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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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 …..
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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
@@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?
@@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.
😢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.
@@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
"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
@@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
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 😞
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...
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
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
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.
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
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.
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 😅
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.
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!
The ineptitude and outright criminal behavior by the Biden administration for not following federal law on illegal immigration needs to be addressed first. 🤡
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
@@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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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@@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.
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!!
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
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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….
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
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…🤔
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😡
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
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.
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!!!!
@annemarie1507 I agree with you about our journalism today, it’s pure garbage. It dosent inform it is designed merely to entertain. There is no money in journalism anymore instead they pay somebody a very low salary to do look it up on the internet and then rewrite the same story with slightly different words. I’m writing because it is disturbing to see no mention of China from the documentary and from those who often are praise the quality of this “investigative journalism” The fentanyl problem is different from all other illegal drug problems because it is being manufactured in bulk by the Chinese government, not to make money but with the specific intent to damage our country and it’s people. This fentanyl is made in China and sold to the Mexican cartels right off the coast of Mexico. The Chinese ship meets the cartel boats out at sea and then it is brought into Mexico and smuggled across the border where it is dispersed the same way all the other drugs are being dispersed. Our government and journalists have no interest in informing more Americans about this fact. They may have to begi. To do their jobs and that might be difficult to do. It might also make them look worse, certainly incompetent, and generally asleep at the wheel. This is no conspiracy theory and you can find this info if you look but it isn’t widely known because we do t have people actively assert aiming what is actually going on. Our country is falling apart! We must change those people who are running this country or we will lose it at an even greater rate than we are now.
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....
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
we never planned to properly fight drug consumption. its a joke. the consumer needs to be targeted, not the dealers. Give people hobbies, things to do other than drugs. all the money spent on the military and militaries of foreign nations we prop up needs to be allocated elsewhere.
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.
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.
@@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 !
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.
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??!
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
@@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
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?
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,… 😅
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
And the people who started the opioid addiction in America? Did we call them terrorist? I’m talking about the pharmaceutical companies that got this ball rolling. Nobody was talking about bombing their corporate headquarters.
-america is not losing the fentanyl fight its playing out exactly how they want it to..its been said that even a 10% hit to the global jrug trade would have the entire financial system grinding to a halt-
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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?
Be more responsible. Stop the traumas, that lead to addictions, that lead to drug trades, that leads to money laundering, that leads to weapon sales, that leads to narcoterrorism that leads to trauma.
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.
I'm sorry for your lose my friend died by a heroin overdose.
loss
Im very sorry to hear that and I feel your pain because I have a niece I could imagine a daughter
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.
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.
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.
More top than bottom.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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 …..
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.
Thank you for sharing the Absolute truth About America 🇺🇸. Nobody speaks about this side of the addiction. Period
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
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
Thank you, this is the correct response.
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
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.
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.
Yes very sure of Dr.benshrooms.
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.
Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode, enough to start working on my mental health.
He ships discreetly to your location. Got mine shipped here in Norway.
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.
Also missing is how the failed war on drugs delivered the market to the cartels and marginalized communities.
Demand due to society decay
China
@@Allhoney33Chinese gangs more accurately
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.
The problem is the United States appetite for drugs.
Bingo. They can't admit that though. Gotta save face. 😢😮
No. The problem is the Mexican cartels. They deliberately create addiction..
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.
@chichi3701 in Reality he's the one laughing but ok 👍 👌.
@@lorenzo2534 Clearly he is. I laugh at his hypocrisy and he laughs because he doesn't care about the destruction he causes. So.....
You should do a story of how much money politicians have made off the drug war . And how the us helped the sinaloa cartel
That part
And Obama's Fast and Furious operation that allowed even more guns into Mexico
Do a story on how people want to get high
I can’t believe American citizens still have a speck of confidence in their government.
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.
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.
Not all Americans do. I know I sure as hell don't!
Not me!! They want to be the solution to problems they have had a hand in or created AHHHTTT AHHTTT HAVE A SEAT!!
We don’t hahaha. The citizens are begging for change.
My cousin passed away from fentanyl this year. It’s not worth it. Please get help.
Ya ill stick to being an alcoholic
We're losing the fight due to the lack of discipline and impulse control on this side. It's not hard to figure out.
"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
@@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?
always amazes me how media houses can find the cartel but the police cant....
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Interesting isn’t it?
Let's us know who is helping this along.
@@MightyR1000just who do you think?
@@heidicat45first of all, some of our Marines from 29 Palms/Camp Pendleton 😢
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
Oy vey, reported for anti semitism
Sts 💯💯💯
Well said, federal reserve is a racket
HSBC or HBC, most of the big banks launder their money. Cartels were originally a title for financial companies, especially banks.
@@dorianvedrashko9172 The Creature from Jekyll Island... informative book
The huge tomb mansions are insane. They are literally houses with electricity and A/C for a person in a casket.
what lots of money and not enough brain cells from doing too much drugs does to somebody
You mean "tiny homes" for the homeless to get high in?
@@saudielbamber4227Sorry but most narcos in Mexico don't do drugs, they just sell it.
as long as there is a demand it will never stop.
I've always said that.
So heartbreaking. It's not a Mexico problem. It's a huge problem within our own communities across anywhere USA. Heartbreaking!
Wells Fargo Bank 🇺🇲💩🏦 lavando los millones de dólares 💵💵🖥️ del narco, la DEA 🇺🇸💩 y CIA 💩🇺🇸 dando protección.
It’s definitely ALSO a Mexico problem lol. It’s both.
@@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.
There are Mexicans dying from fentanyl as well. It’s most definitely also a Mexico problem
Would be best to equally put the spotlight on the US Pharmaceutical Cartel too.
😢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.
EXACTLY 💯. DOUBLE STANDARDS OF AMERICA
And the Chinese supplying the fentanyl.
@@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
"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
You can’t lose a fight you’re not fighting. It’s being “allowed” to happen to further destroy the American culture.
Bingo...Nobody wants to believe this part tho.
That is your culture.
@@pasofino9583no. It’s not. It’s the government, not the people.
@@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
Wide open border
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
Exactly! Where is that investigation?
They abuse them bcuz they're addicted, prolly started by wanting to get high just like people who start smokin tree..
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 😞
Interesting point
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...
Corruption on both sides has to be a large part.
The only solution is to end the war on drugs.
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
Precisely. Address the root causes and not just the consequences...
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
Yes america profits from it . See a pot gold they'll dip there hand in it even cost lives.
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Exactly! There is a demand for it so the Mexicans are supplying it!
Yup need to make sales and distribution of opioids, amphetamines , and coke a capital offense with a death sentence.
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.
This problem will never go away especially with SO MANY producers, enablers, dealers and buyers world wide. It’s truly sad.
Open a methadone clinic brother
There will always be a dealer and a user. The cycle is never ending. Humans can no longer cope with life sober
The government needs to help these sick individuals. There is no hiding it. America is addicted to drugs that are extremely dangerous
@@zzzz-sf5lrwhy not help yourself instead of goin to gov. That’s something people need to fix themselves
AA aside, Al-anon is an excellent program for the families affected by addiction.
The war on drugs does not work at all! Safe supply, decriminalization and harm reduction, that's where our efforts must turn. ❤
Stop taking drugs, problem solved
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.
Oh, you must be joking. We're free to make bad choices in the US.
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
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.
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 😅
@budgiecat2885 I dont need a government to protect me from myself. Ty
Im watching this on a week when a baby died and others survived in a daycare that hid fentanyl. Sad😢
that whole story is heartbreaking, God bless those babies souls 🕊️
Respect for the reporter and blessings to the mother, I know her pain
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.
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
Got my bro to we from NE as well rip
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!
Our Demand needs to be addressed
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.
Demand is based on the deliberately addictive drugs the cartels bring here. You have it backwards.
Our borders need to be closed.
Exactly, the country is at fault because they won't allow doctors to prescribe proper pharma pain killers.
The ineptitude and outright criminal behavior by the Biden administration for not following federal law on illegal immigration needs to be addressed first. 🤡
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.
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.
She lives in Prescott...and like anywhere else, it sadly happens. Doesn't make Prescott bad; it's a wonderful city!
How do you know she's upper middle class?
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
Amen. You are right
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.
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
The dacay in the american society is the real cause of this issue, cartels in Mexico only produce what is demanded
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.
They can’t even stop it from going into jails and prisons, that alone should show it’s a non winnable battle
Never thought about that, that should be the first question.
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.
goverment lets it get in thats how they do population control
Well, a dozen LA cops were under investigation for belonging to a gang, the tentacles are very far reaching
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!
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.
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...
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.
@@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.
It’s not a war on drugs, it’s a war on your personal freedom. Keep that in mind at all times. - Bill Hicks
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.
YES!
Yep the cartels are such a big thing in the US because there's a huge demand for their wares.
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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
@@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.
Don't do drugs? It's that simple. People are stupid.
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.
true.. you can go in agonizing pain with a broken rib and they give you tylenol like wtf
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.
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.
@@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.
Exactly
A Federal Judge dismissed Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against US gun manufacturers.
What's your point?...
the problem the US doesnt want to talk about. the cartels get their guns and weapons from USA
@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?
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
@@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.
It's crazy when one can look back on heroin with nostalgia in comparison to fentanyls impact.
Haha yea everything was better back then.
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!!
Woow God protect you 🙏
You know you wanna get high 😂
Of course we do! But it's the disaster of consequences that come w/ getting high that keeps me clean today! @@chickeninabread7168
@chickeninabread7168 not smart
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
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
This CBS series has been fire . Our Demand needs to be addressed.
America does a great job of well funding and well arming the drug cartels.
It’s all just Business, man!🤪
America culture lives and thrives on drug consumption, it’s their own fault. Keep promoting music that endorses drug usage this will never end
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@kkrollingskkrollings3173 📣 NOT SURE☎️ CANADA IS A HOT MESS TOO, RIGHT NOW📜🇺🇲🦅🗽⏳
No...
@@RacerX1971 what's your solution?
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.
Bad journalism there’s a lot of wrong information on 15:45 they was armed cartel members
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?
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!
well said
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.
My heart goes out to all the victims in Mexico. Our Demand needs to be addressed.
yeah they need to legalize it to end all these innocent deaths
No. Your attitude is wonderful. But prohibition is a failure. And we need standards in all drugs. Prohibition has failed.
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.
@@sasuargTHIS! They blame everything on Mexico! When they know they are the culprits of this whole destabilization!
The only reason America is losing is because it isn't cocaine.
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
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….
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
Our government cuts off Americans on pain meds and the cartels fill the void 😱
Seems to me big government shares in the responsibility 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
The war on drugs failing like always.
Most of the drug users don’t need pain meds, they’re addicts.
Absolutely!!
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…🤔
RIGHT ON. THIS MADNESS STARTED IN THE US WITHOUT THE CARTELS. AS USUAL THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR WEAKNESS AND APPETITE FOR DRUGS.
Whoa cool it with the auntie zemitisms 😅
it started in england with the forced opium addiction of chinese people during the opium wars. @@nathalieforest8497
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.
Legalization and regulation of recreational drugs is the only sustainable answer.
Sure Portland is really working. What a lie
@@markbrown8097you are correct.
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.
@@deecawford and sometimes we're dosed by a guy we used to trust.
Bro this is a choice no one held a gun to you and told you take the pill
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.
I live in Philadelphia and the Kensington section of this city now looks like a Sci-Fi horror film because of fentanyl and tranq!
😢
tell them to stop buying and using drugs.
Hey homie. Been gone 20 years and Kenzo is the only place I can afford to live. No thanks
They live outdoors and no rehab that does medical detox will take them.
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.
Bro I don’t know why they think they’re helping when they’re making it worse
The answer is they don't want to solve it because it's making so many people and corporations so much money.
@@metavatareverything is always about money at the end of the day
Oh they know!…
@@metavatar As always someone makes money from the drug market. Time to admit prohibition is a costly failure.
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 😡
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
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.
Whys the fact your indian relevant here?
Drugs is never ending. Nor is the mental illness and addiction of drugs. If there was no need, the drug industry would die.
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
We can replace mexico with someone else in terns of buisness mexico is hostile
Great investigative journalism! Don't see it too often with mainstream media.
Yeah that’s because they lie by omission to cover for the corrupt weasel Biden administration.
It's a justification to raid Mexico anytime without the consent of Mexico government to cover their invasion
@annemarie1507and what of the concept of 'manufacturing consent'? Do you believe that manipulation is not a tool used to persuade the public?
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!!!!
@annemarie1507 I agree with you about our journalism today, it’s pure garbage. It dosent inform it is designed merely to entertain. There is no money in journalism anymore instead they pay somebody a very low salary to do look it up on the internet and then rewrite the same story with slightly different words. I’m writing because it is disturbing to see no mention of China from the documentary and from those who often are praise the quality of this “investigative journalism” The fentanyl problem is different from all other illegal drug problems because it is being manufactured in bulk by the Chinese government, not to make money but with the specific intent to damage our country and it’s people. This fentanyl is made in China and sold to the Mexican cartels right off the coast of Mexico. The Chinese ship meets the cartel boats out at sea and then it is brought into Mexico and smuggled across the border where it is dispersed the same way all the other drugs are being dispersed. Our government and journalists have no interest in informing more Americans about this fact. They may have to begi. To do their jobs and that might be difficult to do. It might also make them look worse, certainly incompetent, and generally asleep at the wheel. This is no conspiracy theory and you can find this info if you look but it isn’t widely known because we do t have people actively assert aiming what is actually going on. Our country is falling apart! We must change those people who are running this country or we will lose it at an even greater rate than we are now.
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....
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
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.
I'm currently homeless and addicted to fentanyl. I have to agree with you 100%.
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
This is really sad and heartbreaking,
This CBS series has been fire 🔥
just like the drugs
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.
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.
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
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.
Honestly, I never foresee this problem ever going away. It will impact every single one of us in someway, somehow, forever.
Yep😢
It will only become worse, when the economy really starts dipping.
Rough times are ahead.
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.
What is Ibogaine? Please explain. How new is it?
Since when have we ever won the fight to drugs?
Never it been a fight against drugs since I was a child 46 now it’s a joke 😢
we never planned to properly fight drug consumption. its a joke. the consumer needs to be targeted, not the dealers. Give people hobbies, things to do other than drugs. all the money spent on the military and militaries of foreign nations we prop up needs to be allocated elsewhere.
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.
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.
Personal responsibility is important - no one makes you take drugs.
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.
The player's involved in this are bigger than most people think, or can imagine, is why its an un-winnable War
Here's a novel idea, DON'T USE DRUGS.
Thanks Nancy Reagan.
@@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 !
Heres an idea dont be mexico
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.
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??!
I think you should check your facts, recreation? How can you even measure that.
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
@@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
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?
Exactly 💯
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,… 😅
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
Yes, and better parents and influences!
And the people who started the opioid addiction in America? Did we call them terrorist? I’m talking about the pharmaceutical companies that got this ball rolling. Nobody was talking about bombing their corporate headquarters.
RIGHT! Why is Purdue STILL allowed to making OxyContin ?
currently struggling with fentanyl addiction and I'm thankful I'm still alive.
Joe Biden has failed u he’s the one causing this war🤦🏾♀️
Too bad the drug companies who marketed Oxycontin and the doctors who got perks from prescriptions will never get the punishment they deserve.
It's too bad that patients who actually need some relief can no longer get it!
After witnessing what happened in the 80's I absolutely feel NOTHING!!!
Same. My f's have completely run dry
What happened in the 80’s other than all the AIDS deaths?
My deepest condolences 🙏🏾 for I have lost family an friends to fety as well😓
-america is not losing the fentanyl fight its playing out exactly how they want it to..its been said that even a 10% hit to the global jrug trade would have the entire financial system grinding to a halt-
You have a link to the video ?
Why is there a line through your paragraph?
_It's just one of a few options you can do to your text..like make the letters bold or slanted:)_
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.
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.
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.
@@AF-pw5ct I think it's more Facts then it is Judging. My condolences
@@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.
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.
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.
Business is business. Especially when choice is poverty or wealth.
Aka: Life or Death
As long as there is a person willing to do it, there is going to be a person to sell it.
May that mother sorry crying God bless her I desire in my heart that she may not pain anymore....
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?
Lmao your telling me there no drug problems in Honduras of all places?
Be more responsible. Stop the traumas, that lead to addictions, that lead to drug trades, that leads to money laundering, that leads to weapon sales, that leads to narcoterrorism that leads to trauma.
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BLAME CIA/POLITICIANS ☝️