Funding Cartels: Why America Is Losing the Fentanyl Fight | CBS Reports

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2023
  • Amid a deadly fentanyl crisis and a U.S. government campaign to crack down on supply chains, CBS Reports goes into a cartel stronghold in Mexico to uncover what’s behind the surge in fentanyl trafficking and why America is failing to stop it. Watch more CBS Reports documentaries that dive into the key issues driving the national and global conversation at cbsnews.com/cbs-reports.
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  • @beverlygarten-johnson2744
    @beverlygarten-johnson2744 8 месяцев назад +348

    My daughter died from fentanyl overdose October 2022. I still can't go to her grave. Something has got to be done. I don't want anyone to feel this pain.

    • @jimmydean358
      @jimmydean358 8 месяцев назад +16

      I'm sorry for your lose my friend died by a heroin overdose.

    • @jimmydean358
      @jimmydean358 8 месяцев назад +4

      loss

    • @bcole4156
      @bcole4156 8 месяцев назад +4

      Im very sorry to hear that and I feel your pain because I have a niece I could imagine a daughter

    • @stevec310
      @stevec310 8 месяцев назад +20

      I lost my bro to the blue 30 fakes . I was addicted for a few years myself . I personally had to go to jail, treatment, and AA to overcome.

    • @user-qn7rg8ky4u
      @user-qn7rg8ky4u 8 месяцев назад

      She probably did not know it had fentanyl in it and 'every' dose of fentanyl is an overdose - takes only a spec. I'm so sorry other countries sump that crap here for free. It's warfare and she's victim.

  •  8 месяцев назад +144

    Would be best to equally put the spotlight on the US Pharmaceutical Cartel too.

    • @antoniobanderas9769
      @antoniobanderas9769 8 месяцев назад

      😢I remember in the 90’s my neighbor got an accident and surgery, then the doctors 🥼 prescribed fentanyl patches & some kind of cream and oxycodone pills and less of 2 years ,he was hooked and reselling the pills 😢 and wife too.

    • @lorenzo2534
      @lorenzo2534 8 месяцев назад +21

      EXACTLY 💯. DOUBLE STANDARDS OF AMERICA

    • @neal.karn-jones
      @neal.karn-jones 8 месяцев назад +17

      And the Chinese supplying the fentanyl.

    • @anthonydanaher2146
      @anthonydanaher2146 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@neal.karn-jones not supplying only but showing cartels how to make it in the lab out of the raw chemicals so there independent and ccp has deniability

    • @neal.karn-jones
      @neal.karn-jones 8 месяцев назад +1

      "According to the DEA and the justice department, since at least 2019 the bulk of the illegal fentanyl entering the US has been produced in Mexico using Chinese precursor chemicals." Article in the Guardian May 2023@@anthonydanaher2146

  • @DonnHowes
    @DonnHowes 5 месяцев назад +96

    I could remember several years ago, fentanyl addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 2 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

    • @NicoleCtirad
      @NicoleCtirad 5 месяцев назад +2

      they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here. and mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on this planet i wish people would all realize. they could solve a lot of problems, more than just mental treatments, environmental clean up; the possibilities are endless with fungus.

    • @Bastianbishops
      @Bastianbishops 5 месяцев назад

      Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with mdd, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Greece. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.

    • @SusanaGomez-mp8sk
      @SusanaGomez-mp8sk 5 месяцев назад +4

      Yes very sure of Dr.benshrooms.

    • @BrownGeorge-pw2xo
      @BrownGeorge-pw2xo 5 месяцев назад

      I'm really happy for you that your wife decided to help you...I hear about alot of family members or so called friends shutting an addict out of their life, which since most addicts do it to mask emotions to me is the worse thing someone can do to an addict.

    • @mattjeffery09
      @mattjeffery09 5 месяцев назад

      How do i reach out to him? Is he on Instagram

  • @jacobthompson6265
    @jacobthompson6265 8 месяцев назад +8

    My cousin passed away from fentanyl this year. It’s not worth it. Please get help.

  • @tortillero3138
    @tortillero3138 8 месяцев назад +80

    The problem is the United States appetite for drugs.

    • @lorenzo2534
      @lorenzo2534 8 месяцев назад +21

      Bingo. They can't admit that though. Gotta save face. 😢😮

    • @leav388
      @leav388 8 месяцев назад +1

      No. The problem is the Mexican cartels. They deliberately create addiction..

    • @chichi3701
      @chichi3701 8 месяцев назад +1

      That's part of the equation. We demand the drugs and provide the weapons they use to maintain their control and terrorize locals. When that cartel general said he wasn't a terrorist, just a businessman, I laughed.

    • @lorenzo2534
      @lorenzo2534 8 месяцев назад +2

      @chichi3701 in Reality he's the one laughing but ok 👍 👌.

    • @chichi3701
      @chichi3701 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@lorenzo2534 Clearly he is. I laugh at his hypocrisy and he laughs because he doesn't care about the destruction he causes. So.....

  • @mrjuse5470
    @mrjuse5470 8 месяцев назад +211

    Big pharma started the current opioid epidemic with oxy. The same people who started this whole thing are still running the same companies and still contributing to the same politicians. Corporations run the US. Until this changes nothing will ever change. All politicians should have the same meager campaign budget provided by the government itself. No outside influence by corporations should be allowed and no outside donations of any kind. Even a small violation of these rules should be a minimum 7 year federal prison sentence. When common people from all financial backgrounds can realistically become senators and governors things will change. The people who currently hold these positions are almost always lawyers or super rich guys who are out of touch with the reality most people live in. Drugs are here to stay but we could do a way better job of cleaning up this mess and it starts with our elected officials.

    • @lorenzo2534
      @lorenzo2534 8 месяцев назад +10

      Thank you for sharing the Absolute truth About America 🇺🇸. Nobody speaks about this side of the addiction. Period

    • @JoseAvila4_20
      @JoseAvila4_20 8 месяцев назад

      Purdue farma to be exact.. they lied and said oxycodone would be a non addictive pain killer knowing damn well they were lying so they could be eligible for the 10 year no generic competition from other companies paid 650million dollar fine.. that was the punishment for this devastating opioid epidemic they started

    • @Floatup
      @Floatup 8 месяцев назад +9

      Crazy thing this isnt the first opioid epidemic society has dealt with before oxy it was heroin and before that it was opium that's why we should legalize all drugs because no matter how much laws you want to make people will still find a way to sell and buy what they want. If they legalized drugs and offered a safer alternative like controlled morphine people wouldn't be dying from fent

    • @dfoolz
      @dfoolz 8 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you, this is the correct response.

    • @JoseAvila4_20
      @JoseAvila4_20 8 месяцев назад

      As a matter a fact I dos everything I could to make her understand.. but I can promise you we already were talking about these same things but she's just getting más

  • @carlosa2995
    @carlosa2995 8 месяцев назад +89

    This issue is very complex. It seems to me that in large part the demand is due to a society decay. Also due to a failed health system. This documentary talks about the traffickers on the Mexican side, but it does not talk about the traffickers who distribute it within the United States from coast to coast.

    • @jonatand2045
      @jonatand2045 8 месяцев назад

      Also missing is how the failed war on drugs delivered the market to the cartels and marginalized communities.

    • @edwigcarol4888
      @edwigcarol4888 7 месяцев назад +2

      Demand due to society decay

    • @Allhoney33
      @Allhoney33 6 месяцев назад +3

      China

    • @Orto-jj2di
      @Orto-jj2di 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Allhoney33Chinese gangs more accurately

    • @kinichova
      @kinichova 5 месяцев назад +4

      You people need to step out of blaming the other, and address how many of your own are involved in this. That is a big step in making a change, is not just "the others" it is everyone of us.

  • @Deicide-xi5eo
    @Deicide-xi5eo 8 месяцев назад +20

    as long as there is a demand it will never stop.

  • @amsf1
    @amsf1 8 месяцев назад +497

    This will never stop. You have to have complicit partners on every level from the bottom to the top in every participating country. It is impossible to traffic drugs internationally without it. You can't ship metric tons without someone knowing.. And as long as the demand from here and the uk fuels it, the money will be too tempting and now more countries are involved. Such as China, India, and some places in Africa. It is truly a global enterprise.

    • @ChiefMiddleFinger
      @ChiefMiddleFinger 8 месяцев назад +29

      More top than bottom.

    • @Acidlib
      @Acidlib 8 месяцев назад +36

      Safe supply and lowering barriers of entry for maintenance therapies are the only way to combat this issue. You have to deal with the demand, if you don’t there will always be someone willing to supply it.

    • @stefanjohansson2373
      @stefanjohansson2373 8 месяцев назад +17

      The easy solution is to not use it. The failing parents are one part of the problem. My kids will never use or die of any drug because I have fulfilled my role and always been a role model. Junkies are losers.

    • @jimmyjones2901
      @jimmyjones2901 8 месяцев назад

      @@stefanjohansson2373as much as a parent tells their kid don’t try this, there will still be kids trying these lines at gatherings. Hopefully your lessons have embedded deep enough into their minds

    • @fairysnuff-000
      @fairysnuff-000 8 месяцев назад

      @@stefanjohansson2373junkies may well be ‘losers’… but be very careful about congratulating yourself on your parenting ‘preventing’ your children from becoming addicts or alcoholics….
      My mum and step dad were incredibly firm parents, my mum is religious, and my actual father was an alcoholic (I didn’t know my step father wasn’t my real dad until later on)
      In their minds, they did EVERYTHING they could to teach me the way to be a happy, successful adult
      I was pregnant at 17 and started using before I was pregnant and after I gave birth, now, at 53, I am 13 years sober ….
      My mum and s, dad thought the same as you, absolutely and completely.
      We never really, 100% know what our children will and will not do…
      I hope you are right, I hope you never have to see your kids in active addiction, but it is NEVER a given …..

  • @kamilkorus
    @kamilkorus 8 месяцев назад +19

    we have had 40 years and trillions of dollars to prove to ourselves that unless you address the underlying socioeconomic issues you will continue to lose the war on drugs and all you'll get in return is a police state.

  • @srami004
    @srami004 7 месяцев назад +8

    Corruption on both sides has to be a large part.

  • @jayisola6787
    @jayisola6787 7 месяцев назад +16

    So heartbreaking. It's not a Mexico problem. It's a huge problem within our own communities across anywhere USA. Heartbreaking!

    • @pedroparamo3090
      @pedroparamo3090 5 месяцев назад

      Wells Fargo Bank 🇺🇲💩🏦 lavando los millones de dólares 💵💵🖥️ del narco, la DEA 🇺🇸💩 y CIA 💩🇺🇸 dando protección.

    • @xmikex902x
      @xmikex902x 4 месяца назад +3

      It’s definitely ALSO a Mexico problem lol. It’s both.

    • @jackhanma8906
      @jackhanma8906 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@xmikex902xI am Mexican and I agree with you, it is a problem for both of us, and it also affects Mexican citizens, since crime is increasing as the cartels have more power And it brought economic income, and it affects innocent and hard-working Mexicans.

  • @edgarsahagun6976
    @edgarsahagun6976 8 месяцев назад +100

    You should do a story of how much money politicians have made off the drug war . And how the us helped the sinaloa cartel

    • @kommetkhan2979
      @kommetkhan2979 8 месяцев назад +12

      That part

    • @ZuzuPatriot
      @ZuzuPatriot 8 месяцев назад

      And Obama's Fast and Furious operation that allowed even more guns into Mexico

    • @zazasnruntz7505
      @zazasnruntz7505 8 месяцев назад +4

      Do a story on how people want to get high

  • @bradrook3919
    @bradrook3919 8 месяцев назад +73

    Forget the Drug Cartels...do a story on the Banking Cartel that named themselves the "Federal Reserve"...to look like they are a government agency

    • @Xyrozen
      @Xyrozen 8 месяцев назад

      Oy vey, reported for anti semitism

    • @bbnashae3639
      @bbnashae3639 8 месяцев назад +6

      Sts 💯💯💯

    • @stephenescamilla2129
      @stephenescamilla2129 8 месяцев назад +4

      Well said, federal reserve is a racket

    • @dorianvedrashko9172
      @dorianvedrashko9172 8 месяцев назад +3

      HSBC or HBC, most of the big banks launder their money. Cartels were originally a title for financial companies, especially banks.

    • @bradrook3919
      @bradrook3919 8 месяцев назад

      @@dorianvedrashko9172 The Creature from Jekyll Island... informative book

  • @emilyl6746
    @emilyl6746 8 месяцев назад +11

    We're losing the fight due to the lack of discipline and impulse control on this side. It's not hard to figure out.

    • @edwigcarol4888
      @edwigcarol4888 7 месяцев назад

      "Discipline" also called having "good routines" and a "structured day" in psychology develops during the upbringing
      This is acquired through social environment.
      "Discipline" can also be the result of your own ability to repress yourself. Now if you have only to repress some unpleasant memories, you can succeed. But say the traumatic memory surge is so intense, you get so miserable... do you lack "discipline" ?
      "Discipline" is so blurred as a word and helps only few.
      Or may be "discipline" referring to the "executive functioning" ? Calling it by its proper name helps people to find how they can learn its practice.
      If its refers to repression, then only clinical psychology can help or trauma therapy
      Sure it is nothing for helping against Fentanyl.
      Impulse control is a matter of neurotransmitters, the amount of stress experienced in childhood weakening the frontal cortex (stress is poison),
      the background activity of the brain (traumatic pressure)
      And the health of the autonomic nervous system, which depends directly from the care and love you got as a new born (myelination of the Vagus Nerve after birth)
      Impulse control does not drop from the sky...
      Will and cognition are massively overrated and work only a short time.
      Far more powerful practices are
      Awareness instead of will
      Selfcare instead of repression
      Deep understanding along its emotional dimension without judgement instead of cognition

    • @emilyl6746
      @emilyl6746 7 месяцев назад

      @@edwigcarol4888 great. Can you next explain to me how these traits factor into the end users of drugs, namely inhabitants of the First World versus those in the developing world?

  • @ChantalRussell
    @ChantalRussell 8 месяцев назад +4

    The only solution is to end the war on drugs.

  • @MrThejoshman
    @MrThejoshman 8 месяцев назад +167

    always amazes me how media houses can find the cartel but the police cant....

    • @michaelscottmorris
      @michaelscottmorris 8 месяцев назад +9

      🤣

    • @lsrose
      @lsrose 8 месяцев назад +18

      Interesting isn’t it?

    • @MightyR1000
      @MightyR1000 8 месяцев назад +8

      Let's us know who is helping this along.

    • @heidicat45
      @heidicat45 8 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@MightyR1000just who do you think?

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 8 месяцев назад +7

      @@heidicat45first of all, some of our Marines from 29 Palms/Camp Pendleton 😢

  • @thensaiswatchingtoo2977
    @thensaiswatchingtoo2977 8 месяцев назад +77

    The huge tomb mansions are insane. They are literally houses with electricity and A/C for a person in a casket.

    • @saudielbamber4227
      @saudielbamber4227 8 месяцев назад +8

      what lots of money and not enough brain cells from doing too much drugs does to somebody

    • @jamesgilbert91
      @jamesgilbert91 8 месяцев назад +4

      You mean "tiny homes" for the homeless to get high in?

    • @sasuarg
      @sasuarg 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@saudielbamber4227Sorry but most narcos in Mexico don't do drugs, they just sell it.

  • @user-mj9lq9vp3w
    @user-mj9lq9vp3w 7 месяцев назад +6

    Dude, they're out in the open across California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas and many other places. Unless the cops are legally blind, they don't even have to search. The cartels may as well have a giant sign saying "we are the cartels" with how damn bold they've been nowadays.

  • @majorphenom1
    @majorphenom1 8 месяцев назад +4

    Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
    Prayers out for those trying to recover from the passing of their loved ones 🕊️
    Prayers out for those caught in drug addiction🕊️
    Prayers out for those caught in the web of the cartels 🕊️

  • @ChiefMiddleFinger
    @ChiefMiddleFinger 8 месяцев назад +93

    You can’t lose a fight you’re not fighting. It’s being “allowed” to happen to further destroy the American culture.

    • @Erica-cf1xb
      @Erica-cf1xb 8 месяцев назад +13

      Bingo...Nobody wants to believe this part tho.

    • @pasofino9583
      @pasofino9583 8 месяцев назад +8

      That is your culture.

    • @X3AmySarah
      @X3AmySarah 8 месяцев назад +8

      @@pasofino9583no. It’s not. It’s the government, not the people.

    • @jacobblue1985
      @jacobblue1985 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@X3AmySarahbut we vote for those. From the sheriffs to the city council, to the mayors, to the governors. You can't vote corrupt politicians and say it's their fault. They're decriminalizing drugs AND crimes in major cities. These major cities are.... democratic. Just facts

    • @davidkavetsky2377
      @davidkavetsky2377 8 месяцев назад +4

      Wide open border

  • @Alpha_Troll
    @Alpha_Troll 8 месяцев назад +368

    I can’t believe American citizens still have a speck of confidence in their government.

    • @FREEEDDOOMM
      @FREEEDDOOMM 8 месяцев назад +1

      Only the sheep do. Those with brains that think and eyes that can see do not. Without a revolution soon with the spirit of 76 its only going to get worse. Then this once great country will die.

    • @PhilAndersonOutside
      @PhilAndersonOutside 8 месяцев назад

      People like the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, Cardinal Pharmaceutical own the government, or enough people in it across the board, at this point. The profits are simply too high to shut any of these sources down.

    • @fastcrxzc
      @fastcrxzc 8 месяцев назад +38

      Not all Americans do. I know I sure as hell don't!

    • @Phaybaby1
      @Phaybaby1 8 месяцев назад +18

      Not me!! They want to be the solution to problems they have had a hand in or created AHHHTTT AHHTTT HAVE A SEAT!!

    • @annemarie1507
      @annemarie1507 8 месяцев назад

      Your government isn't asking for and paying for the drugs. American citizens are. If they won't act responsibly, is their government supposed to force them to? That's called tyranny.

  • @andrzejcelinski1
    @andrzejcelinski1 8 месяцев назад +9

    The war on drugs does not work at all! Safe supply, decriminalization and harm reduction, that's where our efforts must turn. ❤

  • @AC-kf2ky
    @AC-kf2ky 7 месяцев назад +2

    The only way to win the war on drugs is to NOT abuse drugs. You play around with unregulated things and you risk your life. It’s not the government’s job to keep drug addicts alive.

  • @samanthasimental3788
    @samanthasimental3788 8 месяцев назад +71

    Im watching this on a week when a baby died and others survived in a daycare that hid fentanyl. Sad😢

    • @davidedi-osagie6806
      @davidedi-osagie6806 8 месяцев назад +2

      that whole story is heartbreaking, God bless those babies souls 🕊️

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 8 месяцев назад +62

    That upper-middle-class lady in Prescott, Arizona.... I lived in the Prescott area for some years and it's a very right-wing, very "ve ist der master race" and "gott mit uns" (god is with us) and yet, in that culture, taking opiates is normalized. To me it's inconceivable to be educated, middle-class, having a car when you're still a teen and doubtless having your pick of colleges, and buying pills off of the street. It just does not compute to me. I grew up in a predominately Asian culture and if you're doing well (or even if you're not) it's considered hugely shameful to be a drug addict. Huge shame, to oneself and to one's family. But that's not a thing in white American culture where "if it feels good, do it" and where taking opiates is not only normalized but considered adventurous and cool. This goes back many decades if not centuries. So it's no mystery that Americans, and disproportionately white Americans who are "nice middle-class people" as I see so often in these documentaries, are dying from opiates.

    • @adui_yako
      @adui_yako 8 месяцев назад

      It's also because in America, white people who break the law tend to fly under the radar for a while. Then when they OD everybody acts incredulous like they can't believe this person was doing drugs.

    • @Keepitkind7
      @Keepitkind7 8 месяцев назад +4

      She lives in Prescott...and like anywhere else, it sadly happens. Doesn't make Prescott bad; it's a wonderful city!

    • @jackiewoolard8998
      @jackiewoolard8998 8 месяцев назад +4

      How do you know she's upper middle class?

    • @shopsshire9282
      @shopsshire9282 8 месяцев назад +3

      That's our culture last few years there's actually some people white Americans me and cluded who actually believe in morals and positive shame

    • @TheNaturalebeauty
      @TheNaturalebeauty 8 месяцев назад

      Amen. You are right

  • @jordanedsill7900
    @jordanedsill7900 8 месяцев назад +8

    The producers have a small fault in this, majority of the problem is the buyer. If there are no customers, there is no business.
    You would think the US gov would put an end to this, especially how "powerful" they are, but they don't want to. There's too much money involved for them to care.

  • @dubinatub1
    @dubinatub1 7 месяцев назад +3

    Respect for the reporter and blessings to the mother, I know her pain

  • @cornell833
    @cornell833 8 месяцев назад +61

    Fentanyl took my Dad Which is Something I Have to Live with the rest of My Life 😢 Every life lost to Fentanyl is a tragedy 🙏 For Us all #Nebraska

    • @stevec310
      @stevec310 8 месяцев назад

      Got my bro to we from NE as well rip

    • @annagirlieee5290
      @annagirlieee5290 8 месяцев назад

      Sorry about your father. Fentanyl is different from all the other drugs. It is made by the Chinese government in massive quantities with the express purpose of damaging our country, the USA. It is very difficult synthesis that must be done in very advanced chemical/pharmaceutical laboratories. It is so hard that it disappeared from our streets during the 1980s amd early 1990s. It wasn’t seen at all for thirty years until around 2013-2014 when China decided that that would be another way to outcompete America. Essentially they are at war with us and we do nothing to fight back. They fight us by stealing our intellectual property, by expanding their military personnel and equipment, by counterfeiting our products, by purchasing American food producing companies to begin to control our food supplies, buy hacking and damaging our computer infrastructure, by spying, by manufacturing artificial islands and building and maintaining military bases in Strategic locations, and by building roads and hydroelectric dams in third world countries which fosters economic connections which helps China
      Influence these foreign governments and consequently can control them more easily. There are many other ways but they are very actively proceeding and they will not stop unless we force them to stop!

  • @lxmedianetwork2782
    @lxmedianetwork2782 8 месяцев назад +229

    This problem will never go away especially with SO MANY producers, enablers, dealers and buyers world wide. It’s truly sad.

    • @anon681
      @anon681 8 месяцев назад +6

      Open a methadone clinic brother

    • @primitxve8076
      @primitxve8076 8 месяцев назад +25

      There will always be a dealer and a user. The cycle is never ending. Humans can no longer cope with life sober

    • @zzzz-sf5lr
      @zzzz-sf5lr 8 месяцев назад +10

      The government needs to help these sick individuals. There is no hiding it. America is addicted to drugs that are extremely dangerous

    • @nickdotson21
      @nickdotson21 8 месяцев назад +10

      @@zzzz-sf5lrwhy not help yourself instead of goin to gov. That’s something people need to fix themselves

    • @izdotcarter
      @izdotcarter 8 месяцев назад +4

      AA aside, Al-anon is an excellent program for the families affected by addiction.

  • @ReinhardtMiller
    @ReinhardtMiller 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the information.

  • @bigtimepimpin666
    @bigtimepimpin666 8 месяцев назад +13

    I'll never understand why Americans have this enthusiasm for narcotics. I was scared to even use my pain opioids like Percocet and Oxys due to the risk of getting hooked. Which I never did. But most Americans do these dangerous narcotics just for recreation. WTF? How hard is it to just say no??!

    • @user-nw1lb1vy2q
      @user-nw1lb1vy2q 6 месяцев назад

      I think you should check your facts, recreation? How can you even measure that.

    • @anthonyhernandez3997
      @anthonyhernandez3997 3 месяца назад +1

      I agree with you comment. Just say no. Especially with the younger generation. They see everyone else do it so they start doing it. They don’t stop and think of the consequences of their actions

    • @brandonnilsson3
      @brandonnilsson3 3 месяца назад

      @@anthonyhernandez3997I’m 21 and I thought I was never ever going to be hooked on any drugs until I went to a university and no matter who I was meeting it seemed like everyone was on some sort of drugs. Even at parties you can see who is who and some of them have so many weapons and drugs that it’s scary. I don’t party anymore bc it’s just too much to see and you get exposed to so many things. I never thought I was going to be hooked on drugs and I ended up hooked on fentanyl laced percocets for a while. Luckily I was strong enough to get off of them but the damage was already done. Ik so many ppl my age including some friends who have overdosed on fentanyl laced drugs it’s sad

  • @gringoboy701
    @gringoboy701 8 месяцев назад +133

    If America actually cared about the issues causing people to abuse drugs, then we'd make a lot more traction than simply attempting to chase after the endless drugs day in and day out

    • @richardalexander1036
      @richardalexander1036 8 месяцев назад +15

      Precisely. Address the root causes and not just the consequences...

    • @guwopramirez
      @guwopramirez 8 месяцев назад

      It's a cycle ever single government either sends people to fight make a crisis ECT ..... and they all get money out of it at end it's cycle money gets clean citizens are worried taxs everything is a fraud

    • @guwopramirez
      @guwopramirez 8 месяцев назад

      Yes america profits from it . See a pot gold they'll dip there hand in it even cost lives.
      😊

    • @abdulrahmanraheem423
      @abdulrahmanraheem423 8 месяцев назад +9

      Exactly! There is a demand for it so the Mexicans are supplying it!

    • @wegrata
      @wegrata 8 месяцев назад +4

      Yup need to make sales and distribution of opioids, amphetamines , and coke a capital offense with a death sentence.

  • @bonimessner6360
    @bonimessner6360 8 месяцев назад +86

    Our Demand needs to be addressed

    • @bonimessner6360
      @bonimessner6360 8 месяцев назад +2

      Nothing warrants killing in the name of profit but it's a way of life and leisure and control for others that have no councious.

    • @leav388
      @leav388 8 месяцев назад +1

      Demand is based on the deliberately addictive drugs the cartels bring here. You have it backwards.

    • @neal.karn-jones
      @neal.karn-jones 8 месяцев назад

      Our borders need to be closed.

    • @dlife7427
      @dlife7427 8 месяцев назад +7

      Exactly, the country is at fault because they won't allow doctors to prescribe proper pharma pain killers.

    • @ryanblanchard2508
      @ryanblanchard2508 8 месяцев назад +1

      The ineptitude and outright criminal behavior by the Biden administration for not following federal law on illegal immigration needs to be addressed first. 🤡

  • @Polo22546
    @Polo22546 7 месяцев назад +2

    If the U.S. stopped buying drugs, what would happen to the cartel? The money would run out. Exactly!! Unfortunately, that’s a huge IF.

  • @truthhurts3524
    @truthhurts3524 8 месяцев назад +42

    Glad I got out before this fentanyl disaster. I would only use pills, which at the time I thought was better then a little baggie of random powder. Granted I only had two suppliers of the hydromorphone I was injecting, and they were elderly women that resorted to selling them to have extra income. Seeing these printed pills laced with fentanyl, I feel lucky I was pulled out when I was. Anyone reading this that got out, you’re doing fantastic! Keep it up! Anyone reading this in active addiction, you can get out, yes it sucks balls at first, but you CAN do it and you’re worth it!!

    • @josephmaina-vm1lc
      @josephmaina-vm1lc 8 месяцев назад +1

      Woow God protect you 🙏

    • @chickeninabread7168
      @chickeninabread7168 7 месяцев назад

      You know you wanna get high 😂

    • @mikeyo325
      @mikeyo325 6 месяцев назад

      Of course we do! But it's the disaster of consequences that come w/ getting high that keeps me clean today! @@chickeninabread7168

    • @LaughingblueSu
      @LaughingblueSu 6 месяцев назад

      ​@chickeninabread7168 not smart

  • @mogreen19
    @mogreen19 8 месяцев назад +75

    The US lacks a functioning healthcare system and does not have mental health care either. Only a functioning mental health care system can get the numbers of heavy depressions that lead to substance abuse and addictions go down. You need an army of doctors, not a militarized police. There was a shooting 3km from my house in the Netherlands with the involvement of a Mexican cartel. They do need to be arrested, but you only take their customer base with a lot of mental health programs.

    • @veramae4098
      @veramae4098 8 месяцев назад +4

      YES!

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 8 месяцев назад

      Yep the cartels are such a big thing in the US because there's a huge demand for their wares.

    • @happynclermont9678
      @happynclermont9678 8 месяцев назад

      000000😊

    • @paulmckiernan9752
      @paulmckiernan9752 8 месяцев назад +1

      safe supply is the only thing that will reduce deaths. if ppl knew the potency and drug they were using, opioid overdoses would fall to early 2000s levels - a couple thousand a year instead of 100k

    • @mogreen19
      @mogreen19 8 месяцев назад

      @@paulmckiernan9752 I actually agree with you that safe consumption and drug checking are important, yet I think a working mental health system BEFORE that to keep people from falling so low would be just as if not more important.

  • @frankiefreshh
    @frankiefreshh 8 месяцев назад +109

    Why don’t we ever talk about the behaviors we employ here in the US. There should be a huge motivation to get us Americans to act right.

    • @DebNKY
      @DebNKY 8 месяцев назад +24

      Oh, you must be joking. We're free to make bad choices in the US.

    • @shadowX9365
      @shadowX9365 8 месяцев назад

      the demand for drugs will never stop no matter what. since Jesus' time people have been using drugs. i think the pharmaceutical industry could be better regulated though. Our opioid crisis is a direct result of US pharma overprescribing painkillers

    • @chaddittman8053
      @chaddittman8053 8 месяцев назад +6

      Why as an adult not aloud to put what I want in my body. I could go to the corner store and die from alcohol poisoning. We have plenty of good DUI laws on the book to protect innocent people.

    • @budgiecat2885
      @budgiecat2885 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@chaddittman8053 how does it protect if it doesn't prevent

    • @luisjacome5359
      @luisjacome5359 8 месяцев назад +17

      Yeah. We love to blame others for our own problems.. we love drugs!!! High school and colleges are just full of them and then when you go out to work you find out people snorting coke and popping pills left to right 😅

  • @haydendenard2693
    @haydendenard2693 8 месяцев назад +5

    as a former addict I cannot even begin to tell you how laughable it is that they think they will ever "win" the war on drugs for every 1,000 lbs they catch thousands more get by you have to go to full scale legalization and supply safe use centers and supply it would put them out of business overnight but they'll never do that because there is too much money I the police state and the prison industrial complex

  • @marymalkus7522
    @marymalkus7522 8 месяцев назад +11

    The drug epidemic is enhanced by growing suppliers but the core problem lies in the demand. Easier said than done, but people need to live smarter and realize the consequences of taking any pills. Instead of falling victim to these pills, we as a society need to take responsibility starting from an individual level while the government can provide aid through assisting for mental health and enhanced living standards rather than pouring more money towards the drug affairs. Life is simple but as humans we make it complicated. If we just stick to the core essentials of life, people will be happier and more grateful rather than looking for means of escape.

    • @edwigcarol4888
      @edwigcarol4888 7 месяцев назад

      Absolutely
      Not looking for escapes.. such a daily enterprise
      It begins here with that video
      "That is how our brain works, learn how it works to work with it" as Dr Jud Brewer says referring to the deep root of looking for the best fastest reward each minute of our lives, the path of the least suffering
      "Rewards based learning system"
      Because the essence of addiction lies in this system of our brain making "habits" "routines"
      We can get "addicted" means involving that system to
      Sport
      Knowledge
      Romantic love
      Eating chocolate
      Music
      Cats
      meditation
      Eating junk food when sad
      Dangerous drugs
      Anything
      Like writing comments on YT as mysrlf is concerned.. (p.r.o.b.l.e.m)
      That is our brain. Our job is to find the best way to deal and collaborate with that
      Powerful wild horse.
      But it can be updated, so we quitt.
      The brain updates the reward value only when we are aware.
      And it never ends

    • @misterdemocracy3335
      @misterdemocracy3335 5 месяцев назад

      Yes, that will surely work. You have to meet the devil half way and end prohibition on chemicals people want to exercise their own freedom in using.

  • @fixthat2240
    @fixthat2240 8 месяцев назад +36

    They can’t even stop it from going into jails and prisons, that alone should show it’s a non winnable battle

    • @ahmedhassan-hl1qw
      @ahmedhassan-hl1qw 8 месяцев назад +1

      Never thought about that, that should be the first question.

    • @chichi3701
      @chichi3701 8 месяцев назад +3

      Good point. Even in smaller, more controlled settings like prisons, we have regular American citizens (not drug cartels) smuggling drugs in. So we can't put the blame solely on the cartels. We are a part of the problem.

    • @carlos-ik1pc
      @carlos-ik1pc 8 месяцев назад

      goverment lets it get in thats how they do population control

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 8 месяцев назад

      Well, a dozen LA cops were under investigation for belonging to a gang, the tentacles are very far reaching

  • @darranx
    @darranx 8 месяцев назад +242

    As others said, we should do an investigation on why people are abusing/feel the need to abuse drugs and how to overcome the desire to abuse drugs

    • @abdulrahmanraheem423
      @abdulrahmanraheem423 8 месяцев назад +24

      Exactly! Where is that investigation?

    • @l3gendarylag805
      @l3gendarylag805 8 месяцев назад +13

      They abuse them bcuz they're addicted, prolly started by wanting to get high just like people who start smokin tree..

    • @jimmyboe25
      @jimmyboe25 8 месяцев назад +11

      That is a massive myriad of points of interest for your question. I personally took a few Vicodin that ended 10 years later with me stopping because of pricing. But I did lose friends that continued after me 😞

    • @NewMusicRapHipHop
      @NewMusicRapHipHop 8 месяцев назад +5

      Interesting point

    • @LodeNid
      @LodeNid 8 месяцев назад

      Many especially young people just want to "experiment" ; everybody should be made aware that even experimenting with drugs except maybe weed is too much and highly dangerous : there should be a national campaign about the dangers of experimenting with pills and other drugs...

  • @EarthWasHere
    @EarthWasHere 8 месяцев назад +6

    We blame drugs for deaths but not the people addicted to drugs. Drugs aren’t something that get into your system without physically consuming it by hand. Everyone and i mean everyone knows what drugs are and what the consequences can be. Addiction and death. They chose to gamble and try it. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. Just to make things simple, if people didnt want them their wouldn’t be a market. No matter how hard you try you can’t stop something people are looking for consistently.

  • @WaismannMethod
    @WaismannMethod 8 месяцев назад +8

    It's so frustrating and sad that fentanyl keeps pouring through our borders with NO real efforts to stop it. This is a preventable tragedy that is being ignored. Lives are at stake, and we're losing too many people to this deadly drug! We desperately need action now to keep communities safe! 😢💔 #StopFentanylCrisis

    • @johansm97
      @johansm97 7 месяцев назад +1

      The dacay in the american society is the real cause of this issue, cartels in Mexico only produce what is demanded

    • @user-fr9bm7wb4w
      @user-fr9bm7wb4w 4 месяца назад +2

      Why deny patients medication vital for treating severe, chronic symptoms in order to keep drugs like vicodin from anyone, patients included only for it to be replaced by a far more deadly, addictive and cheaper drug? While at the same time leaving borders wide open? If you think this is some coincidence or accident, think again.

  • @kevinjenner9502
    @kevinjenner9502 8 месяцев назад +40

    A Federal Judge dismissed Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against US gun manufacturers.

    • @ledwallet1944
      @ledwallet1944 8 месяцев назад +1

      What's your point?...

    • @cherylgish
      @cherylgish 8 месяцев назад

      the problem the US doesnt want to talk about. the cartels get their guns and weapons from USA

    • @euroschmau
      @euroschmau 8 месяцев назад

      ​@ledwallet1944 if we won't help Mexico in their quest to rid their nation of illegal guns, why should Mexico help us rid the USA of fentanyl?

    • @dvdmex1978
      @dvdmex1978 8 месяцев назад

      Kevin's point is that cartels flood the u.s with drugs and the u.s floods Mexico with firearms with no end in sight. Holding gun manufacturers responsible would make them more cautious. Not that hard to understand buddy

    •  8 месяцев назад +18

      @@ledwallet1944 The point is very simple. The government, NRA, gun-makers and even some of the shop owners are complicit in this problem. This has to stop somehow, and gun laws may be a good start.

  • @milescunha5286
    @milescunha5286 8 месяцев назад +6

    It’s important to be open with your kids about drugs and don’t give them a reason to hide it from you. Government has nothing to do with the choices that people make. Change starts at home. And if someone is adamant about using drugs know that fetanyl is in everything. And only people who build a slow and strong tolerance can use and not die. Voting is key.

  • @lostridinfast7734
    @lostridinfast7734 8 месяцев назад +4

    Quick and easy way to solve all of this, make it available legally from a store without a prescription and then the cartels have no way to profit. Someone is going to profit from drug abusers but our government chooses it be the cartels instead of local businesses.

  • @BaltimoresBerzerker
    @BaltimoresBerzerker 8 месяцев назад +12

    It's crazy when one can look back on heroin with nostalgia in comparison to fentanyls impact.

    • @HanchoJaviG
      @HanchoJaviG 3 месяца назад

      Haha yea everything was better back then.

  • @jesuscampos2173
    @jesuscampos2173 8 месяцев назад +16

    why didn't you tell what really happened with those 5 unarmed men who were executed by the army? they were cartel members and were armed they pulled out rifles and a barret from the truck

  • @ikarljoseph
    @ikarljoseph 8 месяцев назад +12

    God Bless the lady who lost her child and may the girl Rest In Peace. A new plan must be put in place or a better one and I hope it will be.

  • @Mexican01o101
    @Mexican01o101 8 месяцев назад +7

    Imagine having a drug problem and you blame it on Mexico and try to invade…. But you forget that Mexico is your biggest business partner in the world

  • @LiqqaRoni-cx3tx
    @LiqqaRoni-cx3tx 8 месяцев назад +149

    You should do a news story on why the media rarely talks about it. We've been fighting a war against the cartels for generations!

    • @veramae4098
      @veramae4098 8 месяцев назад

      We managed to ban quads and other drugs. We seem unable to stop this.
      Countries agreed to stop the illegal drugs earlier.
      China and India are the main producers of the chemical needed for fentynal, and refuse
      to stop production.
      Anyone who buys illegal drugs is funding the cartels.
      The cartels terrify the citizens, who are fleeing north to the U.S.
      I'd say "Let Darwin work," but many people taking it are poor and desperate due to our
      economic disparities. Half the people who are homeless, for example, are there because
      of medical expenses.
      I have recurring bad depression and anxiety and I've thought about illegal drug relief, but
      I've seen photos of what it does physically to the brain. No thank you. Prescription drugs
      help but haven't solved my problems.

    • @nelsonjjimenez3090
      @nelsonjjimenez3090 8 месяцев назад +11

      I'm sorry for your loss, sweetheart. But I don't think the current government is going to fix it because they don't care. Stay strong and our heavenly father will make sure it gets taken care of...

    • @JuanGarcia-yy1py
      @JuanGarcia-yy1py 8 месяцев назад

      Don’t forget the federal prison gangs selling it to consumer in the states,I believe in sweeping the house first then pushing it out.

    • @damienholland8103
      @damienholland8103 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@nelsonjjimenez3090 Well, how do you totally stop drugs? Even in countries that are super strict and with an easier time enforcing their borders it still gets in.

    • @TheViktorofgilead
      @TheViktorofgilead 8 месяцев назад +15

      It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on your personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times. - Bill Hicks

  • @savannahshepherd2283
    @savannahshepherd2283 8 месяцев назад +6

    Mental health should be #1. #2 after care for people who are addicted. A lot of homeless people get stuck in survival mode so even after detox they end up back where they started.

    • @burntsincebirth702
      @burntsincebirth702 8 месяцев назад

      I'm currently homeless and addicted to fentanyl. I have to agree with you 100%.

  • @caliboy3785
    @caliboy3785 8 месяцев назад +8

    It's sad how many people overdosed and my heart goes out to the family's but everyone gotta stop putting the blame on the cartels...if all of us didnt want or need any kind of illegal drugs there wouldn't be a market for it in the states..good ol American consumers

  • @williamriley5118
    @williamriley5118 8 месяцев назад +14

    I live in Philadelphia and the Kensington section of this city now looks like a Sci-Fi horror film because of fentanyl and tranq!

    • @debmccafferty1007
      @debmccafferty1007 8 месяцев назад +1

      😢

    • @dorianvedrashko9172
      @dorianvedrashko9172 8 месяцев назад

      tell them to stop buying and using drugs.

    • @juliadixon8465
      @juliadixon8465 2 месяца назад

      Hey homie. Been gone 20 years and Kenzo is the only place I can afford to live. No thanks

    • @juliadixon8465
      @juliadixon8465 2 месяца назад

      They live outdoors and no rehab that does medical detox will take them.

  • @user-mj7eb2nv8s
    @user-mj7eb2nv8s 8 месяцев назад +74

    when we allowed doctors to prescribe pain meds the problem was NOWHERE near this bad. punishing people for doctor shopping led to our streets being overrun by a fentanyl epidemic.

    • @michaelg8642
      @michaelg8642 8 месяцев назад +11

      true.. you can go in agonizing pain with a broken rib and they give you tylenol like wtf

    • @neal.karn-jones
      @neal.karn-jones 8 месяцев назад

      That is true. Maybe we should go back to our letting doctors being our drug dealers and not some Mexican cartel or China. At least we know what we would be getting.

    • @amyrenee1361
      @amyrenee1361 8 месяцев назад

      Stop it. Most drug addicts , most users, didn't start with doctor prescribed medications - that is a fallacy. A very small percentage start that way. Very small.

    • @amyrenee1361
      @amyrenee1361 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@michaelg8642 I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. My joint have been dislocating since I was five years old. I'm in chronic pain. There is no excuse to use heroin or fentanyl, especially when you have a medical problem that will heal. There's an end in sight, you get through it. Excuses to do the wrong things doesn't justify anything. It's a cop-out.

    • @jaebae5706
      @jaebae5706 8 месяцев назад +3

      Exactly

  • @adammitchell3462
    @adammitchell3462 4 месяца назад +1

    My best friend in the whole world died from fentanyl overdose in 2021...he had purchased a pill that was pressed to look like a perkacet but was really the highly potent fentanyl...this man was like a brother to me and i still ant over this loss, it kills me knowing that had i been there i could've gotten help.

  • @J3R1K4s
    @J3R1K4s 8 месяцев назад +7

    I am beyond grateful I'm sober and that I got sober before Fentanyl spiked. If i didn’t I know I wouldn't be here today.
    I thank my son- he gave me purpose in life. When he was born I knew I owed him my life to give him a greater life than I had. He deserved a better me. He deserved everything all my time love infatuation praise health and money well over any drug.
    To anyone struggling out there, it is never too late. You can do it! ❤

    • @keyurpatel1982
      @keyurpatel1982 8 месяцев назад

      i get high when I win an argument on Twitter or the comments section of RUclips. Drugs have zero affect on my mental faculties. Absolutely zero.

    • @jimharding4716
      @jimharding4716 8 месяцев назад

      good for you

    • @J3R1K4s
      @J3R1K4s 7 месяцев назад

      @@keyurpatel1982 okay? Lol

  • @Tesla69420
    @Tesla69420 8 месяцев назад +24

    IT SEEMS LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING A WHOLE SEGMENT ON THE PURDUE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY AND THE SACKLER FAMILY THAT LITERALLY INTRODUCED THE OPOID CRISIS AN NO ONE IS IN JAIL…🤔

    • @nathalieforest8497
      @nathalieforest8497 8 месяцев назад +5

      RIGHT ON. THIS MADNESS STARTED IN THE US WITHOUT THE CARTELS. AS USUAL THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR WEAKNESS AND APPETITE FOR DRUGS.

    • @jaleel42
      @jaleel42 8 месяцев назад

      Whoa cool it with the auntie zemitisms 😅

    • @dorianvedrashko9172
      @dorianvedrashko9172 8 месяцев назад

      it started in england with the forced opium addiction of chinese people during the opium wars. @@nathalieforest8497

  • @Falconryful
    @Falconryful 8 месяцев назад +20

    Our government cuts off Americans on pain meds and the cartels fill the void 😱
    Seems to me big government shares in the responsibility 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

    • @jonatand2045
      @jonatand2045 8 месяцев назад

      The war on drugs failing like always.

    • @manoloribera9362
      @manoloribera9362 8 месяцев назад

      Most of the drug users don’t need pain meds, they’re addicts.

    • @brittneytrine6325
      @brittneytrine6325 6 месяцев назад

      Absolutely!!

  • @heathergatfield667
    @heathergatfield667 8 месяцев назад +1

    My very sweet, very beautiful daughter died off fytenal may 4th.2021. It broke me. She left 2 kids behind that miss her very much

  • @solange4746
    @solange4746 8 месяцев назад +10

    Address the root cause, and ensure our very own USA citizens do not buy these products. Educate our US citizens and care for them, opiods lead to addiction. Let´s not blame it on the cartels only, or China only....

  • @MickeyFickey661
    @MickeyFickey661 8 месяцев назад +42

    It seems one solution is for the US Government to legalize drugs - and distribute them - via legitimate US "pharmacies" who will ensure that people who consume them are not dropping like flies. Use the profits to set up rehab centers, education. Meanwhile, this would cut demand from the cartels out and they would eventually go away.

    • @kkrollingskkrollings3173
      @kkrollingskkrollings3173 8 месяцев назад +10

      Legalize and education is the only way to win this battle you are correct. British Columbia Canada just decriminalized drugs and all addicts have access to safe supply. Many are watching BC to see if fentanyl deaths will decline I suspect overdoses on fentanyl will decrease substantially for the first time in years instead of increasing.

    • @mikecoffin9236
      @mikecoffin9236 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@kkrollingskkrollings3173unfortunately it's about 10 years too late. Now the fentanyl is cut with xylazine and benzodiazepines, it's a complete disaster. Education and regulation is the only hope but its gonna take a decade or two before things get settled down.

    • @bonner-roush7022
      @bonner-roush7022 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@kkrollingskkrollings3173 📣 NOT SURE☎️ CANADA IS A HOT MESS TOO, RIGHT NOW📜🇺🇲🦅🗽⏳

    • @RacerX1971
      @RacerX1971 8 месяцев назад

      No...

    • @mikecoffin9236
      @mikecoffin9236 8 месяцев назад

      @@RacerX1971 what's your solution?

  • @RepentantSinner86
    @RepentantSinner86 8 месяцев назад

    15:07 thank you so much for understanding!

  • @JSV11111
    @JSV11111 8 месяцев назад +5

    An an Indian I request all my fellow humans not to touch this or any dangerous drug substance 🙏🙏. Felt really sad 😢 for who passed away and what their family members might have gone through 💔.. God bless you and protect you in Jesus Name.

    • @pissiole5654
      @pissiole5654 8 месяцев назад +1

      Whys the fact your indian relevant here?

  •  8 месяцев назад +67

    Now this is some good journalism! I liked that it doesn't make it look like a "Mexico" problem. Us mexicans we've been suffering the consequences of being neighbors with the largest illegal drug market in the world. The whole reason why our government has been completely corrupted by narcos is because the money that there is to make is insane! And now they have too much power, so much we can't even do anything about it without risking our lives. In fact, Mexico is the most dangerous contry to be a journalist.
    The solution has to be a joint effort from the US and Mexico. If the narcos had no access to assault weapons and you improved your healthcare system to help people with mental health and addiction we would see an improvement. I also think us mexicans need to give better oportunities to the poorest of our country, so that they wouldn't need to risk their lives by joining a cartel. If we made our country safer, we could attract more foreign investment and create more jobs for those people.

    • @rodrigotrejo9232
      @rodrigotrejo9232 8 месяцев назад +4

      Bad journalism there’s a lot of wrong information on 15:45 they was armed cartel members

    • @leav388
      @leav388 8 месяцев назад

      Everyone in Mexico knows all the presidents of Mexico got their cut. Your suggestions are good, but how is Mexico going to change when even the president is involved in this sickness?

    • @user-zp7jp1vk2i
      @user-zp7jp1vk2i 8 месяцев назад

      That's one reason I supported the Free Trade agreement in the early eighties: Canada, the USA , and Mexico and the movement of goods, services, AND PEOPLE as in Europe and it's union. Unfortunately, it's just too good a whipping boy for federal and state politicians to garner and preach to the converted. Housing? You'd think US politicos would want softwood (framing) lumber from Canada to come in big time at a low price. But they constantly engage in blockage and court fights (most of which they lose years later). |Meanwhile. tornados, storms, and other weather disasters make mince meat of poor house construction in the USA in bad weather areas. Citizens are the losers, their politicians get re-elected!

    • @jimharding4716
      @jimharding4716 8 месяцев назад

      well said

    • @blokcomNativeFaces
      @blokcomNativeFaces 8 месяцев назад

      Not really. With all that has been reported outside of the legacy media, this avoids the Biden/Mayorkas root problem. It avoids the EU, UN, IOM, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, China, American left wing activist groups etc who are part of the root problem.

  • @user-mj3vt5xu6v
    @user-mj3vt5xu6v 8 месяцев назад +106

    Good video. 100 years and these clowns still don't understand that prohibition isn't the answer. The last 100 years have proven beyond a doubt that where there is a demand, there will always be a supply, no matter what laws and enforcement you impose.

    • @zach1morris10
      @zach1morris10 8 месяцев назад +9

      Bro I don’t know why they think they’re helping when they’re making it worse

    • @metavatar
      @metavatar 8 месяцев назад +16

      The answer is they don't want to solve it because it's making so many people and corporations so much money.

    • @nycoolj3
      @nycoolj3 8 месяцев назад +7

      @@metavatareverything is always about money at the end of the day

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 8 месяцев назад

      Oh they know!…

    • @jonatand2045
      @jonatand2045 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@metavatar As always someone makes money from the drug market. Time to admit prohibition is a costly failure.

  • @harry8912
    @harry8912 7 месяцев назад +1

    I respect the former ambassador to Mexico’s honesty about it. He’s very truthful about it and I’m surprised he hasn’t been silenced for speaking the truth.

  • @user-hz6qo8ps3r
    @user-hz6qo8ps3r 6 месяцев назад

    May that mother sorry crying God bless her I desire in my heart that she may not pain anymore....

  • @henrysantos7160
    @henrysantos7160 8 месяцев назад +9

    This is really sad and heartbreaking,

  • @starfox8006
    @starfox8006 8 месяцев назад +9

    I can't relate but hope those who are opioid addicts pull through. I just see zombies on the streets and that's scary enough.

  • @kls-9589
    @kls-9589 7 месяцев назад +1

    Drugs is never ending. Nor is the mental illness and addiction of drugs. If there was no need, the drug industry would die.

  • @pressedpercs
    @pressedpercs 7 месяцев назад

    currently struggling with fentanyl addiction and I'm thankful I'm still alive.

    • @710.gavvvvv
      @710.gavvvvv 4 месяца назад

      Joe Biden has failed u he’s the one causing this war🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @Mental_Egg
    @Mental_Egg 8 месяцев назад +8

    America does a great job of well funding and well arming the drug cartels.

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 8 месяцев назад

      It’s all just Business, man!🤪

  • @Mimicry161
    @Mimicry161 8 месяцев назад +86

    Great investigative journalism! Don't see it too often with mainstream media.

    • @ryanblanchard2508
      @ryanblanchard2508 8 месяцев назад

      Yeah that’s because they lie by omission to cover for the corrupt weasel Biden administration.

    • @mrkawaii123
      @mrkawaii123 8 месяцев назад

      It's a justification to raid Mexico anytime without the consent of Mexico government to cover their invasion

    • @annemarie1507
      @annemarie1507 8 месяцев назад +3

      Actually, great investigative journalism takes a lot of time and work. That's why you don't see it constantly.
      What you do see every day is the mainstream media producing a news product designed to draw viewers to get the funding that eventually pays for the less frequent great investigative journalism.
      That daily product tends to be sensationalistic and play on emotions because that's what works.
      Don't like it? Don't watch and they'll stop. Hasn't happened yet.
      A lot of complaining about what the mainstream media serves up, just like there's a lot of complaining about what the drug traffickers serve up, like fentanyl. But in both cases the market is driving the product.

    • @mr-iz8cx
      @mr-iz8cx 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@annemarie1507and what of the concept of 'manufacturing consent'? Do you believe that manipulation is not a tool used to persuade the public?

    • @annagirlieee5290
      @annagirlieee5290 8 месяцев назад

      Not great investigative journalism. I don’t think there is any Journalism anymore. This fentanyl problem is a direct act of war from the Chinese government upon the USA! The motivation is not to make money it is to cause us to be damaged!!! Wake up, nobody mentions this obvious fact! Out government dosent want us to know where it is coming from because then they might have to do something about it. That is the state and the quality of our government today. We are not going to survive if this continues to go on and no major change in our system occurs!!!!

  • @Xavierthe3rd
    @Xavierthe3rd 6 месяцев назад +2

    What to do if you can't control your own problem.
    Blame others.

  • @user-ys5ns4mu6o
    @user-ys5ns4mu6o 8 месяцев назад +51

    My heart goes out to all the victims in Mexico. Our Demand needs to be addressed.

    • @charlesgale4257
      @charlesgale4257 8 месяцев назад +3

      yeah they need to legalize it to end all these innocent deaths

    • @whocares__mrhjb9703
      @whocares__mrhjb9703 8 месяцев назад +2

      No. Your attitude is wonderful. But prohibition is a failure. And we need standards in all drugs. Prohibition has failed.

    • @sasuarg
      @sasuarg 7 месяцев назад +11

      Thank you! They always talk about American victims but no one talks about the thousands of Mexican people who have died thanks to American weapons being smuggled into Mexico every single day.

    • @elenalu5877
      @elenalu5877 3 месяца назад

      @@sasuargTHIS! They blame everything on Mexico! When they know they are the culprits of this whole destabilization!

  • @alainsanchez9808
    @alainsanchez9808 7 месяцев назад +3

    Stop taking drugs, problem solved

  • @nycbankers1427
    @nycbankers1427 8 месяцев назад +3

    America culture lives and thrives on drug consumption, it’s their own fault. Keep promoting music that endorses drug usage this will never end

  • @surtrpicks
    @surtrpicks 8 месяцев назад +10

    Drugs can be horrible, had problems with them in my family…ruined a family. Question I have is how do we fight drug usage when it’s been with humanity since the beginning. It’s something we seek and do….

    • @edwigcarol4888
      @edwigcarol4888 7 месяцев назад

      Research with labor mice shows, that they are too exposed to the risk of addiction.
      This is due to the universal reward system in the brain of each living mammalm

  • @user-ib7cq4hj8r
    @user-ib7cq4hj8r 8 месяцев назад +8

    This CBS series has been fire . Our Demand needs to be addressed.

  • @margitbo
    @margitbo 7 месяцев назад +1

    I live in Honduras, were many of the Drug Lords live, BUT we have NO DRUG ADDICTION problems, no overdoses of Fentanyl. The question is WHY do US citizens use drugs SO MUCH ! Here drugs are SUPER CHEAP, easy to acquire, so why do we not have drug addiction problems? I have NEVER even heard of an overdose ! It always AMAZES me to see how many people in the USA consume drugs, it is MIND BLOWING. This obsession with drugs of the USA is DESTROYING our countries, I am refering to all countries from Colombia to the USA, as we suffer the consequences of all the Drug Lords moving the drug through our countries to be consumed in the USA. This has DESTROYED our countries and will never stop as long as there is a demand in the USA. The amount of money the Cartels make is MORE than our country`s Defense Budget. The USA should ask "WHY do our citizens use SO many drugs" and FIX that problem. The USA consumes 25% of the WORLD`s drugs, why?

    • @kevo300
      @kevo300 7 месяцев назад

      Lmao your telling me there no drug problems in Honduras of all places?

  • @iam_donnab
    @iam_donnab 8 месяцев назад +8

    As long as doctors make it so hard to get medicine for pain, this will continue. Telling people to take Aleve or Tylenol for severe pain is what fuels the search for pills outside the pharmacy. Rather than have people die when they take half a pill of something, just prescribe it. They can only get help for their addiction if they're alive.

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 8 месяцев назад

      To them, it’s survival of the fittest Sis, they’re want those cut off & turned to the streets to be put out like the trash they through them out too👉Govt is getting rid of their financial liabilities, you see?! They created the chaos & now they’re offering the solution (prescribe/cutm off/self nihilate/repeat)

  • @sabrina.natalie
    @sabrina.natalie 8 месяцев назад +18

    Honestly, I never foresee this problem ever going away. It will impact every single one of us in someway, somehow, forever.

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yep😢

    • @BoatLoadsofDope
      @BoatLoadsofDope 6 месяцев назад +1

      It will only become worse, when the economy really starts dipping.
      Rough times are ahead.

  • @basedgamerguy818
    @basedgamerguy818 8 месяцев назад +24

    It's easy just decriminalize all drugs and have doctors prescribe pharmaceutical grade medication to those with addiction issues and wrap those services with rehab services. Also we can't let this narrative say that this drug epidemic is different every black family in the 80's that lost a family member to the cocaine epidemic felt the same pain as these families losing family members to fentanyl. This is truly an indictment of American capitalism which refuses to do what is right for those dealing with addiction

  • @sweet_amir
    @sweet_amir 3 месяца назад +1

    The only way to stop it is to STOP DOING DRUGS!

  • @SoDidWii
    @SoDidWii 8 месяцев назад +1

    Stop the money laundering at these cash/check kiosks inside grocery stores.

  • @Tacticode
    @Tacticode 8 месяцев назад +13

    We need to push for the clinical trials and legalization of Ibogaine. As an addict (methadone maintenance thus I can't say "recovering") it's the ONLY proven cure to addiction and breaking that dependence/need for opiates.

    • @marycarol4342
      @marycarol4342 8 месяцев назад +2

      What is Ibogaine? Please explain. How new is it?

  • @joedekkachinko2460
    @joedekkachinko2460 8 месяцев назад +6

    Here's a novel idea, DON'T USE DRUGS.

    • @StepSev7en
      @StepSev7en 8 месяцев назад

      Thanks Nancy Reagan.

    • @mary-jvazquez6306
      @mary-jvazquez6306 8 месяцев назад

      @@StepSev7enof course you think drug dealers are criminals but drug users sick as if they got the flue ? 😂 drug users are the ones paying billions of dollars for drugs , you demand the drugs ! Drug users sponsor drug cartels !

  • @infinitexps
    @infinitexps 6 месяцев назад +2

    Don't do drugs? It's that simple. People are stupid.

  • @kristie3592
    @kristie3592 7 месяцев назад +1

    Because of the epidemic, cancer patients are in agony a lot of the time. I was one. The opioid epidemic and the resulting crackdown has left millions of very ill Americans unable to get doctors to prescribe pain medications.

  • @LabanValdez
    @LabanValdez 8 месяцев назад +26

    I’m tired of hearing about these stories ppl make choices to take drugs like ppl choose to drink stop blaming everyone, its the ppl that choose to take those drugs then they die and then there family members wanna blame everyone when it’s not everyone’s fault it’s the person popping the pills are to blame for there choices. Can’t stop guns and can’t stop drugs but you can make better choices.

    • @AF-pw5ct
      @AF-pw5ct 8 месяцев назад +6

      My son was 14 years old when I lost him to fentanyl poisoning. He was still a child. How many choices did you make when you were 14 that maybe weren't the best? Maybe you should stop being so judgmental. My son had mental health challenges, thought he was getting an anti-anxiety pill but got fentanyl instead. He shouldn't have gotten anything off the street, something we talked about with him many times. But guess what? He did it anyway. And now he's gone. At 14.

    • @e-rod209
      @e-rod209 8 месяцев назад +9

      @@AF-pw5ct I think it's more Facts then it is Judging. My condolences

    • @AF-pw5ct
      @AF-pw5ct 8 месяцев назад

      @@e-rod209 no, it’s judgment. Most of these people are not choosing to take fentanyl. They think they’re taking something else. I saw the pills my son took. They look just like what he thought they were. Or that’s what I think, anyway. And besides, he was a child. As are many of the victims. You’re blaming them for their choices, but they are children. And most of the parents tried their hardest to keep them away. It can happen to anyone. I hope it never happens to someone you love. You might change your tune.

    • @awaitingSaint777
      @awaitingSaint777 8 месяцев назад +2

      The first lady that shared her story of her daughter dying said that her daughter thought she was buying percocet. People are being poisoned. Children and even babies are being poisoned. This is not a matter of just a bunch of people popping pills. And even the ones that are making the choice, their lives matter too. The Bible said that in the end times the love of many will wax cold. I'll pray for the condition of your hard heart. I hope that if you ever need compassion that you receive it.

    • @chichi3701
      @chichi3701 8 месяцев назад +2

      You are painting everyone who dies from fentanyl with a broad brush and that's problematic. Some people are given or exposed to fentanyl without their knowledge and those people are not the same as the ones who deliberately seek it out and then die from using it. But, I get your general point - the demand is one half of the problem.

  • @melinabobina1503
    @melinabobina1503 8 месяцев назад +8

    Why don’t we start by regulating the pharmaceutical companies that give out the drug in the first place and then wonder why there is so much demand to get bootleg fentanyl 😡

    • @user-bo2yw4hy9m
      @user-bo2yw4hy9m 7 месяцев назад

      This is a dumb statement. We have to have pain meds and one day you will need it and eat ur words. If they stopped making pain meds it would be a mess. Suffering . And the pharmaceutical companies didn’t start it. Sure they and doctors overwrote and overfilled a lot but the supply/demand is issues and the demand is the main issue. And drugs has been an issue for way longer than the last 5-10 years. Just because you haven’t had to use pain meds don’t be stupid and make comments you have no clue what your talking abt

  • @kamrantaherkhani2066
    @kamrantaherkhani2066 8 месяцев назад +1

    My unpopular opinion, to reduce addiction be a good parents to your children, raise them with love and awareness. There will be always something out there for them.

  • @chownful
    @chownful 7 месяцев назад +1

    Why do they never talk about how fentanyl was prescribed for years and years by doctors? It was even offered in a lollipop form - straight from the pharmacy and totally legal. They don't like to talk about that.

  • @panchLOC16
    @panchLOC16 8 месяцев назад +33

    Be better family members. Check up on each other. Don't just let your kid be a druggie then blame someone else.
    When DUI fatalities happen you don't blame corona jack or bud light right?

    • @lorenzo2534
      @lorenzo2534 8 месяцев назад +4

      Exactly 💯

    • @jaleel42
      @jaleel42 8 месяцев назад

      Actually we should,. The math on alcohol is probably worse than fentanyl,.. alcohol makes people crime,. 80% of people arrested are under the influence of alcohol,. I guess alcohol is just a problem when transgender people are used as advertising,… 😅

    • @kimlarso
      @kimlarso 8 месяцев назад

      That sounds great but they’re getting addicted after leaving home at 18 & you have no say or control at that point 👏🏻hell, you can’t even take your 13 yr old kid to the doctors to be drug tested bc they can’t/won’t tell you the results 👉yrs, parents too busy working to provide are letting the govt take rights away from them as predators are watching your home from social app

    • @Kwatson855
      @Kwatson855 8 месяцев назад +2

      Yes, and better parents and influences!

  • @stanknasty456
    @stanknasty456 8 месяцев назад +148

    My heart goes out to all the victims and their families. 🖤

    • @mervinavila888
      @mervinavila888 8 месяцев назад +19

      Nobody told them to buy drugs...do you know how many decisions you have to make to get ahold of a drug it starts from getting the money out of the ATM and they could choose not to do them but let's blame somebody else for our problems haha good luck

    • @manolodequeretaro
      @manolodequeretaro 8 месяцев назад +5

      You mean the ones in Mexico right???

    • @Sp1r1t00
      @Sp1r1t00 8 месяцев назад +5

      your heart going out to families does nothing to help. good job.

    • @jacobbaird4975
      @jacobbaird4975 8 месяцев назад

      @@mervinavila888 this problem started with legal prescriptions from doctors, that was me after two back surgery they just threw pills at me with 0 education.

    • @mervinavila888
      @mervinavila888 8 месяцев назад

      @@manolodequeretaro the junkies here un the us

  • @debrabeltran1962
    @debrabeltran1962 4 месяца назад

    You never recover losing any child but losing the only child is so much harder to get over it.. especially when police don't take action on the supplier.

  • @user-fm1gc5vb6h
    @user-fm1gc5vb6h 6 месяцев назад

    Deadly stuff😢

  • @epickicker1018
    @epickicker1018 8 месяцев назад +202

    I almost died my first time I took a whole blue and woke up in the hospital. Luckily my parents found me before major brain damage could occur but it was a big slap in the face. Mentally coming back from that was one of the hardest challenges I’ve ever faced and the shame. I pray that we can make an impact and we can change the attitude of our country to fight this in a personal level.

    • @markbrown8097
      @markbrown8097 8 месяцев назад +22

      Legalization and regulation of recreational drugs is the only sustainable answer.

    • @ranchoboomerang
      @ranchoboomerang 8 месяцев назад

      Sure Portland is really working. What a lie

    • @DebNKY
      @DebNKY 8 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@markbrown8097you are correct.

    • @deecawford
      @deecawford 8 месяцев назад +6

      I’m so glad you have survived this horrible time in your life. So many don’t get a second chance my friend. People have no way of knowing what they are taking, the illegal looks just as good as the legal.

    • @DebNKY
      @DebNKY 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@deecawford and sometimes we're dosed by a guy we used to trust.