1990 SPECIAL REPORT: "NEEDLE PARK"
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2024
- In the late 70s, users of heroin and cocaine began to assemble around a riverside location in the center of Zurich. By 1980, concentrations of 100-400 drug users were not uncommon. Police attempted to disperse these groups, but they would simply dissolve and reconstitute somewhere else. The police then decided to designate the Platzspitz, a public recreational park behind Zurich's main train station, as a tolerated but supervised zone for drug users. Within a few months, hundreds of individuals gathered each day in the so-called "needle park;" by 1991, there was a daily average of 1700-2500.
In February 1992, the area was closed.
Thank you for finding and uploading all of these amazing old videos!!!
This is probably the most informative archive of video on the UA-cam.
Even better than the reefer.
Who here is over 50 .
I’m two years shy from it😂😂😂
Not me.
Me
In My 50's Got there some Hard.. Big Drinker.. My Drug of Choice..
Turning 50 in about 9 months
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headphone warning at 13:21. goes from quiet to super loud.
That's when the scene from Wonderland appears
Interesting and horrible. A follow up would be phenomenal.
When you see places like Kensington now or central LA and compare with that, it’s shocking because they were much in a good shape then !!! Drugs nowaday are much destructives 😢
Not just the drugs but food also
That’s a good point, and also many of these young people were rich kids and came from well off homes, and were still supported by their parents, and then went back to rehab funded by their parents and the state. They weren’t totally destitute like in the US.
Well in 1995 the Swiss has a referendum to give heroin assisted therapy to addict to reduce the harm (crime/disease etc) and it was a huge success. Kensington wouldn't exist as it does if it copied the Swiss model to harm reduction. Give them heroin and the addict's will be much better off and the general population wouldn't know they even exist
I don't quite know about that bc the Crack Epidemic was literally a genocidal cultural shift event and agenda. It's also what low-key gave birth to Gangsta rap
so sad and im glad they showing Whyte folk .who use 95 percent of ALL DRUGS
Why you got to make it about race?
I was in Italy in 2018. Traveled from Positano to Venice. I stayed in 18 different cities. Every one of them had Senegalese migrants selling drugs at train stations and parks. Illegal migration is a wonderful thing.
@@PhilMiCoochieit’s just thatwhen we talk about drugs in a negative light we show black ppl in a negative light when it’s the whites
@@PhilMiCoochieYou can't actually be an American living in America saying what you are saying. Well to answer that Crack Epidemic back in the 80's that started in Black America then grew outward. Definitely had race targeting involved in it
not true
Wow.. Fascinating insight.. Never Knew..
The lady in yellow with the afro mullet is gorgeous. I wonder where she is today.
Ive now know and afro mullet is a thing
@kyleyoung1156 lol never seen it that's what caught my attention
Ridiculous prices for heroin in those days in Europe
Reminds me of Eugene Oregon these days 😮
No gloves were used to dispose of those dirty needles 😂
Its happening everywhere now in the US
People do not use drugs like that anymore in the US. Actors in California and NYC use drugs and the rest do marijuana.
@@kiasky1I don’t know about that. My little town use to be a very nice area. The president of the country used to lived here. Now Main Street in town in drug ridden and is a hot spot for drug trafficking and crime.
@@kiasky1where in the USA do you live?😂
Now and then still Deadly!!!
@kiasky1, your privilege is showing, or you're just ignorant
Watching all those needles is Giving me Eaze E Vibes !
Salaam my brotha✊🏾
Wow even worse today
Can someone tell me if this approach worked in the long run?
In 1995 they reduced most of the harm by giving heroin assisted therapy to the users. So yes it worked in the long run.
Amsterdam has been doing it for decades and yes it works. That's why Vancouver does it and Philly tried and is trying
@@Mr.Weed420after the Swiss pilot trial was a success it went nation wide. Then other European nations adopted it such as Germany. And now finally Vancouver as you say. Addict's choose generally just want heroin for affordable government prices. It's a global disgrace that we force addicts to seek help on the streets with all its risks. When we know scientifically that other models of drug policy exist that reduces harm so much more efficiently.
they vacated the platz spitz (nadel park) in 1992.
i had relatives that were addicted and hear a lot of stories.
nowadays there is a methadone program where the addicts are substituted.
however, addiction will always find a way out and new open drug scenes will always develop.
So They Basically Did What They Tried To Do In Season 3 of The Wire 😮
‘Hamsterdam’
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Any Democrat City USA
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Junkies
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You feel better about yourself now?? smh werido
Sherlock
@@Geistesgronkh what homes?
Jenkies! they're jankies!
Hearing that name makes me think of the classic Al Pacino movie Panic in Needle Park
4:30 god damn... I know the dude said this was the most expensive place to live and shit but that's fucking ridiculous. $1000 a day on heroin?