Seattle's addiction: The fentanyl crisis destroying the city
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- There have now been more overdose deaths in King County this year than in all of 2020, according to data from Public Health - Seattle and King County.
As of Monday, the health department recorded 524 overdose deaths in the county in 2023, surpassing the entire annual total of 2020, when the county saw 508 overdose deaths.
King County is on pace to exceed last year's record-breaking total of 1,000 overdose deaths. A majority of overdose deaths involve fentanyl, according to the health department data.
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It's not destroying Seattle it is destroying the whole country
Welcome to Joe Biden's America
@@lezobrandon3398 No we need to put our resources in Israel and Ukraine
Not just the US. This is a global problem. It is skyrocketing everywhere.
@@xftbllplyr2091 and take all the resources away from The Americans that are needed and use on people crossing our border
@@lezobrandon3398 The decline of the US has been going for decades. Biden is a buffoon but he was been in the US Senate for 40 years. The leadership class, the ruling elite in the US are all terrible.
The only reason crime is down is because the city decriminalized many crimes. The city is already lost. Tourism is down, tax revenue is down by 140 million dollars, homelessness is increasing, drug addiction is increasing, and the middle class is fleeing. Cities didn't learn from the fall of Detroit and now we're seeing many more Detroits.
kinda scary when they decriminalize rob, rape, and genocide as not a crime. then declare crime is down. just frightening.
@Annabelle Lee: "The only reason...". Did you notice the "Chief's" level of tone rise when he got on the defensive by starting off every statement with the word "actually". Twice, he used this defensive tact.
Sounds like he's running scared.
On a Public Relation's viewpoint, I would give the Chief a "grade of desperation" trying to hang on to his job. To that I say Chief, keep your resume updated and fresh.
And that may be the only actual "actually" what's going on here.
@@AnhNguyen-hn9vj Well, in their defense, they only decriminalized robbery, rape and murder is still illegal, but you don't have to wait in jail for the two years it takes for the trial to begin. They just let you out so you have plenty of time to make your way to someplace else before the trial.
@@fritzsmith3296 I think he is part of the problem, they're lying to try to get the less intelligent people to believe that San Fran has no problems and is a great, clean, safe place! Tourism is seriously down as is tax revenue.
Not one republican anywhere in site…
This fentanyl destroyed my whole life completely and toke my best friend away! This shit is no joke, I am a victim of it and I can tell anyone no matter who you are it will kill you or destroy your life before you know it.
I am 1 year clean and still going strong 💪 R.I.P to everyone else that has lost a loved one to this.
@@McLovinMclovin-mv5zothat’s very sad, he was so young. So sorry for your loss.😔😢
Keep going
hope you are receiving psychological hep because there is always a reason why you took drugs in the beginning!
@@user-tj3ii3dd9i I have to be completely honest with you, even though I have been sober for a little over a year now. I have received any psychological help at all and I don’t know if it makes a difference. I only really started using because of the people I was hanging out with. I never EVER though I would become an addict, I surrounded myself around the wrong people. The biggest reason why I’ve been clean and moved on is because I moved to another town far away from those people who put me down. Recovery is not easy and I can tell you that, there’s so much you go through during the process of recovering.
Erik be proud that was Smart too Stop Ok 💯
Seattle used to be the most beautiful city….so sad!
I got a $50 ticket for legally street parking outside of my apartment complex while I watch the homeless and crackheads doing heroine, meth and fentanyl on the streets outside my window as police cars drive right by them. Priorities.
Parking Tickets will always reign further priority to the City of Seattle due to the unfortunate reality that our govt. cares far more about quotas and collecting capital rather then designating city services to causes that doesn’t bring forth money to their pockets. Our govt could care less about the lives of citizens especially those that are addicts and homeless.
cost money to clean up the streets... why do that when they can get money from you instead and pay their friends "outreach workers" millions to forever clean up the street.
Heaven forbid you break a single law if you have the money to pay the fines. But if you are an addict or mentally ill there are no penalties at all for living like an animal and making life intolerable for average citizens.
Move away as fast as you can.
They can get money out of you. Every time they pick up an addict, it costs a lot of money just to process them.
There is a simple solution for the street users (AKA what Seattle politicians call 'our houseless neighbors'). Two choices when you're caught doing heroin, meth, fentanyl, or any hard-core drug: 1) You agree to free treatment and receive housing in one of the locations Seattle has spent millions of dollars on. 2) You go to jail and receive treatment against your will. Doing drugs in public is not an acceptable answer to the crisis. Seattle enables these people which will never help them.
That idea makes way too much sense, they'd never consider something like that.
Exactly: Door #1, or door #2. No other way around it.
Hell no. Make it illegal. Put them in jail.
Oh they will and make a ton of money off of it too. But not before developers own it all so they can rebuild and make more money. It's a win win for the rich and special interest.
I agree. I'm in recovery over 20 years, I was successful bc I didn't lie to myself or play with my life, I had chosen 3 years jail over rehab bc I wasn't ready. Frequent fliers, treatment or persecution
Fentanyl addiction actually destroyed my life for over 6 years. I also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom 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.
Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, fentanyl,alcohol and cigarettes.And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Hey! Yes very sure of Dr.benshrooms. a single dose of shrooms saved me from Alcohol addiction. 6 years clean. no cravings. this doesn't sound weird to me in any way shape or form.
I'm really happy for you that your mom 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.
How do i reach out to him? Is he on insta
I just visited Seattle for the first time last week. I only spent an afternoon there and while I don't feel like I saw larger numbers of homeless people than any other city I've visited, what I saw was more disturbing than anywhere else I've been. Open drug use, people laying on the curb passed out or worse, and a shirtless man with the worst hernia I've ever seen. All this in a few short hours visiting Pike Place Market, grabbing lunch, and walking over to the Space Needle. It's so sad that this is common place in this beautiful city.
I had a coworker who visited there for a weekend and caught Hep C from someone putting shit in the food.
3rd avenue is right next to the tourist areas/belltown and is a hot spot for drug use and crime. Once you spend a little time in the city you learn which streets are no-go zones and which ones are actually policed and relatively safe. The city should not be operating in this manner. The city recently put out a statement that second hand fentanyl smoke is not a threat to your health. I wonder how the public transportation union feels about this after they went on strike for being exposed to fentanyl smoke while trying to do their jobs. Seattle is in a state of perpetual crisis and will continue to be as long as public drug use/sales are not condemned.
Keep voting for the same bs party politics and look at where we are
Welcome to the worst coast
San Francisco, its the same. 😢
STOP enabling them! Start arresting people or force them into rehab or mental institutions.
Stop saving them, and the disease will cure itself.
Thank Regan for closing all the mental institutions and directly contributing to this rising homeless problems
Oh yes bc aresting ppl for taking drugs has worked so well in the past but i guess you wouldn't no anything about that only being in your teens sadly.
@@evanriley74 not to mention waging war on drugs bc humans have been using them for thousands of years with out such problems as we see now especially in the so called land of the free wat jails more ppl than any other country's in the world n which was the country that started the war on drugs n look where thats got America lol like use ya ucken brain box ya goose.
@@evanriley74 You still blaming Reagan for a problem other presidents could have fixed but didn't?
Yea, and lawmakers are saying NO MANDATORY DRUG REHAB, or jail time. What a clusterF on WA residents.
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Don't worry. Just when you think Olympia can't help but to make things worse, they do. How bout a different vote?
@@ericjohnson5617 we are not voting for antidemocratic fascists who will run this place like Russia or worse
Mandatory drug rehab does not work. It is a waste of money. It is far better to have rehab available when somebody is ready to face the very painful work it is, and has some support in doing so. That has a much higher likelihood of being successful, *which is the point.*
Drug addiction in a country without reasonable pain management procedures? A high rate of depression and stress-related illnesses? A country where rents have skyrocketed while wages haven't?
Say it's not so. How could that possibly be? 😂
No different than Kensington in Philly. It's just gonna get worse. The amount coming into the country is wayyy out of control.
I feel so bad for my city . Seattle used to be truly beautiful now the homeless crisis and fetanaly has got out of hand
Just look at the human feases. They're allover the place in Seattle. Disturbing!
We warned you....
But all the liberals cried "DERP dEfund teh pOlicE" and "dOn't JudGE the dRug aDdicts"
This crisis has been happening in the Philly area since 2015. It’s sad.
The Government don't do crap about it
@@thcreedon isn’t much they can do the addiction is way more powerful
Way before then -not by accident. Part of population control
It’s happening all through america
Yes, Kensington PA is ground zero for fentanyl and Xylazine (tranq) which causes people to develop infections and eventually, amputation. Terrible.
I work in Seattle but I dont spend my free time in Seattle. Crime is out of control.
Imagine living in Memphis, Tn.
@@MrWoo-jc8nt Pretty much the same. Although Memphis has better food.
I remember when I was stationed in Washington State in 2015 in the Navy and I loved Seattle and Bremerton. I went back in 2023 and it was a mess. I was afraid of walking around at night and was in my hotel room at 9:30 PM. It was just too sketchy to be outside with people just drinking and doing drugs on the street. Portland was even worse when I went back there. I will never will go back to the Pacific Northwest again.
Upon arriving in Seattle in 2017, it was total culture shock. It looked worst than NYC ever did in the 70's!
. . . Now, it looks exponentially worse . . .
@@greendesertgoddess 600% increase in fentanyl use since 2019. Wow maybe legalization and non enforcement of laws is not the answer. Who knew?
I couldnt even watch the whole thing because after living in Seattle years ago, I can definitely see how it got worse with Fentanyl. And that is just majorly sad. Drug use, addiction, etc. is a cultural, environmental, and most importantly MENTAL PROBLEM. Clearly our society lacks discipline and values. Lets not kid ourselves. Our whole society, government, and THINKING needs to drastically changed. We have all had a lot of time to consider this. Lets move on. Make progress.
I couldn’t watch it all either. I sold out of N Seattle because I saw it coming to the neighborhood like a freight train. Had to shut off my front hose bib & my outdoor outlet. Had to chain up my front porch chair. Had to clean feces & dirty clothes from under my tree. If they act like wild animals, they should be caged as such.
You better look and watch like a man.
Some things are hard to watch but they MUST be seen.
No! Keep voting for soft on crime politicians.. They have your back.
Maybe it’s the PROGRESS that was the problem in the first place
🎉 Fentanyl addicts vote blue and get their fent for free at safe injection sites here in Seattle. 100% taxpayers funded. It’s how we stay blue! Jay Inslee is the best.
I think that life in US is extremely difficult and people live in constant stress (work, work, work) and everything gets more and more expensive and it brings more emotional problems, anxiety and brake downs and as a consequence people looking for some stress relief and sadly many fall to this drag trap. Government should spend more money on human wellbeing, bring back hope and stability to people and not pay billions on military stuff. (Sorry for my English, I'm not native spoker).
Solution is to be a minimalist
Stop messing with the world. Stop the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.
@masontheworldtraveler3098 now, sell that to the new generation. They don't realise that they don't need to buy all that crap.
Government aint gonna do shit. People need to help themselves. Aint no one (including government) gonna rescue you.
whats so hard about life in USA? you clearly dont use the internet to learn about planet earth
The city council just voted 5-4 to prevent Seattle to prosecute people for public drug use and possession. Andrew Lewis was the deciding vote. Congratulations voters, you're getting everything you voted for!
I GREW UP IN WASHINGTON AND LIVED IN SEATTLE FOR AWILE IN THE 60S AND 70S. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. IT'S NOW ONE OF THE WORST PLACES I SEE WHEN I VISIT OR TALK TO MY FAMILY FROM THERE. UNBELIEVABLEY BAD .
What sucks the worst about the open drug use is the fact their second hand smoke is deadly!! A homeless lady sparked up some unknown substance and it literally toasted my nostrils similar to when you waft ammonia
That was crack
@@Chopper140 smh you’re right bro
@@Chopper140 they don't even make crack anymore. There's no profit. The crack smokers either get clean or switch to Fetty.
I want to know why we haven’t created a opioid response units for overdoses so they can free up the ambulances for real emergencies other than overdoses?
Well, it's not necessary or a priority...
And it's beyond "an opiate problem" right now....
Every single cop, firefighter and even Seattle City Light worker is an opioid response unit. They've all been given Narcan and trained to use it to prevent overdoses. The problem is zero enforcement of laws and allowing addicts to run the streets, a constant cycle of prostitution / theft followed by more drug use. Rinse and repeat.
It’s not by accident, it’s population control, very intentional having lived through it myself.
its fentanyl with xylazine mixed together narcan doesn't work with this mixture its killing by the thousands all over.
@Toni Gallegos Opioid overdoses absolutely dwarf that of any other drug.
Dan makes a solid point in my opinion.
Ditto. Greetings from East Vancouver
Seattle definitely needs new leadership. This is unbelievable.
Only 5% of long time drug users end up rehabilitated. Waste of money on rehab
Yes. It is far better to spend money on harm reduction measures, and on addressing the primary causes that lead to addiction (poor pain management, stress, repeated trauma, etc.) Save the rehab funds for people who are READY to tackle it. It's a huge amount of physical and mental work, and people need a support network. Forcing anybody into it is guaranteed failure.
3%
The answer is forcing addicts into FEMA boots camps in the middle of no where. They’ll get clean quick, work hard every day under constant babysitting and provide services no one wants to do anymore. Like clean litter, wash camp latrines, fix potholes, pick fruit. That’s all the “support” they need. It’s called tough love, not handouts that become demanded entitlements.
@@vallee7966 Amenn🙏
So what about rehab and proper medical treatment? Many people on heavy drugs are coming from people starting on other prescription drugs usally anyway.. the true is I don't think people even try rehab. They need to be given an ultimatum .jail or rehab or whatever kind of process they need.
Life is so much better after not ever wanting to have it ever again. My hug and love to everyone struggling with recovering.
😫🙏🏼❤️👻🙌🏼
Clean five years!
@@Oblivisci........ clean as long as well 5 Year Buddies. Who else. Anyone is welcome to join the Clean Buddy Family. Long stories as well as others but life isn't as whompy.
I think we should send them all to Colombia and Mexico. That way they can have their customer bases nearby, and customers can cut out the middlemen for more affordable toxins
I could never be hooked on that it’s poison !!!
I used to take the bus along 12th Avenue & Jackson. It is so depressing. Apocalyptic
It is the same in Canada. I live in Edmonton and the situation is just horrifying. They actually don’t punish criminals, Downtown and transit system are the open-air drug market.
This is a state problem not just a Seattle problem.
Clearly an abysmal failure in leadership in Seattle! Shameful lack of foresight, mitigation, and sensible law enforcement! No longer curious about visiting Seattle in the foreseeable future.
No they are doing exactly what they were hired to do. Destroy America in every way.
Being judgemental is what keeps people in line via social norms. America has forgotten or forsaken this knowledge to the obvious and observable detriment that is taking over currently.
I'm 43 years old so I've unfortunately been thru all three stages of the opiate decades and it just keeps getting worse. At 14 I got my first prescription for of all things a sprained ankle. I was given 30 Vicodin at the E.R. in Aberdeen,Wa. and within a few months I was faking anything I could think of to get more in pills and I'm not exaggerating when I say I went to f the E.R. at least 20 times from the age of 14-16 & if I was ever turned down I don't remember. This is when the first stage of opiate hell started in 97 when I took my first oxycontin and fell in love immediately. I was taking oxycontin every day for seven years until finally the pill Mills were shut down and at the age of 25 I added states to of opiate hell and became a full-blown heroin addict. I thought at the time I was lucky because I only use heroin for a few years and got on methadone and was completely clean off opiates for close to fifteen years until for some reason I decided to try fentanyl about 3 years agoat the time I was on 120 mg of methadone and continue to use fentanyl for a few years and had to go up to 200 mg to get off of it and I've been off of it now for about a year. I live in Seattle for almost 10 years and I've been in San Francisco now for almost 10 years and I can tell you that what you see in Seattle it's just as bad here if not worse. The mayor and the police chief always talk about how they're going to arrest all the dealers but the problem is for everyone they the rest is another three more ready to take their place. I'm riding this at 4:45 a.m. and I could leave my apartment right now and within a four-block radius I could come acrossed at least 50 drug dealers and pass by another three to four hundred attics in various stages of getting high nodding out overdosing whatever you want to call it. It's so bad in San Francisco that drug dealers don't even care if the attics get high right next to them because the police don't give a crap anyway. There's a straight right now that I guarantee you there's at least fifty people getting high on and it would have to be the easiest drug bust in history of this city and they just drive by and keep on going. The third stage of opiates is obviously fentanyl and it's not only stolen generation it's now stealing two generations from us and what's going to be next? I'm willing to bet that five years ago the vast majority of people interviewing her defend all and that's addicts included. I'm just worried about what the fourth stage is going to be I guarantee it'll be one. I also guarantee you that the powers to be a little do and say the same things they are saying and doing now, nothing.
You've done well to get clean after all those years on opiates. I've been fortunate enough to dodge the opiates bullet when I was in my early 20s but I can relate to your earliest experiences where legitimately prescribed medication unexpectedly introduces you to a mental state you soon find yourself chasing again and again. I wouldn't have spared myself from winding up with a serious addiction of my own accord. I was playing guitar in a band and rubned shoulders with other like minded folks in bands which were a little older and more established and drugs including heroin were a big part of that click. It was so easy to let yourself believe that you were using them in a way which was somehow romantic or constructive. It just so happened that a couple of people in the click who I looked up to more so than anyone I'd ever known hit that point where their habits spiralled out of control. The nose dive they took in such a short time was so drastic it literally scared me straight. I had just started to dabble with the big H at the time. Over the years I've come to appreciate how lucky I was with the timing of those events. Even though it's literally nothing compared to what you must have experienced I remember being freaked out that I still went through some sort of micro-withdrawl in spite of the very brief period of time I'd used any gear. Most of the folks around me who were using back then never kicked it and that was more than 20 years ago. When I heard that Fentanyl was 50 times as potent as heroin I could hardly believe my ears. It blows my mind that anyone survives an addiction to anything so insane. Now they're adding horse tranquilliser shit to the mix too so if that next wave is coming like you say.... Man, how heavy can an opiate be before it's literally instant death. One hit = lights out.
I'm in 24mg of bupe at the moment. Tapering down slowly. Coming off of fentanyl. 2 Weeks clean today. It's very difficult but it can be achieved if the addict truly surrenders.
god bls u
The counter culture has a firm lock on power in Seattle .
1984
I live in WA, and used to love going to Seattle. Fentanyl may be the problem now, but it didn't start there. WA leaders invited drug use into the state. They opened needle exchange programs, safe injection sites, basically legalizing, and encouraging the use of hard drugs, and attracting more drug users to the state. That in turn led to the huge increase in homelessness, drug overdoses, and subsequent criminal activity. WA leaders did this, and the real victims are the residents who obey the law, and just want our state back.
Exactly. This Fentanyl problem is just the latest in a long string of problems. But it all stems from something deeply wrong in the US. Its not just Seattle, its not just WA, and its not even just the US. The West suffers the same illness. Weak weak leaders.
Democrat leadership 😂
I’m 62, born and raised in Seattle, lived other places throughout my life but it was my home. I moved out of the city to the mountains in central Washington in 2007. I love it! It’s sad how our city is now but when you have an idiot for a governor that’s what happens.
They voted for this
Democrats at work
I have just returned from Seattle where we stayed for 2 days following a cruise. I was the first time i had visited the USA for nearly 10 years, prior to that i visited at least twice per year since the mid 90's. I was shocked. I saw things in Seattle that i have never seen in the USA before. The level of drug abuse within the city centre (I stayed on Pine Street and 8th avenue) was shocking. Street dwellers, Open drug use and private security by dept stores and businesses was openly seen. I was so aware of it i consciously decided to limit my movements around the city. What struck me most was the willingness of the authorities to allow this to openly exist within the city. This clearly leads to less inviting areas for tourists and locals alike. It will surely mean that tourists in particular will avoid these areas, in my case i have already decided that i will not be visiting the USA at all in the foreseeable future, as i don't see it as being safe, or value for money when compared to other areas of the world. What will this mean long term for the income generated by tourism for the USA? Couple this with the current political turmoil in the USA and i don't see how anyone would visit the USA unless they have to, and believe me, they don't have to!!!
My personal opinion is that homelessness in the city of Seattle is one of the factors that makes drugs more visible and consumable for any individual trapped in total homelessness.The lifespan in these conditions is up to 5 years maximum.
Imagine being mayor of a city who allows and encourages open drug use on the streets. These must be proud moments for mayors and governors, like Ensley in Washington State.... obviously a very proud governor indeed
Do you know a thing called self accountability?
@@tristan583 - Thse drug users are not able to control their own lives, and were apparently incapable of making good decisions. It should be done for them, without enabling them.
@Tristan We shouldn't be seeing government enabling and therefore encouraging people to make poor choices. It's unfair to both the tax payers and those suffering on the streets as a result of being left to their own devices.
Law Enforcement hands are cuffed behind their backs by the meatheads in city hall.
@Tristan so the citizens have to deal with drugged out fentanyl addicts because of that? No. They SHOULDN'T
stop giving them narcan and the problem solves itself. Hell, just like it takes 30 minutes for an ambulance to show up in the projects, same thing for overdoses.
My message to small business owners in Seattle trying to survive? Leave. Now. Leave while you can. This will get a lot worse before it gets better. Don't fear the suburbs! Plenty of small biz opportunities outside the Seattle craziness. This will sound so heartless, but when it comes to fentenyl ODs, let nature take its course. Drug users know the risks. Offer treatment and housing for those genuinely wanting help. For everyone else... Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Maybe the problem will solve itself. No more tents, crime, needles, urine, and trash, everywhere trash. I'm sick of it. I tried to be patient and kind FOR YEARS, but I've been walked over, taken advantage of, and left with no legal protections. What about my rights?
Unfortunately that's not how it works. New waves of distressed people will just wash in endlessly. Human society has engineered an infinite pool of traumatised people, it's the last resource we're gonna run out of.
Inflation is taking lives. Life is getting too hard for people.
San Francisco, Portland and Seattle are indeed on their way to dead pool status (a socio-economic level so low that they will no longer have the ability to function as thriving cities any longer) because of drugs, crime, and political incompetence much like Detroit did due to factory closures, the loss of lifetime manufacturing jobs, unemployment and a decline in the tax base due to population decline.
I agree.
ain't got nothing to do with those things. Its caused by Democrat instilled race-riots and by them painting the police as the enemy instead of the thugs.
All democrat-run cities. 🤦🏻♂️
1 thing they have in common, they are trans
That is what happens when you let capitalism and greed rule a society. Drug and alcohol addiction are a symptom of a very unhappy and traumatized population.
SEATTLE IS SOOOO F'KD UP.
I live right by that open air drug market on 12th. You could even see my building in that shot, and I feel so bad for the small mom and pop shops lining that entire street. If you wanted to visit some of them, you have to practically step over or push through a crowd of people smoking it or just bent over incapacitated to enter the courtyard to a few restaurants that look good but there’s no way in hell that I’d even consider doing that. And it looks like many feel the same, idk how those businesses survive and my heart goes out to them
I left Seattle 3 years ago, after living there since 2008. I live in the South Sound now.
I used to live in NYC. I never felt unsafe there, but I do in downtown Seattle. Now North Seattle is becoming overrun by this.
This video clip is focusing on Seattle but this is a U.S. nationwide drug crisis, not just Seattle. Washington State didn't even break into the 10 ten states in the U.S. for drug overdoses in 2022. There needs to be a massive federal plan and approach to these drug overdoses that is happening in every state.
That doesn’t make it any less of a problem. I don’t understand why you’re downplaying. Other cities and states don’t have a permissive attitude towards crime like Seattle and Washington do. We enable these people to keep killing themselves because we think for whatever reason that forcing these people into treatment is bad.
Then their news stations need to cover it. Why would a Seattle news corp do a story in Huntington Alabama?? (for example)
You mean like the "War on Drugs"...its been as successful as the War on Dandruff.
Thanks to democratic policies !!!
@@BluePlanet1 it part of the war with China, which the CCP has been waging against the USA for decades.
Cred. to this young man for getting out ! Bless his heart ❤
Young Man Thank You for your Kindness live in Sacramento, From Seattle always KOMO No place like home
It's like that in Denver Colorado. One of the people I cared for is addicted I had to leave their life because I couldn't stand the thought of watching them destroy themselves. They have kids and it just breaks my heart
I went to Denver 2017 and had to move out everybody and their grandma was smoking meth or shooting up heroin right on the streets.... I could just imagine how bad it is today😢😢😢
@@CopperHead-tm3se it's worse because now people are addicted to fentanyl and the drugs you mentioned according to news reports are laced with fentanyl
Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Vancuver, Baltimore, Philly, Berlin, Seoul. It's not just your town, it's global.
The decriminalization of heavy drugs is a dumb half measure. Dont do that if there is no mandatory or robust rehab and medical program. How is thisnot common sense? But yea it should be decriminalized but with no treatment, this is ridiculous
Who'd have thought that saying it's okay to be selfish (decriminalised drug taking) would result in greater widespread selfishness with no sense of civic responsibility?
Trauma needs to be addressed as part of the treatment programs. I've been thinking there needs an aftercare program specific to traumas for those right out of treatment. 30 days is not enough to heal and trauma for many starts young. Thank you for all you do to help those in need.
After detox or entering a MAT program with Methadone or Buprenorphine, addicts need psychiatrists and psychologists to support them mentally, help returning to a more clean society and getting a job, all this takes months. In some cases more than a year.
From what I've seen Methadone is not free in the USA? Only in some states.
Only in the "greatest country" somebody has to get rich from addicts...
In most European countries Methadone is free. However the choice of the medication for each individual's case is to be determined by the medical staff and the addict together. If you are prescribed Buprenorphine, you'll have to pay for it.
A box with 7x 8mg tablets costs around 4 or 5 bucks.
Not all are trauma...
I think 30 day programs are not nearly good enough. Treatment should be a minimum of 12 mth with a second year if needed. 30 days is barely enough time to detox and detoxing is just the first step so treatment can begin
@@rustynails8756 Kind of true, but a year would be way too long. People would get institutionalized and couldn't function by themselves.
@@jyripeltola6677 true each case should be accessed individually. For
a large number I think some sort of supervised halfway or parole type situation would be helpful. Drug counseling and addressing underlying issues could be the balance of their "time". Many need help finishing their education, relationship management i.e. avoiding and leaving DV situations and finding employment. I disagree greatly with releasing people who have no family support, no housing and no job it just sets them up for relapse. So many are met by their drug dealer outside the jail when released. I know it would cost more up front but the long term investment in society would be priceless
It's so sad to see Seattle in this kind of shape as I was stationed there in 1968 at Pier 91 on The Cutter Wachusett W-44 and my wife and I would ride the Mono-Rail downtown and everything was so beautiful and we liked it so much we wanted to live there when I got discharged but she didn't like the rain (I loved it) so we moved back to Arizona where our family was and now I'm so glad we did and it would hurt too much to be there now~!!
I'm at Seattle right now visiting... first time I saw so many homeless people in one area. Sad
So you're going to check on the guy laying on the ground AFTER you're done with your report?
Right!!? My gawd!! What happened to him!? I was homeless on the streets of seattle for a year and a half…its horrifying
Why would they want to check? Why don’t you go downtown Seattle and check in all of them? 🤡
husband speaking age 80, how about let them O.D., maybe in a few months there would be no users. What about
the regular folks that have to live through this crime wave to protect their own property.
Perhaps because the majority aren't the bums on the street. I lost a amazing man friend last week to fentanyl. A complete devastating shock to the masses that know him. It's surreal doesn't seem real. His best friend survived has short term memory loss and some brain function issues. He didn't. He was declared legally brain dead a short time later. He wasn't a vagrant or an addict. He would do a line or bump of coke when out at the clubs or bars. Two weeks ago, him and his best friend were hanging out and one of them got what they thought was a small amount of coke to party at home and chill. Instead the room mate found the two unresponsive some time later. Never was he trying to intentionally use that garbage. Nor would he ever. He was a lot smoker on occasion and a very small coke user on the rarest of occasions. To say let them all of is sickening. You are sick!
Yes your age is a factor and if this was a matter of just a bunch of addicts intentionally using this crap I would like be in agreeance. I am a 45 year old female. Drugs have become part of my generation and everyone below mes everyday life. Everyone either was, is or knows a addict or user of everything from weed to lsd to even fentanyl. I had a brief moment with opioids many years ago but got myself clean and now sadly I watch way to many others struggle with every addiction there is. I'm not sure if your generation was hip on weed or not or if you even ever dabbled them in it, but now it's like smoking cigarettes but without the negative condemnation. Most everyone's doing it and if you don't, such as myself people think of you as odd lol but I digress. My point is, most everyone dabbles In Weed. These mother fkrs coming across our borders and bringing this garbage into or cities are doing it for one main purpose. thin thin the heard. China wants to take over the unitesstates and are well on their way. They manufacture the Ingredients for fentanyl. They teamed up with the Sinaloa Mexican cartel to mass produce this stuff and have the drug mules aka migrant illegal children and woman pack in mass quantities of this crap. This stuff is so toxic two grains the size of salt will or can kill an average sized adult. They are seizing pounds equivalent to now tons of fentanyl at the border. Now imagine what's getting through unknowingly. This isn't like the 70s or 80s or 90s. This is a war that has been waged on America from within our own borders carried out by many times our own people unknowingly. The current administration has done nothing and I mean nothing but exacerbated this issue and I can tell you, this is only going to rise exponentially! They are lacking weed now with this stuff. They are creating it to look like candy so kids want it. They are waging war on Americans of all races. They want our nation and will stop at nothing to do it. We are being invading from all directions while the clowns in DC lie to the dumb Americans and caddle them over gun violence. Guns deaths don't even compare in the same margins as the deaths by fentanyl. They are so hell bent on disarming us as they bring in the prisoners and nut jobs from every country around this world that emptied their insane asylums and prisons and put them all on a bus and plane for America. Now we have them all to spend our tax dollars on and watch them kill innocent Americans while they get a pat on the back and quick release from jail. At 80 your time is short and hopefully you won't see the complete collapse of this nation but it's coming and it's coming fast. At 45 it destroys me to see what these clowns have managed to pull off over the years while dumb distracted Americans go along like sheep allowing every freedom we have and safety we had be taken from us while we are criminalized for protecting ourselves families or each other and the criminals run free to kill and damage more people's lives. This is all orchestrated for the fall of our nation and the puppets in DC should be held on treason for allowing the invasion of our nation and the treasonous collusion with foreign adversaries putting our nation and our people in harms way. But they entire place is dirty. It's all rigged and we will only be lucky enough if we get even a glimmer of a chance to get our nation back. It doesn't look good and worse it doesn't help when ignorant comments such as yours are agreed upon by other ignorant people that only assume they know what's happening based on what the lying media preaches to you. Rather how about you do some research about gun deaths in America vs fentanyl deaths and then ask why the hell are we being bludgeoned to death and having our rights taken away when the actual killers are being allowed to terrorize and come into our nation freely unchecked while they live off our tax dollars and our American vets go hungry broke, unhoused and uncared for but illegals coming here to kill Americans are given our tax money and our housing and our food and our cars from our hard earned pay checks? How about start asking those questions. Ask why Spanish is the only language you hear our in public now? Ask why or how white people are such a threat to this nation when we have clearly become the minority and scape goat for everything. Wake up and realize even at 80 you do know a lot but I respectfully disagree with your opinion and think you should become much more educated on the matter before you wake up to find you have lost a grandchild so easily to this poison. This is a weapon of mass destruction and I til it's treated as such and the dealers be brought to harsh penalties such as death the innocent will be the majority who die. These idiots using it on purpose are just that. Idiots. They have built tolerances and likely live to see the next drug fad. The innocent recreational or new user or experiment er will be the ones we continue to bury. Mark my words. Every single person reading this will be rocked by this drug. Don'cast stones while sitting in glass houses. It's coming for everyone one of us and our loved ones. Hopefully it just doesn't hit directly at home but it will affect t everyone. I guarantee this. It's time we fight these idiots taking our rights and handing them to criminals to kill us all. Wake up Washington. Your state is in peril and so are your people. Either from stupidity or nativity. Either way it will take us all down if we don't wake everyone up to the crimes the government here and in DC are waging against every American citizen. We are heading to Venezuela status unless everyone pulls their head out immediately. Never vote blue and never vote communist or socialist into our cities and towns or we will be forever condemned to the fate in which we are already heading. Find faith in a higher power and walk in the divine light of our lord and help each other from the crimes of the evil ones out to get us all. The time is now. It's now!!! Not tomorrow. It's now!! Do something! Or wat h our nation crumble. The choice is everyone's of yours and mine.
@@teresajohnson472 I am sorry for your loss, only losing a parent or child would be worse.
I understand what you mean, but it's just not that easy. The first part of the video, we see a guy out cold on the sidewalk with everyone walking by and ignoring him. It has become the norm to see that in any city, so people just look the other way. I would probably do the same. I don't know how to help him and don't want to implicate myself because I have a responsibility to family and home. Maybe these people don't have someone in their lives who can put up with the behaviors that come with addiction. It's inhumane to just walk by and pretend we don't see them. I hope in the near future there will be more trained professionals on the street working to get these people the treatment they need.
But that’s wrong speak! Have COMPASSION!
@@teatreaoil9667 Thank you, can't have too much for folks who start , get hooked, and don't have the will to try to get off. and
our so called leaders really don't want to help.
When it comes to the Seattle politicians, talk is cheap. They do everything to ensure the City continues to protect criminals from any consequences.
It is not just Seattle. Im from Baltimore and it is a Nation Wide issue
lost a friend to that stuff glad to hear someone is being proactive about this problem
My brother lost his life oct 14, 2023, in Seattle Washington. They have the dealers name. They have what they need...but absolutely nothing was done.
My brother was a good man and did struggle with addictions, but never met Fentanyl until the year prior when he moved to Seattle. This drug has no mercy on anyone! He thought he was buying a percocet and it was Fentanyl. He was immediately addicted to Fentanyl and began the battle for his life. He went to detox, was 32 days sober and scheduled to get his first vivitrol shot that day. He relapsed and it killed him.
Never, in a million years, did i think this would happen in our family! It did.
Sorry for your loss that's so dam sad
Thank you. It's a very difficult road, especially when you hear of more people dying every day. Awful!
I don't know of a single person that isn't somehow directly or peripherally affected by drug abuse in America. I am very sorry to hear that this happened to you and your family, but I hope you can find some solace in knowing that you are not alone. Americans are at war and don't seem to even realize it. It's blamed on the addicts, or their families, or their mental health, ad nauseam. These drugs are created in controlled labs in China, shipped to the cartels in Mexico where they're processed into pills, then waltzed across the wide open borders and into the hands of dealers to spread far and wide to our citizens.
@Isahiyella I'm glad you said this, because it's so true! And so many Americans don't realize we are litterally at war, and losing!!
It's china, Mexico and cartels in Florida. My brother was a very good man, but he also was a risk taker. Trouble followed him...and no matter how hard he tried to live a good solid life, he was faced with difficulties. First xanex, then pain pills...and eventually unintentionally using fentanyl and becoming immediately addicted, costing him his life after he went to detox, was 32 days sober.... he relapsed, and it killed him dur to no tolerance, which happens with so many trying hard to regain control of their life.
I'm thankful you shared your information...it's true! Keep spreading those words! Please! Maybe you'll save a life!
@@joyce_915 you're in my prayers sister, you're not alone in this. Someone close to me is going down the exact same path. Started with a work injury, and slowly devolved into drug abuse. He's had narcan administered at least 3 times that we're aware of and is currently in jail. Thats trip number 5 for him, been in there 8 months and will do the same thing all over when he gets out. Its like watching someone die in slow motion but it takes years sometimes.
Fentanyl took my mother in 2021. What was sad it was a prescription she was abusing and it caused an infection on her tailbone (bedsore) from her sleeping days upon days doped out and it went into her spine. I found out when she was admitted to the hospital and they called me, sadly there was noting they could due and she was placed into a hospice and lived for 5 months slowly dying while the infection was moving up her spine and eating her leg muscles. Nobody tells you that this drug can also kill you without overdosing. Watching my Mother dye slowly and her telling me each day she does not want to die was heartbreaking all because some doctor keep prescribing her the patches for months.
Im so sorry about your lost. patches of fentanyl? Really?
Its not the cops fault. They are doing their job. its the politicians/ leaders allowing this to go on without a solution. i work in Downtown Seattle and my bus goes down 3rd ave from the courthouse to 3rd and pine and I see the sidewalks filled with people like this.
youre absolutely right. The DA and the city council have basically legalized all types of drug use and theft.
It feels like everything in America is gonna collapse! And the worst is yet to come! 🥺
😂😂😂😂
Be careful whom you vote for
Spot on.Just think if some Country exploded a EMP over the US and we had no electricity for years or water in this heat.
@@taliabraverVOTE FRAUD RULES !!!
1984-ZOGonzo INGSOC warned us back in late 40s , ORWELLian 101-room
This is part of the Deaths of Dispair going on. Life has lost it's livability. Rapants rent increases, rapant eviction, priced out of housing, catastrophic inflation. Everybody is opting out. 😢
At what point does the city implode to the point that basic utilities and services stop and it turns into complete chaos? If things keep heading in this direction this unlikely outcome could become more and more likely. I never thought things in Seattle or America as a whole would get to the state they are in currently (legalizing crimes and drugs seemed impossible when i was young).
The sad part about these people is their family’s don’t want them, the hospitals don’t want them, the jails don’t really want them. Who is really going to want them. Its going to cost a-lot of taxpayers $ to fix this problem. And most taxpayers barely have money for monthly bills or retirement.
Money will not fix this. Lead will.
Give them much stronger fent that’ll help a little bit
I remember going to my barber in Tacoma near Hosmer ST and seen 4 people smoking Fentanyl in front of her store. I feel so bad for that store as its effecting their livelihood.
Governor Inslee did this to Seattle. Shame on him.
Prove it.
No he didn't you doorknob, lol.
Its the laws who does this...not one man, but many men did this....
no, residents of King, Pierce, Snohomish counties did this. shame on them for voting for the democrats that do nothing about this mess
You must be very new to the area, and to big American cities in general.
The voters did this. I just love seeing voters get what they voted for
Taxpayers funding their own oppression in that city. Truly disgusting. And expensive. Businesses need to pull out.
I agree.
Every business and person who can, leave.
When money stops coming in for the leftist politicians to mishandle, when the city is broke, reduced to nothing, then change can be made.
Hey man I didn’t vote for this crap. I don’t think anyone really did. Inslee needs to go hide in a ditch and someone better needs to take his place
@@kimberlymorganadams4338 who would the individual be?
@@kimberlymorganadams4338 Yeah! Make the mayor trump-like, he’ll tell you he’s the strongest mayor ever on drugs and everything is fine. Oh yeah, if anything goes wrong, blame the democrats. You’ll believe him too. 🐑
@@rubenrebenz1000 And drinking the Kool-Aid that Biden and the democrats have been serving has worked out so well?
This drug + tranq is EVERYWHERE. Atlanta, Chicago, North Carolina, Scotland, Australia, Vancouver, San Diego, UK. It's bad now. It's about to get way worse, I fear.
Mad😮 where do they get it?
No policing is what everybody wanted. Summer of love!
I bet they forgot about Chop.
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Natalia, yes! What a beautiful memory for Seattle! They welcomed the 2 main groups of peace, with opened arms. It was like the fourth of July....They taught the rest of the nation how a civilized society should behave. You don't need police! We saw all of the brave soldiers out every night, proving that! I think the groups that Seattle loved so much, would be more than happy to help with the BILLIONS that they received making landscapes across the U.S. so much more free...🤔😅🤣😍😅🤣😍😅🤣🤣🤣
@@kellyjoyner490 Long Live CHAZ !!!!
I am in the middle of all this!!! I live in the ID (Chinatown) This is right outside my home, on my doorsteps in our building. I used to feel sorry for them, but that was 2015 ago. This is too much, City of Seattle must do something about this!
They are. In typical democrat fashion they are making it worse.
Been down to Burger King lately?
@@xpicklepie They tore it down!
That's crazy to imagine because I moved to ID in 2006 and it was amazing back then. I left Seattle in 2008 and went back to Florida and I missed Seattle so much. I'm so glad I left when I did.
This problem will never get better until this country gets better.
It is unbelievable how rich, the rich actually are. All the while the poor people (like myself and countless others) struggle even if we have legitimate side hustles.
As a child, I was sold on the “American Dream.” Even though our family lived on a laughable fifty dollars to seventy five dollars per week. Before I was eighteen, I was beginning to really understand how fucked the odds were for a poor person with no family connections or wealth was.
All these wealthy fuckers who are destroying us from up above within their billion dollar corporate offices. All the while we squabble over pathetic crumbs they feed us so we can slave away while they pocket nearly all of it.
Working in their death trap factories finding out years later they knew the chemicals were highly cancerous. Having no sense of home life or purpose, while they take a vacation in some fashion as much as they’d like.
People, y’all need to wake up. Those suffering people in the streets are far from the enemy.
The real enemy are the filthy rich elite.
They are the ones who need to be: (……)
Quality of life in this country has gone so far downhill. It’s going to keep getting worse and worse so the drug use will continue to climb unfortunately. It’s very sad to see. Who remembers the good ole days?
I remember 30 years ago. Pre-NAFTA, pre-Columbine, pre-9/11, pre-Oxycontin, pre-smart phones, pre-social media, pre-woke. I know by the early 90s we had already started our long decline but it was such a more peaceful and prosperous time.
What's does the city's elected officials say ?
Need more money to fix the problem...
When the Lefties elect liberal leaders who declare your city a Sanctuary City, it sends a clear message to the world's riff-raff that all criminal activity is accepted. Then these bright leaders de-criminalize drug possession and public use, vote to de-fund the police, instruct the city prosecutor to release all perpetrators within 24 hours, cease all vehicle impounds, and then the ignorant public who elected these Socialists wonder why their city has turned into a filthy, dangerous cesspool. Voting for Democrats has consequences....
Every. Time. It's most-likely orange-man's fault, because, you know, orange man bad.
Yea, the democrats are now blaming Trump for the border crisis because he failed to build the wall like he promised
This is incredibly sad. I work downtown Seattle and see this on a daily basis. I feel so bad but I don’t know what I could do to help. :(
Vote, or better yet vote different
China knows how to win the long war against their far dumber American counterparts😂😂😂
@@ericjohnson5617 Hit the nail on the head with that response. So true. When I see what's going on in Seattle (I've worked downtown for 25 years) I think of the quote: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." It also doesn't help that WA state hasn't had a Republican governor since 1985. That's a record in the United States. Bipartisan my ass, people see the (D) and automatically vote for that person in WA state. Wake the F up!
Fentanyl and Xylocaine are killing the homeless by the thousands.
Is there anything we can we do to get more on the street?
@@brantpowell5483 I care about where I live first as it affects my life, Brant. Prejudice? How is it prejudiced to care about what's happening where I live and work? Low info? I live and work in the heart of the crap that bothers me. You're deluded.
We have this drug in the uk now shocking we have just buried our nephew leaving his mum dad sister and family and friends devastated.The government needs to put things in place to stop it
This is happening everywhere not just Seattle it’s like a bunch of zombies are walking around
And it has nothing to do with money ! look how many Actors, Rock Roll singers and others that OD on drugs !
The answer is to put the drug dealers in jail, no matter how little they have on them, and put the drug users in residential rehab and then make them serve a jail sentence. Let's get real, let's get serious! Actions have consequences. It's time for some tough love!
That shit never worked boomer
Thing is incarceration costs literally $10,00s a year per person and that is if the person does not have medical issues or other special needs ( in which case it costs even more. When you spend 10000s of on non-violent low level dealers and users (many times the low level dealers are users who are simply funding their own habit then what you end up with is overcrowded jails/prisons where people end up having to be released for 8th amendment/safety reasons ( happened in CA a number of years ago the court forced them to decrease their prison population doing this leaves less room for violent offenders which hurts everyone. Keep in mind as well that is state has a duty to protect offenders from other offenders as much as they reasonably can this means that you cannot just house offenders any ole where there may be a bed they have to as much as possibile keep non-violent offenders away from violent ones or risk being sued . I feel that drug courts are a great middle ground. It is basically intense out of custody treatment where the court works with non-violent offenders to address their drug issues with the threat of incarceration IF the offender chooses not to work the program, They usually punish relapses with increased supervision, maybe community service hours, or even "quick dips" ( short times in local custody ranging from a weekend to a few weeks, BUT if the person just is not taking it seriously and does not care the threat of longer-term incarceration is there. Depending on the program completion can earn anything from simply avoiding a long prison sentence to the right to seal or exsopage the record to even a complete dismissal of the charges with the ability to exsponge even the arrest as if nothing ever happened and very few people (usually just DAs,, police judges, and certain high level government jobs and the military even having access to the record at all. Drug courts are MUCH cheaper than traditional incarceration AND have a much lower rate of people who successfully complete the program re-offending.
@@dogsareme100 You make some good points. We need to build more jails apparently. I don't believe jailing users for years is the right answer, just the dealers. They are the real problem. If it wasn't for the dealers and drug traffickers, we wouldn't have this problem, at least not to the current extent.
@@MsMyhouse yes, but the problem I see with the dealers no matter how little they have on them is with that logic who is a dealer? Usually one (though not the only indictor law enforcement uses to get someone for intent to sell is the amount the person has on them. Sometimes addicts will sell small amounts to fund their own habit which I am pretty sure are not the dealers you are talking about as those are more users than dealers. Sometimes you may have it to where a group of addicts are sharing drugs for their personal use, but not intending to sell/deal it out of that circle (This is common on the party scene. You also have addicts who may not buy often, but yet what they do buy they intend to use for their personal use. In short, who is a dealer who uses and who is a user who deals can be a very blurly line if you do not have at least some base amount that serves as a presumptive dealing amount where basically if someone is caught with that amount of drugs it is assumed they were dealing as opposed to personally using or giving to a small number of friends. You could have an amount say 3oz just as a random example and if someone is caught with more than that they would have the burden of proving that they were not dealing and were instead using it for their personal use ( which of course would carry less punishment. Sometimes these are called affirmive defenses but the defendant only have to show that their claim of the affirmtive defense is more likely than not and not the beyond a reasonable doubt that the state needs to convict someone of a criminal offense.
@@dogsareme100Whether directly or indirectly, dealing and using ARE violent crimes.
Can we just stop responding to the calls?
What is Seattle like: police officer I need a lighter to smoke my crack in front of the school 😂😂😂😂
That guy is not a cop. He is a public relations guy.
"Social Agent" "Street Therapist" 🤣 according to woke idealogy
there is help at evergreen services 1700 airport way. you can get dosed the day you enter treatment. THS has a clinic near Madison and boron st. back when my generation ran the city you would get 20 years for selling heroin . now you can sell drugs and get arrested for dealing 2 times and all you get is a short jail sentence. services don't fix the problem you have to put people into jail the city won't do that . the only way to fix this is jail and prison. these social workers are ignorant and misguided.only former addicts know what works jail saves lives and they can get treatment when they get out on probation dirty UA back to jail thats how its done . its not complicated unless you are over educated and have never been an addict and a criminal yourself.
Wow! Thank you!
addiction is the only prison where the key is inside .
I was addicted to opiates for 5 years. In the end it was only fentanyl. I overdosed several times. I should be dead but i got help in time. I’ve been on suboxone for several years now. It has changed my life completely. I’m happy, i got a job, my relation with my parents is better. My brother died from a fentanyl overdose so i know the pain parents and relatives feel. If you are addicted to opiates know that there is help to get. Because it will only lead to death. God bless you all
Good job dude I'm coming up on 3 years here in October congrats on your sobriety
So you’d be withdrawing with out the subs right ?
How can the leaders/policies YOU vote for, be a problem?
Bingo...... you get what you vote for
"progressive liberal" policies at work should be the title of this video.
My son was one of these. One of these days he wont survive.
I am so sorry. It's a terribly hard road to be on. My best wishes to both of you.
I do wish we would look harder at some of the mitigation measures that have been successful in countries like Portugal. They do not shoot for the 100% "drug free" goal that seems to be the only sign of "true success" here , but they also don't addict them to an even worse drug like methadone. People are able to work, become more educated if they wish, have a social life not based on procuring/taking the next fix. It's a better quality of life, with genuine dignity.
No loss.
I'm sorry to hear that. Prayers for your son. 😢🙏
Seattle’s Mayor and Governor Jay Inslee ought to be embarrassed that they have let this beautiful city be destroyed by the homeless population. The crime and dug abuse that come with homelessness, is out of control. I was born and raised in WA State and am ashamed of what the politicians have let this scourge do to Seattle. There will never be enough counseling or rehab centers to conquer this. These homeless people don’t want better places to live or rehab to help them with their addiction. They turn that assistance down when offered.
They'll be gone in 4 years (or less). What do they care?
Sad 😢
This is incredibly sad 😔
I've always wanted to go to Seattle, I live so close yet so far, but since recently, it seems like Seattle has become a 3rd world country within itself, saddening to see.
Third world countries don't even have this shit.
Tragic as it is, this crisis won't last forever with a product that kills most of its customers. Not everyone is going to seek fentanyl. It's simple economics of supply and demand.
true, although these consumers and the future ones dont give a fuck about that, the only way of solving it is by preventing more people from finding themselves in the "i dont care if i die" situation.
The problem is that it is already affecting you and everyone else.
@@giacomolandi9277 Yes, the drug problem in America is a reflection on a society that is not inclusive of its citizens, but rather exclusive of those that don't fit some "norm". Often those seeking escapism through drugs are just normal people that got broke through trauma early in life. Arresting drug users clearly doesn't solve the problem of what is creating so many addicts, and I'm glad America got away from that, mostly, though people in other states are still serving life sentences for marijuana convictions from the late 20th century.
@@gregfawcett5152 In what way? Crime? Blight on our cities? I wasn't trying to be insensitive to the individuals dying and addicted to fentanyl. I was just shocked by what the exponential growth in deaths means for King County - namely it can't go on forever with exponential growth.
@@oldskooldriver9379I call bull ! They are just having.
Where do they get the drug?😢😢😢😢😮
I lived there from 2008-2021. It got so much worse just in that time and i lost two friends from it 2015 and 2016. 25 and 26s years old. Check on your friends.
My sister opened up her son's phone yesterday. This is what he said to a friend of his:
Hey im sorry I haven’t been able to talk much recently. I’m having a harder time than anyone knows. I feel like I’m drowning and I need help. I’m trying to wrestle my way out of shit n I can’t even bring myself to talk to anyone even on a good day. I’ll snap out of it soon I hope. It’s nothing to do with you. Love you lots n im sorry
Then he died of fentanyl.
My daughter died of fentanyl, her father died of fentanyl, we lost three family members. Please get help or help your family member before its too late.
Across the country, this is a symptom of the struggles felt by the working class. People tired, burnt out and unable to get ahead fall prey to their demons. Leadership at every level has failed the public by disregarding how the mass inflation on homes (renting or buying) and everyday commodities (food, gas, energy, etc) has impacted the working poor. Until things are reversed so that there is a stronger middle class and less of a divide between the rich and the poor this type of problem will continue. Unless people are provided civil, legal ways to easily go up in their careers while also having dignified affordable living options (I mean everyone regardless of income) then this problem will continue. The inflation today is often compared to that of the 1970s, yet in the 1970s I'd argue that people with some basic trade skills running a small gas station or working in a warehouse could at least afford a crumby apartment over their head. Today the people running the 7-11's (unless they own them) are often living in the back of the property in tents and campers. Video after video of working American poor in every state is available showing what life is like for the American working poor. And then people wonder why people choose to kill themselves with drugs-really? Imagine working 60+ hour work weeks just to barely scrap by with no hope of advancement without going further into debt. Maybe we stop turning every vacant home into an Air BnB or selling to a large corporation like Black Rock? Maybe politicians stop outsourcing labor to foreign nations when kids are coming out of college with degrees (and debt) to do the same jobs? The problem with America is everything is for sale, all the time, so it doesn't matter what is "promised" because that only works to make a sale until a better deal comes along that sells the deal right out from under the buyers.
There are plenty of drug addicts that have money. Addicts are addicts.
I agree that allowing our real estate market to be controlled largely by investors is unwise and causes prices to be artificially inflated.
I also agree that the continued outsourcing of labor isn't at all helpful and has been absolutely devastating for some regions of the country.
I agree we are in desperate need mental health reform.
I will add that we are also in desperate need of welfare reform so we are no longer financially encouraging woman to bring children into unstable households.
The rest that you wrote isn't really reality based. Someone working 60 hrs a week in a rural community may not be able to live there dream but they could definitely save enough money to relocate to a place where there is more opportunity. There isn't advancement without investment and compromise for anyone in this country. Yes, things are different from the 1950s but none of this happened overnight.
Keep voting Democrat/Marist and it will keep getting worse.
This. I’m a former addict myself, and if people had a life to be happy about they wouldn’t numb the pain with opiates. I know I said I’m clean but everyday is a struggle. I have a full time job as does my fiancée and we BARELY skim by. It’s exhausting and makes me wanna relapse.
America has long been the spokesmodel for laissez-faire capitalism. This is where it ends up, and this is what it looks like when it gets there.
Same in Denver Co.
In the 90's America was at the top of world. It' was a magic country and everything were cool and fashionable. What's happened to this place?
Thank you for reporting the honest to God truth about fentanyl crisis..
I remember back in 2016 I was addicted to pain medicine
And I used to get them from my friends aunt and one time
She gave me some and later on at my doctors visit they told me I tested positive for fentanyl
And then I told myself dam no wonder my heart would be beating a little bit more and getting chest pain on my left side where my heart is
And I used to cut them in 0.25 pieces because it was that strong
But I never imagined it was fentanyl in it
I then told my mom and my older brother started yelling at me saying to never talk to that lady again because she was going to get me killed from that crap
I always think about like what if I had taken that whole pill
Luckily i never did
The tragic loss of hundreds of lives daily to the relentless grip of fentanyl demands our immediate attention. It is alarming to witness such silence in the face of this mass murder of our fellow citizens. Let us break this silence, raise awareness, and take decisive action to combat this deadly epidemic. Every life lost is one too many, and we must unite to protect and save our communities.
Drug addicts are not to be glorified or have our attention. What's the tragedy again? Squatting? Breaking in peoples houses? Slamming dope in the middle of a Farmers Market?? My own brother had his own place but still lived on the streets for drugs...only.
How big is your house and property? Big enough for dope deals and overdoses? I really hope so.
Play on your sympathy and collect these kind of people into your house and property then. Let me guess, your either Catholic or Christian?
And technically, the problem is finally being handled because Tranq is out here now. So pretty soon, crime, addiction and thieving around will become a thing of the past....finally.
What's cheaper? Getting rid of slackers and junkies and paying them money and/or food stamps, which btw is ALWAYS traded for dope, OR lay a deadly ass drug out in the world to control the Dopehead population? Don't be ignorant....
It’s the democrats allowing it into the country. If it’s mass murder they are to blame. They know it’s happening
Wrong, stop treating them with narcan which only gives them another day to do drugs and overdose again.
It is mass suicide not mass murder.