Its just as bad here in Hartford CT. Cops only shut down the block along with all the drug dealers when someone gets shot or dies. Fentanyl took everything from me including my mother. She was a chronic pain patient who the doctors gave massive amounts of pain pills and even fentanyl patches. She was only 59 with a lot of life left. She was a retired nurse from Hartford Hospital who raised me all by herself. She fell asleep and never woke up. I found her barely breathing but it was too late. Her brain went without oxygen for too long. Stay as far away from pain meds as you possibly can. Its a slippery slope. Im in recovery myself now but the damage has been done. Ill never be the same. Her name was Bonnie and she was the most caring person Ill ever know. Love you mom.
@john wick I also was on a pain clinic for chronic pain from a car crash. A hole was drilled into my skull, and I was placed in a medically induced coma. My pelvis and legs were broken in numerous places. Fortunately, I had a dedicated physician who went the distance for me. My pain was sometimes so intense that the only relief was obtained through intravenous administration of potent opiates. Dr. Demrinyakov trained me to self-administer Numorphan, an injectable form of oxymorphone via intravenous injection. I am also taking sustained released tablets , 40 mg, 3 times per day. Essentially, I only use the injectable form for unbearable breakthrough pain. The relief is immediate; my doctor told me to inject no more than 4.5 mg ! Never more!!! My Doc requires random pill/ vial counts at his office 3 times per year. Without Dr. Demrinyakov, I would never have made it. Good luck with your pain as well, dear sir. Reinhold Von Treffencaunbowz,PhD
@Dylan Dylan Dylan It's been decades for me, more changes than I can remember. For those who dont want an increase, sometimes splitting the dose into two halves, then take one half every twelve hours can help with stability issues. I know you didn't ask for advice, but I couldn't resist.
It is a bit strange that for a country that has everything, they are struggling so badly. Im assuming this is only in high density areas right. I'm so glad my country doesn't have issues like this. We may be poor, but at least we don't have substance abuse, almost zero alcohol, no guns and violence; but of course, we still have rampant corruption and missuses of authority but we are working on that.
On the contrary, it's a country that takes everything from the people. Those on top have everything, yeah....but only because take from the little guy. Like charging $300 for a vial of insulin that costs $10 to make. It's a cesspool of greed and then people wonder why the little guy decides he might as well steal too. I agree though, glad I don't live there. Glad I can buy insulin for $30 and put that $270 difference towards groceries or rent. The American ideology of being free is a total Koolaid induced illusion.
I divorced my wife due to her addiction. She died from an overdose. I ended another relationship due to her drug use, she took fentanyl and died from an overdose. I left the bay area after that. I have never done drugs. I stay away from them completely.
@Bobby Douglas it's a complete shithole, yet every single day I run into people who look at me like I'm crazy when I say so. Not enough of us leave and the delusion is real.
people forget SF was like LSD capital at one point. Drugs drugs drugs. Naturally, the city of hippies became the city of addicts. And we are living in that era right now. Hopefully, it'll be a city of dignity one day.
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@Frank Peterz I'm sure he does. Nobody is forcing him to put that shit in his body but himself. H3 doesn't care about his mom or himself right now, for him it's all about the dope and the bullshit lifestyle the goes with it.
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I love how BBC is reporting on this, but none of the news agencies in California will touch it to this degree. Thanks for showing the truth of what's happening in these cities.
@Coincidence Theorist not all dealers are addicts. Some are to make their drugs for free and some dealers don't touch it and that's how they make money.. A dealer using is just silly because they use their profit.
Having come to SF a few months ago, you can absolutely tell that these people are ashamed of themselves and it is heartbreaking, they're so lost they need real help, but with everyone doing it around them it's nearly impossible to stop, just like couples that use together they hardly ever successfully recover together.
Maybe make drug ilegal and use force to retire dealers from the streets? They either take the city back by hand or this folks will die of overdoes while the drug commerce keeps going.
I am just appalled by the amount of overdoses I've seen and friends who have died from this disgraceful drug. Living in washington state i have seen the RAPID decline of Seattle, although its slowly improving. The ones manufacturing this dangerous drug should be held to the HIGHEST punishment available, absolutely unacceptable!!!!
@@ggeorge4144 you must read the Bible to understand your own question, but in a nutshell GOD has allowed us free will to choose what we want to do that is a part of GODS love, giving us the choice to choose what we want to do with our lives and whether we will obey him or the devil. It says in the Bible very few people walk the narrow path and find it for the path of destruction is wide and many are on it. The devil wants you to believe in only yourself and that he doesn't exist which is exactly why unfortunately he is good at his job, a liar a thief and a destroyer. Most people aren't even aware of spiritual warfare this fentanyl epidemic along with other drugs is a one the weapons the devil uses in trying to destroy someones life. If you read the Bible you'll get a much better understanding of what's going on in this 3rd dimensional world and how it's being ran. I hope that makes somewhat of sense to you but I encourage you to read and study the Bible. Have a Blessed weekend 😇🙏💜☝️
@@ggeorge4144 that's a terrible idea and doesn't commit to helping anyone. These people need rehabilitation and GOD in their to overcome these addictions.
@G George it won't because it's not just homeless people you got to understand there's also functioning addicts as well their doctors lawyers judges attorneys I used to guard a methadone clinic that's the real problem in this country you're thinking only of one perspective or the media that shows just homeless people being addicts I've seen powerful people but I can't name it because of confidential reasons but yeah everybody's a damn addict from your bum all the way up to your multi-millionaire
I graduated from a 6 month faith based rehab back in August. We were a brotherhood and we all supported each other and we were all pretty close and could talk about things guys normally would NEVER talk about with another guy. It was horrible when a graduation would happen and out of 5 guys, 3 of them were dead in less then two weeks of graduating because fentanyl. The time I found my roommate OD'ing in the bathroom and dieing multiple times and having to get hit with the pen four different times they use to bring someone back from an overdose. All kinds of horror stories I have from that damn drug. One of the guys graduated and within a week he and his girlfriend were doing fentanyl and both OD'd, his girlfriend died and he got severe brain damage and is now in prison for manslaughter if I remember correctly because he got her high. I remember when I lost all 10 of my toes and I was recovering, my doctor bless her heart only gave me a 2 week supply of oxycodone which I abused every single one within the first week, after a monthly visit I told her I was still in a good amount of pain(a lie I felt great) and she told me something along the lines of "I couldn't do that to you(prescribe me more) you're going to have enough problems learning how to walk again." I knew exactly what she meant when she said that.
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I'm moving back to my hometown of San Diego after living in SF past 11 years. I want to have a family eventually and I could never see myself raising kids around the drugs and multiple issues going on in this city. It's soo sad because it's a beautiful city. It is true that crime here is rampant.
you will go to san diego and have kids that the state ultimately own. the kids will grow up spiritually and psychologically neglected and end up in san fran shooting up with other neglected kids.
@amethyst bruh there is homeless in all of California. San Diego homeless people are slightly more chill than San Francisco homeless but it’s still pretty bad. But regardless San Diego is much better than San Francisco on all fronts. Oregon and Orange County also have a lot of homeless
I moved out of San Francisco in 2020, the primary reason being the out of control drug problem in the city. I’ve never seen anything like it, and the things I saw thoroughly traumatized me. Such a beautiful city with such a disheartening outlook. The highest taxes in the country can’t outspend the epidemic and I pray for the people suffering.
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@Jason Roark it's that very delusion why nothing changes in the bay area. And if a local who is fed up and is trying to move tries to have this conversation with people, they just say "good luck, good riddance" like 5 year Olds. Typical echo chamber mentality. Not enough people vote the other way, and not enough leave to really impact this place.
@Christelle Akobo I think you may have hit upon something. Culture and changing family dynamics have an impact. The way we live and what is important to us could be put to question. More emphasis could be put on spirituality, (not necessarily organized religion), and community. When, I was working full time in the 1980s and 1990s, I would go out with coworkers on payday nights for dinner and drinks. Sometimes there would be as many as 12-15 of us. We would chat and in some cases become good friends. I suspect this doesn't happen much anymore. People have less free time. Some have to work a second job to make ends meet. It seems to me that there are far fewer full time jobs paying a livable wage. People who have children can be very hard pressed for money. They end up spending less time with their kids.Then the cost of daycare becomes a huge issue, (it is here in Ontario Canada) I find it kind of sad that so many people work remotely now. No daily in person contact at the office. No friendly jokes and laughter in the coffee kitchen and lunch room. Isolation in front of a computer, during a work day would be hell for me. Perhaps the mental health epidemic has started. I know the numbers for diagnosed mental health disorders has been rising in Canada in last few years. On a side note, for those interested in mental health and addiction. You may want to check out Dr Gabor Matte s "In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts" book. Or you can watch the many interviews of him on You Tube. Take care everyone.
When l had back surgery and they gave me a lot of pain meds. l told the nurse no more meds, let me ride out the pain, that's why l never ever got hooked. l rather be in pain to sleep off the medicine, then continue taken it. l wished people could focus on life without taken a bunch of drugs, that's going to destroy their life.
It’s the drugs’ fault?😂 When a society values emotions over logic, it leads to the demise. Any trauma, situations, disparities can be the reason but the person can’t be blamed for their decisions. America is a shit show for this very reason
Thank you. This was so educational, I'm in Australia and we have a terrible problem over here as well. I watch another youtube channel as well called 'The Life Boat' that really focuses on educating people on drugs, addiction and living happily in sobriety. They have had a lot of great shows lately about Fentanyl addiction. They have a live stream at 5pm (USA Pacific Time) everyday except Wed and Thurs and a live chat. You can also call in live to talk about your experiences and ask the hosts questions. They are extremely knowledgable and helpful with no judgement. It's just a loving, friendly place to go, regardless of what is happening in your life. Your channel and other ones like this are really needed to educate people about this horrific, growing nightmare .. so many people are dying. Thank you again for your video. Please be safe everyone.
This seems somewhat fascinating to me from an outsider perspective.... I'm from India and here we don't have it as bad at all and it is sad to see these people suffering. I'm proud to have never done drugs before and never will.(In fact I'm vegetarian as well and don't drink or smoke either). This shows how much having a healthy lifestyle benefits you in the long run.
Was an opiate addict for 20 years. Got into fentanyl bout 2 years ago and almost lost everything. You stop paying your bills, stop taking care of yourself.. I've been completely clean for almost a year now and I've worked hard to rebuild my life. I've been able to keep my car and apartment, fix my license, pay back people I owed money to, get back some of things I sold.. I've lost a couple teeth and had to get dental work done... Fentanyl is an amazingly addictive opiate. But there's help out there. You just have to commit to it.
Thank you for sharing your story. Can someone get high from the secondhand smoke of hard drugs like that? Like meth, fentanyl, heroine, etc? I take the city bus to and from work and there are often people doing drugs on the streets and I get so scared I'm gonna catch a contact high from it
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There are people hooked on drugs all over the world but because the world looks up to America makes it shocking to see so many lives lost due to drugs.
I was born and raised around San Francisco my whole life. I'm 27, and am planning on leaving the Bay Area now. I do love my county, but the amount of crime, drug paraphernalia, filth and living expenses don't make it worth it anymore. It's gotten so bad that it's started leaking into nearby cities throughout the Bay. The issue has only been exacerbated further and further, and yet nothing is done about it. Funding to help alleviate the homeless goes down every year, and many of just regular natives of the city of San Fransico need food banks just to survive due to high economic costs. It's a shame really.
anti-development, anti-density Nimby's only add to the problem. Those living on the hills in San Francisco won't allow any build higher than 3 stories to mar their view of the Bay.
I moved to the Bay Area last November for a new job after graduating college . I’m from the south and I’ve seen violence and drug abuse but it’s to another level in San Francisco. It’s sad and disappointing to be “ the most expensive city” in America .
I traveled to SF a decade ago, and it was probably one of my favorite cities ever. I got the chance to return a few years ago, and it had changed so dramatically. Really sad.
@Lil-G The top 10 cities for overall violent crime, which includes major urban areas New York, Los Angeles San Fran and Chicago, are all run by Democrats. The fact the richest states are the most dangerous/violent makes it even worse for the Democrats. Wake up ffs
Unfortunately, a lot of this can be traced back to increasing economic insecurity, and has been brewing for well over a decade. The pandemic (and the gross mishandling of it) just opened some of the floodgates, and we're seeing the result of that. Supply-chain issues, due to tons of cut corners to keep more profit at the top, and in shareholder hands, are one of the big contributors to the bare shelves. Bare shelves lead to higher prices, higher prices lead to more economic insecurity, economic insecurity leads to panic buying and crime. All of this ends up also including greater disparity in the distribution of wealth: wash, rinse, repeat.
I love(d) San Francisco. Of all of the west coast cities it was the one that I wanted to live in. Next on my list was Seattle. I landed in Seattle, and it hasn't been been what I thought it would be. It is a beautiful city, but I was not prepared for the magnitude of public drug use---especially in the downtown area. Besides the weather is too hot. This summer and last summer were hot---too much for my liking. San Fran has that fog factor and very cool/chill nights, two things that I loved about it. Now, I am afraid of San Fran. It looks worse than Seattle. With the San Fran DA gone, the BBC should do an update. I appreciate Mayor Breed's honesty.
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The US not only has this horrible drug addiction issue to tackle, they also need to seriously address the huge homelessness problem that has these people living out on the streets in the first place. Well over 500k citizens not able to afford a roof over their head and these streets littered with people living undignified lives and literal crap everywhere is so sad to see.
Right, when are we going to admit that our country is extremely depressed and that treating the symptoms with more pharmaceuticals is not going to solve it?
I saw something similar in real life: Vancouver Canada east Hastings St. I was shocked and wondering what kind of a drug does this to a person and now I know. That’s insane. It doesn’t make sense to me.
I work in the Tenderloin district. it's definitely ground zero for drug use and homelessness. I just started working as Case Manager working with the homeless and man do I have my work cut out for me.
defunding police and more restriction on police authority definitely help, you've made SF our sanctuary, keep up the good work! Mayor Breed! God Bless you!
I was a heroin addict for about 8 years. I didn't start using until i was in my mid 40s. I was on methadone for 7 years but it was just about as bad as the heroin as far as side effects like severe constipation. After i got kicked off methadone I went back to heroin for a while and one day I was extremely dope sick and wouldn't have money until the next day. A friend came along and gave me a suboxone strip and within a half hour I felt fine. After buying suboxone off the street for 2 years they finally made it easier to get and now I take 10 milligrams a day from a prescription. As far as I'm concerned if someone has access to suboxone they have no excuse for being strung out on heroin. It works.
@Karah Carrer from what you say I don't believe you have had any experience with methadone at all. I knew people in the program I was on that died from severe constipation. And the heroin I was getting was not bunk. I live in tacoma Washington and knew many Mexican nationals who had direct connections with the Sinaloa cartel. You dont know what your talking about. And suboxone absolutely does work very well. And I was kicked off methadone for taking benzodiazepines which can be a deadly combination.
Naw unless your heroin was bunk , Methadone is way less constipating and better for you then H or F. They dont just kick you out of the program unless you use..Also suboxone doesnt work that well but i agree if you have access to Methadone or suboxone theyre is no excuse.
Thank you for covering this it's not as bad on the east but I've lost 5 friends in the last 2 years and I got clean 2 years ago when fentanyl started getting used as a replacement for heroin I started with pills and trump came in and put heavy restrictions on perception drug and we had to drive 2 hour to get food then it started getting cut with fentanyl and I started seeing friends dying and I couldn't take it our current administration is completely to blame for our country being over run by this drug there are lots of treatment programs out but it's a hard choice to make and know it's easier to get fentanyl I live in the county and there are 2 dealer within 10 min of my its so frustrating to see people that haven't live through it get on here and pretend trump didn't help the overdose stat just do your research it's up 200 percent this year and that's do to it freely coming across the border
SF has looked like this since I was there in the 90s. Even some crazy guy threw a liquor bottle at our feet where it broke and went everywhere. I’ve been there multiple times, mostly for an old job, and never understood anyone’s desire to live there.
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just gotta point out how nice those addicts were on the streets when jackie was asking them about her son. “i know him real well!” “is everything okay?” idk, it just touched my heart a bit.
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This shocks me. I guess I am lucky. I am on pain medication ( Palaxia in various strengths... depending on my pain level) And , several times a year I am in hospital for pain management, that includes Fentanyl, via IV line ,or needle. To my knowledge, at least where I live, Fentanyl can only be used in a hospital setting.
Fentanyl is not just a pain medication. It's end of life pain medication. It's for terminally ill patients who are going insane from the pain of starving to death (stomach cancer) for example. It's not just a pain medication.
@Somewhere Uptherehow do these people find them? I’m not from US and never been, but I just wonder how people can find so easily, is it homemade stuff?
@trinydex Heroin is used medically under the name diamprphine in the UK, there are no good or bad drugs just good and bad uses of drugs and you're probably just an unreconstructed dope panic drug warrior.
@miss ano this'll be the last response I give to your what abouts. the piece you're missing regarding the issue are that there is no legitimate use for heroin, it's a dirty street drug. there is a use for fentanyl, which is why it will not be outright prohibited like heroin. what is prohibited outright is MISUSE of fentanyl and also spray paint, and also over the counter drugs and also many other things that are reasonably regulated in this society. street fent is the same as crack, it democratized access which then allowed a huge economy to form around the substance. widen the base of customers. you're going to say something about cigarettes again, well consider that cigarette usage or nicotine use is prosocial. it's a stimulant that generally increases productivity. no such case for heroin, street fent, crack etc. there are high performing cocaine addicts and users, and that's why it's enforced softer, not because of racism. it is less debilitating and doesn't create debilitatingly addicted anti social public charges. after all, all these rules are just trying to promote society, whatever you're advocating for, doesn't do that in the utilitarian sense for the most amount of people.
@trinydex So then one might regulate heroin more leniently than fentanyl so as to shape the market? Common sense regulation is usually a euphemism for total prohibition.
@miss ano you're straw manning quite a bit. regulation is not authoritarian. you're in the intersection of individual rights vs. unwise-to-the-point-of-affecting-the-public. remember, in libertarianism, it's fine to be free until you encroach on others. debilitatingly addicted people are essentially regularly encroaching on everyone they encounter.
I saw my first dead person in my life on my trip to San Francisco last week. He was laying completely still face down on the side walk. He definitely wasn't tripping. He was completely ignored. San Francisco and frankly the entire west coast desperately needs to be fixed.
@Karah Carrer But the original commenter might have seen a dead body that had not yet been reported, therefore the coroner not yet know there was a body to be picked up. I have walked through the Tenderloin several different years, just sightseeing and experiencing the different parts of San Francisco. The people in the Tenderloin are NOT the responsible-citizen type of people, and many of them have no phone, not even shoes or coats. They would not be calling in about a dead body.
@Cathy New York i know but its not normal to the point a dead body sits around ..Even in the Loin thats rare, when someone ODs the coroner will pick them up
When you give a drug addicted a tent to sleep in to continue their addiction, are you really helping them or enabling them to keep doing drugs inside a tent? If people want to really help them vote strong leaders who will actually get them help. Not those high moral snobs who protest for more rights for drug dealers or donating a sandwich so they feel good about themselves.
Crackdown Podcast has really good ongoing coverage of the Fentanyl Crisis from the perspective of the folks who are actually dyeing. (Based in Vancouver but a lot of north American Cities are going through the same thing now) If you're looking for reporting that digs deeper than simply blaming this on homelessness then it's a good place to look.
S.F., Sacramento and even Chico are all once beautiful places that have all been allowed to fall apart right in front of our eyes. Newsom has done nothing but make it worse day after day. California really does need a change and I hope that everyone wakes up soon and notices it. I'm happy that they tossed out the D.A. and now they need to dump the Mayor!
Visited San Francisco in early 2020. I was previously told it was such a beautiful city. What I saw was so sad. The obvious drug use was so scary and sad to witness. I pray for the families dealing with this scourge.
People like to tell all kinds of nonsense instead of facing the reality. One has to make one's own research instead of listening to the careless propaganda of others (which especially applies to the majority of those travel vloggers, who could easily get you traumatized or even killed with their watered-down PR nonsense).
This scares me and makes me want to cry because someone who means the world to me is so sucked into this and everyday I cry while praying for him to get off the drugs and get saved because it would devastate me if I ever have to be told he died
Prepare yourself for the worst. This is reality. You must mentally and emotionally prepare yourself because unless they want the change as bad as they need water to drink, they will die out there. REALITY.
North Philadelphia, Kensington, is very similar. Probably worse actually. It is sad and sickening but it's nice that people care and even the cops seem to genuinely want to get these people clean and off the streets instead of just arrested and in prison.
You’ve clearly been abused and/or tortured into mistaking fiction and fact. In a slave system the homeless are beneficial when stealing. The trade is far closer to the actual value.
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I made a trip to San Fran a few years back, the drug use was rampant! As was the homelessness. It was so sad to see, I hope the cities people can get help
I spent four weeks in San Francisco in 2013, and my housing was in the Tenderloin. I'm a big city girl but the things I witnessed there felt downright surreal. Human turds ("Tenderloin bombs") everywhere, naked homeless people with awful cuts and wounds all over their bodies, huge crowds of worn down junkies fighting, a dead pigeon whose head was bitten off, dried pools of blood on the streets (that didn't get cleaned up for days)... all of this I used to see on my early morning walk to school. Tenderloin is directly adjadent to downtown and located near some of the most exclusive and expensive districts of the city (thus, in America). Bizarre. I imagine it being even worse now, and feel sad for this phenomenal city I fell in love with.
The anti-development, anti-density Nimby's share in this problem. Those living on the Hills don't want any building higher than 3 stories to mar their view of the Bay. If a developer does buy an expensive lot, to make it profitable, you have to go skywards.
I come to SF often because my son loves big cities like NYC and SF. We usually rent a hotel for the weekend almost monthly and try new food spots, giants games, shop and catch art exhibits at SF MoMa. We love it but it’s so filthy and a huge problem is no restrooms are available in the city. Poop and urine cover the sidewalks and the city has no care to combat the issue. Homelessness is rampant and we pass crack smoking, fentanyl using while stepping over needles, human feces and blood soaked napkins. It’s a disaster in a lot of areas but there is so much beauty at the same time. Took the wife for her birthday last weekend to go shop in the Nob Hill Neighborhood for her birthday. We pull into a parking garage and see a man and a dog on the first floor and he’s smoking whatever using a piece of foil and a crack pipe. Second floor another man has his belongings spread out on the hood of an 90k dollar vehicle while walking around pulling on car door handles and singing loudly. We turned around and left back home. Same morning on our way to our parking garage near our hotel every car along the street had a smashed window all in a row. I counted 11 cars in a row and after seeing that and then pulling into another parking structure and seeing that we were turned off and just headed home. My car window was smashed a few years ago just going into CVS for literally 2 minutes maybe even less. Bought a drink with not a single person in line exited the store i was one of the few cars parked in the lot and my window was shattered. Nothing took because they didn’t have time but 280 dollars later I had a back window again.
Lived in SF for 2 years and so glad I’m moving away. Living in SF is basically paying for a tiny million dollar apartment and having your car broken into in your own garage, finding homeless pooping outside your window, having a Walgreens across the street that just got robbed. True firsthand story by the way. I’m a doctor and I save people for a living so trust me when I say I have empathy but no amount of empathy can save these people and this city. Something else needs to change.
@Wonderland now it's impossible to get a prescription. There is no opiod crisis and there hasn't been for years since they stopped prescribing them. Now everyone has moved on to actual street drugs like heroin, meth, crack and fetanyl. So much safer for the people, right.... What did any of these idiots screaming opiod pandemic/crisis expect to happen? All you did was cut off the safe supply of pharmaceutical drugs. Now everyone just buys dirty drugs that aren't professionaly/safely manufactured. The people who sued doctors and blamed doctors are actually the ones who caused this.
I smoked from 14 to 35 years old, in recent years I smoked an average of 30 cigarettes a day (1 pack and a half). I surrendered to Jesus, and I felt the need not to smoke or consume alcohol anymore, with the alcoholic drink it went from day to night, I threw away what I had of beer and cachaça at home... I agreed with my wife to try to smoke the least amount of cigarettes I could in one day so with a lot of effort on my part I smoked 12 cigarettes, for one week she gave me 12 cigarettes every day for me to consume, the other week it was 11 cigarettes a day day, the other 10... and each week it decreased by 1 per day. everything was going well, until it reached 4 cigarettes... I started stealing cigarettes from her, and ended up smoking 7, 8 cigarettes a day. until one day during a prayer I was sincere to God, and said that I couldn't stop smoking and that I didn't really have the strength and that I really wanted to and asked God to help me and take the pleasure of smoking from me... One day inside the church during a preaching that a pastor was doing, I heard a voice speaking in my ear clearly; - So far I've let you try, to show that you're not capable. From today you don't smoke because I don't want to! I was so scared that when my wife told me what I had heard, she saw in me a frightened and admired person, who started to cry because she saw that I was not delirious. Upon leaving the church my car had been broken into and my documents and my wife's documents had been stolen, along with the vehicle's sound. But I knew that if I got over that nervousness and anger I felt at seeing my car like that I wouldn't smoke anymore (it was like a test to confirm my convictions in the voice I heard). I called my wife and we went home , I took everything I had connected to tobacco ( tobacco , paper , lighter , matches , cigarette pack ....) I put it on a piece of paper and rolled it up we went to the street, and on a sidewalk I threw alcohol and I prayed to God; - Lord, trusting the voice I heard today, I know that I will no longer feel like smoking, in Jesus name I set fire to all these elements linked to cigarettes! And by the honor and glory of God I was freed, in the name of Jesus! Vinicius Cruz. need help? peace phone +351916008010 trvid.com/video/video-QPSdlOOZqI8.html
I visited SF on honeymoon in 2016. It was a great city but even back then there was clearly an issue with homelessness and drug abuse. It’s terrible to find out that it’s gotten worse and not better. A failure of leadership.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, not in the city but in one of the suburbs. San Francisco is a beautiful city. But it is also quite strange in a way that you can be in a very up-scale and nice neighborhood and just a few blocks down the street you still be surrounded by homeless people doing drug and having mental issues. You can walk from heaven to hell in just a matter of minutes
That sounds like Washington, D.C.! Not 3 BLOCKS from the White House, I found so many raggedy homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk in cardboard boxes, right up against the fancy office buildings! SO SHAMEFUL!!!
We need to implement UBI (universal basic income) in the next 50 years in "developed" countries. Someone has to start it. There's enough food, housing, space, THINGS in the world for everyone. There's enough money for everyone to be a millionaire (even if it's concentrated in a few places, families, corporations etc). The world becomes like what we see in the video because we failed as a species to recognize the NECESSITY of meeting EVERYONE'S BASIC NEEDS. We think having a smartphone or sending man to Mars is evolution or progress, while humans are forced into lives of addiction due to the crappy systems we created.
This video literally looks like a 3rd world country at times. Like, I am half Colombian, and I go to Bogota sometimes, and there are some streets that look like this however you dont expect our country to look like it. Also I am from NYC, and let me tell you, it looks NOTHING like how bad this looks.
"When you subsidize something, you get more of it." It's an ages-old saying, but it is very very true. Everyone understands it except for SF. The more they spend on this stuff, the more of it they get. So what do they do? They spend even MORE money. There's no mystery why SF is one of the drug capitals in the world. If you value your life, avoid San Francisco.
I see it in AZ all the time! On our streets and in our bus shelters. In a few years our city has become scary! Police at the Bus station all the time. They also use on our buses! Leaving soon. It's was great 13 years ago but now unsafe.
Thank you for reporting about this. I pass hundreds of people dying from fentanyl on my bicycle commute to work everyday. It is completely disheartening. We must prosecute fentanyl dealers and whichever parasitical big pharma company is profiting off of this. Everything about this city is tarnished while this humanitarian crisis continues.
And why fentanyl dealers should be prosecuted?? That's just a regular job. Those junkies make their choice and live their life and spoil ours. You always have a choice. They choose to die "in a better world" and you choose to face the reality
Or, this might seem like a strange idea: STOP using drugs in the first place. Most homeless are junkies, it's all weakness of the mind. So your life sucks, and you gotta live on the streets....using drugs won't improve the situation at all. Get a grip!
The drug dealers that started this are Big Pharma and neither Dems nor Reps will go after them. None of them will serve a day in jail and all their lawsuits are setup so they can remain rich and pay from interest. It was known to addicts that doctors were lied to and had no idea what they were prescribing for decades. Amazes me how ignorant both sides are. You want to be mad at something, do some research. Evil Big Pharma. Lobbyists in DC. End of story.
Uhhh how cost of living devastated cities!!! And corrupt greed of the “ppl in charge” Let’s call a spade a spade here!! So tired of the drug crisis when the REASON for ppl turning to this is always overlooked and minimized! It’s a subtle, passive form of victim blaming!
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It’s really something I live near the Atlantic City boardwalk. And I see a handful it boggles me that it’s not worse. I wonder how many of these San Fran fent users come from other states
This is so heartbreaking to see. I lived in the East Bay Area in the early 2000s and loved visiting San Francisco for its wonderful arts and cultural institutions, its verdant parks, as well as its vibrant city live. It was a beautiful city at that time, although homelessness was already an issue, but the situation was no where as bad as now.
@a j Yes, it is sad what has happened recently in San Francisco. Oakland has always been an awful ghetto, except for Oakland Hills just outside of the city of Oakland.
my dad grew you here and took us as kids in the early 2000’s as well. you’d definitely see a homeless person or two, but last time I went last year, there were so many more tents right outside of peoples homes, packed on sidewalks throughout the city, homeless people passed out right there on the street or tweaking, yelling, pulling down their pants.. it was really bad. I passed through Oakland and it was no different. sad what’s happened
@AA🌺 It is far worse in beautiful San Francisco now because there are many more homeless people camping on the streets, and many more drug users openly injecting themselves with drugs and throwing the needles right down on the sidewalk. More trash, more crime. It is very sad - San Francisco is a beautiful city in architecture and the bay and mountains and ocean and bridges. The homelessness and drugs and crime is ruining it.
Damn, in a state where you can get clean party drugs made by pharma students on the G6 crew for cheaper than shots of alcohol, it's wild to think people would do fentanyl.
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I first visited San Francisco in the late 1980s and it was really beautiful. I went back again in 2012 and stayed in a hotel near the district shown here: Tenderloin. I was shocked to my core. I had no idea what drugs the homeless people were taking but I was aware, whenever I left the hotel, of appalling conditions with people seemingly in various states of mental trauma or sitting or wandering around like zombies. It was apocalyptic. I haven’t been back since.
Welcome to the American Dream. Karma works in mysterious ways, bring death and destruction to dozens of countries in the world and sooner rather than later, death and destruction knocks on your door. The American people repeatedly voted in their Neo-imperialist war-mongering governments time and again, so they reap what they sow. I have ZERO sympathies.
Lived there for 4 years and the city is beautiful, and I saw a lot of homelessness and drug abuse. But let me tell you, these people are the sweetest and most genuinely people compared to the corporate, tech robots.
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My heart goes out to these people, I couldn't in my wildest dreams begin to understand what it must be like to live there or to know someone you care about is there
There's drug addicts everywhere. Functioning addicts who live in nice houses, who work and own businesses. It's the homeless who are not addicts I feel for, with how expensive it is to live in California I pray they're able to save up and move out of California.
Used to work in SF. Got so that I wouldn't walk through much of downtown. Not safe. Crazy druggies screaming in your face, needles on the sidewalks, and at least one person taking a dump in from of me per week. What a horrid nightmare that city became.
It's strange that there was no mention of where the Fentanyl comes from, (China and Mexico). A closed border and a get-tough policy with China would do a lot to solve this problem.
Lived here 50 years and it's sad to watch the Bay Area descend into a third world country. At the point now where as soon as I get my retirement, I am leaving the state.
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I knew a federal drug prosecutor who was assigned to Las Vegas in the 1990s. He was a man of taste from Washington DC and bitterly hated tacky Las Vegas. He wanted very badly to transfer to San Francisco, and finally got his wish. He was back in Las Vegas a short time later, very discouraged because he couldn’t get a conviction in SF. The juries simply didn’t care about drugs. Not even pearl-wearing elderly ladies from old-money Nob Hill families. They live and let live.
