and we need more of this content to show others how bad things can get! im currently struggling with an alcohol addiction right now and have finally seeked out help. so wish me luck :)
I come back to this doc every couple of years as it reminds me where i was headed and how far ive come since sobering up. Addiction is a disease and needs to be treated with compassion and understanding.
Same here. And yes, it requires patience and compassion. It's definitely not a choice at a certain point and people should be less judgemental and more supportive while looking at potential underlying issues that may be contributing to the problem. Well done for pulling it together. Hope you continue to stay in control and you live a happy and fulfilling life. Nice one!
I had a great friend who was an alcoholic and a addict..I never ever held that against him..he was clean for 12 years and on the list for a liver transplant and died shortly before he was offered it..he was on the streets for 9 years before he got clean..we miss him everyday..what I’m trying to say is that good people make bad choices we are all human..God bless them
@@growmiezhomiez8760 congratulations on 3 years man. 1 day at a time my friend thats how i do it and support from other addicts who arent using. Ive been clean since 99 off of heroin.
I came out of the army and drank myself into oblivion for so long. I’ve been dry now for 18 years thanks to the support of my wife. I’m very lucky. My heart goes out to these people. It’s a tough situation to get out of. Much harder than people think. Peace.
@@joeybeann You CAN. ....but YOU have to really want to. Nobody can make you, or do it for you. Seek help, friend. It is available at no financial cost. God Be With You.
My brother lived in a wet house in Minnesota. 40 residents and each had his/ her own room with bathroom. They could drink in their rooms only. Very nice clean facility. He died at age 54 of alcoholic complications. I loved him so. I was 12 when he was born. He suffered two traumatic brain injuries at age 3 and 12. He was a sweet loving person who married two very abusive women. When he died I was with him and part of my heart went with him. He was in treatment 8 times.
Aye, RIP & not 1 to judge either way if living in a 'Wethouse' = better or worse, but compared to other options surely better if was determined to Drink. Empathise so much, but do wish more Wethouse's like this about as seen many die from Booze with 0 SUPPORT. Sadly a reliable Family isn't even enough. Bless.😳
This is what people should be watching instead of trashy "reality" programs centered around egocentric, self entitled, unappreciative, brats. People need to see with their own eyes what goes on in the world, how others live, the struggles, the pain.
I'm 61, and I've seen this story repeated since I was a child living in the heart of Glasgow, it is never ending, we don't look after each other well, alcoholism and drug addiction and mental health is a pandemic , has been for decades
I work in the NHS and our mental health facility which had about seven wards, it had an in house rehab facility, it had everything to help mental illness, is now due to be knocked down and in its place three wards within another hospital. Hospital bosses don't care about mental health as much as physical health and with this pandemic, their going to realise they've made a grave mistake. The next time a politician knocks on your door and asks if you'll be voting for them, ask them "what are you going to do about the shocking budget cuts to mental health when young people are killing themselves, getting hooked on drugs, what are you as a politician going to do to reverse that", if the first words out their mouth are "we'll that's not really within my remit", shut the door in their face And try And find someone who gives a damn to vote for. And it's not just younger people, mental health can hit at any age. It's shocking that so called intelligent people don't see the damage they've caused by cutting mental health services but we had to pay back the banks somehow. This is all where it leads from, us bailing out the banks and the politicians thinking "quick what do we cut now that won't be noticed til ten years down the line and unfortunately mental health was one of them. David Cameron and George Osborne should be ashamed of themselves for overseeing that raid on the public and plunging us all into austerity to sav e the FECKING banks. How many bankers were jailed over the financial crisis, oh that's right, none!!!
I suffer mental health issues (I'm female using my partners account)....but I think we have moved on so much in society in the last 40 years its caused alot of depression etc to grow....technology saved us time but left us room to dwell more...my nanna bless her...shes now deceased... used to say...we didnt have time to feel depressed back in our day because we had so much to do.....not said to pull us sufferers down...she meant the washing taking hours not minutes to load a machine...kept our minds focused on other things which helped us mentally....
I could cry watching this. Im not a drinker but I am a drug addict and I know they are all covering up a world of pain that nobody can even imagine or fathom. God bless them all x
Amazing documentary. My pop was a rare first time winner and successfully got sober (much threatening from my mother helped) and has been clean forty years now. He even stayed sober a year into his program after I suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury as a sophomore in high school. I remember lying in bed paralyzed and praying that he didn’t fall off the wagon because of me. I was never more proud of my pop than after that tough year. I see a lot of him in these guys and I pray for all of them ❤
The thing about prayers is it lulls believers into a false sense of accomplishment. We cannot solve our problems or anybody else's problems through prayer. People often pray for victims or their families in the wake of a tragedy. But prayers are useless without action and those actions make the prayer irrelevant. Prayer only benefits believers who see or hear them. It gives them comfort and it makes them think they have some type of control over a situation that is out of their hands. If God has a plan it is senseless to try and thwart it. If God can be swayed by prayers what kind of merciful god would allow the horrors we see in the world? If God is perfect and all knowing it would be impossible for God to have created such flawed, evil and sinful human beings. When it comes down to it prayer is illogical even in religious terms.
@@BorBajzeljTomicSin isn't real. It's something delusional brainwashed fanatics believe because it came from their book of bronzed aged fairytales with their magical sky daddy wizard. 🤡
I agree. In the first few moments of watching this I was thinking the idea of a wet house is great to keep them safe and indoors but it must be one hell of a place to work. I have been a nurse’s aide with the home care program in Manitoba for almost 20 years now and I have met many different people but it takes so much patience to work this intimately with people
It's an absolutely heartbreaking documentary , my dad passed away at 55 through years of drinking ( he died of severe malnutrition and liver failure, in the end he refused meds,food ) so watching this brings it all back . God bless to each and everyone of them .
God bless . My old man east ham dave blasted his bones to dust on carling, fosters and stella. We miss him . Filthy booze. Worse than any class A. Nothing but love to these souls in the wethouse
@@DTM93 Not quite you need to do your research. In anycase the two people you've replied too are remembering a tragic time in their life not in some compition of your irrelevent comment
@@Superfandangoo It's a fact they're Class A for a reason they kill much quicker than alcohol does. You can overdose far easier and be killed off over a shorter time frame than alcohol. If you don't know that i highly suggest you look into what knowledge you seem to think you have as it's very much lacking. The only irrelevant comment is your own it has about as much use to this topic as a Boeing 767 has to the world trade center.
When the man was asked do you miss them His face literally went sober n lit up for a sec ❤️ Everybody has struggles man Hope everyone can beat whatever there battling in life👍
@ESP Music he takes people we're they are not were he thinks they should be they are not well people and he knows this. Let's just forget about them and leave them on the street to die. They are as unwell as a person with terminal cancer they deserve some kind of care.
That guy serving the dinner is such a good guy. He doesn't get offended by their behaviour because he knows it's not the real person. He's just been called a c**t by the guy then steps in to help him straight away. People like him don't get the credit they deserve for the jobs they do. If you're reading this mate, I have 100% respect for the way you treat those people. It's sad to watch but also heartwarming that these people aren't just forgotten and left out on the street. Even something as basic as a bit of food, healthcare and shelter. Actually that's not even basic really, they're being looked after and I would hope no one would deny them that whatever their bad life choices and mistakes.
They unironically are only doing that for the camera. I've been committed multiple times. This sounds unbelievable but I've watched a nurse torture guy with a catheter. I also saw them give less-than-optimal care to some dude with a social disability to the point where they literally carted him off to die the second time I was committed. The nurses gaslighting me and other patients was not even in the same league as the other two incidents. This was all in a state hospital with Federal funding as well. Everytime I see nurses post on social media praising themselves or complaining about their job I think about those experiences and realize they are probably not very different from the people I watched commit torture and malpractice.
@@icecreamfromhell666there are some bad nurses out there, they take it for granted and take their feelings out on the residents, not good, there are some good ones though, you can be pretty sure who is good and who is just there for the money.
@JohnJohn-zn8ib it's definitely all nurses. Every single person I know who became a nurse is a complete narcissist. It's the same situation with the people who studied medicine. I would not trust anybody I know who is a doctor to treat me after seeing how much money and personal politics are involved to even become a doctor.
@@icecreamfromhell666Wow, sorry you had to go through that. I've never been treated that badly, but I, fully aware that jobs like this don't just attract caring people, they attract bullies and control freaks too: I went to a school for autistic kids, so I know. All that place taught me was how to hide drugs and manipulate people......not all that useless skills.....
@robinc6288 I realize it’s been a couple of years since you commented on this video, but I just wanted to say your words are very moving and empathetic. Not all heroes wear capes. ♥️
I'm a man off 44 years of age and I've been a heroin/methadone addict for over 24 of those so I can relate to this very much and I love to see old documentaries about England/Britain back when it was the place I knew... I know this is alcohol and it's different from drugs but us addicts are all the same at heart and I've been in rehabs with alcoholics and they get ill and withdraw and suffer the same as all us addicts do.. God Bless them all.
Damn right. It's your body's withdrawals from whatever substance it's been accustomed to. You are right, though. That's why some ppl get the shakes & delusions, as well. It ain't no picnic. I get mad when ppl say that these ppl are just drunks & junkies, that they don't want to help themselves, when most of them are self-medicating bc that's all they know & can do to cope with life & the trials & tribulations of everyday survival. Keep your head up, stay safe & take care. ☮️💜☯️
As legal as it is alcohol is a drug and it's one of the worst ones out there. Keep your head up babe. I hope you get well. I know they say the disease is always in you but it's better than the hell you're currently in.
I was a hopeless drunk i lost it all to alcoholic obsession but for the first time in my life I'm sober 8.5months today so it can all change if u want it bad enough ❤
5 years ago I was living on the streets of the worst and dangerous parts of Dayton ohio. I seen things that still haunt me today. I was strung out on drugs very bad. I ended up getting a bad MRSA infection in my knee that caused me to flat line for over 8 minutes. I saw the afterlife and talked to loved ones I’ve lost. I was revived and sent to a nursing home. I was in a wheelchair and had to re learn to walk and everything. It was a very difficult three years but I over came it. I’m very successful and have my own place and a beautiful girlfriend and got my son back into my life and see him almost every weekend, also I lost over 100lbs from all the weight I gained being in a wheelchair and have been told I’m 100 times better looking now that I’m sober. I wish you all the best of luck that are struggling. I am living proof that change can happen, you just have to plug at it and want to change. Much love
You were trippin balls. You can't use NDEs as evidence of anything other than the fact there is a spiritual realm. You could have been talking to demons disguised as lost family members for all you know. They attack people at their weakest just like military generals attacking their enemy. Or it could have just been a hallucination.
I feel like in 2020 this is important to see. Alot of us are developing drug/alcohol use problems including myself. Dont let boredom and isolation be your reasoning because it will grip you very fast. To anyone reading this, I hope you find your way
The highest truth, click below on the link. Good luck on your journey. Peace love, light and blessings. David. Xxxx x docs.google.com/document/d/1ef0mUnSPN_PVWY8fW9mVX6MS_OJfAqsBBQJr5KyH1cA is the /edit?usp=drivesdk Fear, anger and hatred essentially come from a lack of perspective as to what life is all about. Being is not only beyond but also deep within. The future, the worry, the regret, the anxiety. These are all mental events that do not have to be part of the difficulty of life. These can be transcended here and now. =========== Eternal love =========== It cannot be that, Anybody, anywhere Is not my very own. -I am with you at all times. I release my grip, from illusions of permanence and drift in the freedom, of the ever changing winds. ruclips.net/p/PL0VQTrI4kRy3gnSp34ibNBxI7p5xqvV5T
@@joejimenez114 use that same energy to fight it, change it to 4 days strong. People also fail to mention after getting clean it is okay and healthy to indulge from time to time. Just when it's a habitual type of thing you needa re evaluate
I've watched this documentary many times, many times whilst I myself was off my head with drink. So many examples of what untreated trauma can do people. Traumas after traumas. You find a way to handle it yourself. Michael makes me cry every time. The pain people will inflict on homeless people is senseless and often unimaginable. And so proud of Annette! It's always great to go in to the recovery journey with a hopeful attitude. Even a week sober can make such a difference. Just gotta give your brain and body a chance if you can. And get help detoxing, alcohol withdrawal is deadly. We need more documentaries like this one. Help humanize severely marginalized people.
I think it was Jane Goodall who said you shouldn't judge the level of advancement a society has achieved purely by technology but rather on its ability to rehabilitate or take care of those who are sick. That is our strength as humans and it is always painful to see the results of those who have been alienated due to things they may have no control over.
I used to be a support worker for a homeless agency who managed satellite properties one of which was a wet house. I went there twice. These people were in some cases weeks away from death and at the point there was no hope for them. The feeling was of overwhelming sorrow for these people whose lives were completely and utterly destroyed by a drug they couldn't stop taking, and they knew they were beyond help. They were completely and utterly broken spirits. Never underestimate any drug. Legal or otherwise.
DMT, Ketamine, Mushrooms.. all these things are viable medicine for a lot of these cases, talking from personal experience... do not wait for the government to say its ok... source for yourself, help your loved ones.. and read up online safe and easy ways... you really going to trust any gov with something as personal as your own mental health?
The social care budget is inadequate, having worked on ambulances in Manchester the social issues are everywhere and the patience of people like yourself is impressive. 🙏
Veterans break my heart. Trained to kill, desensitized to death and then expected to just come back and reintegrate as if nothing happened. Governments will never know the harm they have done.
And sadly they dont care. Over 2020 Boris states he will put soldiers on the street.....they already are. How sad and emotionally broken must these poor people be to have to reduce themselves to what we just watched in order to shut out their pain. No human being should need to go through this to learn lessons So sad.
My grandad fought in WWII, he was injured with shrapnel at Dunkirk was patched up given 2 weeks leave after getting out of hospital and ended up in north Africa and was landed on sword beech at 8:25am on D day and was one of the first to liberate Dora-Mitelbua concentration camp. He had nightmares right up until 1988 and that's when i got him to try cannabis as i knew it is a dream suppressant. He went from having nightmares 3 or 4 times a week to 1 every couple of month. The only time i ever saw him drunk he had to be tied to the bed by my uncles because he got an axe and was going to kill them bastard SS. God knows what he went through because he never spoke about it but my gran said he was a different man all together after he was demobbed in 47. He was kept until 47 because he was tasked with recovering the bodies of dead airmen. They arent wrong about them been the greatest generation.
and on top of that, the wives and the children that feel the effects of the trauma and are abused one way or another by traumatized veterans of war, as the ripple effects of the war get passed on from one generation to the next, long after the war officially ended. All told, the cost of war is too great for humanity to bear, the real cost is too great.
I used to work in one of the other wet houses in London back in the 90's. It was exactly like this place with similar characters and sad stories. This film took me right back, thank you.
People like the gentlemen in charge are quiet heros. The rest of society cross the road from these people, they turn up day after day, to abuse, low or no pay and violence. My mum works with people like this. Proud of her.
I watched this when I was in my late teens. I was already an alcoholic. I cried not knowing that I would end up living in a place like this. I'm 41 now and I work in a place like this. I am 13 years clean and sober. These places still exist. They are not called wet houses anymore, but they still exists, as do the people, who literally go there to die from their addictions; not everyone though. Some do make it out and get into recovery.
@@caligulite homeless hostels. Same thing is happening, but now it's behind closed doors because of policies and procedures forbidding people from drinking or taking drugs openly.
@@caligulite Brave of you to share, I hope you get well before something ugly happens. It's sickening to watch yourself drunk; have a friend film you & watch it sober. It might really shake you up. I'm one too, yes. Sober, yes. Don't give up on wanting better for your life. Love helps too.
I wonder what she went through. The pain & sadness in her eyes is unreal. Damn shame for her & for all of these lost souls. I have so much patience & understanding for these ppl, bc I have dealt with it all of my life. (myself & others)
There was a sadness in her eyes....she suffered a lot I’m sure....was somebody’s pretty little baby girl at one time.......I would like to think that some people remember her with fondness...in different circumstances she could have lived a nice life as seemed to be a kind person
The staff in here are the kind of people who should be rewarded by those who give the honours out for what theve done for society,All these were once beautiful little babies .not a single one started out to become an alcoholic. A very powerful documentary thank you for allowing me to see it
100 pc ive just said that, I watch these type docs n whatever for same reason, also I watch them when im ready to go on a meeting when I dont want to go
The Scottish man the carer. Is amazing he’s so patient, caring & non judgmental . We need more people like him in this world . I wonder where he is now is he still in the same line of work
Not only is this a fantastic documentary, but I’ve even been pleasantly surprised by a lot of the comments - baring in mind how much of a stigma there is towards alcoholism, drug addiction and homelessness, it’s so reassuring to see lots of people showing compassion, empathy and understanding towards the people featured I this film and their various issues. RUclips can be a very horrible place so thanks to all those who have posted positive and compassionate comments on this video. Restores my faith in people - not everyone out there a sadistic maniac who sets fire to homeless veterans for fun.
Yeah the RUclips comment section is one of the worst places on the internet imo. It's just full of so much negativity, hate, disgust, brutality, hostility, and everyone is a hypocrite lol, including me of course. Anyway, I agree that it's nice to see some compassion, but my point here, is that YOU refrain from fulfilling your faith in humanity from places like RUclips. People shouldn't let places like this sway their opinion of humanity in ANY direction, it's just not a good source for that. If people can learn to retrain their eyes, to refocus them, they would see so much decency and compassion all around them. From someone simply holding a door for someone else, to helping with their groceries, you name it, we're out there helping each other. Don't let any form of media gain control over your emotions or perspectives, because then you're nothing but a passenger in life, with someone else driving you everywhere, responsible for how you feel about everything, the choices you make even reflect what your media is telling you, if you let it. This place has A LOT of great things to offer, no mistaking that, but we ALL need to be on our toes when it comes to the level of control we surrender to media, all media.... My apologies, rant over.
I very nearly did myself, I had been addicted to speed for 40 years and I drunk quite a bit to, 5 years ago I ended up on the nutter ward for a bit as I completely lost the plot and was in a terrible state...hearing voices all the time, i actually thought I was never going to be normal ever again but I slowly started feeling better and got my life together, I have been clean for 5 years now and am living in a lovely town in a little flat and life is good, 5 years ago I was living in a rat infested hovel off my head all the time and I used to own my own house, had a decent trade with good money going on foreign holidays a couple of times a year then I was in a motorbike accident and was badly injured, i couldn't claim anything as I was self employed and I lost everything, that is why I think the people who run places like this are angels...like you say not every addict is a bad person 🍺🍻@@David-h4z2s
The days before they recognised PTSD. The guy was going to be executed so he had to stab someone to death.. then finds pictures of the guy's family in his pockets. How the fuck does anyone deal with that without professional help? Poor guy.
@@simoningram8081 from an accent pov iv seen that or similar pronunciation in Scottish/Irish accents. He looks about the right age to have been out in Africa and the West did send the Irish there. We messed up REALLY badly there. A group in one region asked the Dutch to stay rather than pull out during the shift to majority rule. That region knew that they were going to get FUCKED as they would be a minority in the new nation. So to give native rule the UN ordered a minority group in to go and machine gun a bunch of natives to ensure that they accepted the native rule the white western UN demanded they do. The Irish Army were used to do a fuckton of the UN's shitty jobs in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Machinegunning natives for not accepting majority rule the way the West wanted them to as well as cannon fodder during the Proxy Wars fought against the communists Malay, Burma, Korea, Vietnam. The West did a lot of damage in its enforcement of native rule, drawing borders based on land not on tribes and they used what was considered a disposable people to do it. Young working class Irish and British men. Sent out across the world to enforce rules that didn't make sense and borders that had no relation to the socio-political situation and the warring tribes. The Army was an escape from the fact there were bugger all jobs for the working class, pisspoor education for the ones who weren't uni bound and the slow death of the factories, Mills and Mines. We dumped so much into Germany and so.much was spent on Japan and we in the UK and the Irish, through governments that didn't think long term, unions that were essentially a weaponised tool of the USSR run by socialists and management that didn't listen to either the workers or the market ensured there was fuck all work and people disappeared into drink and drugs. The Irish had two problems 1. The fucking zealots meaning that the place had to be filled with an occupying army in N.I and the R.O.I was run by religious zealots. troops on the ground, sectarian violence as a way of life and organised crime shifting to drugs. The army was an escape from the shit, a guaranteed wage and we sent them out to do the shitfy jobs with fuck all support when they came back so they left with no more qualifications than when they left, employers that viewed them as worthless because of as Kipling said, 'it's dogs and soldiers keep off the grass' so they left back to the same shitty existence. There were ENDEMIC problems in the working class environment, what we would call today child abuse, sexual violence, domestic violence, alcoholism and people unable to cope escaping into a bottle. Oh and since the 1950's society utterly destroyed the historic support networks implicit in community and things like the Working Mens Clubs, the factory social clubs, bands, sports teams died as we shifted away from one job from 16-pension age and we got rid of long term mental health housing and support units. Its not surprising we have people of that era who are lifelong alcoholics and ended up like this. Family moving away for work, the state of the care system and the cuts to social housing and adult social support. Remember the 'drinking schools' are probably made up of people who met in the 'Job Clubs' of the 1970's and 80's Are they blameless, fuck no most are there because they've burned every bridge they have but society did play a part in the why. REASONS are NOT Excuses BUT they are useful to know.
I came to the comments expecting to see judgement, criticism, and hatred, my faith in humanity has been completely restored. See beyond the alcoholism and drug abuse, look instead to the societal decay that lead to people seeing this as their only option. It's heartbreaking. I'm thankful that the staff are clearly kind, compassionate people who really don't get the payment or recognition they deserve for doing such a difficult job, true angels! The guy singing 'Beautiful Dreamer' at the end broke me, I'm a sobbing mess.
Alcoholism is also genetically caused. Some of us--I'm incredibly lucky, haven't had a drink since 1971, live independently, have friends, etc.--never drank normally. It's not all cused by either societal decay, as you say, or by personal trauma. it's very complicted, and mostly a combinatuib of all those things.
I am loving the idea of the wet house. It’s helping keep them sheltered and safe. It must be interesting working there and I mean that in a nice way. Like when you are the sober one for the evening out to drive your friends home and you have to make sure everyone gets home safely but since they have all been drinking it’s a bit tough to keep everyone in line. Ones singing, one has the giggles while others are talking excitedly. It must be very energy draining as well. Then of course there are the times people get angry and sad from drinking.
Have my own issues with alcohol can't let it get to this.. And think it should be shown to 16 or 17 year olds in school.. Much more an education than king Henry
@@Iwoasasaned yeah shocking as it is, when we are young we feel invincible and this happens to weak people and not us.. Even stronger people can have their world turned upside down in a heart beat and unfortunately drink and drugs seem a way to cope but ultimately dancing with the devil and only tragic consequences
I agree, they warn people about getting too drunk and having alcohol poisoning but that's it. I'm only 26 and have had Delerium Tremens so bad I was on an IV in the hospital for a week. There are far worse things than a hangover or alcohol poisoning.
@@aislingjanuary1557 oh man you are so right a lot worse things indeed, spent few too many days in hospital myself due to Blackouts and some nasty falls have a bad enough scar over my right eye and could have lost it..but that wasn't enough to stop me, such is the hold of this satanic juice
Totally agree 👍. I have lost my Mum to alcohol and my older brother died of heroin overdose. I've said before that people would be mortified to find out if I took heroin after losing my brother. On the other hand, people can't understand why I no longer drink after watching it slowly kill my mother.
Had me in fits, reminds of my days in all the old man's pubs as they were called when I was alot younger,seen alot of ol' boys trying to pick fights when they couldn't pick their nose,funny and sad at same time
Just hit my 2 year sober mark 6 days ago. But booze is a constant reminder of losing my wife step daughter house dogs basically everything I cared about.
Thank you, some days I don’t feel like I’m doing so well. I don’t know I just miss her n my step daughter so much. People say time is the only thing that helps but it hasn’t helped me. I’ve tried dating 4 different times/girls and I always find myself comparing them to her. My ex wife was my dream girl, like if someone said write down on a piece of paper what you want in a wife it was legit her. I don’t know sorry for my rant this is the hardest time of the year for me. Holidays suck
I watch a lot of documentaries like this. Drugs and addicts have been a huge part of my life, especially my childhood. This might be the best I've ever seen. A family member I lost touch with, then lived with briefly just went away for treatment. I couldn't be more proud. Especially knowing where he came from. I wonder sometimes what places like this would have accomplished in the U.S. I've just seen so much hardship. I've been homeless myself, can't imagine having an addiction to feed during that time as well. Really gets on my nerves when people act like letting these people freeze to death is the best solution. They've had enough "tough love". Maybe if they saw actual compassion, and a reason to live, and a society that didn't tell them they deserve it, because they hurt themselves; maybe they would want to live. Sorry for ranting. Things just need to change, it's so stupid.
Strong and poignant documentary. It's truly a masterpiece in showing a harsh reality that society rarely shows. The end moved me to tears and to see that even in all that nightmarish life, people can show good, love and unity like a true family is beautiful.
I’m 9 days away from 2 months sober from alcohol, for the first time in my life. I’m 29, drank heavy for 10 years straight, I would have ended up like one of these folks. This made me cry, drinking numbs the pain, there’s so much sadness in that place.
Real people with real lives who have found themselves in a tough situation. Infinitely more interesting than anything I could find on TV or in a library these days
Totally agree. These people are the true definition of survivor. Wounded, yes but still fighting each day with more courage than many of us could ever hope to have. Brilliant documentary. That's how you make 'em! So moving and humbling. ❤
After surviving addiction myself I've realized addicts are just sensitive souls who couldn't deal with the harsh realities of their sober reality...I will always have love and compassion in my heart towards an addict of any substance...
I was so nice to see the woman after a week in rehab able to speak coherently about what she wants for her future. It's like someone flipped a switch and her humanity just switched right back on.
@@autisticfitness176 It was several years after, according to the director. Its haunted her since because it was after seeing the film. She then fell of the wagon and died.
I remember watching this a few years ago devastating documentary. My grandma died from alcoholism and my dad had a heart attack and died in his 40s (he was an alcoholic) I enjoy a drink but I am becoming more aware and cautious recently.
Congratulation my friend 😘,been of heroin etc for two years now in january...life is GOOD 😎,lots of love and light from faraway Norway coming your way 🌈
By Christ, I don't think I've ever wept at a piece of television but listening to Michael's story brought me to tears. No matter how much he drinks, the memory of killing that man in the Congo is as clear as day. I can't begin to imagine what that feels like.
Not being funny but he used the American pronunciation of lieutenant. I would have thought he would know how to say it correctly if he was a professional soldier. He might not even be telling the truth. Doesn’t really matter either way he is obviously a troubled man and it’s very sad.
Annette's transformation after just one week of sobriety is amazing. Soft spoken, eye's clearer, skin much better, like a completely different person. Alcohol is a terrible, terrible, drug. This an amazing documentary. Beautiful, incredibly depressing, heart warming, so many different emotions
I read up on their lives afterwards. Unfortunately Annette relapsed after seeing this documentary. Its so sad as she looked so much better. Just shows that addiction can be trigged by so many things
@gracehyde782 she looked like 10 men almost...cleaned up nice clothes. I'm an alcoholic but she well sweet ..but things happen ..bad relationship mayb..who knows
i was an alcoholic for 18 years , hits home this , it shocked me how many people died in recovey, 20ish people from all walks of life were in my group when we started there is 2 of us left now
Having just been detoxed this really hit home. I live very close to that hostel and we used to tease the little guy as kids because he used to sleep in my friend's shed. He would chase us and go beserk. He actually comes across as really sweet in this doc but we never bothered to get to know him. Little did I know I would be in a similar position 21 years later. I hope he's still alive and at peace.
Yeah he never said he tormented the man just they were kids who ran away from him probably scared because alcoholics are really scary to sober people especially children so you keep all empathy for the afflicted and none for those around them whose lives are also devastated…
I watched this years ago and seeing the difference in Annette from being in the wet house to a week in rehab was night and day ,a very articulate well spoken lady and I was really sad to hear she didn’t make it,Rip Annette and to all the lost souls in this documentary
that dude made me cry with the way he talked about his family and how he kept those cards perfect, they introduced him being this hard-assed old fuk, then when they sat down in his room and he spoke about his daughter i melted.....
Sobering Thank you to the people who allowed this to be made. Thank you to those who made it. Media today want to show anything but real humans and real suffering. A final thank you to the people who work these houses. It's a most thankless job but as the Dr. rightly said, you and these houses are making the end as comfortable for the vast majority of these poor unfortunates.
Wow! Very powerful and real. The one woman huffing paint all day. Unbelievable, and very sad how it affected her. And all of them for that matter. This was a great find, and an impactful film.
I remember watching this when it was on the telly years ago. I was struck by how many of them were Scottish and Irish. Guys who emigrated to London in the hope of bettering their lives and ended up on the scrapheap
The cost of living in London alone wouldn't have helped. I can imagine the cost of funding their alcoholism AND funding living expenses would be astronomical. That is if one or some of them relapsed.
I always think the most depressing thing about any kind of overwhelming addiction like this is that you just end up only in the company of other erratic, broken people none of whom are really your friends. You're just bound up by the same affliction. Must feel awful whenever you're sober enough to notice.
@@karenmcclure7191 Don’t take this the wrong way but that’s the point, while you are drinking that’s how it feels. If and when you stop ( your choice, no judgment here) I’m pretty sure you would feel differently. When I was drinking I thought I had the best circle of people around me, when I stopped I realised they really weren’t.
Rebecca, I've been sober a while and I bought a house in a affluent area and I hate it, my social worker even said to me you miss living among druggies and alchies, and it's true, I feel lonely and despite having worked as a solicitor feel like I don't fit in here.
@@devilsolution9781 but the smug piety of the people running housing projects motivated by their skywizard that demands they check for track marks or piss test people ensures that these people die on the streets of frostbite or hypothermia. Ensure they are at risk of violent assault just because they are there. Demanding a person stop drinking or you won't help them is just spite and cruelty and a sense of superiority. Especially in the case of alcohol where coming off too quickly kills people. I'm fed up of the smug self centred pricks that offer 'help with so many conditions its worthless. Go to their church, get clean before we help rehouse you with no support to get clean. Believe what they believe. Its garbage. This place encouragingnself managed drink reduction is going to help more people than the places that demand people stop
@@jediknight1294 Casting judgment on people you are trying to help just has the opposite impact. It makes people struggling with addiction feel like they aren't worthy of assistance, and when they are finally at a point when they need it most they might not get it for that reason. Recovery requires absolute acceptance of self. By accepting addicts as they are it helps validate the problems that precipitated the addiction, decreases guilt and shame, and increases the likelihood that someone will seek long-term sobriety. Thank you for your comment :)
@@mattryan2489 the trick is embedding reasons are not excuses and analysing and dealing with the dickhead behaviour that went with the addiction and spiral burning support networks and not simply replacing the substance with a programme AA/NA doesn't fix the issue it merely redirects the addiction.
I have to applaud the filmmaker and everyone involved. The empathetic approach to such a subject is very heartwarming. These souls deserve our love and compassion, if only for a fleeting moment
Jamie has pulled on my heart strings. How in this day and age can we fail the vulnerable. This may be 20yrs ago but she's the same age as me now. For a first World country we are failing those in need miserably.
The guy who carried every letter he got with him was amazing. Imagine the amount shit he’s gone through in 20+ years and he still managed to keep those letters in perfect condition.
@@anthonyparedes4800 I mean realistically even if a normal person had to carry them on thier person for 20 years, they wouldn't look perfect. Let alone him. Likely kept at a family members or something and he got them to drop them off so he can show them and it looks like he has made some kind of effort, then decided to lie on the spot about it. I have known extreme alcoholics and they tell lies constantly like this 😔
My dad used to work in a place like this when I was younger he was an alcoholic himself and I genuinely believe being in an environment and seeing things like this made him worse although he’d never admit it. He’s still an alcoholic and haven’t spoke to him in years
Watching the girl inhale the glue through the bag I couldn’t help thinking how the bag looked like a human heart operating and how much actual strain it’s putting on her! Heart breaking....literally
She seemed young but if she kept this no way she is alive now. My heart really hurt for her, she seems so small and vulberable. She must have suffered from severe anxiety and the only help she had to deal with it was the glue sadly.
Really feel for these lost souls, I was drinker for 28 years and started to feel it getting a hold of me 17 years ago, had a bad scare and gave up completely overnight, it can be done folks.
I quit just over a year ago, best thing I ever did. This documentary broke me, could have been me in a few years. Personally I would play this in schools, might save lives.
I will tap the like button, hoping someone else will view this. These life stories need to be listened to, I cannot comment further, the protagonists in the film know far more than I do, about what they're talking about, living through, or maybe not living through? Heartbreaking, I think to watch this, such a breakdown on every level of what I consider for myself as a dignified form of humane existence.
I stopped drinking 3 months ago. Best thing I have done. Suprising how alcohol blurs everything and makes you think you have hope when it actually ruins most things in life.
I dont think it's bad in moderation and very enjoyable when done in moderation, but there are people out there who cant have a couple and be done and they should stay away from it altogether.
I’m so grateful to have now been sober for 16 years. I never want to put another drop of alcohol in my system. I did glue for about 18 months when I was 15/16 years old. I think that really fucked my brain up. My heart breaks for all of them 😭
Man from the ages 17-24 I was drinking like a fish just about every night and sometimes day drinking, tripping on Robitussin frequently especially at 17 and 18 (that stuff really messed me up mentally), taking painkillers every morning for hangovers and eventually just because.of physical dependence and to top all of that off I was chain smoking cigs and weed and drinking a pot of coffee every morning. The human brain can do a good deal of recovering you'd be surprised, but yes I definitely think there are some substances out there that have extreme potential to cause lasting long term damage and inhalants, dissociatives, alcohol, benadryl, methamphetamines and MDMA are just some that come to mind right off that bat.
Where i am in my life im not a million miles away from the people in this doc , middle aged man failed marriage drink and drug addiction as well as mental health issues , not close to family ,bills piling up , fucked up my job because i chose drink and drugs over it , burnt so many bridges that cant be repaired and i can see myself homeless fairly soon if i don't get help . this is a harsh wake up call . im reading the comments of people being sober for 5 10 20 + years and even a few months and i admire you all and want to be there also .......
It can be done. Look up Paul Venis K1 channel - hes a serious addict but beat it. Gives lots of good advice and does lives you can comment on for an answer - or even talk in video chat. you dont have to show your face and can stay anon
Even in a state of complete degenerate rock bottom the men still have their inherent need to protect the vulnerable proof indeed the soul is indestructible God bless them all with mercy and peace health and happiness Amen 💫✝️✨
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I was where they are. Will be 21 years and 4 months clean and sober tomorrow.. Completely rebuilt my life. At peace. I thankfully found a way out.
How long are the physical withdrawals and did you just reduce or stop dead?
I bet you would love a beer then pal hahahah
@@jaymason9373 What a wanker you must be.
Well done mate Im glad you found the happiness you deserve.
@@MisterSandsohh mate lighten up abit relax have a beer no dont actually that would be a bad idea now wouldn't it ahahahah
You would never get anything this raw and truthful on TV anymore, this is gold
@ianvalmont5911 This is the indigenous population. That's why they let so many migrants in to replace these lowlifes...
@ianvalmont5911... yes? and they're being raw and truthful about that minority.
and we need more of this content to show others how bad things can get! im currently struggling with an alcohol addiction right now and have finally seeked out help. so wish me luck :)
@@VNDER88good luck...and I hope you kick this real soon!
Vice News. Not TV but just as raw.
I come back to this doc every couple of years as it reminds me where i was headed and how far ive come since sobering up. Addiction is a disease and needs to be treated with compassion and understanding.
Same here.
And yes, it requires patience and compassion.
It's definitely not a choice at a certain point and people should be less judgemental and more supportive while looking at potential underlying issues that may be contributing to the problem.
Well done for pulling it together. Hope you continue to stay in control and you live a happy and fulfilling life.
Nice one!
I sometimes worry this documentary could disappear from here, it's too useful not to be available!!
I don't think ive seen it anywhere else
This is why I stick with smack😮
Cancer is a disease addiction is a choice
@@quack437 Thank you! I hate this "disease" crap.
I drink way more after my accident....this left speechless..God bless every one of them !
I had a great friend who was an alcoholic and a addict..I never ever held that against him..he was clean for 12 years and on the list for a liver transplant and died shortly before he was offered it..he was on the streets for 9 years before he got clean..we miss him everyday..what I’m trying to say is that good people make bad choices we are all human..God bless them
Had you been childhood friends?
Well said!
Very true. We must remember to treat the dearly departed with dignity, regardless of how they left us. RIP to your mate.
I’ve been dealing with friemds holding my drug addictions against me my whole life. They don’t understand the struggle. Clean 3 years now...
@@growmiezhomiez8760 congratulations on 3 years man. 1 day at a time my friend thats how i do it and support from other addicts who arent using. Ive been clean since 99 off of heroin.
I came out of the army and drank myself into oblivion for so long. I’ve been dry now for 18 years thanks to the support of my wife. I’m very lucky. My heart goes out to these people. It’s a tough situation to get out of. Much harder than people think. Peace.
Wish I could stay clean that long
Devils juice for wrong uns
@@joeybeann
You CAN.
....but YOU have to really want to.
Nobody can make you, or do it for you.
Seek help, friend.
It is available at no financial cost.
God Be With You.
@@skelter1153 it's OVER
@@joeybeannwhy? You giving up? ……💔💔…..
My brother lived in a wet house in Minnesota. 40 residents and each had his/ her own room with bathroom. They could drink in their rooms only. Very nice clean facility. He died at age 54 of alcoholic complications. I loved him so. I was 12 when he was born. He suffered two traumatic brain injuries at age 3 and 12. He was a sweet loving person who married two very abusive women. When he died I was with him and part of my heart went with him. He was in treatment 8 times.
Aye, RIP & not 1 to judge either way if living in a 'Wethouse' = better or worse, but compared to other options surely better if was determined to Drink. Empathise so much, but do wish more Wethouse's like this about as seen many die from Booze with 0 SUPPORT. Sadly a reliable Family isn't even enough. Bless.😳
Awww that is a sad story.Thank you for sharing.
Where in Minnesota if you don’t mind me asking?
Incredibly depressing but the way you wrote this is awfully sweet. Sure theres a heaven for folks like you
Rest in peace 🙏
The volunteers have nerves of steel .. they're doing unbelievable work !
Like fk are they volunteers living in London. That’s practically impossible unless you’re a millionaire to start with.
@HdHd-hp6qz they probably get paid these days but who knows when this was filmed!
Why do they like Jamie more than the other woman?
This is what people should be watching instead of trashy "reality" programs centered around egocentric, self entitled, unappreciative, brats. People need to see with their own eyes what goes on in the world, how others live, the struggles, the pain.
Agree with you ✌🏻
Agree wit you
Facts. This was such a real and raw representation of what actually goes on even to this day. My heart genuinely hurt for these people 😔
Amen
Too busy toungef*cking identity politics to care about these folk.
I'm 61, and I've seen this story repeated since I was a child living in the heart of Glasgow, it is never ending, we don't look after each other well, alcoholism and drug addiction and mental health is a pandemic , has been for decades
Same in Salford, the mental health and social care system is not fit for purpose, even today.
good comment mate.
A combination of our drinking culture/drinking industry and capitalist selfish society.
I work in the NHS and our mental health facility which had about seven wards, it had an in house rehab facility, it had everything to help mental illness, is now due to be knocked down and in its place three wards within another hospital. Hospital bosses don't care about mental health as much as physical health and with this pandemic, their going to realise they've made a grave mistake. The next time a politician knocks on your door and asks if you'll be voting for them, ask them "what are you going to do about the shocking budget cuts to mental health when young people are killing themselves, getting hooked on drugs, what are you as a politician going to do to reverse that", if the first words out their mouth are "we'll that's not really within my remit", shut the door in their face And try And find someone who gives a damn to vote for. And it's not just younger people, mental health can hit at any age. It's shocking that so called intelligent people don't see the damage they've caused by cutting mental health services but we had to pay back the banks somehow. This is all where it leads from, us bailing out the banks and the politicians thinking "quick what do we cut now that won't be noticed til ten years down the line and unfortunately mental health was one of them. David Cameron and George Osborne should be ashamed of themselves for overseeing that raid on the public and plunging us all into austerity to sav e the FECKING banks. How many bankers were jailed over the financial crisis, oh that's right, none!!!
I suffer mental health issues (I'm female using my partners account)....but I think we have moved on so much in society in the last 40 years its caused alot of depression etc to grow....technology saved us time but left us room to dwell more...my nanna bless her...shes now deceased... used to say...we didnt have time to feel depressed back in our day because we had so much to do.....not said to pull us sufferers down...she meant the washing taking hours not minutes to load a machine...kept our minds focused on other things which helped us mentally....
I could cry watching this. Im not a drinker but I am a drug addict and I know they are all covering up a world of pain that nobody can even imagine or fathom. God bless them all x
I'm in the same boat as you
I hope you are doing ok
I pray you beat your demons of drug abuse Amen xxxxxxx on Father Jesus name you will become clean of substance abuse Amen xxxxxxx
What drugs are you addicted too ?
Coke head I reckon
Total respect to the ppl who work in that unit, they all deserve medals.
Amazing documentary. My pop was a rare first time winner and successfully got sober (much threatening from my mother helped) and has been clean forty years now. He even stayed sober a year into his program after I suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury as a sophomore in high school. I remember lying in bed paralyzed and praying that he didn’t fall off the wagon because of me. I was never more proud of my pop than after that tough year. I see a lot of him in these guys and I pray for all of them ❤
Pride is sin. Peace and love to everyone..
The thing about prayers is it lulls believers into a false sense of accomplishment. We cannot solve our problems or anybody else's problems through prayer. People often pray for victims or their families in the wake of a tragedy. But prayers are useless without action and those actions make the prayer irrelevant. Prayer only benefits believers who see or hear them. It gives them comfort and it makes them think they have some type of control over a situation that is out of their hands. If God has a plan it is senseless to try and thwart it. If God can be swayed by prayers what kind of merciful god would allow the horrors we see in the world? If God is perfect and all knowing it would be impossible for God to have created such flawed, evil and sinful human beings. When it comes down to it prayer is illogical even in religious terms.
@@BorBajzeljTomicSin isn't real. It's something delusional brainwashed fanatics believe because it came from their book of bronzed aged fairytales with their magical sky daddy wizard. 🤡
@@BorBajzeljTomicthat’s what you picked up from that good Christ
You get healed back up and walking after your accident?
I'm in absolute awe of the people working here and helping these poor people. I cannot imagine being surrounded by that sort of chaos every day.
My thoughts exactly!! I think I'd go insane. But being in addiction myself, I'm aware of how it can be like..not with alcohol
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Think they get to know them ...and it's family almost..they won't cross a line.. violence etc
I agree. In the first few moments of watching this I was thinking the idea of a wet house is great to keep them safe and indoors but it must be one hell of a place to work. I have been a nurse’s aide with the home care program in Manitoba for almost 20 years now and I have met many different people but it takes so much patience to work this intimately with people
It's an absolutely heartbreaking documentary , my dad passed away at 55 through years of drinking ( he died of severe malnutrition and liver failure, in the end he refused meds,food ) so watching this brings it all back . God bless to each and everyone of them .
God bless . My old man east ham dave blasted his bones to dust on carling, fosters and stella. We miss him . Filthy booze. Worse than any class A. Nothing but love to these souls in the wethouse
@@discodroidz429 Class A drugs kill people alot quicker at a much higher rate.
@@DTM93 Not quite you need to do your research. In anycase the two people you've replied too are remembering a tragic time in their life not in some compition of your irrelevent comment
Peace and love to you
@@Superfandangoo It's a fact they're Class A for a reason they kill much quicker than alcohol does.
You can overdose far easier and be killed off over a shorter time frame than alcohol.
If you don't know that i highly suggest you look into what knowledge you seem to think you have as it's very much lacking.
The only irrelevant comment is your own it has about as much use to this topic as a Boeing 767 has to the world trade center.
When the man was asked do you miss them
His face literally went sober n lit up for a sec
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Everybody has struggles man
Hope everyone can beat whatever there battling in life👍
The guy serving the dinners and checking up on em is a legend 🙌 respect
Patience of a Saint
lol he kisses their ass and they spit on him and act like spoiled children. not a legend, just an enabler sending them all to an early grave
@ESP Music he takes people we're they are not were he thinks they should be they are not well people and he knows this. Let's just forget about them and leave them on the street to die. They are as unwell as a person with terminal cancer they deserve some kind of care.
That term is thrown about all the time nowadays for nothing. In his case it is well earned.
He is getting paid and probably getting decent pay working for the council. So not so much a saint. Just a person helping the community as his job.
That guy serving the dinner is such a good guy. He doesn't get offended by their behaviour because he knows it's not the real person. He's just been called a c**t by the guy then steps in to help him straight away. People like him don't get the credit they deserve for the jobs they do. If you're reading this mate, I have 100% respect for the way you treat those people.
It's sad to watch but also heartwarming that these people aren't just forgotten and left out on the street. Even something as basic as a bit of food, healthcare and shelter. Actually that's not even basic really, they're being looked after and I would hope no one would deny them that whatever their bad life choices and mistakes.
They unironically are only doing that for the camera. I've been committed multiple times. This sounds unbelievable but I've watched a nurse torture guy with a catheter. I also saw them give less-than-optimal care to some dude with a social disability to the point where they literally carted him off to die the second time I was committed. The nurses gaslighting me and other patients was not even in the same league as the other two incidents. This was all in a state hospital with Federal funding as well.
Everytime I see nurses post on social media praising themselves or complaining about their job I think about those experiences and realize they are probably not very different from the people I watched commit torture and malpractice.
@@icecreamfromhell666there are some bad nurses out there, they take it for granted and take their feelings out on the residents, not good, there are some good ones though, you can be pretty sure who is good and who is just there for the money.
@JohnJohn-zn8ib it's definitely all nurses. Every single person I know who became a nurse is a complete narcissist. It's the same situation with the people who studied medicine.
I would not trust anybody I know who is a doctor to treat me after seeing how much money and personal politics are involved to even become a doctor.
@@icecreamfromhell666Wow, sorry you had to go through that. I've never been treated that badly, but I, fully aware that jobs like this don't just attract caring people, they attract bullies and control freaks too: I went to a school for autistic kids, so I know. All that place taught me was how to hide drugs and manipulate people......not all that useless skills.....
@robinc6288 I realize it’s been a couple of years since you commented on this video, but I just wanted to say your words are very moving and empathetic. Not all heroes wear capes. ♥️
I love this comments section, so kind, supportive with happy endings for the people who have fought alcoholism and won.Much love.
I'm a man off 44 years of age and I've been a heroin/methadone addict for over 24 of those so I can relate to this very much and I love to see old documentaries about England/Britain back when it was the place I knew... I know this is alcohol and it's different from drugs but us addicts are all the same at heart and I've been in rehabs with alcoholics and they get ill and withdraw and suffer the same as all us addicts do.. God Bless them all.
Damn right. It's your body's withdrawals from whatever substance it's been accustomed to. You are right, though. That's why some ppl get the shakes & delusions, as well. It ain't no picnic.
I get mad when ppl say that these ppl are just drunks & junkies, that they don't want to help themselves, when most of them are self-medicating bc that's all they know & can do to cope with life & the trials & tribulations of everyday survival.
Keep your head up, stay safe & take care.
☮️💜☯️
I’m a 44 year old heroin/methadone addict as well. Been an addict since I was 20 years old as well
@@citizenbeeswax7985holy crap me too lol, i think a lot of people start in their early 20s.
As legal as it is alcohol is a drug and it's one of the worst ones out there. Keep your head up babe. I hope you get well. I know they say the disease is always in you but it's better than the hell you're currently in.
@susanrichardson631 Definitely one of the worst, I've never had such hellish withdrawals from anything over alcohol.
I was a hopeless drunk i lost it all to alcoholic obsession but for the first time in my life I'm sober 8.5months today so it can all change if u want it bad enough ❤
Keep up the fight my man the longer your clean/sober the more mentally stronger you become
That's incredible mate good on ya.
Good work, keep at it!
That is great to hear. I hope you continue on your path and you can help inspire others to do the same. Stay strong and God bless you.
Keep going life will get so much better
5 years ago I was living on the streets of the worst and dangerous parts of Dayton ohio. I seen things that still haunt me today. I was strung out on drugs very bad. I ended up getting a bad MRSA infection in my knee that caused me to flat line for over 8 minutes. I saw the afterlife and talked to loved ones I’ve lost. I was revived and sent to a nursing home. I was in a wheelchair and had to re learn to walk and everything. It was a very difficult three years but I over came it. I’m very successful and have my own place and a beautiful girlfriend and got my son back into my life and see him almost every weekend, also I lost over 100lbs from all the weight I gained being in a wheelchair and have been told I’m 100 times better looking now that I’m sober. I wish you all the best of luck that are struggling. I am living proof that change can happen, you just have to plug at it and want to change. Much love
Thank you for sharing x
I wish you well. Hope the MRSA doesnt show its face again and you are able to stay away from the hard stuff.
So glad you turned your life around,keep up the fight ❤
You were trippin balls. You can't use NDEs as evidence of anything other than the fact there is a spiritual realm. You could have been talking to demons disguised as lost family members for all you know. They attack people at their weakest just like military generals attacking their enemy. Or it could have just been a hallucination.
Well done ❤
I feel like in 2020 this is important to see. Alot of us are developing drug/alcohol use problems including myself. Dont let boredom and isolation be your reasoning because it will grip you very fast. To anyone reading this, I hope you find your way
The highest truth, click below on the link. Good luck on your journey. Peace love, light and blessings.
David. Xxxx x
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Fear, anger and hatred essentially come from a lack of perspective as to what life is all about.
Being is not only beyond but also deep within.
The future, the worry, the regret, the anxiety. These are all mental events that do not have to be part of the difficulty of life. These can be transcended here and now.
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Eternal love
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It cannot be that,
Anybody, anywhere
Is not my very own.
-I am with you at all times.
I release my grip, from illusions of permanence and drift in the freedom, of the ever changing winds.
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Working on it buddy; thanks.
@@kilgoretrout8896 stay at it man, I believe in you
With time first 72 hours are bad yet still find myself going 4 days on a bender
@@joejimenez114 use that same energy to fight it, change it to 4 days strong. People also fail to mention after getting clean it is okay and healthy to indulge from time to time. Just when it's a habitual type of thing you needa re evaluate
I've watched this documentary many times, many times whilst I myself was off my head with drink. So many examples of what untreated trauma can do people. Traumas after traumas. You find a way to handle it yourself.
Michael makes me cry every time. The pain people will inflict on homeless people is senseless and often unimaginable.
And so proud of Annette! It's always great to go in to the recovery journey with a hopeful attitude. Even a week sober can make such a difference. Just gotta give your brain and body a chance if you can. And get help detoxing, alcohol withdrawal is deadly.
We need more documentaries like this one. Help humanize severely marginalized people.
I think it was Jane Goodall who said you shouldn't judge the level of advancement a society has achieved purely by technology but rather on its ability to rehabilitate or take care of those who are sick. That is our strength as humans and it is always painful to see the results of those who have been alienated due to things they may have no control over.
Well put. Sadly, some countries you still have to pay for halfway decent healthcare which is abysmal.
One world, one family.
I used to be a support worker for a homeless agency who managed satellite properties one of which was a wet house. I went there twice. These people were in some cases weeks away from death and at the point there was no hope for them. The feeling was of overwhelming sorrow for these people whose lives were completely and utterly destroyed by a drug they couldn't stop taking, and they knew they were beyond help. They were completely and utterly broken spirits. Never underestimate any drug. Legal or otherwise.
Wow. That's harrowing
Once you start getting withdrawals, you have seen the monster for what it is. Many people never stop and never know... until it’s too late.
DMT, Ketamine, Mushrooms.. all these things are viable medicine for a lot of these cases, talking from personal experience... do not wait for the government to say its ok... source for yourself, help your loved ones.. and read up online safe and easy ways... you really going to trust any gov with something as personal as your own mental health?
Like a satellite in outer space is where they lived?
The social care budget is inadequate, having worked on ambulances in Manchester the social issues are everywhere and the patience of people like yourself is impressive. 🙏
Veterans break my heart. Trained to kill, desensitized to death and then expected to just come back and reintegrate as if nothing happened. Governments will never know the harm they have done.
And sadly they dont care. Over 2020 Boris states he will put soldiers on the street.....they already are. How sad and emotionally broken must these poor people be to have to reduce themselves to what we just watched in order to shut out their pain. No human being should need to go through this to learn lessons So sad.
The story about b3ing in the Congo broke my heart, the fact the government dont care what these men have done for their country breaks it even more.
Erm...pretty sure they know EXACTLY what harm they’ve done...they just don’t give a shit!
“Cannon fodder”
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My grandad fought in WWII, he was injured with shrapnel at Dunkirk was patched up given 2 weeks leave after getting out of hospital and ended up in north Africa and was landed on sword beech at 8:25am on D day and was one of the first to liberate Dora-Mitelbua concentration camp. He had nightmares right up until 1988 and that's when i got him to try cannabis as i knew it is a dream suppressant. He went from having nightmares 3 or 4 times a week to 1 every couple of month. The only time i ever saw him drunk he had to be tied to the bed by my uncles because he got an axe and was going to kill them bastard SS. God knows what he went through because he never spoke about it but my gran said he was a different man all together after he was demobbed in 47. He was kept until 47 because he was tasked with recovering the bodies of dead airmen. They arent wrong about them been the greatest generation.
and on top of that, the wives and the children that feel the effects of the trauma and are abused one way or another by traumatized veterans of war, as the ripple effects of the war get passed on from one generation to the next, long after the war officially ended. All told, the cost of war is too great for humanity to bear, the real cost is too great.
I used to work in one of the other wet houses in London back in the 90's. It was exactly like this place with similar characters and sad stories. This film took me right back, thank you.
Bet you have some stories
God bless you
People like the gentlemen in charge are quiet heros.
The rest of society cross the road from these people, they turn up day after day, to abuse, low or no pay and violence.
My mum works with people like this. Proud of her.
This is absolutely heartbreaking and sad, but at the same time genuinely heart warming as they really do care about each other!! I am in tears!!
We all walk such a different path through life. Thank goodness there are still kind people willing to work with people struggling through.
I watched this when I was in my late teens. I was already an alcoholic. I cried not knowing that I would end up living in a place like this. I'm 41 now and I work in a place like this. I am 13 years clean and sober. These places still exist. They are not called wet houses anymore, but they still exists, as do the people, who literally go there to die from their addictions; not everyone though. Some do make it out and get into recovery.
Well done dude.
What are they called now? I am an alcoholic
@@caligulite homeless hostels. Same thing is happening, but now it's behind closed doors because of policies and procedures forbidding people from drinking or taking drugs openly.
thank you for that@@SurvivorofHorror
@@caligulite Brave of you to share, I hope you get well before something ugly happens. It's sickening to watch yourself drunk; have a friend film you & watch it sober. It might really shake you up. I'm one too, yes. Sober, yes. Don't give up on wanting better for your life. Love helps too.
Guy who checks on the residents, sweeps up and cooks is a sweetheart...
This is by far the saddest thing I've seen in a long time. That poor girl sniffing the glue broke my heart.
Mine too heart breaking, her eyes were lost , so sad 😢
I wonder what she went through. The pain & sadness in her eyes is unreal. Damn shame for her & for all of these lost souls. I have so much patience & understanding for these ppl, bc I have dealt with it all of my life.
(myself & others)
There was a sadness in her eyes....she suffered a lot I’m sure....was somebody’s pretty little baby girl at one time.......I would like to think that some people remember her with fondness...in different circumstances she could have lived a nice life as seemed to be a kind person
The staff in here are the kind of people who should be rewarded by those who give the honours out for what theve done for society,All these were once beautiful little babies .not a single one started out to become an alcoholic.
A very powerful documentary thank you for allowing me to see it
As a person who drinks to much beer,I watch this documentary from time to time to keep me in check 😊
Same. I've reduced my Guinness to once a week.
@@m4rt1n0nY0utub3
No such thing as moderate drinking.
100 pc ive just said that, I watch these type docs n whatever for same reason, also I watch them when im ready to go on a meeting when I dont want to go
It's been six months since you commented - so this is me checking that you're still in check !
@pajguitar thankyou n I'm still sober but fighting depression 🫥
But I know it will pass
Hope your good 👍
The Scottish man the carer. Is amazing he’s so patient, caring & non judgmental . We need more people like him in this world . I wonder where he is now is he still in the same line of work
Let’s hope so, he’s definitely the kind of guy you’d want looking after your loved one in a similar situation. What a star
The scots are legends, from an irish cousin
Dennis is irish
You mean the guy works there? Be an old man now if still alive
@@putridpeasant Did you know Denis
Not only is this a fantastic documentary, but I’ve even been pleasantly surprised by a lot of the comments - baring in mind how much of a stigma there is towards alcoholism, drug addiction and homelessness, it’s so reassuring to see lots of people showing compassion, empathy and understanding towards the people featured I this film and their various issues. RUclips can be a very horrible place so thanks to all those who have posted positive and compassionate comments on this video. Restores my faith in people - not everyone out there a sadistic maniac who sets fire to homeless veterans for fun.
Very well said I think the same any of us could end In a bad way in Life
Same, this is probably the kindest comment section I've ever seen on any video dealing with addiction
Yeah the RUclips comment section is one of the worst places on the internet imo. It's just full of so much negativity, hate, disgust, brutality, hostility, and everyone is a hypocrite lol, including me of course. Anyway, I agree that it's nice to see some compassion, but my point here, is that YOU refrain from fulfilling your faith in humanity from places like RUclips. People shouldn't let places like this sway their opinion of humanity in ANY direction, it's just not a good source for that. If people can learn to retrain their eyes, to refocus them, they would see so much decency and compassion all around them. From someone simply holding a door for someone else, to helping with their groceries, you name it, we're out there helping each other. Don't let any form of media gain control over your emotions or perspectives, because then you're nothing but a passenger in life, with someone else driving you everywhere, responsible for how you feel about everything, the choices you make even reflect what your media is telling you, if you let it. This place has A LOT of great things to offer, no mistaking that, but we ALL need to be on our toes when it comes to the level of control we surrender to media, all media.... My apologies, rant over.
I very nearly did myself, I had been addicted to speed for 40 years and I drunk quite a bit to, 5 years ago I ended up on the nutter ward for a bit as I completely lost the plot and was in a terrible state...hearing voices all the time, i actually thought I was never going to be normal ever again but I slowly started feeling better and got my life together, I have been clean for 5 years now and am living in a lovely town in a little flat and life is good, 5 years ago I was living in a rat infested hovel off my head all the time and I used to own my own house, had a decent trade with good money going on foreign holidays a couple of times a year then I was in a motorbike accident and was badly injured, i couldn't claim anything as I was self employed and I lost everything, that is why I think the people who run places like this are angels...like you say not every addict is a bad person 🍺🍻@@David-h4z2s
The UN soldier at the start telling his story broke my heart, he seemed absolutely broken.
The days before they recognised PTSD. The guy was going to be executed so he had to stab someone to death.. then finds pictures of the guy's family in his pockets. How the fuck does anyone deal with that without professional help? Poor guy.
Well unless he was in the American army... lieutenant isn't pronounced that way in the British army. Was probably a gunner
@Valkyries SS your full of shit he was in the Congo alright something you will never have the balls to do
@Valkyries SS you know nothing about war or the waffen SS dickhead run along mummy wants you inside her
@@simoningram8081 from an accent pov iv seen that or similar pronunciation in Scottish/Irish accents.
He looks about the right age to have been out in Africa and the West did send the Irish there. We messed up REALLY badly there. A group in one region asked the Dutch to stay rather than pull out during the shift to majority rule. That region knew that they were going to get FUCKED as they would be a minority in the new nation.
So to give native rule the UN ordered a minority group in to go and machine gun a bunch of natives to ensure that they accepted the native rule the white western UN demanded they do.
The Irish Army were used to do a fuckton of the UN's shitty jobs in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Machinegunning natives for not accepting majority rule the way the West wanted them to as well as cannon fodder during the Proxy Wars fought against the communists Malay, Burma, Korea, Vietnam.
The West did a lot of damage in its enforcement of native rule, drawing borders based on land not on tribes and they used what was considered a disposable people to do it.
Young working class Irish and British men. Sent out across the world to enforce rules that didn't make sense and borders that had no relation to the socio-political situation and the warring tribes. The Army was an escape from the fact there were bugger all jobs for the working class, pisspoor education for the ones who weren't uni bound and the slow death of the factories, Mills and Mines. We dumped so much into Germany and so.much was spent on Japan and we in the UK and the Irish, through governments that didn't think long term, unions that were essentially a weaponised tool of the USSR run by socialists and management that didn't listen to either the workers or the market ensured there was fuck all work and people disappeared into drink and drugs.
The Irish had two problems 1. The fucking zealots meaning that the place had to be filled with an occupying army in N.I and the R.O.I was run by religious zealots. troops on the ground, sectarian violence as a way of life and organised crime shifting to drugs. The army was an escape from the shit, a guaranteed wage and we sent them out to do the shitfy jobs with fuck all support when they came back so they left with no more qualifications than when they left, employers that viewed them as worthless because of as Kipling said, 'it's dogs and soldiers keep off the grass' so they left back to the same shitty existence.
There were ENDEMIC problems in the working class environment, what we would call today child abuse, sexual violence, domestic violence, alcoholism and people unable to cope escaping into a bottle.
Oh and since the 1950's society utterly destroyed the historic support networks implicit in community and things like the Working Mens Clubs, the factory social clubs, bands, sports teams died as we shifted away from one job from 16-pension age and we got rid of long term mental health housing and support units. Its not surprising we have people of that era who are lifelong alcoholics and ended up like this. Family moving away for work, the state of the care system and the cuts to social housing and adult social support.
Remember the 'drinking schools' are probably made up of people who met in the 'Job Clubs' of the 1970's and 80's
Are they blameless, fuck no most are there because they've burned every bridge they have but society did play a part in the why. REASONS are NOT Excuses BUT they are useful to know.
The difference in her just two weeks into detox is insane. It was actually nice to hear her talk
Great, gritty REAL documentary. This was 24 years ago. It's sad to think they may all now have passed away
Was thinking the same. The documentary maker does do updates. Most passed within a few years of this programme
They are better off out of it to be honest
Friends is a gritty documentary
Most of them died not long after the documentary was filmed
@@jamielee7995 how do you know this?
The difference in Annette during detox! So sharp, well spoken and insightful! The alcohol was clearly rotting a wonderful, intelligent mind.
annette actually dies. it is on the website watching the film broke her she got back on the drink. very sad
@@veronique9497where can I see this
I am so happy for anybody that can do better for themselves & my prayers go out to those that can't .May God Bless all
I came to the comments expecting to see judgement, criticism, and hatred, my faith in humanity has been completely restored. See beyond the alcoholism and drug abuse, look instead to the societal decay that lead to people seeing this as their only option. It's heartbreaking. I'm thankful that the staff are clearly kind, compassionate people who really don't get the payment or recognition they deserve for doing such a difficult job, true angels! The guy singing 'Beautiful Dreamer' at the end broke me, I'm a sobbing mess.
Alcoholism is also genetically caused. Some of us--I'm incredibly lucky, haven't had a drink since 1971, live independently, have friends, etc.--never drank normally. It's not all cused by either societal decay, as you say, or by personal trauma. it's very complicted, and mostly a combinatuib of all those things.
I am loving the idea of the wet house. It’s helping keep them sheltered and safe. It must be interesting working there and I mean that in a nice way. Like when you are the sober one for the evening out to drive your friends home and you have to make sure everyone gets home safely but since they have all been drinking it’s a bit tough to keep everyone in line. Ones singing, one has the giggles while others are talking excitedly. It must be very energy draining as well. Then of course there are the times people get angry and sad from drinking.
Have my own issues with alcohol can't let it get to this.. And think it should be shown to 16 or 17 year olds in school.. Much more an education than king Henry
I fear, they would not believe that that could be them in a couple of years
@@Iwoasasaned yeah shocking as it is, when we are young we feel invincible and this happens to weak people and not us.. Even stronger people can have their world turned upside down in a heart beat and unfortunately drink and drugs seem a way to cope but ultimately dancing with the devil and only tragic consequences
I agree, they warn people about getting too drunk and having alcohol poisoning but that's it. I'm only 26 and have had Delerium Tremens so bad I was on an IV in the hospital for a week. There are far worse things than a hangover or alcohol poisoning.
@@aislingjanuary1557 oh man you are so right a lot worse things indeed, spent few too many days in hospital myself due to Blackouts and some nasty falls have a bad enough scar over my right eye and could have lost it..but that wasn't enough to stop me, such is the hold of this satanic juice
Totally agree 👍. I have lost my Mum to alcohol and my older brother died of heroin overdose. I've said before that people would be mortified to find out if I took heroin after losing my brother. On the other hand, people can't understand why I no longer drink after watching it slowly kill my mother.
“Wait till I get up.”........”I’m up”
Best sentence I’ve ever heard before trying to start a fight 🤣
Haha the other guy was like you got no chance, while he walks totally shaking and unstable 😆
Hahahha
That’s the funniest bit 😂🤣
🤣🤣🤣
Had me in fits, reminds of my days in all the old man's pubs as they were called when I was alot younger,seen alot of ol' boys trying to pick fights when they couldn't pick their nose,funny and sad at same time
Just hit my 2 year sober mark 6 days ago. But booze is a constant reminder of losing my wife step daughter house dogs basically everything I cared about.
Well done , was it something you did while drunk or just because your were constantly drinking ?
@@Thevoiceofreason84 While drunk. Hard liquor made me a nasty drunk.
You’re doing well. Keep strong brother.
Thank you, some days I don’t feel like I’m doing so well. I don’t know I just miss her n my step daughter so much. People say time is the only thing that helps but it hasn’t helped me. I’ve tried dating 4 different times/girls and I always find myself comparing them to her. My ex wife was my dream girl, like if someone said write down on a piece of paper what you want in a wife it was legit her. I don’t know sorry for my rant this is the hardest time of the year for me. Holidays suck
And everybody tells me I need to go drink at a bar to meet a women and friends.
Little Jamie and how they all love her and protect her is heartbreaking. She’s probably never felt that kind of love before 💔
Aye, must've been hell of a 'character' when they were all Boozing outdoors. Bless....
Be nice to see how she is now bless her?
@@karencarmon9973she’s dead they all are
The most powerful documentary I’ve ever seen. Absolutely unbelievable.
I watch a lot of documentaries like this. Drugs and addicts have been a huge part of my life, especially my childhood. This might be the best I've ever seen. A family member I lost touch with, then lived with briefly just went away for treatment. I couldn't be more proud. Especially knowing where he came from. I wonder sometimes what places like this would have accomplished in the U.S. I've just seen so much hardship. I've been homeless myself, can't imagine having an addiction to feed during that time as well. Really gets on my nerves when people act like letting these people freeze to death is the best solution. They've had enough "tough love". Maybe if they saw actual compassion, and a reason to live, and a society that didn't tell them they deserve it, because they hurt themselves; maybe they would want to live. Sorry for ranting. Things just need to change, it's so stupid.
@@dishonoredundead ~ I so agree with you! Amen! 🤍
It is like a musical tragedy in 6 parts!
You haven’t seen many documentaries then.
I've been looking for this for years. Tony with his birthday card, always stuck with me.
Strong and poignant documentary. It's truly a masterpiece in showing a harsh reality that society rarely shows. The end moved me to tears and to see that even in all that nightmarish life, people can show good, love and unity like a true family is beautiful.
i’m an alcoholic, drunk rn, and this is one of the most powerful things i’ve ever seen
im glad its not just me
The kindness they show each other in the midst of there problems is admiral and 100% genuine to say the least.
So very sad Such great people x
so true, beautiful souls , lovable rogues x
You have just said what I was thinking.
What an absolute cold depiction of the reality that comes with addiction. Don't think I've seen anything on a level this raw before in my life.
its hard hitting
HBOs documentary black tar heroin: dark end of the street. That’s a good one
@@horaciog9166 thanks! I'll check it out. You should check out vices teenage heroin documentary, it's one of my favourites
Watch Children Underground, very much the same raw vibe, and very well made.
@@SlayerOfCunts will do cheers
I’m 9 days away from 2 months sober from alcohol, for the first time in my life. I’m 29, drank heavy for 10 years straight, I would have ended up like one of these folks. This made me cry, drinking numbs the pain, there’s so much sadness in that place.
keep up the good work, this is a horrible reminder of what can happen.
Keep it up!
Are you still clean?
just fuckin keep goin best of luck to ya mate
2 years on i hope your still staying strong ❤
Real people with real lives who have found themselves in a tough situation. Infinitely more interesting than anything I could find on TV or in a library these days
They still have the same book as before, you know? But more
You tried it? It's no joke.
Real lives ?
ONG ❤❤
Totally agree. These people are the true definition of survivor. Wounded, yes but still fighting each day with more courage than many of us could ever hope to have.
Brilliant documentary. That's how you make 'em! So moving and humbling. ❤
After surviving addiction myself I've realized addicts are just sensitive souls who couldn't deal with the harsh realities of their sober reality...I will always have love and compassion in my heart towards an addict of any substance...
There are other ways!
And then you woke up
I was so nice to see the woman after a week in rehab able to speak coherently about what she wants for her future. It's like someone flipped a switch and her humanity just switched right back on.
She died shortly after 😪
Yeah. *RIP* Annette, but true just after a week seemed SO different. Bless.😳
@autisticfitness176 aw no that's so sad😢
@@autisticfitness176 It was several years after, according to the director. Its haunted her since because it was after seeing the film. She then fell of the wagon and died.
@@TheStevenWhiting where did you hear that?
I remember watching this a few years ago devastating documentary. My grandma died from alcoholism and my dad had a heart attack and died in his 40s (he was an alcoholic) I enjoy a drink but I am becoming more aware and cautious recently.
Watching stuff like this reminds me of how incredibly strong and amazing my old man was ❤
They say just 2% of alcoholics get sober and achieve long term sobriety I’m in that 2% and so grateful for it
Congratulation my friend 😘,been of heroin etc for two years now in january...life is GOOD 😎,lots of love and light from faraway Norway coming your way 🌈
me to and it takes a strong person to keep sober keep strong :)
Same! 8 years and 7 months 💛
11 months gratefully...
Where did you hear that from?
By Christ, I don't think I've ever wept at a piece of television but listening to Michael's story brought me to tears. No matter how much he drinks, the memory of killing that man in the Congo is as clear as day. I can't begin to imagine what that feels like.
Not being funny but he used the American pronunciation of lieutenant. I would have thought he would know how to say it correctly if he was a professional soldier. He might not even be telling the truth. Doesn’t really matter either way he is obviously a troubled man and it’s very sad.
@@trevorpepper1996 Maybe the standard pronunciation of lieutenant in the U.N. forces was American English? But I'm only guessing really.
He was probably in the Irish army , has a southern Irish accent and we pronounce it the same way Americans do
It’s the N. Irish pronunciation
@@trevorpepper1996 not being funny??
You think that gives you the right to question the poor fella?
Shut your pie hole.
All I can say is the ppl who work there are saints and must be very, very patient. Couldn't do it myself.
Respect to them for being so gentle and patient
Angels.
Yeah. They amaze me.
Annette's transformation after just one week of sobriety is amazing. Soft spoken, eye's clearer, skin much better, like a completely different person. Alcohol is a terrible, terrible, drug. This an amazing documentary. Beautiful, incredibly depressing, heart warming, so many different emotions
I read up on their lives afterwards. Unfortunately Annette relapsed after seeing this documentary. Its so sad as she looked so much better. Just shows that addiction can be trigged by so many things
@gracehyde782 she looked like 10 men almost...cleaned up nice clothes. I'm an alcoholic but she well sweet ..but things happen ..bad relationship mayb..who knows
@@Chris-g8e5e i looked at the director, who gave a follow up and that's what they said
i was an alcoholic for 18 years , hits home this , it shocked me how many people died in recovey, 20ish people from all walks of life were in my group when we started there is 2 of us left now
Well done mate.👍👍👍
I’m a grateful recovering alcoholic and I truly hope these men are able to find sobriety someday. God bless them.
I'd imagine they're all dead.
Unless they were very lucky I'd say the majority have sadly passed away
Having just been detoxed this really hit home. I live very close to that hostel and we used to tease the little guy as kids because he used to sleep in my friend's shed. He would chase us and go beserk.
He actually comes across as really sweet in this doc but we never bothered to get to know him.
Little did I know I would be in a similar position 21 years later.
I hope he's still alive and at peace.
Doubt he’s still alive dude
You tormented a desperate alchoholic. The supreme irony that you, then became one, is not lost on me.
@@danawankinthewoods.5642 thats Karma but he was a kid and hes acknowledged his mistake, as human beings thats all we can do.
Yeah he never said he tormented the man just they were kids who ran away from him probably scared because alcoholics are really scary to sober people especially children so you keep all empathy for the afflicted and none for those around them whose lives are also devastated…
Why no punctuation?
I watched this years ago and seeing the difference in Annette from being in the wet house to a week in rehab was night and day ,a very articulate well spoken lady and I was really sad to hear she didn’t make it,Rip Annette and to all the lost souls in this documentary
That man kept those cards in pristine condition, homeless, I will never forget this ...
The care with which he held and looked at each one. When he said he missed his family.
Can see the man took great affection and appreciation to the people carrying enough to right him a card. Through hell and high water he kept them safe
When he said that about the kisses all being for him that made me really sad for him, shows how important his family in Sweden love means to him 😕
@Zain staric Alcoholics can still love and miss their families ya knobhead
that dude made me cry with the way he talked about his family and how he kept those cards perfect, they introduced him being this hard-assed old fuk, then when they sat down in his room and he spoke about his daughter i melted.....
Hats of to the guy that works there! What a hero!!!!!! God bless him
That girl with the glue brought tears to my eyes if my daughter went down that path I don’t know how I would live
@@nickycotton6137 soap dodger
@@VultureSunset = 👏.. Shut up.
Sobering
Thank you to the people who allowed this to be made. Thank you to those who made it.
Media today want to show anything but real humans and real suffering. A final thank you to the people who work these houses. It's a most thankless job but as the Dr. rightly said, you and these houses are making the end as comfortable for the vast majority of these poor unfortunates.
12 years sober , thank you Jesus !
Congratulations on your sobriety! Keep going! Best wishes!
@@rachelg9873 Thank you !
@@robbie8085 you're very welcome! You've earned a little celebration and well wishes from a stranger, and so much more. :)
14 years this December for me.
@@RichAlderson Good job bud! Keep up the good work!
The compassion in the comments here, gives me a renewed faith in people.
Yeah. Iv been on twitter alot during lockdown and the people who are 'normal' and haven't encountered issues like this are ..not so compassionate.
The Scottish guy taking care of everyone and going through what he does is an absolute angel. I hope he knows it xx
@@GrimGrumBalls what?
He’s really lovely
@@adammarshall4245 I think he thought he was talking about the Northern Irish guy.
Yes he is. A very kind man ❤️
@@philbecker4676Northern Irish? Why don’t you just call him Irish? 🤣
Wow! Very powerful and real. The one woman huffing paint all day. Unbelievable, and very sad how it affected her. And all of them for that matter. This was a great find, and an impactful film.
sickening to see people sniffing glue or paint. It was rampant in the 80's, I thought it was a dinosaur by the 90's. Obviously not
I remember watching this when it was on the telly years ago. I was struck by how many of them were Scottish and Irish. Guys who emigrated to London in the hope of bettering their lives and ended up on the scrapheap
The cost of living in London alone wouldn't have helped. I can imagine the cost of funding their alcoholism AND funding living expenses would be astronomical. That is if one or some of them relapsed.
Alot of Irish fell through the cracks and had been in London too long, no home to go back to.
wth i thought this must've been filmed in ireland??
@@unbornbum u must be stupid, or didn't watch documentarie cause narrator said east London, nice bit of causal racism doe, jus say it for what it is
@@littlebrayutd oh piss off there was literally one english person in the whole doc..
I always think the most depressing thing about any kind of overwhelming addiction like this is that you just end up only in the company of other erratic, broken people none of whom are really your friends. You're just bound up by the same affliction. Must feel awful whenever you're sober enough to notice.
Very true
That's not true, I'm alcohol dependent and I always find that everyone looks out for each other .
@@karenmcclure7191 Don’t take this the wrong way but that’s the point, while you are drinking that’s how it feels. If and when you stop ( your choice, no judgment here) I’m pretty sure you would feel differently. When I was drinking I thought I had the best circle of people around me, when I stopped I realised they really weren’t.
Rebecca, I've been sober a while and I bought a house in a affluent area and I hate it, my social worker even said to me you miss living among druggies and alchies, and it's true, I feel lonely and despite having worked as a solicitor feel like I don't fit in here.
Sounds like a most people’s jobs
Refusing people help unless they stop drinking/drugs etc is killing people.
Ironically theyre killing themselves
@@devilsolution9781 but the smug piety of the people running housing projects motivated by their skywizard that demands they check for track marks or piss test people ensures that these people die on the streets of frostbite or hypothermia. Ensure they are at risk of violent assault just because they are there.
Demanding a person stop drinking or you won't help them is just spite and cruelty and a sense of superiority. Especially in the case of alcohol where coming off too quickly kills people.
I'm fed up of the smug self centred pricks that offer 'help with so many conditions its worthless. Go to their church, get clean before we help rehouse you with no support to get clean. Believe what they believe. Its garbage.
This place encouragingnself managed drink reduction is going to help more people than the places that demand people stop
@@jediknight1294 Casting judgment on people you are trying to help just has the opposite impact. It makes people struggling with addiction feel like they aren't worthy of assistance, and when they are finally at a point when they need it most they might not get it for that reason. Recovery requires absolute acceptance of self. By accepting addicts as they are it helps validate the problems that precipitated the addiction, decreases guilt and shame, and increases the likelihood that someone will seek long-term sobriety.
Thank you for your comment :)
@@mattryan2489 the trick is embedding reasons are not excuses and analysing and dealing with the dickhead behaviour that went with the addiction and spiral burning support networks and not simply replacing the substance with a programme AA/NA doesn't fix the issue it merely redirects the addiction.
i wish i could open up a place like this where i live, so many hurting people--housing restrictions and liability claims make it almost impossible
I have to applaud the filmmaker and everyone involved. The empathetic approach to such a subject is very heartwarming.
These souls deserve our love and compassion, if only for a fleeting moment
One of the most powerful documentary I have ever watched, period!
Jamie has pulled on my heart strings. How in this day and age can we fail the vulnerable. This may be 20yrs ago but she's the same age as me now. For a first World country we are failing those in need miserably.
Finally. A real documentary. Done with respect and sensitivity. Thank you for posting.
I love these old docs. Every time I find one I get so excited. Thank you.
A tad tone deaf
Very sad and hard to watch but the thing that shines through is these people's love and care for each other.
That old man at 12:05 "wait till I get up " ..... Ten seconds later "I'm up" lol I love him
He's so cute lol
That was my favorite part too!
Why do I come back to this film, again and again?...
Top film mate I think it was filmed in 2001 I heard most of them died before the programme was aired on tv
The guy who carried every letter he got with him was amazing. Imagine the amount shit he’s gone through in 20+ years and he still managed to keep those letters in perfect condition.
I lose phones, bank cards, keys god knows what else when I'm drinking, multiple times a year! He's incredible!
You realise he's clearly a liar and it's obviously not true, that guy isn't capable of looking after anything for 2 hours let alone 20 years
@@Sam-yr8ls Lol
@@anthonyparedes4800 😆
@@anthonyparedes4800 I mean realistically even if a normal person had to carry them on thier person for 20 years, they wouldn't look perfect. Let alone him. Likely kept at a family members or something and he got them to drop them off so he can show them and it looks like he has made some kind of effort, then decided to lie on the spot about it. I have known extreme alcoholics and they tell lies constantly like this 😔
God bless all of them,no one knows what way you'll turn out
What a fucking stupid statement
Twenty years ago, wow, this January I will be sober twenty one years, I wonder how many are still alive. God bless them all ❤️
You seem to forget your non existent sky pixie if it did exist let this happen !
@@gowdsake7103 you don't believe. He does. How about respecting how he went about it
@@callumnoblett4905 Why ? I dont respect anyone who makes up stuff to justify their immorality
My dad used to work in a place like this when I was younger he was an alcoholic himself and I genuinely believe being in an environment and seeing things like this made him worse although he’d never admit it. He’s still an alcoholic and haven’t spoke to him in years
*2024*
1st found this doc during early stages of lockdown boredom 2022* still have never seen anything like it in my life.
Watching the girl inhale the glue through the bag I couldn’t help thinking how the bag looked like a human heart operating and how much actual strain it’s putting on her! Heart breaking....literally
She seemed young but if she kept this no way she is alive now. My heart really hurt for her, she seems so small and vulberable. She must have suffered from severe anxiety and the only help she had to deal with it was the glue sadly.
Yeah that's not how a heart works but a lung didn't work with your pun did it
@Great White it’s easy to judge others, it’s difficult to recognise your own mistakes.
@Great White You can still feel sorry and sad for someone even if they're in a hell of their own choosing.
Really feel for these lost souls, I was drinker for 28 years and started to feel it getting a hold of me 17 years ago, had a bad scare and gave up completely overnight, it can be done folks.
I quit just over a year ago, best thing I ever did. This documentary broke me, could have been me in a few years. Personally I would play this in schools, might save lives.
100%
I will tap the like button, hoping someone else will view this. These life stories need to be listened to, I cannot comment further, the protagonists in the film know far more than I do, about what they're talking about, living through, or maybe not living through?
Heartbreaking, I think to watch this, such a breakdown on every level of what I consider for myself as a dignified form of humane existence.
I stopped drinking 3 months ago. Best thing I have done. Suprising how alcohol blurs everything and makes you think you have hope when it actually ruins most things in life.
I dont think it's bad in moderation and very enjoyable when done in moderation, but there are people out there who cant have a couple and be done and they should stay away from it altogether.
@@Crook3d_GT agreed
Fact
Absolutely!
I’m so grateful to have now been sober for 16 years. I never want to put another drop of alcohol in my system. I did glue for about 18 months when I was 15/16 years old. I think that really fucked my brain up. My heart breaks for all of them 😭
Man from the ages 17-24 I was drinking like a fish just about every night and sometimes day drinking, tripping on Robitussin frequently especially at 17 and 18 (that stuff really messed me up mentally), taking painkillers every morning for hangovers and eventually just because.of physical dependence and to top all of that off I was chain smoking cigs and weed and drinking a pot of coffee every morning. The human brain can do a good deal of recovering you'd be surprised, but yes I definitely think there are some substances out there that have extreme potential to cause lasting long term damage and inhalants, dissociatives, alcohol, benadryl, methamphetamines and MDMA are just some that come to mind right off that bat.
Well, after just watching the first 5 minutes I for one don't need a drink today. There but for the grace of god.
Where i am in my life im not a million miles away from the people in this doc , middle aged man failed marriage drink and drug addiction as well as mental health issues , not close to family ,bills piling up , fucked up my job because i chose drink and drugs over it , burnt so many bridges that cant be repaired and i can see myself homeless fairly soon if i don't get help . this is a harsh wake up call . im reading the comments of people being sober for 5 10 20 + years and even a few months and i admire you all and want to be there also .......
It can be done. Look up Paul Venis K1 channel - hes a serious addict but beat it. Gives lots of good advice and does lives you can comment on for an answer - or even talk in video chat. you dont have to show your face and can stay anon
Find an aa meeting
Good luck, man. I hope you are still around and found the help you need.
Even in a state of complete degenerate rock bottom the men still have their inherent need to protect the vulnerable proof indeed the soul is indestructible God bless them all with mercy and peace health and happiness Amen 💫✝️✨