Inside Detroit's Fentanyl Overdose Epidemic | Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Embark on a gripping journey into the heart of America's latest and most unsettling societal challenge with our documentary, "The World's Most Scariest Drug Taking Over America," shot amidst the haunting landscapes of Detroit, Michigan, including the notorious Kensington Ave - often referred to as "Zombie Town." Delve into the chilling and pervasive influence of this potent substance as we unveil the sinister realities through in-depth interviews, shocking footage, and expert analysis. Join us on a compelling exploration of the alarming consequences this drug imposes on individuals and communities, shedding light on the dark corners where this menacing drug has taken root. Brace yourself for an immersive experience that exposes the unsettling truth of a looming crisis, compelling viewers to confront the urgent issue at hand.
Shot By: @phundoart8705 - @phundoart for the IG
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I hope you pay these poor people and not just exploit them so you can be comfy.
@@vasil3089 it used to be 10 dollars an interview but it must be much more now...everyone getting high/shooting up would have scored that from what he gave them..
My husband and I would be willing to be part of a doc, we definitely have a lot of war stories,but our situation is slightly different than some. We are in Delray, SW Detroit,and we are a different breed,here in the neighborhood of Delray. Let us know,we'd be happy to help educate the public.
When was this filmed
There's a couple that comes on RUclips daily 2-4 times a day. They beg for 🤑 to feed their drug addiction.
And RUclips allows this BS, there subscribers report every video they put out. The name of the channel is "Maddie's journey to success" They have been on the streets over 8 years.
They lie & scam people on YT. She gave up her kids for a life on the streets, she's a pathological liar & a malignant narcissist. She and her partner or prostitutes. They are in Detroit as well.
Thank you to the people giving kind words and support. My son is now with us and has been clean for a month. Please keep the prayers coming for him and all the others that need help.
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I am now eight months clean, a couple of these people interviewed were my former acquaintances, i even saw some of the abandoned houses i use to be in. I am now thanking the good lord for delivering me. I just randomly selected this documentary. That is God telling me too continue staying clean.🙏🙏🙏🙏
Help I can't quit. How did u quit
Heck yes ! You keep it up! You're amazing and you're doing great!❤
YOU got you clean. Please don't let imaginary friends take that credit. You're extremely strong. I hope you continue staying clean.
I pulled a semi over on 6 mile by John R to go inside a crack house. The man in charge had had his chest opened up and sewn back shut a few times. I was glad no one stole my semi while I sat there and got high. The man in charge was a total trip. He kept telling me that he be working with the police, and they was parked around the corner.
@@jeffguzman6497you are cared about !! And somewhere someone is waiting so patiently for you... I pray that you go through the darkness to find the light 🙏
Seeing my son in this video is truly one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen. I pray everyday that him and all people that are addicted make it one more day and get the strength to get out of the situation. If they could only understand what it does to the people who love them 💔
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the one with the stepdad?
If seeing your son breaks your heart so much, then GO FUCKING SAVE HIM! FUCK A COMMENT!! GO AND LOVE YOUR SON! BRING YOUR SON HOME!!!! Go SAVE
YOUR SON!!!!!!!
@@GenEXodus we’ve tried and every time he gets clean he ends up back in the same situation. Obviously you have not had to experience anything like this, which I’m glad about but if you don’t have experience then don’t post an uneducated comment. You have no idea how hard this is for a parent to deal with.
When he declared he wasn't living any type of way because he has a room and food and the interviewer just stared at him blankly😢.
It was him being angry inside because he was confronted with reality, his defense was to get slightly aggressive. Its actually due to mental pain, makes me sad.
Dude is definitely cocky trying to deflect. He talks about Detroit like a tough guy. Hope he finds sobriety.
"I've got a room, and food and gloves and shit." Like bro, you're in an abandoned house.. I'm so glad I got 19 days clean. Not judging the guy but i refuse to end up like that...
@@ChiTownGuerrilla good luck with your journey with sobriety. My brother has 10 years clean. Stay humble
he’s too tough, those over tough ones always crumble the quickest
Due to a double hernia in 2017, I came into contact with oxycodone, prescribed by my GP. I was someone who wouldn't even take aspirin for pain, drink alcohol or smoke. But because I could no longer walk or sit due to the pain, and as a single mother of 4 children, this is not convenient. The doctor never warned me about the dangers of oxycodone, and I discovered that it was so addictive when it was too late. I have been to a clinic twice, but unfortunately this failed due to tapering off much too quickly and other health problems. Now I'm slowly reducing my intake, and it's going well. I want to ask if you would pray for me so that this time will be successful!
I will also pray for those who are dealing with this devastating addiction, it is hell. and their family/friends. Thank you in advance!
I'm proud of you that your helping yourself, how are you doing now? You seem like a very sweet person.
@joe1123 hello Joe, is this message for me?
@@lauraMacKinnon321 yes
@joe1123 To be honest, things aren't going so well. many physical complaints, daily pain, which I think is also due to the years of use of oxycodone. I am still working on tapering off and have taken a total of 80mg off. I take 10mg every 1 to 2 weeks. It's tough, because it takes a toll on your mind, mentally, I also feel very lethargic and depressed. I am also anxious and tell myself all kinds of things. I am certainly not used to this myself. I don't know if you believe in God, it sounds very strange, but after I was baptized in 2017, I was terribly tested and one setback came after another. I hope you don't mind me telling my story so openly here. What I hate most is the loneliness, in the sense that no one actually understands me. for example, my father just tells me to be strong, if for example I have a setback, and to think about the children, as if if I don't, I am plagued day and night with severe feelings of guilt, when in fact it is not my fault. I don't close my eyes at night anymore. But I'm determined to stop that crap once and for all, and take it one step at a time.
@@joe1123 To be honest, things aren't going so well. many physical complaints, daily pain, which I think is also due to the years of use of oxycodone. I am still in the process of tapering and have reduced a total of 80 mg. I take 10 mg every 1 to 2 weeks. It's tough because it takes a toll on your mind, mentally I also feel very lethargic and depressed. I am also anxious and tell myself all kinds of things. I'm certainly not used to this myself. I don't know if you believe in God, it sounds very strange, but after I was baptized in 2017, I was terribly tested and one setback after another came. I hope you don't mind me telling my story so openly here. What I hate most is loneliness, in the sense that no one really understands me. For example, my father only tells me to be strong, for example when I have a setback, and to think about the children, as if I don't, I am plagued day and night with intense feelings of guilt, while in reality it is not my debt. I don't close my eyes at night anymore. But I'm determined to stop that nonsense once and for all, and take it one step at a time.
Man I am so glad I left Detroit. I was just like the girl with tat on her face. Never thought I'd be clean and living life right. Recovery is possible. You just gotta want it. I am 8 years clean . I can never see myself falling back in to old habits.
Hopefully your still clean and healthy, just checking up on you, I'm 10 months sober from alcohol which nearly destroyed my life, I can't see me ever going back to it either....😊
Screw Detroit
@steves3649 You ever been? It's suburbs are some of best in country. Michigan is a beautiful state. Every state has its issues an outside dwntwn D is where its tough (within city limits tho). Ironically dwntwn Detroit is WORLD CLASS. I'm from east coast sayin this. I will retire in a beautiful small twn in mid-michigan on a lake & 3 acres. 💯
@@Davido50I grew up in a place called Brightmoor in Detroit, I’m white and went to mostly black schools and wouldn’t have traded my experiences with anyone, my teachers were tough on us kids I literally was spanked so hard by one big black art teacher I should have had bruises up and down my backside and legs. I had much respect for her, that’s what’s wrong with schools, kids don’t have respect. The neighborhood looks like a war zone now, just like in this video. I thank Jesus he set a little church on school craft road to give me life and set me on a good path. My parents Were selling weed, my Dad was counterfeiting and shoplifting and literally had the feds come shake our house down with at least 10 undercover agents pulling up in front of our house. He went to prison and I continued to go to that church. I’m in Minnesota now on a farm. I miss Detroit, I miss the music and the people, I flew into Detroit recently to visit and when I landed, I saw black people from Detroit and I started to cry, it was home and it was something I couldn’t explain. This video breaks my heart, all these people are Gods creation and somebody’s little daughter or Son.
The most important step is to want to do it. Without that there is nothing . .
Now, that’s journalism I want to see. Sheer truth. You risk your health for us. Kudos for that.
he is not doing it for you
My brother just passed away a few weeks ago in Detroit from drugs 😭 This is so sad he was 29 and we just lost our Mom 7 months ago. He tried crack at 16 and was addicted immediately! Don’t do drugs! Save yourself! Rest in Heaven Lonnie Bush! This world is so evil.
My condolences 😢
Sorry for your lost he was so young , he I'll be in your heart 🙏
I am so sorry love 😢
God called him home.. I'm 29 and have 19 days clean for the first time in like 11 years. Was always opiates but a year ago I took an adderal and started smoking crack again alot and man that shit is so much worse than dope. Shit got really bad this past year and I know if I go back it will be even worse and harder, and if im honest with myself I know i won't survive if i go back.
@@ChiTownGuerrilla call on the Lord! Run from the drugs fight it!! Don’t do this to yourself. Your life has purpose!
This made me so emotional. Breaks my heart. I know exactly what they're going thru. Please if anyone needs to talk please find me on here. We have an awesome commumity who understands you. Feeling alone is the worst feeling. I pray they can all make it to recovery. Never stop trying ❤
Shoutout from Flint; big ups for making this video. To all the folks in it who spoke, it was truly an enlightening experience, and I hope you make it out of this.
810 here 2 doe
Flint Town!!
Saginaw here
I'm from the UK and i can tell you this, this is the moment when the full reality hit Aaron in the face no filter... That's the problem drug users have, they don't actually realise how sickening the Squalor they are living is, just because he's got food clothes and a room makes his conditions superior. That's so far from realty it's mind boggling for him not to see it's a Squalor... Wow, that's the power of drugs, it binds you from seeing the true reality... 4:48
The denial is utterly delusional
It's true yet he still has more than some people🤔, some people don't even have food or a roof over their heads!🥺
That guy is just a straight up a******
But they could if they chose too....@@jamiecurran3544
You don't need to be using drugs to feel or think like that? People can get in the root for lots of reasons. Strong drugs just make your situation a lot harder. It's sad and frustrating at the same time. Crack is lethal and ruins people's lives you are spot on there. These young kids, hopefully God will intervene.The UK? Me too .👏🇬🇧☺️
One piece of advise is to get on their level when speaking to them. You stood the whole time while speaking with zack. It would make them feel more comfortable and respected if you kneel and talk to people eye to eye. ❤
Why? They know where they're at
@@kenneth9874 You missed the point ;)
@@Dawg..... no I didn't, they know where they stand among others.
5:51 he does
Nah, stay on your feet, especially if you're alone or a female. A lot of addicts will rob you blind by any means necessary.
my boyfriend i met in 91 from D. was smoking crack, he hid it quite well for the first year or so, then strange things started happening such as car missing, cars wrecked, not coming home for days at a time while stealing my car, he was beat up with broken jaw and went to bed all bloody till next day took him to the hospital, beat up again, hit by a car, my bikes missing, my money missing, jewelry missing, more lame stories from him. tried to remove him tons of times with no help from sheriffs or courts, they seemed to enjoy my heartache and even laughed when called so many times for him beating me up. Sometimes removing me instead of him. Well fast forward i retired in Jan 2011 and he od'd at a drug house in the Clem on june 2011, finally i was free from his drugging. it can go on a real long time, 2 decades in my situation and no one will help for the most part. they know how to manipulate the courts and family. just stay far away from them if possible cause they will ruin your life
Why didn't you just leave him?
Greetings I read your story yes they ruin their life's and others ..the same happened with me except no stolen cars but the lies violence taking my money stealing and at the end betrayed I'm happy with my pets they're loyal
So, for 20 years, it took him passing away for all your problems to end? I think he wasn’t the only one with an addiction here…in a few ways. Authorities probably didn’t do anything because you kept letting it happen over and over. You could’ve walked away at any moment and don’t say you couldn’t. Sometimes you need to take extreme measures for extreme situations. Don’t blame anyone but yourself here
@@r7kelley553Stockholm Syndrome
My ex smoked meth didn’t know was pretty normal i guess it was only a few years and he got better then worse bunch of times i got out of it couple years thank god cuzz I knew it would have gotten to that both had mental illness too feel bad for him but it’s his choice he’s still alive u can beg and cry for someone to get better and they can only help themselves
They should show this to highs school students.
I left Detroit 40 years ago and moved to California. But much of my heart still lives there and this is heartbreaking!😢
@@DerrickMarkleymusic I never said it was worse than anywhere else. I could say the same thing about San Francisco where I lived 30 years ago. I could say the same thing about Vancouver which I visited 25 years ago.
Chicago is the same man
california is the hell next to detroit
Lions are killing it tho so
yeah i know you can buy some of these homes for a song, but if u fix it up who could live there surrounded by junkies/criminals ....
Had a friend was a great bassist guitarist , music nut had 10k stereo set up, nice house, good family. Turned to heroin and i saw his life fall apart. Last time i saw him all he had was a bed with an axe under it. I tried my best to help him but it made no difference. Someone needs to realy want to change themself you cant change them.
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No decent man could do that to his family
When I was caught up, I used to sell to a barrister. A QC barrister...
Also a famous fashion company, well they had a executive who was an addict and would buy from me.
I remember a millionaires wife too, who bought stuff for her daughter. She never brought the daughter with her, but she'd turn up in Bentleys to buy parcels.
Drug use is rife, across all levels of society, it's just thr wealthy can conceal their addiction easier.
Zack seems like a really smart and great person. Hope he gets out of it
agreed but why did the guy filming the documentary absolutely body Zack when he tried to shake his hand
@@Rogue_Rangerbecause u don't wanna get blood on your hands. Self preservation
most addicts i know are better more genuine people than the sober people or alcoholics or pot heads i know, then again, im only around opiate dependant people, k=nobody selling meth round here lol, no money in it, never even met or heard or a dealer that sold meth, its a bartering tool between other meth heads, unless youre selling in bulk theres no money in it compared to like heroin or fentanyl... honestly another reason is, no one likes even being around to serve tweekers, theyre the worst. irrational and crazy
People on meth are scary. The dude at around 5:10 had that wild-eyed crazy look and had an aggressive tone in his voice. I was actually worried for a minute. Fent addicts are so subdued from the opiates and don't usually get violent. I feel much safer anytime I've had to interact with them.
Sad seeing so many cities and Americans in this state. You're hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't have a family member, friend or co-workers who's an addict.
Yeah i had a neighbor with a meth addiction and his eyes were always bugged, he spoke loud, he spoke fast, and he got all up in your personal space when he spoke to you. I had to constantly tell him to back up. He was intense. And was bipolar on top of all this. I once witness the police come take him away to the hospital because he was walking around the apartment building with a knife thinking people were hiding in his apartment.
No drug addiction is better than the other
I done meth a couple times is all, I definitely felt on edge and unpredictable and hella paranoid after not sleeping. It's a recipe for disaster. Luckily I only did it the two times and learned.
Lmao poon most tweakers are really 14 year Olds in an adults body they're mostly harmless...
@@belindafigueroa9436meth is definitely among the worst.Cant compare weed or other psychedelics to fuckin meth lmao
Just watched a doc on Tranq (Philly Streets by Channel 5) and it's crazy to see it slowly make its way to Detroit - this drug is scaryyyy
You gotta think about how quick when it hits the streets it gets taken right up there.
it’s a problem here in nashville too 💔 we don’t have many trap houses like these because of the lack of housing here, but you see so many addicts at bus stop and apartment complexes, it’s heartbreaking
Its a problem here in Connecticut too bro
The dude driving around with you is the worst of them all
Yeah he was a scum bag the way he treated the old guy was bang outta order
He is probably the dealer.
@jackwalker7782 yeah no doubt.
@@jackwalker7782you should have been a goddamn detective
Yes but he has to be like that or they take advantage of him. And it takes a cold ruthless person to do the job he does.
Notice he didn't say that he was innocent but that he had beat the charges.....
Ofcourse, they would take ur last dollar to get high
my mom was born and raised in detroit. she moved out into the metro area because of the danger. sad to see a city go so south so fast.
Your escort shaking down the old man was wild? He said he wasn’t going to get too wild and immediately proceeded to getting wild. 😂
🤣🤣🤣 fr I know they instantly got nervous‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ I did
Strong arm robbery what that was
playing with my money is like playing with my emotions
- Big Worm
@@Bonzu_PippinpaddleopsicopolisI’m saying!🤣 I do have empathy for him but they’re acting like Unc didn’t smoke that money down in the form of a rock knowing he had to pay it back
@@_WOR your girls ?? I can only assume that passive aggressive dig really meant “I have a little pecker and an even smaller mind so let me find something to boost my ego.. oh yeah the most simple ignorant route I could take, racism!! Blah blah blah *racist shit spew* I can’t keep a woman why do you have one 😡” eat a frank
“What do you mean living like this? My room is right there “
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Literally broke my heart
Lol that's me. I couldn't care less about having material possessions or high living standards. Anyone can be a system slave, it takes a real heart to be a bum 😂
Lol he was shook.. knew he said something stupid
I used for 10 year and I've meet people plenty of people like that dude ( not that I was or am better than him) people like that love living like that... They want to live like that... They don't want no help...
This dude I used to work with was a meth head. Anytime I would say something disgusted me he would fire back with no hesitation,”You sound like you never been on meth before.” The stories he had made me amazed he was still alive. Stay away from that shit at all costs 🙏🏼
not just detroit, across the river in windsor ON its absolutely terrible.
"Im not like all these other girls out here."
what the biggest lie starts with
@@zen7349 there billions of females on this earth, so you know every one of them?
no but the ratio good girls to bad girls is sad i dont want a girl with 40 bodies when i got under 5@@pyramidhead138
@zen7349 I've never said that in my 42 years of life, and I've never heard any of my female friends say that either.
That's what I thought I stay home and get high I work and I sniff drugs and never use needles and I don't trick, but I was still a Junkie and I thank God for my sobriety and I don't know how long I been clean but it's been at least 3 years 😂
@@DawnRoache-y9n ive never done drugs
Being born and raised in Detroit i can admit there is definitely a problem far as drugs are concerned but detroit is and always has been a wonderful place. Being from the city i can honestly say we appreciate the city for way more things than what outsiders view us as......the motor city! Its great ppl here who genuinely do care to change things.
I live in Brazil, in a big city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, and I watched these videos of the Detroit suburbs, I started to notice how beautiful the nature of this place is, with very tree-lined streets, land with varied plants, wide avenues and without tall buildings blocking the sky and polluting the view. I imagine that if it weren't for all these drug and violence problems, this place would be a very pleasant place to live.
i agree im from ontario and love detroit
Yeah, no. I’ve lived in the metro Detroit area my whole life, worked downtown for years. It is not a nice place and it is not safe. Anyone trying to say it’s changing is kidding themselves.
@@daniellepolselli7153 the nature of the place looks beautiful, and the architectural style and the avenues. But in the social context, things are ugly. Here in Brazil, even the urban architecture style is ugly.
@daniellepolselli7153 you can't say that. Change sometimes takes time. And you don't know what a lot of people in the City and suburbs are hoping and doing for the city!!
Great channel ! Thank you for bringing a voice to the voiceless
This is heart breaking but also kind of paints Detroit as a whole in a negative way. Detroit has a rather large city limit compared to other similar metropolitan areas. The downtown area is nothing like this, but the further you go into the outskirts towards abandoned housing you will find this. I doubt it is any different than any other major cities.
It's just as big as Dallas in land size. Just abandoned and the city can't make the tax money, so they tax us in the suburbs to death.....
Its showing you the truth. It's not painting it In a certain way.
Bro, u literally went 1 block east or west of Woodward and it was straight up death. Has gotten better the past 10 years with the build up of downtown. But Mann it's still not good at all. U make it just past the new gated neighborhoods and it's still the same old Detroit man.
Life is what you make it, you gotta want to do better and want help to get better. Addiction is sad but real.
Fentanyl is everywhere. It is in pills like Xanax. They are paint all colorful to pills to attract children. Who cares how it makes Detroit look like.
I pray for their healing 🙏🏽
I live in SW Detroit,in a bando,and I'm an addict myself. This is a pretty accurate depiction,of what life looks like in Detroit. I go to the methadone clinic,over on the west side, bc if I have a relapse, fentanyl will most likely be my demise,without the safety net of a tolerance from the methadone. All my friends are dead,or in prison. It's a sad epidemic.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I hope you don’t relapse
Your bando has wifi?
@@BigJo-xv1et yes, we connect to the house across the street,and we have electricity too. Gas got stopped,bc there was a gas leak,and consumers shut it off and this house doesn't have a meter. We make do,with space heaters for heat,but those days we had that cyclone weather,it dropped to freezing in here and we literally almost froze to death,bc space heaters only do so much, especially when you got a lot of wattage that will trip the circuit breaker. This house has had its advantages and disadvantages,when we came to clean it up after two guys od'ed from tainted crack on Valentine's day,it was so nasty,I cried. So it took us two weeks, every day cleaning,to get it to where we could live in it. We live in Delray,and Delray is very rich in a historical aspect,there's a documentary about our neighborhood on YT. We live where they're building the Gordie howe bridge,so the City of Detroit is paying special attention to the infrastructure,and the demolition of all the bando houses,that became vacant and eye sores. They tried to get people to move from Delray,so they could put a park here,so they told residents that they would hook them up with a relocation house if they moved. Well,it made a lot of folks mad,bc the area they wanted to relocate these families ended up being the east side and if you know anything about Detroit,you know about the struggles of the east side. It indeed shares most heart ache,but is more dangerous of a place IMO. Bad things happened to me there,and I don't recommend walking alone if you're a female. I'm not even into prostitution,never was,never will,and it's what dudes think when they see a female walking up and down a place that's known as a "hoe stroll" I was a bit naive,back in the day,bc I was young,and stupid,those drugs made me invincible. My husband and I fell on hard times during COVID,and we used to own our last house which ironically right around the corner from where we are now. We lost our home to foreclosure,due to non payment of back taxes. We had nowhere to go,so we had a friend in the neighborhood of Delray,that let us stay in the house,that his two drug dealing friends were murdered in. That's another thing that happens a lot out here. If someone knows that you have no opiate tolerance,and they have beef with you or you just have something they want,and your an addict??? They will poison your crack cocaine with fentanyl,and get away with murder!,ng you,bc the police think that it's an accidental drug overdose. Imagine smoking crack/cocaine for 30 something yrs,and one day you get a bad hit,and die,and your roommate follows suit,a few hours later,and he dies. No coincidence,they were fighting over territory,and guess what?! Neither one got to trap out of here. It took us awhile to get it from a smoke house, to a property that was cleaner, and rid of all the users and abusers. We keep our circle small over here. Smaller the circle,less attention being drawn here,and .not going to jail for running no drug house!!!! Never again will I reaffend,and catch a case. I've haven't gotten arrested for anything new in 16 yrs,and I intend to keep it that way. We do recover and it is most definitely possible,even in a bando....
@b_m-gt5ze methadone makes your tolerance for fet higher ?
@@loganhullender2257 yes.
This isn't something that's staying down in Detroit either its taking a major toll on the small towns and villages of Northern Michigan as well. It's a sad situation and I pray for all those battling addiction, as well as for their families.
I'm from Brighton, MI,and it's a small,very independently wealthy city,with a big time hard drug problem. Lost so many friends from there,it's ridiculous. It's not just an inner city problem,that's for sure.
Drugs have infested the entire country, rural to urban, rich to poor. Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s there. We’ve got to do something about this, or we’re not going to have much of a country left very soon.
Im an addict from northern Michigan the traverse city area the last like 5 years have gotten so bad with drugs it is ruining such a beautiful place the homeless camps popping up everywhere
@@KortlandWilson yeah I'm south of traverse in benzie county I hear ya it's sad
Most of these addicts are from small towns and white suburban areas. They came to Detroit with their addictions. Detroit is just more accessible to get the drugs they were already on. Detroit didnt turn them into drug addicts.
This is a powerful documentary…
Damn I feel for these people, I’m from the UK like the presenter and trust me there’s parts in the country especially the north where addiction and urban decay is almost as rampant as this part of Detroit. Once had a promising career and good friends but I threw it all down the drain to keep getting high… the further you go down the drug road, the harder it is to get off it. I’ve been on methadone and clean off heroin for about a year now. Today I moved back in with my parents and left the sin city where my worst addictions started, seeing this video made me realise how lucky I am… I mean it does take a lot of willpower to get off heroin injections but when you have no family to go back to it’s just sad any way you look at it. I’m about to start tapering down the methadone and be free of all crutches maybe in time for my 30th birthday. I hope to find success again and help, motivate and inspire people like me and those in this video… I had collapsed veins in both arms and radial nerve palsy rendering both my hands useless for 6 months after I quit but somehow by the grace of god I’m back in working order and hope to see former addicts do the same.
This is truly heartbreaking, I hope they can all find the help they truly need.
But we all know that it's not going to happen.
They don't want to change
Where do they get their money
Yup. Stronger drugs
They love that life style they will never change
I feel bad for that poor sick old man ☹️
me too. the guy in the passenger seat is extremely obnoxious and trying to act tough for the camera and the youtuber. he has no sympathy
@@mo777- dont play with peoples money and there wont be problems
@@haki4066 ofc bums like you care abt loosing pocket change to a old man who can’t even take care of himself. either way his approach was disrespectful
Whats with the user name?
@@mo777-that was a dealer my man. , Of course he gonna catch up his money.
Sad to see, i grew up in detroit right in these neighborhoods. Was homeless living off the streets after my dad killed himself and ended up addicted myself. I will say the majority of these people dont aim to be addicts/fentanyl addicts. At least half these people think they're buying other substances, not knowing they're cut with fentanyl. By then its too late. They're either dead or so addicted they
Need medical assistance in order to detox. Even after a couple of days of using you’ll still go through the worst most painful detox you can imagine in your life. Some of the scariest streets to try and survive on.
well done. thanks for posting. very interesting
As a x heroin and metherdon aditct of 33 years wen your stuck in that trap its so hard to get out no body wants to be this way dont juge i only got out couse i started again in a nouver place im now over 2 year clean i trewly hope even on no all of these young people can sourt thir lives out ❤.
Stay in school! Hardly made it through your comment....
@@janine5540 thank you to be honest i wished i had and betterd my self im dislexic can you understand me now all the best
Jesus CHRIST, 33 years an addict means you're probably in your 50s or more, and you can hardly form a sentence let alone spell EXTREMELY basic words, and I mean EXTREEEEEMELY simple words. Fucking sad. Wow. I mean you can't even spell the drug you are addicted to?? "Metherdon" LOL it's called "Methadone"
@@janine5540 He'd be in his 50s at least and look at the grammar and literacy skills..... MIND blowing to observe.
There a real problem here in Detroit you bearly even started to tuch the the start of the issues here
From the comment section it seems like all the good ones got out
Most of these addicts are from small towns and white suburban areas. They came to Detroit with their addictions. Detroit is just more accessible to get the drugs they were already on. Detroit didnt turn them into drug addicts.
And this is why I never judge nor disrespect addicts. They deserve love, respect, and chances.
nice words x
I’m a recovering heroin addict from Cincinnati n Thank God I’ve been clean since September 4th 2014 n got out before all this shit there is now.
Hope all them lost souls in this video get the opportunity n support they need too get out.
don't watch or pay attention to any of this SHIT! bro stay clear & clean 🤙🏻
I did the same brother got on h for awhile but ended up realizing this isn’t life and got out before all this new shit thank god I’ve been clean for 13 yrs now and never planning on looking back
I was a heroin addict 18 hears ago. The crap drugs out there now are insane. Rotting flesh and shit. It makes old school H look like vitamins lol
I'm 34, From Cincinnati Ohio, Westside first 30 years of my life. i'm Living in Covington now. been on opiates for over 12 years now. Almost all the male friends i had growing up are dead, mostly from overdose or suicide because they got tired of living that life withdrawing everyday before you even wake up... Fentanyl is not euphoric like heroin was and doesnt last long at all, NO LEGS. and now, even the street fentanyl is bad, theyre putting stuff like xylazine and benzos and who knows what else in it, nasty stuff. if it dont kill you from a OD its def gonna kill you slowly from insde out. Not like it was 15 years ago when people could use all day everyday and not have any health issues, this stuff is literally POISON. like, at least heroin was once used for human consumtion, this new dirty crap isnt even for animals to use everyday. people having their kidneys failing, livers all messed up, people with permanent irregular heart beats, its crazy, infections from the dope and im not talking just shooters, even people snorting or eating it getting infections these days... i just cant get over these dam withdrawls, havent been "high" in years. Today is 11/20/2024. I Started on Vicodin, and hydrocodone syrups, then to Opana 40's (Oxymorphone), then to Oxycontin 80's, then to heroin when the government took the pills away, then to Fentanyl when the government withdrew from the middle east. FENTANYL is NOT euphoric at all.!!! at least not anymore, i do it everyday and haven't "felt" it in years. only time i feel it is when it wears off, terrible withdrawals. other opiates are way more euphonic than fentanyl, heroin, oxymorphone etc, even hydrocodone syrup is more euphonic. fentanyl literally just gets folks well, unless your tolerance is non existent or low. i didn't sleep for 17 days last time i tried to quit, had two seizures, became severely dehydrated, heart went into hypertensive crisis, i was just as sick on day 18 as day 5, seconds feel like hours and your constantly sick, sweaty, restless , in pain, sneezing , snotty, feelings like your choking on something, hot flashes cold chills, joint pain, muscle cramps/ spasms, seizures, puking etc. withdrawal sucks, just thinking about it makes me feel it, and i just snorted a half gram this morning. AT one point i was doing 3.5 grams every 48 hrs and eating 1,800 mgs of morphine a day. It sucks having to spend $100 a day to "get well", everyday for the past decade, o well. this is my life...
Im seven months clean off fentanyl 😢 i pray they all find their way ❤
How horrid that one young guy began three years ago because of a tragedy in his life. Our society has created these people. Our system of materialism and valuing only money and not human beings and animals , is disgusting. So many fall aside the way with capitalism because not everyone has their health or mental health to work . I've been chronically sick many years and my pain untreated cuz I'm poor...if not for having my kids to care for, I could have gone that way too.
As a student of Wayne State (the university in the heart of Detroit), I’m trying to my best to inform other students about the fentanyl problem in the area. My significant other is from Flint and just got clean from fentanyl just this year, so this hits home. You’d be surprised how many students in my public health classes and pre-med students have a severe lack of knowledge about this epidemic. In general people are not too informed about the nature of addiction even with all the information out there because they choose to look away. If anyone knows any harm reduction work to do in Detroit let me know.
I graduated from their pharmacy school and there was research going on about drug use and abuse so it does exist.
Also, Wayne has a program that helped put narcan vending machines all around Wayne County in 2022! I wasn't involved in that program personally but I believe it was a program with Wayne's school of Social Work so you could find more information there!
@@Krystal_latsyrK that’s really awesome they did that! I was unaware so thank you for informing me. My best friend who goes to Wayne is in the school of social work and it seems more students in that field are aware of addiction and less judgmental about it. When addiction/substance use disorders would come up in my public health classes, I noticed a lot of pre-med students would question “why don’t they just do x, y, and .?” Or “just stop” and simplifying addiction. They were very unaware how complex it is and the barriers people sometimes have to overcome to get clean!
@breakerofstrings is in recovery from this lifestyle and she does harm reduction in Detroit.
@@withloveandsqualor right, also quiting this stuff can be dangerous. last time i tried quitting street fentanyl, back in 2019, i didnt sleep for 17 nights, i was just even sicker on day 18 than i was on day 5, i became severly dehydrated, i had two minor seizures and my heart went into hypertensive crisis for DAYS, i thought i was literally going to die. People who havent been through it or who dont know anyone personally thats been through it usually do say some stupid stuff like, JUST DONT DO IT THEN. they have no idea and many folks have small closed minds, they cant fathom things they havent experienced themselves. theres people like that all over the internet esp, if they havent seen it r done it or whatever, then it isnt true. Lames if tou ask me. Hopefully lives stay so simple for them
I feel sorry for people living like this, I been there before thankfully got through the low lows that came with it.
I managed to get clean for the last six years but seeing this broke my heart. I can't stop thinking about where my younger brother is. Im from NY and he has been missing on the streets of Los Angeles for the last two years. I pray for all addicts to find the strength to make it.
It reminds me of my hometown Rutland VT. People here are overdosing on fentanyl on purpose. Lots of cities are like that nowadays. It’s truly depressing and hopeless.
This is my city....so humiliating....Even more, it shows the world how messed up America is....
5:30 what he’s now forced to go through, like millions of others, is one of the lowest forms of of living life and I lived the heroin life for a full decade. Got on methadone 7 years ago and I’m just starting the hard part of the weening down process. I’m at 9 mgs… the withdrawal process is harder than heroin to deal with and it was presented to the public as a “miracle drug.” Just like how they did when they introduced oxy’s. But because no one who hasn’t ever dealt with withdrawal, could ever imagine the pain you must endure to get off of it. That’s why people come to grips with their situation and they know the type of life they have ahead of ‘em. Less than 10% of those who are on methadone, ever get off it. Some people have withdrawals for months, some have singed the nerve endings right off… meaning they’ll withdrawal for the rest of their life without an opiate. This is where people should start awakening, but the drug enslaves their every thought. The ones who made this drug, but packaged it in the way they have, deserve to be locked up every time they reincarnate.
This is some propaganda bullshit. Methadone has saved a lot of folks. I'm sorry that you are struggling though. However, those stats are f()cked and there is no evidence of methodone induced singed nerves. Damage to the nervous system has only been noted in people with pre-existing conditions involving the spinal column so its impossible to conclude that methadone was the causing factor. Again, I hope u are doing better in your mental and body now.
I literally used to live there with several of those people... Don't miss that at all..
You good now? I mean as in clean and living better?
I understand addiction as it has ravaged through my family. However, when your life is spent doing anything to be able to get your next dose and it being the last thing you think about before you fall asleep and the first thing you think about when you wake up while living in a vacant house with other addicts and having no money and no clothes and nothing to your name and absolutely nothing to do with your own kids…you really need to take a long look in the mirror and demand a change in your life. This fentanyl crap…you can literally drop a tiny piece on your shirt or on your dollar bills and it land on a gas station counter and someone can touch it and next thing you know you just killed somebody possibly a child. Fentanyl makes heroin look like caffeine. Nobody is forcing you to do this and the only person who is making you do this is YOU and only YOU can’t stop. Your body is your temple and you only have one life. Please, if you’re an addict, get help get well and get your life back together. Stop ruining your only chance on this beautiful Earth and stop hurting others that love you and that really need you..
8 years ago I got off the streets of Detroit. Ive been clean ever since. Detroit is a dangerous place. The police are also criminals. So glad I made it out, most don't.
So sad, I pray for all of you.
It breaks my heart watching people go through life like this. I know because I wasted the best years of my life using heroin n crack, lost everything relationship house car and job. Now im 2 years drug free it hurt me seeing my fellow people struggling
I’ve spent so many years in my addiction just roaming those streets getting demos from every dealer I could. Going on 6 years clean now. Literally was spending 150-200 on boy and girl everyday! I really hope tranq hasn’t made its way to my streets.
Congratulations on your 6 years clean 👏👊
I live in detroit in 7 mile and this was unwatchable to me because of all my friends I have lost due to drugs
I don’t know anyone who would randomly open up and be so vulnerable with a complete stranger, let alone on camera. So many addicts just need someone to talk to and help them feel human again. This was done is such a tasteful way and didn’t feel exploitative at all. I hope they all can change their lives. I’ve got 16 years sober. Times have changed so much. The stuff out there today is so much more dangerous. We need to address mental health and addiction more in the US. Talking about it has gotten better but we need more action, like mental hospitals opening again, without all the torture this time though.
Aaron, if you’re gonna be going to places like Detroit talking to people the way you do, you NEED to be carrying. Detroit, Flint, and Pontiac peeps aren’t afraid to fuck someone up in a split second. Gotta be safe, man.
These are drug addicts, not gang members.
Bruh, the gangs don’t like you doing this kind of stuff out here, and the guy looks weak, he’s a target.
@@covenleaderizzy he's not in their game. People aren't trying to kill others for no reason.
Oh, hun, that’s not how the hood works.
@@covenleaderizzy you might be surprised
I pray that everyone in this vid gets clean. This isn’t the way to live.
I don't do anything under a 100 but sometimes 60.. this shit sad I lost my sister 4/5/21 to a OD. I wish I could change the lives of addicts.. by the time we finished this episode 100 people would have OD'ed and passed on.
you cant change anyone. stop whining. and do something or just shutup.
I'm so sorry about your sister.
Every 11 minutes rip
@@CallMeSteve88 it was almost 14 an hour in 2021. But think how many people actually OD and don't die. That's a number that would be something never known.
These questions are the real questions being asked, love your channel man.
in the 90s the drug houses were nicer wtf thats a serious statement , this city is so far gone its unfixable
The problem is all over,the big cities get hit the worst.I live in Btitish Columbia,which most people consider a very "clean" province.But if you go to the bigger centers like Vancouver,Kamloops,Kelowna,Vernon,Penticton.The last places have populations under 200,000,that includes outskirt areas.Needles all over in certain areas.I hope they get some help.
This is so sad and hard to watch :(
I grew up in Centerline, MI. Took that trip to 7 mile a few times. My heart goes out to those who told their story. After I got sober, I got involved in working with young women in prison. These people in video and off are incredibly intelligent people. That's why I go to help. There is hope. Much love and light to Detrot❤
Powerful documentary! Very insightful!
Thanks for sharing!
The guy filming is putting himself in real danger, I hope he stays protected from above or whatever they call that. I will say it's not wise to stand in front of the flying cannonball so he should be very careful. As far as the story he brings, he needs to take the footage to Congress and they need to do something about helping all of these addicts, there aren't enough treatment centers and they know it.
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It's so heartbreaking.
These people enjoy this life it's is very sad.
Zack reminds me of a friend of mine...he's a Doctor by now and studied pharmacy with me.
The guy man at the minute 12:38 is much better looking, cleaner and well spoken than many "respectable regular" ones I meet every day at work.
To think real American families once lived in these now rotted-out houses. So sad and so pathetic.
“Death is cheap, death is 10 dollars” that hit different
I’m so glad that me and none of my family ever went down a road of addiction I guess we never saw a need!
This Breaks me , I’m a addict in the uk and I’ve never seen anything this Bad
It really is this bad in America, all over. I live under Michigan and it’s just as bad.
It’s all the fentanyl and tranq.
I love these kind of videos as they make me super grateful and humble. I hope and pray all the addicts can recover and get better someday 🙏 It just goes to show, your life can change within a split second.
11:09 you a real one shaking down a crippled old man. Man, what a cool guy you are.
Tough video to watch, but good reporting though. Hopefully this sheds light on how bad the addiction crisis could get and encourages others to not use drugs.
And the part where the old man was being shook down was disgusting. No one deserves to be treated in that manner.
"i heard 7 mile is really dangerous" 🤦🏽♂️
just think 50 yrs ago this was a nice community
I left Detroit, MI in 1978, I was 16 years old, I've looked at my old neighborhoods, on Google maps, Glazer Elementary School, is still there, Chesterfield Market, was demolished a few years ago, Fred's Party Store., long gone, Longfellow Jr Highschool, Mc Kenzie Highschool, demolished , Munger Highschool ⁉️. Kelsey Hayes Plant.... White Castle Hamburger's, on Livernois and Warren , just closed ☹️...
will visit this coming 2024..
Exactly and it has been under Democrat Rule ever since the 60's. I was born in 66 lived on Eastwood 1 street south of 7 and Gratiot. It was NICE ! 7 and Gratiot was a Shopping Meca . Chatham , Great Scott, Farmer Jack, Sears, Federals , Montgomery Ward, you name it it was there 7 to 6 mile. A few years ago went by the street Eastwood and there isn't one house on that entire street. 😢😢😢
yeah u can see from the houses and yards they were great homes once....it happens in all cities.....like south central LA etc.....i do know that democrats can not run cities.....have GOP city leadership and leave the democrats in DC....
Democrats destroyed this city, yet they still vote for the slave party....crazy
@@wirelessuser4943did Democrats stop y'all from buying American cars and destroying the motor industry that Detroit was founded on?
I worked down here as a construction inspector. So scary especially as a woman! Happy to work in an office now
I have a little over 2 years sober and I know this life all to well, thank GOD I made it out 🙏🙏🙏 praying for these people as well, if anyone is thinking about getting help PLEASE do it !!! You are worth it and it is so worth it 🫶
Crazy what happened to Detroit. My aunt used to live there many years ago and the area was a normal working middle class area. Sad to see.
Most of these addicts are from small towns and white suburban areas. They came to Detroit with their addictions. Detroit is just more accessible to get the drugs they were already on. Detroit didnt turn them into drug addicts.
He counted 73 times. Ok...
Meth does strange things and when you cant hit a vein there is so much time
I mean, as a recovering addict there were times when I was using that I could poke myself upwards of 40 times before finding a vein, so I doubt he’s far off… especially if shooting meth/coke as it’s super hard on the veins. I’m just endlessly grateful I made it out alive & made it out before fentanyl & meth really exploded in my area. If I was still using with fentanyl around? The way I use? I’d definitely be dead. 7.5 years clean thank god.
It sounded like he was proud about it which was weird
Sometimes it takes me 45 minutes to an hour to find a vein.been on fetty so long my veins are pretty much gone..fuck sake I straight up got track marks in places I've never even been able to hit. If I tried to count the pokes til I found one id lose my fuckin shit!
he coulda just counted all the puncture holes on his arm obviously lolll.. not counting each try 😂😂
They’re taking that old man’s money straight from his card?!? Where is his family? 😢
That’s what I was thinking how sad
Why did he agree & say it’s nothing like that in London & guns aren’t allowed!? Sir, you must be extremely sheltered cuz the UK has very much slums, drugs & guns over there. Smh that was awkward
Prayers from Flint mi. Live in flint work in Detroit. This is all over. Good people, wrong paths. Hope they all overcome addiction and get to enjoy life before it’s too late.
Our drug problem is real, real bad, real sad, real mad
I pray all these beautiful people find their way. It’s so hard. I know. I live in Saginaw just a little bit from here and it’s just as bad here. I’m praying for yall ❤ The xylazine is here and it’s killing us, please don’t stop trying to get clean and if you are using please use safely ❤️
In the uk we haven’t even had fentanyl yet let alone xylazine. It’s just brown, rubbish crack and fake Valium. We don’t get stuff from Mexico I guess that’s why. You guys have a really bad drug problem unfortunately.
@@DanChad-er9lh we do have a horrible problem here. I got clean and have stayed clean for almost 2 years now thank god 😢 I am so scared for those still fighting this epidemic 😞 Pray for the ones fighting and those not here anymore 🙏🏻
Good shit Aaron. No fear, asking the questions that we want to know the answers to.
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Alot of people in Michigan live like this, drug addicts or not, I've never seen so many people living like this as I do here in Michigan
I’m at 11 minutes in the video and the fact that he stopped a man that was literally wearing a breathing machine and so he just got out the hospital and it just felt like he was attacking him no remorse no sympathy just straight savage. It’s sad to watch and this is my people African-Americans. It’s terrible.
Oh man, somehow Zack especially broke my heart. He seems like such a bright and good-natured kid. Like the kind of guy I’d have been friends with in college. I really hope he gets clean and back to his dreams.
God bless you all and please get help you can do it 🙏🙏🙏
10:34 Holy crap! I know that black dude!! I was a Detroit cop back in the early 2000’s. I’d run into him from time to time at the KFC on Mack and Gratiot next to Faygo. He was such a good dude. He looks EXACTLY the same as he did way back then. 😂. And this young “tough” guy picking on this old man. Let me catch him doing that.
My wife was put on large infusion doses of Fentanyl for pain re lief after a high speed MVA, she was nearly killed with multiple broken bones, internal injuries and a severe brain trauma not to mention a broken neck and associated paralysis.
The worst memory of her hospitalisation was horrific hallucinations from Fentanyl, for the life of her she cant understand how prople get addicted to the gloop
Been really good watching you over the years John, thanks for sharing your journey.
Just say no, don't use or die! Live better or do WORSE!😢