Poisoned: America's Fentanyl Crisis | ABCNL
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- Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
- In part three of a series, Bob Woodruff watches a drug seizure at the U.S.-Mexico border, speaks with a convicted drug dealer and one sheriff who is fighting to keep people like him off the streets.
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My heart breaks for that father that lost both his sons. I lost my oldest son in 2019 at 23 years old. I’ll never be the same. This drug must be stopped. Talk to your children. Please.
I lost my two boys ages 7 and 9 to a drunk Mexican. He got deported and the police said 11 days later he snuck back into the USA again. Crazy how we allow murderers to continue and bury the innocent.
Who wants to bet that ignorant SOB voted for Joe and the open border policies that killed his sons? Sounds to me like Democrats reaping what they have sown.
Bianca, I'm truly so sorry you lost your beautiful son. I can not imagine what this would be like. I'm in Australia and it has been pretty much unheard of over the years, however we are now hearing about it being in everything from pills to weed. I keep warning my adult kids but I don't think they realise how strong and deadly it is. I'm Sending you much love and strength
@@bellab8412 thank you!! Continue to have those conversations, tell the stories you hear. I never want any mother to hurt like I do!! I hope you have a merry Christmas! ❤️
Lol white lives matter⚪️🗑💩💊😂😵💫🥴😵
I was an addict during the 70s. I used drugs to escape the trauma of a horrific childhood. But in 1980 I became sober and have been that way ever since. Please do not place all addicts into a certain category because that’s not how it works. I do admire those who were able to say no. Good work.
That is a wonderful testimony and how courageous you are. Thank you
Sober - not even beers/ wines etc?
Jay Bee Not even.
@@DavidSmith-sf4rl Wow...I admire sobriety, really I do, but I can't conceive of a steak without Shiraz, a Cuban without Cognac etc.
Yeah I had a horrible childhood also and the person that were supposed to protect me is the one who turned me on to all my first drugs. So sad a pathetic to do that to a 6 year old however now thru counseling I am able to stay sober.
The smugness and arrogance of the dealer calling from a prison who thought he was "more intelligent" than others is infuriating.
Yet so typical of the scum they are. He will be back at it again , driving around in a Bentley and laughing at those of us who work for a living .
the poisoner - justice should have made an example of it.
He was like "yeah I guess I killed 18 people, whoops its all good right?"
Hunter Biden's personal supplier.
@@rog2353 give him a taste (2mg) of his own 'medicine'!
As a single mother of a teenager I think it’s really important for parents to have a open conversation with their kids regarding drugs and what’s out there because you never know what’s gonna happen we need to protect our children.
Teacbh them respect and redponsibility, they will respect them selves and learn to respect others
What has that got to do with anything in this video? besides I think choosing the right friends and lover is more important than drugs,
I'm brutally honest with my son about drugs. I have let him know that they cost me everything when he was younger and everything else bad that came from it. Hoping he takes heed
It's no longer just about addiction, this craziness has gotten to the point one pill can kill. I'm baffled why dealers want to OD their customers. Nothing is making sense anymore.
My father taught me from a young age to stay away from illegal drugs and anyone trying to get me to take some is not a friend but a secret enemy.
No one's getting you to take drugs dummy.
I grew up as a preteen in the 60's, teenager in the 70's, young adult in the 80's and god only knows how many times I have been offered illegal/street drugs. But I learned to stay away from certain people and just say NO.
That's the solution
@@vladislavmlynski9695 i was a young adult during the Nancy Regan campaign of just say no. And I just said no. For me it just that plain and simple. I said NO.
Do you say no to sugar, processed foods, and tobacco too?
My heart breaks for the parents,lost my 22yr daughter in 2015. I will never be the same
So sorry for your loss God Bless.
😔I am so sorry for your loss. ❤️🙏🏾
@@kirahoward23 thank you for your kind words
@@debbiedarrah6518 thank you for your kindness
@Melanie Hale thank you
My friend who was only 20 (about to turn 21) passed away from Fentanyl a month ago, August 7, 2022. I'm still struggling with his death because he was one of those good people who deserved the best in life. May he and all the other victims of that poison, Rest In Peace
So sorry for your loss 🙏🏼❤️
Damn I’m sorry bro hang in there
"Poisoned" their mad cause their drugs aren't pure and cut stop doing fucking drugs
@@ataraxia199 thank you 🙏🏽
@@brandcack4117 thanks bro 🙏🏽
Dude said a mouthful. "why aren't we screaming?" As a recovering drug addict I sympathize with people fighting these demons. The saddest part is the kids man. Some of them die from fentanyl thinking it was pain pills or cocaine or something else. I remember when the M 30 Roxies were all legit. Now Mallinckrodt is bankrupt or something no longer making these pills but the streets are full of the fake ones. I know it's damn near impossible but hopefully they can do something, anything about it. Sad situation all those people dying man
Smoking is a very difficult and dangerous activity. Don't do it. No one's able to french inhale before 17
really what can be done? if they bust 1 5 more are dealing the same day..ppl have 2 choices Detox or death..Jail was in there for using..but now ppl dying..so sad.
Lost a friend to this sad drug. My heart hurts for this world 💔
Im sorry, truly. Having loved ones taken from addiction is such a strange awful feeling. I have family that’s passed from heroin and fentanyl overdoses. Despite that, I’m using sinoloan m30’s as well. But I am prescribed suboxone and it’s helped tremendously. Still relapse occasionally. Hearts and hugs 💜
Same, one of my friend's 27 year old son od'd after taking 2 fentanyl pills in 2020😢
The love of money is definitely the root of all this evil going on.
@Rinky Dink what a dumb comment you made lmao.
Amen!
@Rinky Dink that's bs.
@Rinky Dink People aren't that easily categorized, either good or bad. Life isn't black and white.
The cartels are making huge sums of money I agree. However, what is wrong with our society when so many of our citizens have the need for drugs. Nobody forces someone to consume drugs. They know the risks but still dice with death. Society needs a total rethink. Drugs are here and we need to accept that. Legalisation and controlled use may be the only answer. By making drug use illegal only benefit the cartels and other crime networks. Why not legalise and receive tax dollars instead of enriching the drug barons.
That girl came back from the brink of death, amazing. Her story will never be told but we know she will always be the truly lucky lotto winner
She actually did tell her story
Losing a child is the most
Brutal loss in the world my son died from cardiac
Arrhythmia
His heart skipped a beat and never started again
He was 18 I grieve everyday
It's been 38 years ago
Seems like yesterday
May God be with us all
One of the best pieces of advice that my Dad gave me when I came to the US for college was never drink anything at a party that was not opened in front of me. Today I tell my children to take their own soft drinks to a party. One of my children learned the hard way after being poisoned at a friend's house.
Even that isn't safe because glasses have been known to be coated.
I'm sorry that happened. It's great that you have that talk with people.🌹
Poisoned? Is he well now?
Bro what country do you live in that they are poisoned
@@KaiserClone 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just the amount of people in the comments have experienced loss from fentanyl is staggering. Say no to drugs..
Facts...Nancy Regan said it first in the 70s or 80s
It's not so easy, a lot got overprescibed opiods by doctors and became addicted.
@@yolandalcheek462 how did that work out?
Period, a Dr was my supplier. Straight pusher even when asked for alternatives. This started with Big Pharma it was all in the design.
More drugs. More population control!!!
How heartbreaking especially for the parents that lost both their sons at once. As a parent of 2 kids one 22 and one 19, an ex RN and the wife of a Police Officer all I can say is more needs to be done in all countries to stop this.
This is a big problem with open boarders of the democrats.
Your government the same people your husband works for are responsible when the drugs was in black neighborhoods because the government wanted to destroy them everybody said just say no like Mrs Reagan said after her husband flooded this country with that crack cocaine epidemic no one cared but now u care sense it's hitting close to home we loved our children also but never mattered especially to murdering police
@@izaak496 yessir
I agree more needs to be done to stop the drugs....I did not hear of drugs as a child , and all the evil sick behaviors going on in this world seem to be encouraged by sociopathic amoral predators for their gain of POWER and CONTROL....and of course the gain of LOTS of money. Please help EXPOSE these predators who NEGATIVELY brainwash our society ...they know what they're doing!!!!!
It won't.
I lost my mother on Sept 1st, 2022 due to fentanyl overdose. I hate this drug.. stay safe out there everyone.
I lost my dad due to this on my 21st birthday a month ago…No one should have to go threw this and these people need to be held accountable.
I'm sorry for your loss
Vote for Protectors, always.
Be a Protector.
The only reason I NEED not to do drugs. Lost one person already to fentanyl-laced weed.
Maybe blame your dad he wanted to get high
Most people try to escape some sort of events or trauma from the past. Lost both brothers, lost my cousin, lost my brother in law. The rabbit hole of addiction goes deep and dark and 90% don't make it, I myself luckily made it out alive. Every day is a brand new beginning if your struggling you can make that change now.
Yeah, it's really sad. I met a guy that was only 20 and he had done meth so much he already only had a few teeth left. He really was one of the nicest guys I ever met. In a better country, people would be encouraging others to be stronger instead of condemning them to only make the problem worse.
@@someoneout-there2165 💜
i lost my brother when i was 12 to an oxy od.. i was an addict for the past 3 years. the benzo dope wave and tranq dope wave scared me so bad that I've been sober 10 months on the 11th
Drug dealer should get death penalty if convicted not jail.
What? Why?
Can't blame the dealer if u don't blame alcohol companies that sell beer , that allows the drunk driver to delete ppl
@@FreedomFighter2002 drug dealers are part of the cancer society is suffering the same as drug traffickers and more.
@@alventuradelacruz522 Drug dealers are my heros, it's a job like every other job.
The 'war against drugs' is in reality a war against drug users. There is only one solution: a controlled legalisation of all drugs.
@@FreedomFighter2002 drug dealers are nothing more than pest , not very different from rats and roaches
As a teenager I never could understand why my peers were pumping their healthy bodies with drugs and alcohol. I wish this news report had explored the "why" behind drug and alcohol use. Saying they are "addicted" is not enough; everyone know these things are addictive, it's no secret. So why do people even start with drugs?
Because there is no better feeling than being high on opioids
Apparently you have not undergone enough trauma to understand Why.
@@MarieElenaCambria1 I can provide you with pure bliss baby
@@RepublikaHercegBosna Oh please bring it on.
No coping skills.
The family system in America is broken. People come to funeral and talk about how good the dead person was. But when the person was alive they are not extending a hand to uplift. Not everyone is this way. But many are. Families should uplift each other especially in hard times I guess.
American family/culture is totally broken.
We need stay-at-home mother's again who are conscientious about good parenting. A stay-at-home father can do it too, if it's best in a particular family for the mother to work.
Absolutly true
@@lolavir People don't like to admit it, because the cost of living is so high that they figure they can't do anything about it anyway.
Companies don't want families or roots. They want us to be cogs in a machine. In Spain, 80-90% of grandparents see their grandkids at least once per week. My kids are in two different countries.
32 year old vet dearly loved gone forever
I lost my son to an overdose of heroin cut with fentanyl. Like Bianca below, he was only 23. He was my only child. And at 55 I think about not having him in my life every day. It has destroyed my life, and I sometimes think about ending my life, but I know that he would never want that.
I was prescribed percocet after a surgery and one time being tired and sleepy inadvertently took double the dose. I was such a strange feeling, I wouldn't describe it as a high or euphoria but rather a feeling of almost indescribable well-being. For a long while I thought about that feeling and I started to think about figuring out a way to have it again.... But after watching countless video's like this describing the horrors of drug use I know it's just a lie, only an empty and temporary high. Using could never really make me happy, it's just a fake facade of happiness. Now that I am aware of how drugs are becoming more contaminated and toxic it's not something I want to touch.
Could you describe the feeling more
I’m so happy to hear you are strong enough to avoid those urges. Hats off to you, and I hope life maintains this way for you!!
Lost my cousin to this 28 years old . My life changed immediately this is the real pandemic
You fools act as if though life matters. The only reason we even have a country to live in and call home is because around 40 million Indians were slaughtered by the European outkasts that their countries had no use for and put on boats. Talk about two faced.
Definitely a PANDEMIC ABOVE AND BEYOND.I have lost 4 siblings, cousins child to the system, NOTHING IS GONNA STOP THE TRAFFIC OF CARTEL CREWS AND FEDEX YOU GET IT OFF THE INTERNET AND IT IS EVERYWHERE 💰 THAT THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR IS AND IF IT'S NOT THE PEOPLE WILL GET IT, REGARDLESS OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES 🙏WE HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR A SICK HUMAN BEINGS THAT CAN'T DO ANYTHING ALONE. GO THE EXTRA MILE, I GUARANTEE IT IS NOT CROWDED 🙋❤️
True! Lost my cousin to the Fetty. I know a total of 4 individuals that passed away from this deadly drug.
I understand. It's a personal issue
@@antaresalexandersporkyadda8008 It's not just personal.
Fentanyl is in every city and state now.
Everyone needs to be made aware of this problem.
You never know a family member may come across it.
I lost a childhood friend from the fentanyl pill we grew up together he has some beautiful kids, he took one & it immediately stopped his heart. I took it hard his brother is still grieving as well as his parents we been hearing about the drug but didn’t think it was in our city so close, it’s been killing a lot of people. My sincerest condolences to anyone who has lost anybody to the drug.🙏🏾I wish it was never created
Thank you. This was so educational, I'm in Australia and we have a terrible problem over here as well. I watch another youtube channel as well called 'The Life Boat' that really focuses on educating people on drugs, addiction and living happily in sobriety. They have had a lot of great shows lately talking about things similar to this. They have a live stream at 5pm (USA Pacific Time) everyday except Wed and Thurs and a live chat. You can also call in live to talk about your experiences and ask the hosts questions. They are extremely knowledgable and helpful with no judgement. It's just a loving, friendly place to go, regardless of what is happening in your life.
Your channel and other ones like this are really needed to educate people about this horrific, growing nightmare .. so many people are dying. Thank you again for your video. Please be safe everyone.
God bless the paramedic who saved that young ladies life of an OD. Thank you, thank you and thank you! I can not thank you enough. You responded so well, you handled it so well and I hope you can educate and train future paramedics joining the career/team.
CS scary stuff. I can imagine how the dude felt around a bunch of placeholders.
So, what next..???go back to drugs....
Why is this country so hellbent on self destruction? It's not a GOP or DEM issue. It's a culture thing.
imagine actually thinking this was accurate
Drugs is another way to let the justice system justify their wages. They want get rid of the problem. They are the problem.
You are right.
Narcistic tsunamy
Breaks my heart seing the father of those great kids talking about missing when his son said hey Pops.😔
God Bless his heart and soul ❤️ R.I.P to everyone who ever lost someone for this fentanyl garbage.
Lost my dad to an accidental fentanyl and ethernol overdose. My heart goes out to the families suffering from this epidemic
You can thank democrats and leftists for fentanyl flooding into our towns and cities
Wow the brothers overdosed together oh my god…
Not an overdose. They were poisoned...it was a counterfeit drug disguised to look like Oxycodone.
What a horrible pain to have to go thru. I know so many people that have died and their children also.
I pray for all of you people out there stay safe keep your head up
A neighbor of ours 15 year old son (maybe 120 lbs, super bright but troubled)was rescued by 3 doses of Narcan after he ODed on Fentanyl early 2021….
Thank goodness his parents found him in time, and they could immediately administer the first dose.
They knew he had drug problems, had sent him to inclusive school/treatment centers, but with Covid-19, the programs closed and he returned to the same place same friends that started him on this frightening path. I’m betting that his story is being repeated all over the US, with many lives lost.
Thankful that he was rescued, worried that the pattern might repeat. I now carry Narcon at all times, in case anyone else’s child (young or old, rich or poor, whatever ethnicity, religion, gender etc) falls into the death grips of this noxious poison
Who is negatively brainwashing our society through sociopathic predatorial amoral greed ????
They want to die! Nobody "saved" sht. Except their own inability to face the fact that they never really built a relationship with the person who now wants out! Families drive kids to do drugs by their own neglects. Many families suck. Many parents suck. And the addict is their scapegoats.
It's not only the drug that kills the suicidal thoughts and feelings that a person gets with these things that can last for years after addiction has stopped ! Any parent that truly loves their child must educate them that any drugs destroy everything in their world ! But the parents need to be educated before hand and lots don't ever think it's going to happen to their little angel ! And when they find out that there kid is going down the wrong path they disown and tar them with a brush and frighten them off from telling the truth and lots more happens when you kick a dog when he is down! You can't wrap them in cotton wool but we can explain the truth to them but it needs to be done the right way ! I always remember my social studies teacher telling us how bad needles and heroin was at high school it shocked me to hear that and to this day I have never used a needle but got sucked into everything else ! But these days it's so easy to get sucked into the gutter with so many unknowns around ! There is no boundry gate or certain types of people that you have to watch out for so it's hard to isolate from ! I woke up one day and relized what had happened to me and now I'm disappointed that I was so easily led but I also learnt to say no but it took so many years that is why it is worse than a pandemic and it's never discussed properly !most people will not get a second chance at life ! It's so nice to wake up without a hangover or the need to be dependent on something that will kill you ! And to be able to look someone in the eyes again is a good feeling ! Don't let your guard down and don't ever forget to much of a good thing is not a good thing ! Addiction is real and it only takes one try and it will be too late ! Experimenting even is not an option !even if it's free that is how they hook U into it !
I wanna understand Smok vision.
Getting "educated" is the dumbest response in every comment! Reading something does not override emotional dependency. That is why 90%+ still die! Oh but if they read a book... Ok.
As a foreigner I’m shocked, USA has all the money 💰 why are they failing at this?
Maybe instead of donating money to other countries, they should help their own citizens first, this is ridiculous
Also I see lack of family support in the west, parents need to do better… don’t leave ur kids alone, stay in touch with them even when they r adult
US wanted to stop the war on drugs in our country 😒😒
we wanted them to just stop meddling on ours...
Money doesn't make everyone happy. It doesn't fix all problems.
Thank you for your input yes this is so tragic trafficking
drugs If I ran this country I love
I would change the laws and if people were caught selling drugs that killed someone or trafficking children they would NEVER get out of prison and they would know it would be VERY PUBLIC
Climate change is a bigger concern here than our children and people dying of drugs it's very very sad seems no sense of urgency at all to do anything about these tragic circumstances
The US doesn't "donate" money to other countries. Other countries are given hundreds of millions as payoffs to officials so that US corporate elites, DOD/CIA can exploit the country and its resources. Millions go to "private" US military corporations yearly for guarding borders of foreign countries too. The US agencies/DOD are responsible for the drugs (and guns) trafficked into the US via cartels. They want the US population destabilized so the majority remain compliant despite corruption throughout every level of government.
Conservatives want to spend money on US citizens and veterans, democrats want to fund a war with Russia and let the border get flooded with Fentanyl
just lost my husband to fentanyl overdose. 5/30/22 my eight year old daughter found him. she said something is wrong with Daddy he is blue 🙏 he was 32 yrs young 🙏 I miss him dearly and life ain't the same without him.
That's so terrible , you have my deepest sympathy. 💔
Tragic! So sad
My friend just died from this...I didn't see the signs or knew he got high...So 💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭I cry now again for him...
Thank you for developing this material. I am now concerned for my health and for my friends.
Alot of the addicted got addicted by the same opioids the doctors prescribed them. When the doctor says "No more refills." Meanwhile the patient has become dependable on the same pills he was prescribed. Now he is told he needs to go cold turkey. Ask yourself "Does that make sense?" Legally the doctor got him hooked on an opioid to help severe pain. When they say no more refills, the patient can still be in alot of pain, maybe not. The fact that we are prosecuting people for using is absurd. Don't lock people up for using drugs, they need help. Locking users up dosent help, but these people need treatment and therapy, maybe an unadictive substance that can help the person wing off the drug. Drug users are going to get locked up and repeat. What does that tell you, our justice system needs change and major change.
That’s part of the plan sad and it needs change
Your right about that. But by them stopping the pain medication many people need the medication to have a quality of life
The “the State” changed the Laws and the buyers turned to the Blue 30’s.
Or we’re lead to them…
You caught on?
Be a man and cut the habit- show some self control
As a current addict, I can't imagine what this dad would be going tru 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
I'll keep you in my thoughts
We need more government funding for RAPID DETOX centers and assistance for rehabs !! America needs H.A.T treatment. These pills are the result of the drug war against heroin.
❤️🙏🏽
Leave those pills dawg
Don't be srupid
Stupid
A few years ago one of my best friends that I’d known since 5 years old died suddenly. A friend told me she had been taking ecstasy with her friends. It didn’t make sense, they said she had some kind of reaction. I have a suspicion it was fentanyl, but I’ll never know. Her best friend, her mother, let go of her battle with cancer a few days after her daughter’s funeral.
I can’t imagine the pain! Losing both kids at once😢 this is so tragic what’s going on😢
and ur president joe biden is behind it all😂
My parents have my sincere understanding of the loss. Love never dies.
Why would somebody take a drug without knowing what it is beyond me. 😕
Young
Others had done it, plus You see a lot of girls your age partying with grown men and drugs so they think that’s the way to roll. We even had these types dating girls in junior high. WTF? My friends Dad was partying with chicks from his sons college. Some serious Gold Diggers and THOTS.
They are addicts - they would sell their mother and children for their choice of drugs
@@yseson_ Young Thug is actually in jail right now!
For teens, peer pressure plays a large role.
Born and raised in Riverside CA and it seems things have gotten alot worse since I left 5 years ago
This is why I talk to my kids about everything. All the generational family curses. And about don't just take a pill, cuz it will kill you
Our country needs help!!!!’ I just lost my husband from a fentanyl poisoning. Devastating! I was told by the police they Don’t have the manpower to keep up with all the fentanyl overdoses so they’re not able to go after the sources and it’s just a terrible vicious cycle.
Please !!!!!
African Americans have been murdered and some are currently in jail for a 10$ bag of weed.
U are mentally weak
Cheers from west Africa
🦅
They know what to do. If opiates were legal no one would even dare try fentanyl.
Prohibition kills, I'm sorry you're going through this.
our countries leaders sohnn does fent/crack why do you think the borders open and cheinnnahhh is sending tonns of it now?
The police are the problem. Dont let them fool you.
@@RedLineShortFilms yes!! As a person who has done fentanyl hundreds of times it’s not even fun. Fentanyl is so strong yes, but for someone with a tolerance it’s not that risky. However, fentanyl is less euphoric than almost all other less potent opiates. So it’s actually funner to do the less potent ones. I live in Seattle and have basically unlimited access to opiates but the price of fentanyl makes it the only option for most users. To get high off fentanyl it costs me about $20 but to get high off real pills it would cost me about $200. If we legalized drugs we could end the opiate pandemic almost overnight. It’s insane that people don’t agree about legalizing drugs and still look at drug users as weak willed. The science says otherwise. Look at the failure of the war on drugs.
We have a Fentanyl problem here in the small northern town of Eureka CA. There were five fatal overdoses of the drug just last week. Traffickers of the drug who are caught and arrested, are released a short time later. We have no funding to hold the influx of addicts who are struggling with it. This sucks.
We don’t care
African Americans have been murdered and some are currently in jail for a 10$ bag of weed.
U are mentally weak
Cheers from west Africa
🦅
Went to school at Humboldt, it’s a sad state up there :(
ummmmmmm, hows about executing the dealers? Like they do in the Phillipines. No drug problems there. You dumb sheep allow corrupt politicians and others to get rich off this scam
If anyone had many balls. They would put on law any drug dealers and smugglers would be dropped in a active Valcano 🌋 and there body full of there pills in there system while being dropped 🌋🚁
They let them go? Somehow I doubt that part.
here in ottawa they recently busted a dealer for having TWO KILOS of fent. i was told by a paramedic that that amount can make literally millions of fatal doses. anything for dealers to make quick money it seems :/
I heard Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's 50 to 100 times more powerful than Heroin
MY HEART GOES OUT TO THIS POOR FAMILY.
TO LOSE BOTH OF YR BOYS AT THE SAME TIME
IT’S INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
GOD BLESS YOU.
YR BOYS ARE AT PEACE, TOGETHER,
FOR ALL ETERNITY. 💙🙏🏼💙
I'm glad I got clean since '99. Looking back at my pattern of use, I'd probably wouldn't survive fentanyl, carfentanil, benzo dope, whatever. My heart goes not only for the family but also to active users out there. Your fight is much, much harder than mine was. Just don't give up, okay.
For professionals whose expertise is in prevention & rehabilitation, please don't act like fentanyl caught you off guard. Every single one of you (us) KNOWS there will always, always be new kinds of more addictive, more potent drugs which are easier & cheaper to produce.
Did you watch the story about benzo dope on Vice
Norc, You and me both.
Thank you 🙏 its hard but im trying even harder.
I agree with you about professionals. My parents didn’t anticipate crack and meth. Drugs were a pretty innocent experience, to a lot of old hippies. I grew up in the meth/heroin era, after seeing adults struggling with crack. Drugs stayed a lot the same through my young adulthood. It was in the streets, and at least you knew what you were getting into. Doctors prescribing opiates en masse certainly caught the public off guard. I was prescribed OxyContin, and told it was formulated to avoid the risks of addiction that other pills had. I don’t know how many doctors were aware (though some have admitted to it), but the fraud was by Purdue, Insys, and other corporations, and it’s all been adjudicated and documented. The breach of public trust created the demand for opiates in the streets that fentanyl was the answer to. For practitioners to act shocked by fentanyl is out of touch, at this point. Fentanyl has shocked the public out of complacency, and made us expect more, and worse, to come. We’ve had tranq, benzo dope, flakka, and now ISO, as the media has called it, but it’s selling under many names. Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than morphine. ISO is 20-100 times stronger than fentanyl. As soon as a substance is recognized and controlled, they charge the formula. Prohibition and legislation, in general, can’t stop this. We need a massive educational and health and human service effort. It has worked for many countries, and some localities, who’ve tried it (like the King County PD project.
@@sciencenotstigma9534 thank you !
OMG. The loss of two sons at the same time. My heart breaks!
I'm a 67 yr old chronic pain patient who has been forced to suffer because of street fentanyl.I was prescribed fentanyl patch a decade before the street fentanyl was a thing.I never turned to the streets .I don't know how Ive lived these past 5 yrs .My pain causing conditions have no fix I wish people would realize there are people who,non cancer pain, that need narcotic pain relief & who never turn to crime.We just want to live,enjoy our family &. What time we have left of life.Being able to eat shower,care for ourselves & not want to end our lives because of never ending physical pain..We've tried to many alternatives that do nothing to ease our suffering.We are not the problem
America's moral compass no longer points north, this is heart wrenching.
lost my son January 7th, 2022 thank you for doing this
I'm sorry for your loss. I can only imagine how terrible it must be to deal with. You have my sympathy.
That guy DEFINITELY belongs in jail for life. At least he was honest about not thinking of the consequences to peoples lives.
No he doesn't. He simply supplied a demand for a product. Colorado, and some other states, do the same. The Americans are just whinging again.
@@philcooper279 well we are known to be the best whingers !!
@@philcooper279 counterfeit pills? Really? He was making his own and made a bad batch, that’s a different story
Yall please pay attention to this. My boyfriend Chad is a living survivor of a heroine overdose that had fentanyl in it. Mixed with the intake of benzos....it boyt to him outta here. He was in a coma for awhile before he woke up. God blessed him.
I am real close to begging you, shine an additional giant light on the fact, for every fentanyl death, at least 20 families are devastated and broken by the power of it's active addiction, usually taking decades to recover when they do, but usually the families never fully recovering as a family.
Thank you for stepping up about fentanyl!
Being so brave, please, also include the #s of families broken due to cocaine, heroin, and meth.
Great job though! Please continue, and please always include the information I've reminded you about,
spread the word to your fellows of influence, to expand on that, Thank you. 💔
All of a sudden a lighter shade of ppl in a certain tax class started to be affected so now it became a huge problem 🤔
Cus white people care about they’re communities. Ghetto folks just accept it and live with it
You're not entirely wrong, but you're joking if you think anything meaningful is actually being done now about the current opioid crisis. West Virginia, for instance, is now a post-apocalyptic hellscape with no end in sight because of this stuff.
@@jabronijoestar5581 I know there's problems there plus everywhere else. More must be done but i meant the tax bracket. West Virginia isn't exactly known for millionaires
Yes.. becuase those lighter shade of people aren't nearly as much of a hot mess as the darker ones.
This has affected my family. I have family in Florida who all have addictions and my oldest niece almost died from an overdose of fentanyl. A friend of mine’s daughter lost two boyfriends to fentanyl overdoses. My cousin’s son died from a fentanyl overdose. So I hope that the man they were interviewing spends the rest of his life in prison. I can’t fathom that family’s sense of loss, devastation, pain, sorrow, and grief at losing two children. I hope every single scumbag, from wherever, that is involved in these murders spends their eternity in hell.
OMG... there are so many people going thru this in all states. We do need stricter laws from dealers and some of them are addicts so that's how they get their fix. Herion is still so bad but addicts are getting addicted to fentynal. Our President made it worse by letting all these cartels thru with the drug runners. Close the boarders it would help some
What about your niece and everyone else you mentioned? Should they get jail time? You just gonna blame the dealer and not the user? Wheres the accountability at?
@@nobobyelse1789 Exactly! Users make a choice to use. Killers make a choice to kill, rapists make a choice to rape, people make a choice to work for a living while others make a choice to be a criminal, bum, lazy piece of 💩!
@@nobobyelse1789 LIAR LiAR pants on 🔥
I hope he does to. I lost my little brother and can't count how many people from high school are now gone. It is unreal...
Imagine losing BOTH of your kids. I cant.
I feel sorry for all parents in the US may GOD Save this great Nation.
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But we got 5 billions dollar to give away to others but not our most desperate, the gop should be outlawed
Why not blame the potato head in the W.H. who is allowing this garbage and all the cartel to walk across our s. border? It's fcking ridiculous!🤡🤡
Yup, we getting robbed every moment by CONGRESS and its minions...as well our money given away.
I could hear republicans now:
"Its my right to overdose. Don't attack my freedom." 😂 😂😂
@@dentatusdentatus1592 wrong side there genius. Democrats are the promoters of the illegals, drug cartel and free flowing fentynl that's killing people by the thousands.
and what makes it so BAD its our TAX DOLLARS ,insanity!!!!
It's really not a drug it's a poison.
I’m sorry to break the news, that any addict knows, but that wasn’t the brothers’ first time using opioids. Surely that notion helps the parents cope. In reality it’s far more likely that the brothers initially used genuine pharmaceutical opioids prior to buying street drugs from a dealer with fentanyl citrate laced counterfeit tablets. Buying illicit drugs on the street is almost always a last resort for pill users. Especially since the dealer they bought from was clearly untrustworthy, meaning they likely didn’t know them well, and the dealer didn’t care about the brothers enough to inform them about the product.
I couldn’t go on with life if i lost both my children like that he’s stronger than i am
Lost my little sister at 27 years old to fentanyl in 2019, the dealer is being charged with 3rd degree murder and is in prison right now.
Most of these dumbed down sheep would be so lucky to die from fentanyl death when they see how much suffering goes on in this dying, divided, leaderless nation. Maybe this was their plan all along. Opiate death is beautiful. Way until we get bombed and start starving to death.
Forgive me but how is her death the drug dealers fault? Should bartenders be charged for alcoholism?
@@thecutbeautii3399 he knew it had too much fentanyl in it as it caused multiple ODs yet kept dealing it anyway, he then watched her OD, did not administer narcan, didn’t call 911, stole her purse, cleaned out the hotel room of all evidence and text his mom that some girl just died off $9 drugs he gave her. Left the scene and never turned himself in. It’s not as simple as “should we charge bar tenders” like seriously, drug dealers are not the same. Alcohol is toxic and awful and destroys lives but if you’re getting drunk at a bar a bar tender will be charged if someone gets too intoxicated, that’s why you’re allowed to cut people off if you’re tending the bar! And they do!
@@thecutbeautii3399 Usually people ODing on fentanyl do not know that the pill they are popping has fentanyl in them. Look at the video, dealers add fentanyl to regular medicines like pain killers. So yes, the dealers do need to be held accountable.
@@thecutbeautii3399 are you slow? The dealer sold a drug known to kill people quickly. Now we are defending drug dealers? Lord help you
The "war on drugs" was never won and will never be won because there was no war against Poverty and Economic Inequality in the United States.
Hustling will always remain an alternative as long as this country requires a bachelor's degree just to live a decent life or $1400 to rent a small apartment.
Well the economic inequality part is a cop out. Financial aid for college or tech school will literally pay for a free education in this country if you're poor. There's also infinite scholarships. It's about whether you want to change your circumstances in life, nobody can do that for you.
@@Christina-71 but you have to admit the war on drugs has been a complete failure. Also, a lot of people don't better themselves because they are never taught to value/love themselves.
@@Christina-71 it’s not enough and is limited to a few states
@@Christina-71 Less and less people are falling for the phony Education-Mafia racket
First, it have be profitable. 'War of something' is a slogan or message and then they profit out of it.
I love how they leave out the opioid crisis, which was triggered by big pharma, the medical system, and most powerful consulting firm (McKinsey)
Please help EXPOSE and STOP greedy amoral sociopathic predators who are NEGATIVELY brainwashing our society!!!!!
Please have compassion for those struggling with drug and alcohol abuse. Alot of it stems from trauma undealt with from childhood or any trauma really. It obviously varies from person to person. As as a man who has almost 14 years abuse free, I know people can get the help, people can change and people can heal. Yes the individual has to want it before change can start but being supportive of those individuals is perhaps one of the greatest blessings one could hope for. Many are so bruised and broken and don't know where to go or what to do but there are options, sometimes they just need to know someone cares, help them make the calls, drive them to detox centers etc...sometimes it takes tough love and those who have never struggled with alcohol or drug abuse may never know why it happens and that is ok but never turn a blind eye if possible to do anything if you can. There is no cure but there is hope, that's something most are holding on to....
@Bearlyontime I just watched this heartbreaking video and totally agree with you in regard to the unresolved childhood trauma, or other types, which I've mentioned on similar videos, especially when there's a lot of judgemental comments!
Mind you, some people respond by stating that they were abused as well, yet didn't take drugs, or have done anything else wrong.
As you probably know, it can depend on various factors and some children had at least one adult who cared about them, whereas others had none at all. It seems like something did happen to the critical people's empathy though.
I used to drink a lot etc as a way of coping, then ended up in a much worse state after attending AA and NA meetings, due to the total lack of understanding about emerging traumatic memories, not to mention pain, so I stay away nowadays. ❤
I had to stop doing cocaine because of this. I HATE it here.😭
Thank you D.E.A for allowing this to happen. M30 pills are here because of the war on drugs. Heroin.
yes. there have always been both state and federal restrictions regarding the limits on pain medications dispensed. everyone knew what was happening. the doctors, the pharmacists, the d.e.a. all had their hand$ out.
@@timgreenglass as long as we continue to let them crack down on pain management and legal morphine treatment illegal synthetic drugs will fill in the blanks. Even Heroin was safer than this fentanyl.
Wow I broke down crying my eyes out when that young girl was brought back from certain death, how that young man can cope after losing his two sons is unbelievable,things in America have got to be sorted out,I would hate the UK to be getting ruined like your once great nation ,bless all lives destroyed because of Drugs
So sorry for your loss. I lost my only son to this
Thank you for this story and your true journalism
My heart literally breaks for the families 💔😪
"Badgal" huh. That's a problem in itself.
Hearts don't "literally break"
@@Longtack55 Literally Literal Larry over here.
The problem isn’t where drugs comes, is why people use it.
Thank you CA!!!
Been clean for over five years going on six now. It's possible if you want it enough. You can do it. Don't give up. 🖤
Its horrible my girlfriend and i just got sober off of it. Almost killed us hope we can figure out how to stop this bs
Hey my hometown, I was once a Heroin addict but for clean before Fentanyl, now that is all I hear my old friends (the ones still alive) are doing. It's depressing but I know I am not going to change any addicts mind, goodluck all who are still in their addiction.
This is terrible, i'm so sad and worry about this sh**t. I live in Mexico (South San Diego), i have 2 daughters and every day im showing them this kind of information. Thank you so much for this video! Let's pray for a better world! 💗
I bet the trafficker doesn't even get taken into custody.
@@seanvales391 I've seen with my own eyes how judges sit traffickers comfortably while they do paperwork just as protocol to make everyone believe they are being processed, they are sent to a hotel and then released later on. They never get taken into custody, they never touch a cell. Mexican local authorities are corrupted right down to the core. I live in Sonora near the border and it's a nightmare every day.
@@sarcomakaposi2054
Its a fact they are a part of the trafficking.
Banks, judges,enforcement, real-estate,...the dealer with no planes to obtain the drugs are the pawns. People waste plenty of time running the streets,thinking they have a plan. The streets does not come with a 401k or insurance.
Get a trade and stay out of the streets. It's a set up.
People are addicted to taking deadly risks.
more and more
Lost my older cousin to this Rip Jr 🙏
My daughter died from heroin in 2013 age 24 and have another 34 struggling, her boyfriend just died last week from it, she came home from the hospital recovering from PEs, very bad shape doing heroin for long time and found her boyfriend dead. Now she's crying for day's and the mother wants her out of her house they were renting by the end of the month and nowhere to go with no car. The chances of her relapsing is near 100% I'm frightened and don't know what to do, I live in SE Michigan, anyone know what I can do? I can't let her live with me I can't trust her and my youngest son lives here
2:00+"Just my agency, has seized enough fentanyl to kill the entire country." - Chad Bianco, Sheriff Riverside County CA .Holy crap
My nephew died last week from an oxy laced with fentanyl. So sad.
So sorry for your loss, heartbreaking!!!
I'm truly sorry for your loss.blessings to you and yours.
It was a fentanyl posing as an oxy then. Not laced at all.
His choice to take illegal drugs .
If had both in his system he prob got some legit oxys then some fake ones,with just fentanyl. Nobodys wasting their time making the pills with some oxy and some fentanyl in them it's just straight up fentanyl amd filler...
I just love seeing Bob Woodruff reporting! I watched the short series he did with his son, Rogue, it was really interesting and amazing!
Drug dealer have no morals. Damn shame
Don’t take a pill , you don’t know what’s in it !! Value your precious life
You can look at this "subject" of Drugs from a different perspective, besides just being a 4-part business:
the Producer, the Middle Man, the Consumer, and the Authority. It's a perfect Cast.
They work in perfect harmony in providing a Society's needs.
All for their own benefit = greedy pigs!
If i were a misanthropist i would say drugs are the perfect balance. Faulty gears falling off the societal machine just being replaced with new more functional sprockets, aye? Wether humans who consume drugs can be considered failures or the traps life sets for them are simply nature's way of getting rid of the unfit... makes us cruel judgementors. Who are we to decide who lives and who dies?
@@sarcomakaposi2054 Someone gave humans the ability to decide who lives and who dies. Was it God ?
I personally have conversations with my son letting him know because you never know where our kids are going to be and you never know what’s going to be at somebody’s house when you’re not around your children you need to protect your children and protect your children’s friends because there are future
Yes I lost my son to this he was 31
All people think drugs come from Mexico so they blame all Mexicans. Please need to do way more research cuz they come in by different places. When oxicodone came in there were commercials on TV saying how great it was for pain. Commercials people then comes in all the different races rich poor middle class addicts. Sad thing they did not know how addicteding it was until they had the withdrawals then they got scared cuz they realized how bad they needed it. Their life's were never ever the same again
The drug dealers are american people in the US not foreing people.
Our Big Pharma has pushed many deadly drugs. I cannot understand why we allow commercials pushing medications! Many of the meds are presented as a wonder cure and people flock to their doctors seeking out these substances. Down the road, many of these drugs are found to be ineffective and even dangerous.
Well Fentanyl is coming over the border.
It killed 33,000 last year.
STOP DOING DRUGS AMERICA
It worked , they have all stopped after reading your message. The world thanks you.
@@rottweilerfun9520 they probably won’t all stop after reading my message… but they’ll see someone living there Best life without drugs and say that’s my motivation to do better… each one Teach one… and don’t let not 1 hater/naysayer stop you.. good day petting you!!!
@@rottweilerfun9520 Please help expose and stop greedy sociopathic predators who are negatively affecting our society through their amoral ways through the media
If they can't "Just Say No" then lets fill up the jails with the drug addicts and give them exorbitant jail sentences with out any drug treatment program.
People like drugs and there's nothing that can be done to stop it.
This needs to be broadcasted all over this country... the numbers and letters on the pills.
Unfortunately, I assume the presses to form the pills could be changed out to appear differently.
Shut up
African Americans have been murdered and some are currently in jail for a 10$ bag of weed.
U are mentally weak
Cheers from west Africa
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This is getting bad.
Money , depression , general human discontent … we can all share the blame !
I mean it is a national news feed.