2021 was the deadliest year on record for drug deaths across the US and Canada, thanks to an ongoing overdose epidemic primarily fueled by fentanyl. In order to combat this crisis, governments are under pressure to act.
In this episode of Free Drugs, Manisha Krishan goes to New York City and Vancouver to talk to people turning to radical new measures to keep people from dying. While NYC became the first city in the United States to have government-sanctioned supervised consumption sites where users can bring their own drugs to use in a safe environment, a clinic in Vancouver has been prescribing drug users pharmaceutical-grade heroin and fentanyl to keep them from using the street supply.
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This is what unconditional love looks like❤ 🙌🏼Safe supplies saves lives🧪⛑
At this point, I'm sort of in-favor of banning Narcan and intervention to save the addicted. Maybe better to let them go, they are not ever going to pull themselves out of this situation – so we're just prolonging their suffering. #letemgo.
Scary times… clean now since 6/1/18 after 17 years of using. As of yesterday I'm clean from M.A.T for 3 months now. It took me 2 relapsed to man up and be honest I had a problem. Thank God I did.
For anyone interested in learning more, I HIGHLY recommend the podcast crackdown. the host was briefly mentioned in this video and should be mandatory listening if you live in Vancouver
Imagine giving alcohol to alcoholics to cure alcoholism
Lol, wow. Just wow. So we are teaching people how to use drugs more efficiently. Therefore feeding their problem, and offering no prevention.
All while life saving medicine such as chemotherapy and diabetic medicine costs thousands of dollars every month, these places provide free methadone or if not free for Pennie’s on the dollar, at pharmacy grade lol. Isn’t America great
When it was black people and crack, the mantra was "Lock 'em up." Now that its white people and heroin/fentanyl, suddenly "compassion" is entering the conversation. Sorry – I'm not feeling it. At all.
It's a brave new world…
sad
What’s shown in the video is a step in the right direction, but until the environmental factors leading to drug addiction, crime, and homelessness are addressed in full, there won’t be a significant reduction. And unfortunately, the US doesn’t have the infrastructure to tackle all three problems simultaneously, which is the only way things would really improve.
I don’t believe this net work I believe they’re just giving to feed the additions and keep them coming back for more smh 🤦♂️
Americans doesn't care about any tragedy like war, drugs,refugees until it comes to their own door.
legal weed and you using Fentanyl you all need a good hard look
I tell every addict that's struggling with sobriety, friends don't let friends relapse alone. Hiding your habit will kill you. Don't even think of using the dope on the streets now if you don't have an established opiate tolerance. Doing it alone is a death sentence. One bag will kill. I'm sober and many of my friends are still using, they know I'll still hang around or just sit on the phone with them if they're gonna relapse to make sure they don't kill themselves. I've lost far too many that have been found dead in their parents basement the morning after
I see the Sackler family is still active
well, as it stands one american needs on average 5 planet earths to keep the living standard. this may sound kinda sick, but fent actually did help a lot reaching climate goals. every dead human today improves the chances for the rest in the future.
Brave new world – take more soma it will work trust us
You don't reduce drug usage by making it easier for people to use drugs
I thought Kailin See at 2:58 looked vaguely familiar to me for some reason, so I looked her up and sure enough, she used to be a movie actress from before 2010. Wow, what a change of careers! I fully support her mission, though, good for her.
12:10 just me…, or does this sound a lot like extorsion?
It may sound dumb but can anyone explain why the hell, you are giving drug addicts the opportunity to self-destruct for free longer and further. Drug addicts will not overdose, but sooner or later they will turn into vegetables. What's the point of wasting such valuable drugs that are really needed by patients and hospitals when they are just using them to get high?
Been on pain meds for almost 20 years and never felt the need to do H.
Darwin theory
Wow
And they wonder why US has a high number of addicts? So stupid
Nothing was brought up around stoping the introduction of drugs to new users. Though what is clear is that these centers are only found in low income communities, where these people shoot up and then go outside where everyone, and most disturbingly kids experience these people while high in pure daylight. This is a new level of violence to a community and it's identity. The attempt to save a few people, may be subjecting the psyche of a whole new generation of children, whom for them, drug use and its inherent repercussions have now been normalized.
How does encouraging drug use in any world help people get sober? The goal should be to get people off drugs not keep them using drugs. Fucking clowns 🤡🤡