Contaminated: the fentanyl crisis in St. Louis
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2022
- Fentanyl is the most lethal drug ever created. News 4 spent months looking into how it impacts the St. Louis community, where it comes from, and what can be done to alter its deadly path.
For more stories, resources & what you can do to help fight the fentanyl crisis go to www.kmov.com/fentanyl
I was an addict for 16 years, I've been clean for five years last week. This doc is incredible and the makers should really be proud for including a lot of important concepts and I hope people that see this that have not experienced addiction gain some empathy through this.
I'm a pharmacist, and I work at a national hospital as pharmacovigilance supervisor in Syria..
It's been over four years and five months since I stuck a needle in my arm! It was December 17, 2018, and I overdosed on fentanyl. It wasn't even close to the worst I've ever been strung out on dope, but so far it was my wake up call. I was really close to relapsing last summer (2022). I was engaged to this amazing woman and was really happy, but then in about a three week time frame, my dad unexpectedly died, my fiance left me for another guy, and I got fired from my job I'd had for almost five years. My boss went from telling me they were there for me, at my dad's funeral, to saying that they wanted to transition to my no longer working there because my performance had declined three weeks later. I was showing up and doing my job. I pretty much just didn't care at that point, though. I had no tears left.
Full respect to the recovering addicts in this story, I have been through the withdrawals when I stopped using and I can say that there are no words that can describe the emotional and physical suffering that you go through getting clean.
I'm day 13 off of fentanyl and this is by far the hardest battle I've ever faced ...
I lost my son October 24 2020 and I’m still struggling so much ! A huge part of me died and I hurt so bad I can’t even explain it , he was 28 ! I’m so sick of randomly crying ! I’m a 54 year old broken dad and am divorced ! It’s so hard !!!!!!!!
I’m in early recovery but I was craving earlier and I needed to watch this to put things in perspective..my mom has picked me up enough from the hospital and she doesn’t need to bury her son.
For the lady who lost her daughter; I am sorry for the loss of your daughter. May the Almighty grant you solace.
Congratulations to those who survived this addictive crises and prays to those who are still struggling and striving to overcome.
Took Oxy for back pain for 7 years. Dosage when I quit was 160 mg s a day. Used fentanyl patches to slowly detox over a 3 month period. Started at 45 mic patch for a month, then drop to 30 patch and Dope sick, then do a drop to a 15 mic patch , detox for the next month then Zero ! Clean now for 5 years.
I am SO proud of these people that are turning their lives around. It must be so hard but it's SO worth it. I wish them all the best. God bless!
I'm so sorry for everyone's loss , and thankful who all did this documentary that are sober ❤
My friends son died from it. He was only 20. She went to the store and left her son watching television, when she got back he was sitting in the same chair slumped over with foam coming out of his mouth. She was gone less than 10 minutes. He’s been gone for 3yrs now. I remember when he was born.
I've got 3 years clean. I became addicted at the age of 47 years old. Started with my doctor prescribed me pain killers, and I was fully addicted to them by the end of the 1st week. I was a full blown drug addict within a couple of months. I went from being a happy home owner and business owner to completely destroyed, homeless, and alone in 2 years. It ruined my career and my life.
And the part where they’re talking about being cold and the bathroom…. So so accurate. Once I left the extremely abusive relationship I was in and the toxic people in my life I was able to quit rather easily… no one wants to be an addict… they just don’t want to feel the pain in their lives
My heart goes out to their parents.
I think those who were interviewed- were very brave. They did a good thing by telling their true stories.
In the 60s we wanted to expand our mind, so we took LSD
One year, two months and 17 days clean today. Thank you for this excellent piece of work.
Haven't watched this yet, but pretty awesome to see a local news channel doing investigative journalism! Will be watching very soon!