Inside Portland's Fentanyl Overdose Epidemic | Documentary
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
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Step into the heart of Portland, Oregon, reminiscent of Kensington Avenue, where a harrowing narrative unfolds. Join me on a voyage into the depths of desolation as we reveal the grim reality of life on these streets in 2024. Here, amidst the urban hustle and bustle, the scourge of fentanyl, laced with tranquilizers, now devastates the community, leaving behind a trail of unimaginable horror. In this documentary, I immerse myself in the core of this troubled district, delving into the lives of its residents and capturing their tales. My goal is to offer an unfiltered, firsthand portrayal of the challenges endured by those residing in what has become known as Portland's own "Zombie Zone," akin to Skid Row. - Розваги
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wow you are late to the party man 200k subs and you're this late to the pater wow loser channel but suck off you tube for that you tube privilege haha
Really like your documentaries. Hope you can smooth the rough edges, though. When an interviewee discloses cancer as a cause for addiction you can't then immediately cut to a question about being robbed. Just a minor gripe though, wishing you best of luck with your channel.
Disappointed for Morgan & Morgan bein ur sponsor smh you should rep a better law firm
Listen, Oregon is the ONLY state in the country thats actually trying to do something different to help our SUD(substance use disorder) citizens stay out of jails & Prison! Any other state doing this!?? Do you even mention that FACT? Nope. Oregon is at least seeking options other than the long failed Prohibitionist idiocy. Prohibition doesn’t work! You dont care though. You’re a video vulture.
Your video isn’t helping anyone in Portland or anywhere else in Oregon or the world for that matter.
Note: Measure 110 isn’t even mentioned in the first 10 minutes or possibly at all in this video.
At least Oregon is trying something other than failed prohibition! New York isn’t even decrim yet! Nor is California!
If you want to help people make a video on the aspects of Measure 110 that are working-helping. Try to do something to HELP! as opposed to spotlighting the pain & suffering, there enough of that in the world already!
Dude you do good content but Morgan and Morgan are a disgusting law firm, these people not only take advantage of the people they represent but they also take advantage of the people they sue with their frivolous law suits. Can’t subscribe to you when your promoting them.
People without chronic pain, have no idea how crazy the battle is! TO ALL THOSE WHO BATTLE WITH CHRONIC PAIN, AND ARE DOING YOUR BEST TO STAY AWAY FROM ALCOHOL, AND THE HARD DRUGS, GODSPEED!
Just got my spine surgery and had issues getting perks even though my L5/S1 was herniated causing direct nerve pain to the point I couldn’t walk more than 50 feet. Thank god I have good healthcare and the surgery was covered. The perks were one of the only things to help and did not get hooked but def used a lot of green.
Thank you , I live in pain all the time. If the government does take my meds I don’t think I could survive. Not because of being addicted, I have tried to go med free several times and the pain is just unbearable. I understand the med may have caused some people problems but if taken correctly they saved me. I think most people doing illegal stuff use it as an excuse.
@@dpuff3097 I totally feel ya. I was battling an alcohol addiction for a decade. I put a big halt to that a year ago. I’ve been prescribed em all. I’ve been taking Suboxone the past 3 years, and I stopped taking em last week. The withdrawals were horrible. My doctors told me, “you’ll have no problems getting off of them. Um, no. I’ve been awake a few days, and I’m crawling out of my skin. I’m over the cusp though. Everyday I’m in real bad pain. I’ve got like 6 titanium rods, and two prosthetic vertebrae, and a pain machine I’m supposed to hook up to my body, but it’s a pain in my ass, so I don’t use it. Have you tried Kratom? I started using it a few months ago. It’s pretty awesome. Not like a high, or anything. And it helps with pain. Hang in there! Oh yea, I’m pretty sure God is helping me out too.
Lupus, RA and fibro. Everyone in my family is healthy (thank God). In my family’s gene pool, I’m in sludgy area…
Pain Olympics right here. Let's see who will brag about the most pain and win the gold medal...
10 years clean from heroin fetty Xanax methadone and meth. I lived that hell for 15 years. Now I have my degree in behavioral health and help people overcome their own addictions and toxic behaviors. Prison saved me. And then I chose to save myself.
Congratulations on overcoming addiction and helping others!
I quit a little over 6 years ago and fent was barely out then in my area.
@@sarahhanken9831 that’s great! Congrats on making it out! It was just starting to make its way Into our supply when I quit. I used H from 1999-2013 with no ODs. In 2013 I went to prison and when I got out I used off & on for about a year until I ODed twice on fetty & that was enough for me to figure it out. Turns out I didn’t want to die afterall. I was lucky! So were you! Hopefully you are out there helping the ones that didn’t make it. They need people like us with lived experience in the field. I did a lot of bad shit in my addiction and Ive found that it’s the best way to feel like I am making up for that time. 💜
Well done,I'm sure it was hell on it & getting off it ❤
Congratulations on your sobriety and thank you for your service! ❤
You can never get sober and get your life together until you accept that you are at fault. I spent 5 years blaming my father, mother, alcohol companies, the fucking clerk at the store. I was the drunk, it was my responsibility to learn the consciences of my actions and make a choice. I chose to not drink myself to death like the rest of my family
When something as powerful as opioids is so easily accessible, can u really only blame the addicts? Really? I mean you’re entitled to ur opinion, it just seems some blame should rest on the people who are supplying it so freely..
@@Bgo909 Yes. Yes, you can blame them.
@@Bgo909 Not just supplying it. Purdue spent decades buying doctors to push their opioids on patients who didn't need them or in such high amounts. They wanted return customers. And a generation of unwitting addicts was born.
Well done friend proud of anyone that breaks the habit.❤
@@Stonedcapone43 Thank you, it was a long hard road. But the right path is always harder. Like I tell my Son. If something takes effort it's worth doing. Anyone can take the easy way out
You should talk to addicts that have actually recovered. Not ones that are in active addiction. I was on the street for 5 years slamming heroin popping Xanax I now ave my life back and don’t blame anyone. It’s easy to blame everyone else than face the shit you caused.
Good job Steve
100%
Absolutely. Well said
I've been clean for 5-6 years myself and there's no looking back at this point but it took the desire to want to quit and stop this destructive lifestyle and also a script of Subutex to help get over the first hurdle of taking away the withdraws because that's the hardest part for almost every addict.
Well said!!
So glad im here to see this. 1 day clean.
❤
Buckle up…
We are so SCREWED.....
You are powerful, stronger than you know. Remember that butterfly.
Tomorrow will be 2 days clean and a hopefully 🙏 a whole new way of life. Good luck from a fellow FORMER sufferer. 🫂
Believe it or not Portland in 2018 before the riots and decriminalized drugs was a beautiful city... Lived there for 6 years from 18 to 23... When I left it was absolutely a disaster downtown... Half the businesses have closed and its literally the walking dead...
Right, we forgot to include the protests too... how could we let those social activists get a pass?
As of April 2, 2024, Oregon has recriminalized drugs because their policy of a $100 fine for possession didn't work. Try to keep up.
@@jimmyshakes420- Oh, those people are so well intentioned…
idk i kinda believe you and kinda not. Things might seem better in retrospect but fact is...many cities lost storefronts thanks to everyone shopping online. It just isn't financially solvent to pay for overhead to sell certain products. So the businesses you name, it all depends on the whys. And Portland is a city so I doubt it was all that stunning, cities are usually dirty in America. Some hide it better. A riot would not be enough to bring a city down so I don't believe you, I have lived in places where there was a riot and you would never know today. It's the drugs, fool.
I'm a carpenter. I live about 40 minutes north. I refuse to go there for materials and work. It's dangerous there. Last time I went there to do a job a group of punks tried to steal my tools. Portland used to be fun to work on the old houses. Now it's a shit hole.
The armpit of Oregon ?
Yes.
Liberal tolerance is a cancer.
Voting blue gets us Portland
and voting red gives us the sacklers, so why not shove politics aside and deal with policies
@@rickc2102 I am all for that please tell democrats to do the same. They seem as devoted to the democrat party as catholics are to their church. Democrats do seem unaware of their bad policies. Republicans are very aware of the bad policies done by people who are republicans but are doing the wrong thing.
My late mother had pains in her whole body because of rheumatoid arthritis and was prescribed pain killers but her principles were too strong for her to even take half of the medication. RIP MARIS STELLA MAWLONG.
My grandmother was the same way. She had terrible arthritis and osteoporosis, and she never took any opiates until the last year of her life.
That is why I left Portland. Ask the homeowners how these people are getting their money for drugs... stealing.
Under 995$ it’s free essentially each store… it kills me as a kid who broke an early shoplifting habit to see this in their adult future… I miss my 90s lies before it got so insane the last 3 years😒🔥
If the drugs are legal, why doesn’t the pharmacies sell them without a prescription? True legalization will drive the prices down especially for drugs like insulin and antibiotics that have been controlled by the medical industry for too long
@@250smacksThey didn't legalize anything, they just stopped enforcing drug laws. It's all still black market.
They sould probably enforce theft laws then...
@@eboomer good luck when the dead mail-in vote blue💀🧢
There is a difference between legalization and decriminalization.
no heir is Americans version, spo why does it work in other country's eh?
@@davechristian7543 I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Huge difference. They never had any right to claim it anyway. It's freedom time.
@@davechristian7543 What country? Be specific.
@@davechristian7543 What other countries give money and pay people to do drugs all day? Here in California we actually give them cash, and let them run the streets. We will do a clean up when it gets to big, but then it just happens over and over.
This isn't by chance or accident, it's by design. It's a multi billion dollar business to try and "help" the homeless
15 months clean
💪💪💪
Everyone’s point fingers at everyone but themselves…
That's what junkies do
💯 can walk around and see this shit daily and still go on to try these hard drugs and blame the world there’s countless rehab programs but you have to want help
Did you not pay attention to what I said u can’t blame anyone but your self 🤷🏾♂️
@@alirrr8919I would have to disagree with you about how many rehabs there are. Yes if you have money there are, but if you can’t pay out of pocket there are huge waiting lists. When I went into rehab my parents were able to pay the full price, so I got to skip the line. People I met at rehab who were on public aid had all been waiting months to get in. That kind of a delay certainly contributes to the death of some of the people waiting for a bed.
@@lilH2well I'm a junkie because I was born one from addicted parents and then threw on the streets where I was taken in by other addicted guardians where I was beaten and abused so I knew nothing different had no schooling or social services knew nothing about me as I wasn't registered at birth instead I was born in a crack den so I ask you is this my fault
Portland born & raised..I miss the city before 2010. Measure 110 needs to be done away with. Been addicted. Been homeless. You have to take accountability for your choices. And stop expecting the city to support u in your tent. And for goodness sakes clean up after yourself!! Withdrawals are horrible. But u have to start somewhere. Unfortunately homeless kids have been an issue since the late 80s. They used to live in Pioneer Courthouse Square💙💙
Not all but the majority of Fenty users in Portland will lie about anything to make it look like their addiction isn't their problem.
What if the addiction was hereditary?
@@derekpierkowski7641 Addiction can very well be genetic/hereditary but nobody wants to discuss that. They just want to point fingers at us addicts and tell us "we're bad evil people." Addiction/alcoholism runs in BOTH sides of my family (both my mom's parents were alcoholics and died from the disease of alcoholism) and my biological father is/was an alcoholic (last I heard a few years ago he got sober. I don't really know. Never really had much of a relationship with him throughout my life because of his alcoholism and he was just never there for me/didn't pick me up on weekends like he was supposed to. I haven't seen or spoken to him since 2006.) I know I became an addict/alcoholic (now in recovery) very young due to not only genetic but environmental factors (I grew up in a house full of addiction/alcoholism and abuse in every form. When I started experimenting with drugs and alcohol at the age of around 12, I was trying to escape/numb myself from a lot of trauma I had experienced in my life and I continued to do that for 25+ years. I've been on suboxone on and off since 2008 (been currently on it again for the last 9 years. It's kept the needle out of my arm for going nearly a decade now.) and whenever I wasn't on subs, I would always relapse/get arrested/go to jail. If I'm on subs for the rest of my life that's fine by me. I'd rather be alive and on subs, than dead. I also quit alcohol 3 1/2 years ago after getting a really bad health diagnosis. If I didn't quit drinking when I did, I wouldn't be here today.
The Sackler family should be in jail for life.
I hate Rudy G for defending them, the GOP for making it easy for them to evade justice and hide money overseas instead of paying it, and speeding up their trial so they could get easier treatment under Trump. Screw everything about our corrupt govt
"I was diagnosed with cancer" "so, do you get robbed a lot out here?"
Yeah, conversational whiplash.
"We were held hostage by a serial killer and saw him crush somone's skull right in front of us"
"Do you get offered a lot of drugs?"
@Pneumanon Literally doesn't care. Just pushing his agenda.
Thats life keep the ball rolling and it never ends!
Yeah real brash it's almost like he telling them they deserve this...empathy is key when speaking with addicts and the homeless/less fortunate. 😓💜☝️🙏
This "documentary " definitely had an agenda, they wanted to push people into telling some outrageous stories, but trying to focus on the drug angle
I broke my back in 2005, I'm disabled due to this, I have never been prescribed oxy or anything else after an initial 5 day dose of percocettes....I will say that yes the availability of such meds exploded due to the doctor's but it's such a cop out to blame doctor's for treating pain, the doctors now don't treat pain at all and many suffer because of it. It's a vicious cycle it does not seem to get any better regardless. I don't blame the doctors I blame cheaply made designer drugs that have flooded the world. Pandora's box opened long ago with a fermented apple in the garden of eden. People will chase a high. The doctor's are not to blame. I think they don't help people in need, maybe they give it to anyone but it certainly has not been my experience. Idk. Sad regardless.
Yep. That's called the "other opioid epidemic".
I live in Oregon and they basically said they'd help addicts but instead they just give people a card with a hotline number on it and that's it really. Nobody takes it seriously and none of the programs or whatever were set up anyway. So, someone is making bank on all this and our cities are getting worse. It's BS, I thought it was a good idea but I didn't know they would not do much else besides hand out cards.
Yup it's the sackler family who made oxys 80s that started all this but I thought they stopped when the ceo (fall guy) got arrested and they got fined. Looks like they are still in the business smh
Almost like its by design huh...? Someone is benefitting from this, you just have to find how who, and why. Then you can see how to REALLY solve the issues.
Oregon never implemented and financed the recovery programs that were supposed to be the other half of drug legalization. They just removed the penalties and that was it.
@@bGXeNo1just follow the money and you will find who is purposely flooding towns and cities with drugs and drug addicts.
It’s chemical war fare of the modern era, weakening a nation by getting them addicted to drugs.
@@bGXeNo1Too right! Follow the money.
I literally cannot believe that man said LESS THAN 1% actually get addicted. Horrible lies to tell innocent people, people in pain, diseases, accidents…why would you ever tell them that they couldn’t get addicted, esp when they are the most susceptible to that crap.
It's actually the truth. But go ahead and believe other lies. That you don't dare treat pain w/o becoming addicted. You are not going to become an addict for using a pain med after an injury or even in small doses from chronic pain but I guess you'd rather see those who suffer chronic pain from whatever cause not be able to function. Heartless much?
@@BlazeDuskdreamerYou most definitely can. That's not to say we shouldn't utilize them, but don't lie about the risk.
@@Steve-ev6vx You can if you abuse them. Just as you become an alcoholic if you abuse alcohol, drinking too much instead of having the occassional drink. You seem awfully defensive. As I said, the less than 1% that do are the ones that take more than prescribed and/or combine with illicit/alcohol.
@@BlazeDuskdreamer How does acknowledging the risk sound defensive?
@@Steve-ev6vx It's not a risk for the pain patient that doesn't take more than prescribed. Taking pain meds as prescribed does not get you addicted.
I'm clinically brain dead he says😂😂😂 how the f are you still walking & talking if that's the case.
You couldn't write that shit 😂😂😂
I was like huh 😂
😂😂 Bro said 75% of his brain do t work
My cousin LIVED in Portland. Lived being the word. He moved away because its now the Zombie Apocalypses.
I’ve lived in Portland for 40 years and i’m ashamed what’s happened here 🥲🥲🥲
Vote differently.
@@TXTeacher1111 YOU SAID IT!!!! They have a feckless wimp for a mayor and an imbecile for Governor - not a recipe for success. Portland WAS gorgeous! Clean, green orderly it was MANY peoples favorite city - 20 yrs ago!
Weird emoji to use
@@TXTeacher1111 so true.
Until people stop voting for democrats and " Democratic Socialist " nothing will change. I know people think Republicans conservatives etc will just lock everyone up, and create a police state war on drugs 2.0. It's just not true though. Obviously the policies of the left are just destroying our cities, time to try something else.
I’m so sick of the blame game,it’s like suing Marlboro,get over it ,read the instructions,know the danger.ITS IN BLACK AND White
Cigs didn't come out with a stronger better cigarette they said wasn't addictive and payed docs to push that drug or smokes and knowing its way more addictive and wasn't meant for a regular back pain. The sackler family did that starting with oxys 80s
@@dave8484You obviously don't have a very good understanding on the history of tobacco.
It's not black and white. Pharmaceutical companies would pay doctors to push opioids stating that these drugs were not addictive. So doctors would shove these drugs down their patients throats. Meanwhile big Pharma knew how addictive these drugs were. So these people are force fed these drugs then all of a sudden they are cut off. Opioids are hell to be just cut off, so they haed to get well and they started using h then this epidemic happened. Bug Pharma, liberals, and lazy greedy doctors are to blame for this bullshit.
This is why people should look at all sides of the argument
@@dave8484 doctors don't get paid to prescribe specific drugs. Or any drugs, for that matter.
If you don’t live with chronic pain there is no way you can understand! I fight everyday with my pain. I haven’t given in yet but it’s been over30 years. The older I get the harder it gets to deal with. I’m so close to start. I’m getting older and I really want to live the rest of what time I have left pain free 💕
I live in AZ. I'm terminal and have a hard time getting any pain meds. Who cares if I get addicted? Yet if an addict wants an opiod they get it right away through pain management centers. It's insane.
That’s not true, it’s no easier for an addict to get pain meds from pain management than a cancer patient, in fact it’s probably easier for the cancer patient. I was in pain management for years from a bad disk in may back, pain management clinic’s used to be like you are talking about in the 90’s and early 2000’s you didn’t even have to be in pain and you could get whatever you wanted as long as you had cash, but now the feds have cracked down hard on pain management clinics.
I’m sorry for your situation, that must be very difficult for you.
But, you are misinformed. An “addict” absolutely cannot just get opioids “right away” from a pain management clinic. They won’t even let you in the clinic if you’re already an addict, in almost all circumstances. It is very difficult to get into a pain management clinic. You have to be referred there from a primary physician or specialist. And often there’s a wait / application process, not even all pain patients get accepted.
The only way addicts can get opioids for free is through a drug treatment clinic, methadone or suboxone, sometimes slow release morphine. In very very extreme cases addicts can get pharmaceutical heroin, but only long term addicts who have tried all other forms of treatment first
Then I gotta move my ass to AZ, cuz I've been telling with a spine tumor for almost a decade, and I can't get into pain management in NC
@@tomdiets5079 unfortunately it’s gotten to a point where they’re really cracking down so elderly people are getting cut off, they won’t use opioids in some emergency rooms and it seems it’s extending to cancer patients now. Yet even with all this crack down overdose deaths keep going up. People are going to the street to get that pain relief.
Why don't you go get some KRATOM instead of crying about not being able to get synthetic medication.
THE SAD THING IS SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR TO THIS STARTED IN THE LATE 90'S IN RUSSIA...THEY CALL IT KROKADILE...
For those of you who are new to seeing something like this. welcome to America this is what goes on in every major city…
Every city in the world. USA isn’t special on this issue.
Sadly true. Phoenix, every town in Colorado and Texas. Visited Fort Worth in December 2019 to see my mom on her deathbed and didn’t feel safe places in used to live 1992-2014. Homelessness is rampant and mental illness and addiction are affecting every demographic. 😢
Not just major cities. Everywhere is bad. Look at West Virginia where there aren’t any large cities …
@@ctobolsk I live in southern Wv, chaired meetings for a year, and no where is it as bad as the tenderloin. Our biggest issue is ODs.
@@matthewcollins5344 OD’s are absolutely showing addiction. And if it’s worse in big cities it’s due to increased population density. I’d like to see per capita addiction rates
I kicked heroin two years ago. Yes, the first couple of days on methadone are uncomfortable simply because the providers aren't going to give you a huge dose without first titrating and learning what your tolerance is. That'd be not only stupid, but irresponsible, and would ultimately end up in someone od'd and lawsuits. THAT'S why you don't get what you want at the start. NOT because they don't care or won't help like that jackass said in the beginning...
You picked a good time to quit, heroin is now all fent and Afghanistan stopped producing the world supply.
@@1NeoCross1 truth. Even before I kicked I was getting abscesses because of the fetty cut. It was complete garbage as well. I don't even know how I would've faired with the stuff out there now. Not good most likely
I live about an hour away from Portland. It’s horrible there. It was never like this a few years back and it’s probably never going to change back to the way it was.
I lived in Vancouver. I was glad to move a few years ago. Hours away....
Any businesses still operating in Portland? What a wasteland.
All these junkies are the reason why people with true documented chronic pain can't get help and are labeled are drug addicts every time we ask for pain medicine.
If you were paying attention you'd know that 4 out of 5 of these "junkies" started with prescriptions from their doctors.
@@adammiller9179 so everyone is going to become an addict because these junkies became addicts?
@@adammiller9179that’s their narrative because it’s become the popular mantra
@@adammiller9179 just because these junkies became addicts that means every single person with chronic pain is going to become a junkie?
That's not the people with actual pains problem! If they're able to get addicted to it they're able to kick it so why don't they just go into a rehab! I know personally!
I’ve been denied help for severe chronic pain the last 8 years. I have lived a clean life with no alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs or even caffeine. Because the “well meaning “ politicians decided to solve the opioid epidemic, people like me are ignored. I was told by a Northern California Kaiser pain doctor “ You DO know that euthanasia is legal in California!” - when I asked what people like me were supposed to do. I’m religious, I am 75, have a wonderful very large family. I have considered suicide for the last 8 years. I’ve also considered driving into a nearby city to find ANYTHING to ease my never ending pain. . I can’t believe that I have to suffer to this degree. The suicides are happening because many of us have conditions that aren’t fatal. We have no hope and a lifetime of hell ahead of us. I expect to live into my ‘90’s. My condition began 52 years ago. It’s progressive.
Hey, I am glad you knew better and have a loving family. Please pay it forward by writing a review of that doctor online, so others will be warned off (and won't waste money on going to see him for help.) I know that it's hard to have CHRONIC pain, far worse than temporary -- people cannot imagine untl they are there. I can only offer you internet hugs and hope you find some relief, whether in medication or even something new (e.g. pain blocker implanted, ketamine, something or anything to help.)
the guy talking about how it shouldn't get rubbed in other people's faces is 100% right. don't make your problems other people's problems
I for one thank God for Oxy! When I tore my back up a few years ago, it was the only thing that gave me any relief 🙏
Me too! Everyone believes these addicts saying that’s how they got addicted to pain medication. These people had problems long before OxyContin. They blame everyone else for why they’re addicts. All this does is hurt real people who need pain relief
Agree totally.
And somehow you stayed off the streets of Portland. Go Figure.
Yeah me too.. I had 2nd and 3rd degree burns on over half my body...the day it happened i was rushed to hospital and couldnt stop screaming, until they administered pain relief.. very grateful
I agree... The ones who use it for severe pain know
But what do they want? Do they want to be taken care of? Do they want free drugs? Do they want to be left alone to break all the laws I am expected to follow? I mean seriously what do they want?
Drugs
Everything for free and I mean everything. Free housing, free drugs, free needles+ paraphernalia, free $$, free food, NO Child Support (so basically free for that too!), free expensive vehicle.....complete and total entitlement. YES, they want to be taken care of ' 'cause most are laf...... Colorado received a LIST OF DEMANDS from ILLEGALS! California is handing out baggies of Fentanyl to the "homeless", they ALSO give FREE alcohol-what's your poison? Beer? Got that, Vodka? Got that, name the alcohol you're craving, we'll get it for you, free of charge.....NYC handing out pure $$ like no tomorrow--each illegal receives $10,000.00 per week in CASH, as well as a check so they can open bank accounts-? how much is in these checks but you can bet it's not chump change. They get FREE Healthcare, a car, Bank Loans @0% when we Americans pay 8%.....need I go on??? I wish I was making it up but sadly, this is 100% true.
That's exactly what they want !! To rub their bullshit lifestyle of self degradation in everyone's face!!!
Freedom from the next minute
@@fiffikins when do they want it?
Thank you Aaron for spreading this awareness from the US to us back in the UK because you know it’s on it’s way and with it the horrors of tranq etc.
Prayers and love to all those suffering everywhere from the pain of the disease of addiction, exclusion, rejection and loss of hope.
Please don’t give up, it’s never too late and you are valuable🙏 with love from Liverpool England❤🙏
You know it's bad when a Scouse feels sorry for you
Thank you for your prayers sick for 55 year's crohns
we already have enough "awareness" spread. these youtubers need to stop extorting addicts for views, it's like every other friggin person now
@@mksu2991 As long as there are people still beginning on this road to hell I have to disagree. In the UK awareness isn’t yet obsolete✌️
Born and raised in OR. I miss Portland around 2010. Such a sad sad downfall. 😢
Clean since 2017....if your getting sober I believe in your success to beatin the addiction
2 years on Monday! Thanks for your inspiration
4 years next month.
@@cjsrescues which drug did u take
@@unidaspandemia9936 oxycodone, morphine and oxy
Personal responsibility? Were did that get lost in the conversation
@simionrees9117 if only .. in the last 25 years so many people have jumped on the I’ll live off government money wagon the government has made it to easy to not work personal responsibility is not common no more 😵💫
Think we slightly missing alot of the point of being prescribed it not street gear n would u rather go through sometimes extreme pain for life or take medication especially especially a doctor someone who your mesnt to be able to trust
You must be new around here, most of these people are white, so personal accountability never (or very rarely) comes up. if they were black, it's all you'd hear about.
Accountability no longer exist in society unfortunately
@@DarkStar_48You're a tool
Psychedelics saved me from years of uncontrollable depression, anxiety, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for over a decade and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. Believe it or not, in a couple of years they'll be all over for treatment of mental health related issues.
Congrats on your recovery. Most people don't realize that psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. It is very hard to get a reliable source here in Switzerland. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Some people actually need strong opioid pain medication, but they’re not getting it because the doctors and pill-pushers who overprescribed these medications to patients found the patients became addicted and did the “sensible” thing; cut the patients completely off. Why they overprescribed, and why they didn’t titrate the addicts they created, is a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Incredibly powerful documentary. Keep up the good work Aaron 🙏🏾
On the opposite side of this disaster, people are struggling. When I slipped 2 disk in my back, they gave me Tylenol 3 for the good days and oxy for the bad. I moved a state over and was told they dont believe in pain meds and to take ibuprofen. They also insinuated that I was an addict while referring me to rehab. So I was eating ibuprofen by the handful every day trying to get some relief. Now my stomachache can't handle ibuprofen. Doctors think I'm lying about it to get harder meds. So, any more on the rare chance i have to see a doctor, I will just turn down any drug they try to subscribe. Or just go along with whatever drug they subscribe and never pick up the meds.
Production quality is next level bro - good to see the channel and content moving forward - keep up the good work
I am so grateful to be clean. OMG! Life is now worth living- and all I have to do is stay sober. Godspeed to all the suffering.
If you're overseas and watching this video, maybe you've seen some of Kensington, Camden, etc. you need to know that it isn't just a few places. This is everywhere in the USA. There are a few holdout areas, and in rural areas it's not as obvious. If you come here and go to a nice beach town or Disney you're protected from seeing it but I guarantee in five years unless you're in some kind of closely controlled area this is exactly what you'll see when you go outside.
I’m a chronic pain patient and people using opioids just to get high have made it impossible for people like me to be able to live a life without pain. It is getting so bad out there for people with chronic pain being unable to get anything to help relieve that pain because people are abusing it to get high that suicide for chronic pain are at a all-time high. It’s so unfair to group everybody into one category. because believe me if they guarantee that it would take my pain away I would let them operate on my brain at this point. This is a miserable existence.
Ignorant, scumbag politicians are to blame.
Have you tried kratom? Lots of people have switched to it and have better pain relief than medications
Yeah I was going to recommend this. You can pick it up at any smoke shop. Same addicting effects though. Got hooked on the stuff because I wasn’t told that until I was too far in. I am clean now but thousands of dollars in the hole and bridges burned later.
I was told it was like weed.
It’s diet opiates. I experienced the same withdrawals a heroin addict experiences only slightly less intense.
Take ibuprofen, get a PF membership for 10$ a month a use the massage chairs. Exercise. Eat healthy. Stretch. Look around at your life and see what is truly causing your pain and switch your lifestyle.
People are so quick to say just give me the pill and numb me. I know because I was one of them for 15 years.
Recently got my life back and I can see clearly through all this. It’s not the “junkies” you want to blame. It’s the doctors. It’s the hyper rich that mass produced these heroin pills to begin with.
90% of doctors will fuck you up worse than you went in to begin with.
My mother was one of the “lucky” ones that was prescribed Oxy for her chronic pain. She is now a full blown addict on Suboxone. Consider yourself lucky you never got prescribed this shit.
I live this battle every day. It’s inhumane.
What did you do before for the pain?
I love this channel and the fact that his content is not sugar coated.
Yup,their dragging us all down WITH them. WE ARE SICK OF IT.
There is more shitty doctors out there then there are good ones.
It's easier to write a prescription than it is to actually try to help somebody.
That’s. Not true,maybe a few bad doctors,but like any other trade you can find a bad plumber or electrician,don’t call them all assholes.
@@nhmike6890agreed. I have a lot of medical problems so i have seen and currently see a lot of doctors. The great majority of my doctors are wonderful. I’ve maybe only met 1 or 2 bad ones in my lifetime
Its much easier to go on a red light, than it is to stop on a green light.
Honestly, any of these addicts under 25 that say that doctors got them hooked as an excuse are full of it, doctors haven’t been able to hand out Oxy like they used to for a while now.
Bollocks
First of this video has brought tears to my eyes I grew up in Portland and mind that I am only 16 I I am recovering addict from meth and fentanyl it took over in what seemed one night I have had struggled with drug abuse before ranging from alcohol to cough medicine. Eventually I found fentanyl and it took ahold of me like a parasite I was sick all the time I needed the high I was just about to turn 15 at the time mixed up with the wrong people never home I was lost. I thank my family every day for helping me even though I treated them like shit when I was high and worried them if I overdosed at on the side in the road I am grateful for my second chance at live. But it I a struggle every day I hate the drug it’s horrible.
I'm happy to read that you have Family support. Most don't have that.
You're very young and have a full life of temptation and tests ahead of you. Stay strong, stay frosty and don't get complacent.
If you think that was bad, I can promise you that living in active addiction only gets worse and harder as you keep using or relapsing as you age.
Please stay clean and safe ❤
They all have one thing in common, they all lie.
I saw a comment about my dr by a person who moved from Cali. She was furious he wouldn’t give her all these hard core addictive drugs. I think he was trying to save her life but she wouldn’t listen! I have seen my dr for twenty years and he has always treated me great! His nurse is absolutely awesome as well!
Lived in Portland for 7 years til last year, it's a fucking cess pool now. Good job everybody!
"I'm 75% brain dead"! That's still better than most folk!! 😅😂
I was in a really bad farming accident that turned my life upside down and living in a small rural community accessing care and then now with chronic pain is terrible. I had a horrific childhood that gave me every reason that I could go down this path which I didn't I didn't want it to take me over. I get how ppl get to that point I hope they find help that gets to the route cause that led them to numb the world out. My heart goes out to all those lost
I live just outside of Portland. We used to go downtown all the time go to eat, shopping, walk around etc. we always had drugs and homeless- but it was not bad at all. We were totally safe and the city was beautiful except for maybe Chinatown was a little rougher in some parts.
The funniest part is that decriminalizing was totally pointless. We already had a lot of “harm reduction” and recovery programs, and were soft on drug possession. If you got caught with drugs, you went to drug court. All they did by decriminalizing it, at the same time fentanyl was taking over, was that people started doing it out in the open. And at the same time they defunded police and went even softer on crime. So it was a recipe for disaster
We have a lot of resources for drug treatment. They are smoking fentanyl right next to a methadone clinic. The only thing is that they have long lines and you have to go everyday- but they’re homeless. You have nothing else to do. Detox centers also get you on medication so it’s all just a bunch of BS excuses that’s addicts always make.
I also don’t agree with blaming doctors. A lot of people start using opiates on the street. Portland has always had a drug problem. It was meth, then heroin, now fentanyl. But at least back then you had to hide it from the public
I've been to Portland twice on business over the last ten years. This place is a literal sewer and I will never go back again.
Portland has always been weird and creepy. I went there in the 90s and it was bad then. It just felt wrong.
My man said " I'm clinically brain dead" . . . nah bro ur clinically ill, don't do drugs kids
75% of his brain is dead 🤔🤦🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️I agree clinically ill🤔
It's the Pain Olympics. These people need to brag about how messed up they are to win the gold medal.
@@B3Band awarded to them by bleeding hearts everywhere.
Wasn’t that the dude that got hit by a car and was helping people? I don’t think that was one of the users
@@spirit.punk.He says
Everyone has choices in life ‼️
What they dont point out in the Portugal experiment, is they showed a 75% drop in overdoses in 15 years because by then everyone died off.
Paraguay did this also. Same results.
Sure
completely false and a pathetic statement
@@hempminded the truth hurts.
@@craiglawson663 keep living in ignorance, but don't spread it please
Very interesting to see this. Nice job Aaron!
Another great doc, keep 'em coming!
Many addict trade their food stamps for $0.50 on the dollar, then eat at the soup kitchens. Stamps are for food, but are used as a part of their monthly income, helping to finance drug activity.
Some sell their methadone too.
I'm clean over six years off heroin. The only thing that save my life, the only reason I'm not dead, is because I stopped blaming other people and made myself aware and ready to deal with the fact I had a serious fuckin problem that was gonna kill me before I could see my Dad again. It is the doctors and the Purdue companies and all of those people, yes. They are at fault. But if I kept crying over that while stickin a needle in my arm, I would have NEVER stopped. I had to stop focusing on how evil the drug companies are and focus on how am I gonna get out of this. If you don't do that, you're just gonna be that guy in the baseball hat and the fur coat. Forever.
Quit blaming doctors.
@@whiskeykilmer1866I don't think you really read what he wrote.
Or she
But when someone has a bad car accident or some other traumatic injury. What should they give them Tylenol
I went from nearly dying from a bowel obstruction in January, getting a very painful post-op clot, being put on a blood thinner in ER, and being given oe Percocet I
I am still in pain but can on can useless Tylenol because you can't take NSAIDS of bloodthinners.
@@jeanmank6342 percs aren’t blood thinners. They have Tylenol in them..
That's about it. I told my doc I was gonna stop my b.p. meds cuz what's the point of being healthy only to suffernwith pain. I said I was gonna start chain smoking so maybe I'd get cancer then at least maybe I'd get some relief from the pain in my back becuz of the pain relief for the cancer. I told him I take like 3-4 tylenol about 3 times a day and he tells me thats too much, I'm gonna do damage. But let's not give me something that can work and I won't have to take so much of to try and get some relief... IM GETTING NO RELIEF and I don't know how much longer I can go on like this. So then he has a social worker call to see if they can help. Yea, that will help. Teach me how to fell good when I feel like sh*t....
This can work but not in a society with no social welfare or any other support or hope. If half the population of America is below the poverty line, you’ll have a tonne of despair and drug use with no foreseeable way out 🤷🏽♂️
Awesome job man! Glad I saw it pop up today. Sad, interesting and infuriating. 👍👍
I lived in portland in 99. Dowtown always been full of homeless kids, runaways, gutter punks. More than many larger cities. Heroin zombies doing the standing frozen nod on the sidewalks back then. I cant imagine how bad its gotten by now.
I’m from North Portland all my life and still here
Back in 2004 I had a car accident broke my neck I was 350 Percocet a month for 5 years then later they cut me off
I was in a week coma had to wear metal head to hold my neck for one year.
So thank god I didn’t try other drugs .
Now I been manage my life with pain but you gotta be a strong mind to survive 💯
All of those services under the bridge are terrible. Well meaning, but terrible. It's like the city has decided to be enablers. Watch intervention, if you don't know an addict, and if you do, you'll learn quickly that these people will never get better without hitting rock bottom. Giving them free food, clothing, haircuts, medical care, to make their addicted lives as normal as possible, is as good as helping them OD. Again, well meaning people for sure, but they should really ask themselves if they're helping people, or just prolonging their addiction, or worse hastening the end for these sad people.
yes, they're helping. you, with your lack of humanity and compassion, are not helping.
The bone eating drug I was thinking of from the title of this video was "xylazine." It is different from fentanyl, and can be mixed with it by unscrupulous distributors. It causes vascular problems and necrotic lesions with persistent use. Its street name is "tranq." It is used as an animal tranquilizer and is not an opioid. Its effects cannot be reversed by Narcan.
Superior work, thank you for your hard work
I hate my bones and I'm so glad i can finally teach them a lesson
OMG!! I prob shouldn't laugh but that was funny as hell!!! 🤣
I don’t know what it is -the quick cuts, the burned in subs, the monotone tone, the lack of stabilisation-but this is the most awkward doc I’ve seen in a while.
New subscriber. Great video!
I remember walking through portland 20 years ago. It was the first time I'd seen an overdose, and people just yelling and acting crazy in the middle of the street. I guess now things have gotten even more out of hand....
It’s crazy how they blaming the doctors for proscribing Oxys,and fentanyl but don’t blame themselves for abusing it,it’s not like if the doctor pointed a gun and told you to inject it or smoke it,I been in and out of the hospital and I never got abusive or anything like that for any drugs and I’m only 26 years old,I had 57 staples on my head where I had brain surgery,not only that I had 2 surgeries on my head before that till they decided to cut me open but I been on all types of medication and never got abusive but we not all the same,I have seizures from my accidents and not only that my left hip dislocates on its own from a different car accident so every seizure I get my left hip dislocates on its own and not only that they never know when ima wake up,last seizure I went into a coma for 15 days,sometimes I’ll wake up the next day or two but the last seizure I was out,so who knows if I’ll reach to see 30 years old,but im just blessed I’m still here 🙏🏼💙 but for real for reals you can’t blame nobody for your own mistakes and problems or anything like that but yourself so stop the bull crap
You can easily get addicted while following the orders from your doctor. All it takes is a couple days straight of taking opioids. Many people were prescribed for 3 months and more. It's impossible NOT to be physically addicted at that point.
@@adammiller9179 like I said I was on fentanyl and opioid medication and never got addicted to them or abused taking them and I literally get proscribed for them today but I still don’t take them,I only need it when I really need it,I don’t take them just to get high or anything
Exactly
@@adammiller9179 I didn’t get addicted to that shit,I didn’t abuse my drugs,I stopped when they told me to do it and I been on all types of medication
I'm not sure why they blame the doctors anyway... The pharmaceutical company got approved to sell it to start with. Other countries looked at the claims found it to be a opioid and rejected it due to the addictive effects of opioids being known since the 1900s. The USA approved it fined the pharmaceutical company then went after doctors. If the adminstration had done it's job then doctors wouldn't have been able to prescribe it because it wouldn't be on the market. If the government isn't going to accept responsibility then why would they even try and fix it?
Its easy to say that decriminalization doesnt work when all the parts of the plan arent implemented. The reasons why folks use need to be addressed also. Id rather pump tax dollars into helping each other than towards corporations who have full time employees qualifying for assistance.
to anyone who deals with addiction or loves someone with addiction, I hope you find healing
Great documentary!! Those poor souls.
At what point do people take accountability for their addictions???? Always some BS blame game….
It has been nearly a decade since doctors who overprescribed have had their licenses revoked and are unable to perscribe. At what point do we stop blaming doctors? 🤔 Accountability now belongs in the hands of the individual person.
Agreed. This perpetuation only hurts patients who are now experiencing undermanaged pain.
It's important for the historical context, but take what junkies say with a grain of salt. They are spiteful against anything resembling society since they feel betrayed by it. At this point it seems like the black market is enabled by policy, that was at once well meaning is too short sighted to do anything but make the problems worse.
No. And I believe in personal accountability. Drugs pushers.are drugs pushers.
If you didn’t go through it you would not understand….. doctors destroyed generations. It’s going to take time to get rid of it!!! I went through and trust me they damaged our country
If they hadn't created the drug there wouldn't be there problems there are now with it coming up in illegal substances and then if your cut of that drug you've been on for along time you can't just not replace that your body gets to a point where you need it withdrawal is terrible but its possible t bear it get through it not nice im but if legal substances like fentynal weren't crested we wouldn't be in this mess. I'm living in ireland where most drugs aren't over prescribed what we're seeing is fentynal being mixed with other substances and deaths then occuring. These people are not knowingly taking fentynal by itself. Its terrible and its goin to be the next crisis point eith drugs in ireland
One look at what drugs does to a person steers me away from drugs.
I'm 67 and have had ma years surgeries with pain medication prescribed. Thankfully I have had no addictive problems with that.
This just makes me so sad. Being someone who was born in Portland and grew up there, it was absolutely amazing in the 1990s. I still will visit for the zoo, OMSI and the Rose Gardens ❤
Aaron interesting document needed for this issue 🎉
"Portland's different than any other city I've been to by far...". I know the British are polite but that's incredible, talk about an understatement.😳
They got me with M.S. Contin. The ugly sister of Oxy.....1995. By sheer luck I moved, got on Suboxone, 5 years ago. By sheer luck I missed Fetty....I would have died, for sure....or be alive and just a shell....
Never understood it since I had most of em all as a teen but hydro was my preference and I eventually just stopped. And to think I got it out at the coast near this, my home city before it became a legal drug pit…
NOICE!!
I was in the epicenter of the pill epidemic in South florida when I was 18. My doctor was prescribing me 360 oxys, 120 Xanax, and 90 methadone. I never even asked for the methadone but he insisted I fill it. I literally seen him for maybe 75 seconds before he handed me the scripts. They were already pre written. He was also a pediatrician and babies would be crying sick and he would take the addicts first. To find a doctor all you had to do was find a parking lot with out of state tags and people holding a yellow envelopes (mri). Even the mri places laid about issues you had. Everyone was making money from it. If you handed the nurse a $100 bill she would let you skip the line. People would travel from so far away to palm beach and ft Lauderdale with 6 people in a car and go home with thousands of pills. There were 25 bill boards of pain management places all down 95. My doctor is now serving life in prison because multiple people died. Look up Dr Rodriguez arrest lake worth. It really hurt my generation. I know of over a hundred people who died. Florida really let it go on to long. They made tons of money from the doctors and then made even more of the rehabs. I battle addiction and cravings daily for over 15 years now. My whole high school was addicted. People falling over in there seats or puking from withdrawals. It's really sad.
Like bro said you can’t really blame nobody but ourself 💯🫵🏼
Here in Ohio, the first wave of oxy's cane in the early 90s. My sis was addicted by mid 90s. Drugs have completely destroyed my family. God bless tge sick and suffering.
The guy in the fur coat is a thinker. He's made some excellent observations. Good for him for knowing what's going on at the capital.
stomach-churning. my heart just aches and aches for these people - thank you for giving them a chance to speak for themselves. the tragedies of progressive policy are self-evident.
Just because "some doctors got fired for over prescriptions" THEY ARE STILL OUT THERE. people commenting have not experienced addiction in their life. It started a whole new generation of being around it constantly. So although doctors aren't doing it as much anymore people can't just stop without help they WILL die without it because of withdrawls
Most Fentanyl comes from China via Mexico and is bought off the street.
Biggest fan from Australia! Your work is so powerful. You’re the best and most liable I’ve come across yet. Keep up the good work! P.s I just signed up to the patreon.
they killed my dear friend who was already dying from liver failure, they gave fetty patches, morph and panda, I watched her buy a truck with a month of meds and none of us even had the dt's, but it was seriously something I've only seen possible with the legal meds that also murdered her at 54! SAD face!!!
As a 4th stage cancer survivor, I was given hydrocodone and oxycontin at the same time. My Dr's said to take them both 3 times a day. I said....I am not going to get addicted to this medicine. They said, take it and if you do, we will address that problem if it develops. Well, I regulated it, took less than I really needed, and came out of the cancer without being opioid addicted. It is a choice.
It also takes a force of will and strong intent that many people lack. Americans are weak, generally speaking, but I'm very proud that you pulled through.
That’s wonderful you’re the 1/10, but it doesn’t mean you’re better than anyone else, it means you have different genetic factors.
@aaronball4700 no, it literally means they're better than 90 percent of people.
My doctor told me they were only addictive if I took them when I was not in pain. I never did, but she did not tell me how much pain they cause. I ran out one day, and had a severe physical reaction. I think that's called addiction. Mine was NOT a choice. The Cymbalta was introduced later. It worked better for the pain, for awhile. The withdrawals from that were hideous. I wasn't told about that either. I ended up in the ER two times from running out for a day or two. It still took quitting completely to feel the pain and put it together. Addiction is the side effect they want us to have. Enough of this nightmare.
I call bullshit. I take the identical as you did(3 oxyneo(oxycontin)40 mg and 3 Percocet(5/325), each and every day for 33 years due to 2 spinal fusions. Still have chronic pain as surgeries may have cut it by 10%max. And yes Im totally addicted, but not by choice.
That was a mistake ...
4:40 Panda: "And then I was diagnosed with cancer..."
Aaron: "Have you been robbed on the streets of Portland?"
That was an unfortunate sudden change of topic. :(
It's never been the fault of the doctor. I myself am a chronic pain patient. I've been prescribed everything from hydrocodone to fentynal. I have always taken the meds as directed and if it's not helping I don't just take more, I go back to the doctor. The bottle has usage indications on it. Some people can't control their intake this could be the result of a existing substance use issue or a poor history by the doctor. But most drug seekers don't give an accurate history. This problem has caused me nothing but difficulty in obtaining my meds. What I'm trying to say is the label does not say take as much as you want. Personal responsibility people, I'm an alcoholic and if I go back to drinking I can't blame the distillery. It says drink responsibility, I can't do that so if I go back the blame is 100% on me.
It is definitely the fault of a doctor who runs a pill mill, and there are plenty of docs out there who do this. You have no idea the kind of kickbacks and perks these doctors can get from their pharma reps. It’s disgusting.
@@colleenuchiyama4916 I sure do know all that. But still who's choice is it to take the pills. No one forces meds down your throat. The kill many more people with antipsychotics and inappropriate prescription of antibiotics. Of course they are in it for the money. Would you even see a doctor if you couldn't pay.
Telling people you can't get addicted doesn't necessarily mean you aren't part of the problem