LORD will take care of me." 🙏
May I ask....what made you try it the very first time??
@@user-jy3zl2vp4b my Dr got me on oxy after a car accident
I'm so sorry your parents said that to you, but I understand because my mom threw me out at age 15 because she didn't want me anymore. I wasn't even using drugs, but it hurt me to the core. I pray you get help soon and please stay safe out there. Don't give up
Bless his heart ❤ the dad of the kids, breaks my heart and the lil girl being upset because mommy isn't there. Bless their hearts lord.
They want to blame everybody but the one taking the drug 💁🏾♀️
I am very sorry for all the families losses. What a selfish decision on the part of the baby's parents to take drugs while the baby was in the house. The fact that they thought it was coke doesn't make it any better. People need to start thinking logically. If anything illegal can be laced, don't use any of it. All these families are left with the grief and sorrow...and a little baby is left without parents.
Honestly I feel the same. I don't understand when parents do stuff like that.
Exactly. What do people think prescribed drugs are....drugs that have been tested for purity by a governmental agency.....street drugs ARE NOT!! You can never trust street drugs and certainly not now that fentanyl is readily available. Also, the dealers are breaking the law (not good at caring about societal protection laws)....but people are trusting them with what chemicals go into their bodies?!?!
Coke itself is already deadly. Let alone fentanyl.
There's nothing wrong with coke. 🙄🤷♀️
@@krisrobb7709 If you are trying to sound ignorant and uniformed you have arrived at your destination.
Don't Do Drugs...don't even try it once!! As the cop said "they paid the price with their life". Very sad story and my deepest condolences to the families. I hope they find the drug dealer and they go to jail.
They were poisoned!
@@wildheartxxx135who forced them to take the poison?
So so tragic and sad. My heart goes out to the families.
I'm so sorry for all the families that are grieving. I'm sorry for the stigma that has probably been put on the victim's. Every life is worth saving and every person is still someone's child.
Whatever. When the blacks were struggling with crack cocaine, it was their fault. They weren’t moral. They deserved it. They went to jail or went homeless. Now drug addicts are victims? Wow
Tamara, I feel sorry for any family members THAT did not know these people had a drug problem, or knew they had a drug problem and tried hard to get them clean!!
Any family member (or friend) that knew of the drug use AND did nothing is just as culpable as the druggies who killed themselves!
As far as any stigma put on the druggies that killed themselves- they deserve every bit of it! They have ONLY themselves to blame!!
They chose to do drugs, they killed themselves!
Yeah, I know. I am an evil, heartless person.
You know what? Truth hurts!
People need to quit making excuses for addicts and put the blame where it belongs. ON THE ADDICTS!
I can’t watched the rest after seeing your comment ☹️..
Being someone’s child does not matter. Ppl need to stop doing drugs
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Wow absolutely heartbreaking!
SMH back in my day coke was coke. Damn shame these drug dealers are killing off their own customers.
Drug dealers had integrity back in the day ...
I'm not convinced it's drug dealers.. obviously murderers posing as dealers. The thing is, they aren't killing addicts. Addicts know their drug dealers and know what they're getting. Casual users need to invest in fentanyl test strips. They're cheap.
When a person says that another person is not a drug user just because they use one time, well it’s not true. If a person uses once in a while, then they are still a user.
Not a consistent user tho . Not an addict neither so it still sucks someone dies trying to have a little fun . People drink on the weekends that doesn’t mean they are alcoholics
Mary owens that's Nonsense you don't know what you're talking about
Exactly. There are many people who wouldn’t take drugs even once “just for fun.”
Whivh has nothing to do with the fact they were poisoned nor does it make there death les of a tragedy
If/When you use drugs you're a user
Horrible. Lost my 22 year old cousin to fentanyl laced drugs. I feel sorry for anyone who goes through this.
I feel terrible for those children left behind🙏....what a shame. Why even go near drugs at all??!!!
I lost my nephew to fentanyl poisoning. He thought he was taking meth. He was found alone in his apartment. He was only 25, a great barber who was getting his own business going. He had been struggling with addiction but I know he would've came thru. I know he would've overcame it. Now, he'll never have the chance.
💔 He was the sweetest most polite gentleman. It's only been about a yr. We miss him so very much.
RIP Devon 🙏
5 beautiful people gone just like that. They're Dreams and Goals will go unfulfilled. So incredibly heartbreaking. I'll be praying for their families. So sorry this happened 😢
I'm so sorry.
The people who think people who use drugs deserve to be poisoned are ignorant.. whoever is putting fentanyl in these drugs is murdering people. There are inexpensive fentanyl test strips. Anyone who dabbles should use them.
Thought he was taking meth 😭😭😭☠️and that is soo much better
@@YungTrinidad407 right?
The sister that is making excuses for the drug use of the victims is shameful. People will never take responsibility for themselves. You never know what you're putting in your body, up your nose, in your veins, in your mouth when it comes to drugs. They took the ultimate responsibility for this and the sister needs to look at it as such. They weren't murdered. We all have a choice
Don't do drugs.
N.O.T. T.H.A.T. E.A.S.Y. cruel cruel world...have some mercy on them...PLEASE!!!!
@@denisescott7731 For about 60% of people it is true.
I agree PenDizzy. There are consequences for everything, good and bad. People need to make better choices.
@@denisescott7731 not that hard either. Have a good circle of friends
@@seniorita3287 SO TRUE
This is just beyond sad.. wiped out friends a family.. the thing is JUST don't do the drugs it is just heartbreaking it rips families apart! When you die YOU do not come back you are gone. YOUR family is devastated!!! MY god this is sad!
When you have children, especially young ones, it is absolutely your responsibility to care for and protect them. Nothing else will ever be more important. If you decide to drink, snort cocaine, or do anything that could even remotely cause you harm, you could cause that harm many times over to your children. These people did not deserve to die, but they were apparently making bad decisions.
I take it you don't drive or own guns then.
@@hannajov How so? guns and car accidents are leading causes of accidental death, so I would say that driving or owning guns could "remotely cause you harm" as the original poster says.
Sounds like this wasn't cocaine laced with fentanyl. It was just fentanyl.
you think
@@denisescott7731 😂
We have become desensitized to what is considered "hanging out", doing cocaine is not a "hanging out" activity.
More and more we are seeing kids/young adults on drugs. And becoming more violent !
And this all comes down to is upbringing!
Yep, and glorifying drugs. I can’t believe how many tv shows and movies portray consuming alcohol and smoking pot is like drinking milk and eating cookies. It’s ridiculous.
So heartbreaking
This is sickening.
People are so quick to judge. Doing drugs doesn’t make you a bad person and these people certainly didn’t deserve to die.
it's a horrible thing that they died, but they did choose to do drugs which everyone knows is illegal, everyone knows it's dangerous, and thousands are murdered every year by the cartels because of the demand from us stupid Americans who don't think about the consequences of our actions and how they relate to another country.
Very very few people 'deserve to die'...but we're all gonna
Parents we need to think before we do anything. Specifically if we have little ones waiting for us to come home. One split second decision can change our hole future. This breaks my heart.
This crisis is getting real and dangerous not for just adults but teens and even children
This is the saddest thing I've ever seen.