The Rise of Fentanyl: Drug Addiction On The I-95 – Two Years On

[Music] it is the number one public health challenge of our time it's not a poor people thing anymore it's not an inner-city ghetto drug anymore it's everywhere it's hard to even recognize some of these people and they've lost a lot of their humanity down here tomorrow hummus it's not heroin that's killing our people it's fentanyl I'm not gonna die from this think I'm not not gonna die for this I was like we went from 20 overdoses to 80 overdoses in a matter of a month and we're like what the hell happened I feel like it's a waste of my life it's a [ __ ] waste of Eric Dunn [Music] I would say that fentanyl is a Horsemen of the Apocalypse and it's the one name death [Applause] [Music] for decades interstate 95 has been notorious for its role in the illegal drug trade in America stretching from Florida to Maine this corridor gives cartels easy entry to major cities [Music] we first met Penner two years ago she was a new resident on Baltimore's back streets of addiction [Music] [Music] Wow dude do not do that to the Righteous army [Music] very rush [Applause] Anna was recently released from jail after serving two weeks for prostitution which means two weeks of no heroin and since then she claims to have only taken pills a barely last two years I guess nothing's genes when everything is changing and that sounds really neared but I'm still down here I'm still jumping from house to house still with the same guy I feel a little trap I'm scared of [ __ ] up again but I know eventually I probably will if I stay down yeah and I'm not sure if I see my future right now I mean really when I think about it I don't know what I'm gonna do in three years I don't know what I'm gonna do tomorrow I don't know what I'm gonna do in an hour I mean all I can do is hope that it would be the right thing you know and not what I'm doing now [Music] this is gang run West Baltimore the epicenter of Baltimore's opioid epidemic [Music] paty a former addict formed angels of addiction just after her son died of a heroin overdose here walk on my feet a lifeline to the lost she is fed and clothed addicts and their families on these streets for years anytime 24/7 I lost my only son in 2002 and God blessed me with many many children and it's honor to serve them and they're very precious people a lot suffer from the disease of addiction it's a very big problem an epidemic here I could never count throughout the years how many people that I've helped her known that have died from this disease at least 200 people in the last few years it's sad because there might you know next time we come somebody might say also and so didn't make it that happens often especially since his fentanyl spinel [Music] fentanyl is very dangerous because it's stronger than the heroin and people are overdosing on it and it's you know really scary and very alarming and we're losing a lot of people [Music] I chase fentanyl I chase car fans because it's the only don't feel anymore but it is a big problem because it's so powerful people that are Clint have been clean for years and just recently decided to relapse they end up Odin ahead the quarter pill so it is it's not heroin I used to get high I don't get high anymore I'm just addicted to it it took cut Hey still getting capsules and then you stick it in your arm not knowing what you get and it could be a little bit of nothing or a whole lot of too much and I've had friends drop several more than several hand forms that died a little bit two months everyday coming down here and seeing my friends that were here about one of them overdosing or dying it's very dangerous and it's killing a lot of people the sickness of addiction is when you hear people are overdosing and dying the addict wants to know where is that stuff because they want the the stronger longer-lasting stuff but they won't realize that that's our next that maybe relax thank you ma'am I appreciate it [Music] probably not some people to sign it on don't even know it none of us know what we're doing a lot of the people that we know like your died I'm going to jail summer to rehab but they always come back everybody out here along fetanyl that's not really so much the heroin like I said it's not even in it everybody's gonna now I said I'm not gonna leave my boy forever and if he's down I'm down either he goes to jail then I go to jail we've never been cleaned together since I've been with him so what since we've got not I said she hasn't used no needles so I'm proud of her she's been doing good but she always threatens me so that's her threat and that's breaking my heart and I told her I'd break my heart [Music] [Music] we meet Anna as she searches for a morning fix addiction seems to be fighting back yes I'm fine you're - I'm fine how was your night all right tell us what happened nothing last thing everything's [ __ ] talking right now yeah I'm still here Anna and Dave Scott in abandoned houses moving frequently to avoid being found by landlords or police the landlord in Navarre c-coming while we were inside so I can hurry up I'm gonna hide in one of the rooms and then escape out the house when he wasn't looking so I again got and after that my sleep what did you spend your money on I gotta belt you got a pill and then we eat small crack I said you know like now we needed my gas it's off what with the pills I mean arendelle then you said you had to go get some old money how'd you do that polgár they and a prostitute herself for the money needed to buy drugs for herself and her boyfriend Dave no runs and was even playing outside it's just I don't so we can would not have any money so because of that cantilever every get ID what time that they were you're out trying to get a date it was 9:00 time what type of night let's really find them one laying looks like one morning I can't remember them all but I usually well there now I don't just what I mean is I used to go outside torment they don't get a date I heard it's the money to rob them or just a stupid geek and form a club and then I go back out anymore or depends sometimes I wanted you trunks and we hang out most people when they're 23 have the goal in life have wishes desires do you have any No don't play no more [Music] my god because it's in my shoelace Anna still claims that she has not injected heroin since her released from jail her body tells a different story she heads off in search for a place to stay for the night but that wasn't her first priority [Music] I was just sniffing it just to try it make sure it doesn't kill out is like heroin is bitter but fentanyl is kind of like got a sweeter taste to it and her is back in the full grip of her addiction living am I wrong like we don't know what else could do do you understand like when people break their arm and legs they need rehab to walk like we need rehab learn how to live it all over again [Music] name's Nathan O'Brien I'm from Kentucky it's Olivia Lee hi Oh quite Californians I'm from New Haven Connecticut Annie Montesano I'm from Long Island New York name's al I'm from Ocean County New Jersey's your Wilkins I'm from Fort Lauderdale Florida name is Tommy I'm from Birmingham Alabama my name is Millie I'm from Corita North Carolina who threw the heroin I was addicted to heroin and prescription opiates I was day to day and I just bought gold with heroin for four years recovering heroin addict good with prescription pills and heroin addiction was pain pills and heroin he struggled with heroin [Music] over the course in the last two years I wouldn't say that it got better I would say that it's gotten worse we see more and more patients coming in that have experienced multiple overdoses prior to coming in I really don't see an end in it I don't I don't see it getting better at all [Music] Jodee is dealt with the opioid crisis since she was a child her mother is a lifelong addict and she now runs an addiction recovery Center in Florida this addiction changed me from being a talented ambitious young kid into basically a degenerate just a shadow my family my friends my freedom it took everything I addiction took my self-worth my dignity my self-respect my health my friends and family my education money want anything to do with me I couldn't get a job I couldn't keep it just of my family members consider me dead I'm thankful that we have a place where patients can come seek help and a safe environment to start working on the reasons why they turn to drugs but every single day some multitude of new people it's like the floodgates have opened and it's just non-stop I've been cleaning for four and a half years and two months I'll have five years currently I've been clean over a hundred days just over one year I've been cleaning for the 23rd of this month we used sixty days since March 20th 2017 I mean the date resonates in my brain March 19 2016 that's when I got clean and it wasn't easy but it was the most glorious experience of my life Brittany seems to have traveled a long way from her days of addiction but the beaches of Jacksonville Florida are only a couple of hours drive from Orlando where Jodie first introduced us to Brittany two years ago when Brittany admitted to the recovery village she absolutely was ready for treatment and admitted to the fact that she had a addiction problem she had od'd several times very very close calls and she was ready [Music] addicted to heroin and stuff but I can't [Music] it's not right here I remember thinking how would it feel if my mother were to see me at her kitchen table where you know we I grew up eating eating out and uh I don't know it's just I when you're in addiction you don't care seeing that video watching her at this table and nodding off as they call it nodding and falling asleep and then pretty much drooling and it was horrible it was really devastating to see that I was sick for three months like throwing up constantly I thought it was a bad flu I got all these different tests done one of them was a pregnancy test I remember her coming back telling me you're positive and I was like I'm positive for white she told me I was pregnant and I immediately started bawling Britney had a baby girl beautiful sweet baby girl and about a month after that sadly Britney relapsed again and this was very devastating yeah my mom me and my mom got in a fight earlier on in that morning my mom said something she didn't mean and I was already in a very bad mental place I I went out to get formula I ended up at a gas station and an old dealer ended up being at that same gas station I ended up purchasing um a bag but I came home and we had a nice dinner held my baby is that right here we had been sitting here at the table chit-chatting and the baby was snoozing Britney had asked me to that she wanted to go to the bathroom so baby started waking up and I held the baby and then Britney was in the bathroom I remember sitting on the toilet and talking to my mom from the living room and I snorted the whole bag my mom's in the other room with my child and and I just kind of nodded off and I felt okay for a little bit and my mom's voice got distant and then everything went black and I have the baby in my arms I go into the bathroom and she is passed out gurgling and drooling from the mouth leaning against the wall sitting on the toilet it was devastating it was scary I had to get her to wake up and I ran into the living room the baby was sleeping again put her down in her little bed and went about run back into the bathroom shaking and screaming at Brittany and smacking her on her face trying to get her to come out of it and she finally came out of it I'm at the same time trying to call 911 with paramedics trying to bring me - I just felt nothing but anger anger frustration again and I really I was so angry at her so angry and so hurt and so confused how she could do that I did not know what happened but once I started putting things together I was just kind of a disbelief at myself so I wasn't thinking about my daughter I wasn't I didn't care about my mom or how she felt um I just felt so depressed and not good enough like I just felt like my daughter didn't deserve me she did a better it felt like my mother could raise her I mean it's just you just don't think that they're gonna do this again especially now especially with a baby especially knowing that you have that beautiful little baby how could you do this this drug pulls them in like none other it steals their dreams it steals their lives it's almost stole my grandbabies mother from us again [Music] I've told Brittany that one of the saddest things I would ever have to do would be to have to tell my granddaughter about her mother that her mother was an addict and she tried very hard to get past this addiction but was unable to and died from it in 2017 we had just under 72 thousand Americans die of drug overdoses J that's a phenomenal number it's all it's almost hard to imagine it is the number one public health challenge of our time opioids are now the biggest drug epidemic in American history the number of deaths from opioid abuse have skyrocketed over the past 15 years killing tens of thousands of Americans every year that's more deaths than from car accidents and from guns emergency services overwhelmed another family burying a loved one she overdosed in her car while her two-year-old daughter was in the backseat [Music] in certain age groups between 25 and 34 in the United States 20% of all deaths are due to opioid overdoses of that 72,000 the majority or opioids and the majority of the opioids are the synthetic products such as fentanyl fentanyl is taking the opioid epidemic to a new level of urgency fentanyl a drug more powerful than heroin it's 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine fentanyl so potent you could die with the syringe still in your arm so potent so incredibly potent that it only takes a few milligrams to cause a death and now we see fentanyl lacing not only the heroin supply but we see it in cocaine and methamphetamine and all sorts of drugs because it's dirt cheap if heroines the devil to continue with the biblical analogy I will I would say that fentanyl is a Horsemen of the Apocalypse and it's the one name death because it just brings death [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah if you just go straight here I'll show you some of the more affected areas Kensington is Philadelphia's ground zero for opioids and it has just been declared a disaster zone Dan's family has also battled with addiction he now fights on behalf of those still struggling I mean this becomes what the neighborhood is I mean you see most people around here you're gonna see our high you know so the neighborhood is almost entirely consistent of people who are abusing you can't walk through this neighborhood without being offered drugs it's hard to even recognize some of these people it just seems like they're in a jungle and they've lost a lot of their humanity down here heroines been in Philadelphia for decades this is not a new story it's just that recently the death toll has gotten so out of hand and the farther you look the more you realize how truly desperate things have become I believe in 2016 we had 272 homicides and over 900 overdose deaths last year we had around 300 homicides and 1200 so it went from being three times the murder rate to four times the murder rate in one year if you look at the charts of the wood opioids are killing people or what drugs are killing people in recent years fentanyl is just taken off literally just like a rocket but now because of you know how deep some of these people are in the throes of addiction and how how high their tolerance is fentanyl has become introduced slowly into the mix so that people can get high again because some people don't realize is that a lot of these people who are using using drugs on a regular basis aren't necessarily using it to get high they're using it to maintain their addictions make their headache go away to sort of regulate any amount of fentanyl would kill most people who are and who aren't addicted almost instantly if it continues to get worse like where does it go from here [Music] you there have been using heroin for about 20 years alex is just one of the 70,000 active heroin uses currently living in Philadelphia this ain't no life for nobody on this it was like the bottom of the barrel right here and saying for nobody I don't wish this on my worst enemy [Music] I generally have to score about six times a day to keep myself well just to be able to functions really it's all it comes out so it's just to be able to function [Music] I hope that it's fatten all because I've been doing it for quite some time and heroin that's actually heroin you will not get me well my body actually craves the fat in all it's different it's a different high it's a different feeling and I'm not really sure what the difference is between the heroin and fentanyl I don't know but it's what my body craves and without it I'll be just as sick as I am now I feel like it's a waste of my life and I got a lot of people in my corner and care about me a lot of people and my you know and my family that love and care about me and want to see me do well and I'm not doing nothing except sticking a needle in my arm every day all day long waste waste of time waste the energy waste the money it's a [ __ ] waste of everything it's the waste [Music] [Music] [Music] in need of a place to sleep Alex heads to an abandoned house that he and other addicts sometimes used to crash [Music] [Music] it makes me do things that I normally want to do lie manipulate [Music] I've never been like the person to lie and tell stories and to you know try and get over I've never I was not like that but I Dixon has definitely made me that way makes me feel alone it makes me feel vulnerable makes me feel scared it makes me feel unsure of what my purpose here is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Manchester emergency request for an ambulance and Manchester fixed the Shell gas station the patient is in the bathroom he is overdose gonna be for a female in her 20s my college days he went in to clean found her overdosing in the bathtub she was not conscious the collar states that she has overdosed the patient's going to be just outside the church on the side where the people located in the middle of the street - people are overdosing her male in his 50s found not conscious not breathing there's a needle next : 35 year old male he's not breathing overdose I don't know what's happening to this generation you know I look out my window you know I'm look at a ground zero for the United States for fentanyl you know in fentanyl deaths it's like what the heck am I seeing struck one a low 3 Delta respond out tonight at 343 poor girl Hanover Street from man down possible overdose [Music] we went from 20 overdoses to 80 overdoses in a matter of a month and we're like what the hell happened here [Music] but when I think why didn't hit us because of synthetic heroin it was fentanyl we don't have a heroin probably have a fentanyl problem and we really realized that BAC 2015 when we we could hit so hard but but we've been chasing it ever since trying to get ahead of this and it's really tough to get ahead of something like this [Applause] I talked to these guys all the time I'm down here I'm pretty invested in my my personnel and I worry about what they do I go to a lot of the calls that they go on because I just want to see how they're kind of you know handling things and make sure that you know I know there's gonna be some compassion fatigue it's really it's really difficult to see this I mean when I when I grew up in the fire service we never saw this much you know you know death he's not unconscious but you don't really know you know whether it was the one he used you know what's gonna happen they don't want to hit him with narcan right away because if they do it's gonna be sick right now they want to get him out as you know as slowly as possible so what they're gonna probably do is we get him in the back of the ambulance get him to the hospital and get omorrow room and probably give him up so I can hear [Music] all right we might your hand there we'll take yeah we're gonna walk you back here yeah this gentleman was seen on the sidewalk unconscious we're very limited breathing and had just done heroin as they reported he was actually one of the honest ones where he admitted to doing it sometimes they come up and they don't they don't admit to doing the heroin and or fentanyl and this time he did and we know he had to take him to the hospital to have him checked out and have him not lay down somewhere else where no one can find a minute passing away [Applause] you go on calls like that and this in this neighborhood it's a lot it's the aftermath of you asking where the needle is I threw it in the street okay well now where is it who plays with it as an adult that picks it up and throws it away or is it a child that plays with it then it turns into we said he'd go to half that know how if heroine mix in a bag so the little baggie that he has where's that he probably threw it on the ground a kid plays with that sees it as a candy whatever it's that whole from art from my personal standpoint it's frustrating because you see it all the time every single day since this crisis is hit we go out on these types of calls over and over and over again all day long so 10% of the overdoses that we get called to for an opiate dealt results in death [Music] so how'd you make it over here you just walked over yeah have you ever overdose before pig-dog can you get up okay you gotta you can't you can't stay here dude we were talking having like a full conversation and you just fell asleep like mid conversation Douglas is obviously overdosing on opiates he admitted to using fentanyl yeah this guy needs help he needs somewhere to go and you know like I told him it's like you can this helpful no it's but it's getting to these people and you know hey I don't judge you people you never you don't know where they came from you don't know what kind of trauma was in their lives so he needs help with everything else he's sick with no increase in budgets or personnel Manchester fire department now spent 70 percent of their time responding to drug-related calls lalla we got we got here the police officer came by the park was doing some surveillance gentlemen here saw her passed out called number one unresponsive we came here she sold all the symptoms of an overdose right away we administered narcan started breathing for her he's gonna give her another narcan so this will be the second one that we put in the dreaded fish she didn't respond to the first one so we're going to put in a second one if this one doesn't work they'll probably do an IV and then put it in that way narcan is used to block the effects of opioids in an attempt to reverse overdoses now they're gonna put the narcan in my IV because the two nasals I got her to come around a little bit but not fully so [Music] careful Leila it's just unfortunate you know date time not apart I think you're going for a walk in the park and the next thing is an overcoat if this crisis right now doesn't worry you then there's something wrong you're not paying attention to it every day people are out on the highway driving down that i-95 corridor to the source city or source cities where these organizations have these drugs readily available it's all day long it's Monday through Friday and on the weekends and it's nighttime daytime and during business hours the product is always available but look New Hampshire as of this morning hasn't had a heroin overdose death there's nothing that's killing our people it's fentanyl and it's changed the game it's cheap it's easy to manufacture for these cartels they don't have to worry about opium anymore they don't have to worry about the plant Sun water how they're gonna grow these growing cycles they don't worry about any of that they can mass-produce this stuff in the same labs that they have set up that they've used you know when they were making methamphetamine or any other drug and they're able to manufacture it faster and cheaper working with local law enforcement the DEA has identified dealers operating from a park he's getting to the blue be in love you he picked up he's looking around living so you can see how this works we're set up in the park we're sort of at a position where we can see what's happening we see customers coming in and he's coming to the park nihonshu foods they're getting served they're getting back in the car you didn't hunt the place well the other guys our guys are calling it out to the surveillance unit surveillance units are taking them away to a place where whether it's in New Hampshire of Massachusetts we can safely make these traffic stops okay Bravo we have another New Hampshire customer guys on Albany how much across the borough riding me hey Ian guys anybody available vehicle possibly going without you five you're super silly there is we're up here in New Hampshire now we just stopped a car that we saw a pickup from that same Park and this woman - had this stuff stuffed inside of her body cavity she's pulling it out for the troopers here's the evidence here that they just removed from this female here on this traffic stop again fentanyl driving up into New Hampshire to pollute our communities the cartels will never change what they're doing they have found an avenue now with fentanyl where they can make so much money the other thing is we're seeing and this really frightens me is the dealers are now mixing fentanyl with everything we're seeing an increase of fentanyl mix with cocaine fentanyl mix with methamphetamine and an interview if you think about it it doesn't even make sense because really they do opposite things in the body and in the brain but to the dealer they almost look at this fentanyl now as as a magic dust that's just a moneymaker they think if I just put a little bit of this in there I'll be able to spread that product further and make more money so they're trying to figure out how to get that recipe to the right point where they can still addictive but have them come back as much as they can and that's really what's happened here they've killed more people than war has I like the person I am today use the hate myself when we met Stephen I didn't know him previously he didn't want to hear anything about recovery he didn't want nothing to do with the conversation even though he was kind and sweet and respectful I knew he just wanted to get up and go get high that day had it written all over his face I've seen it the scene that seemed like and it disgusts me how I looked didn't even keep my eyes open I couldn't form a sentence slurring and like I I believe I was very close to overdosing that day runs my life Oh neither dude never get get enough of it and it is just it kind of just fed itself it just took everything from me and and I gave it I gave it everything I had willingly it kind of took control I'm not the same person and I mean I'm not that person I believe drugs heroin especially completely changes who you are it'll make you do things that you never thought you'd do making somebody that you're not yeah Steve had hit rock bottom and just accepted an offer from Jody to leave Pennsylvania for the first time in his life and fly to Florida for treatment [Music] [Music] wasn't but I know it's not too late but I can still I can still make it right what I told him after three months in rehab Steve left Florida clean and in search of a new life one without the temptations of America's opioid crisis Steve and I have kept in touch here and there throughout the course of the last two years I know that he's still clean and sober I know that it's living in Kentucky you know I haven't spoken to him on the phone he just texts every couple of months oh my god surprise go check out the house sounds great so you left Florida went back to Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh area and wasn't gonna work or I had an opportunity to move here and I kind of jumped on it you know I mean for the first time in my life I was I was able to just pick up and move before I was so afraid to leave we were afraid to leave was afraid I was afraid to leave the area that I was in because I didn't know where to get the next one cuz I wouldn't know where to get it right like if I left right so the drugs kept you so many different ways in the same area now I had the freedom that I didn't have to stay around the area because I didn't know I was gonna get the next one does it exist here like it technically it exists it's everywhere right so I mean it's happening here yeah it definitely is here I've seen it a little bit I know an addict when I see one it's definitely here you have to go look at your does it all right yeah like back home yes right in your face and you can't you came and found you [Music] I really like it here it's really nice I feel better than I've ever felt I don't remember the time where I felt this good about myself two years ago I couldn't even dream that I could be here doing what I'm doing and as happy as I am if there's one individual Steven who I know that we had a hand in saving his life that's worth it nobody's life's better than someone else we all deserve a chance at success and to live we've just some of us have lost our way it's not a poor people thing anymore it's not a inner-city ghetto drug anymore it's everywhere and it's killing people left and right every single day something's got to be done it's it's got a it's got to change what's it gonna take you know what I mean someone in a seat of power like that losing their child to it before they open their eyes to it like some something's got to give now or there is there's there's gonna eventually there's gonna be no coming back from it I just hope we haven't reached that point already [Music] my story doesn't end here [Music] this isn't the last time anyone who's going to see me [Music] just I I'm not gonna die from this like I'm not not gonna die for this [Music] I want my daughter to be proud of me and what my I want people to be proud of me you know I want to be proud of myself if I was your mother right now what would you want to say to me oh my with her I'm sorry [Music] [Music] no I mean I can't talk hey wait a couple more years I'll get better I can't for that I don't know that's what sucks about this tomorrow humming roar very well my greatest hope is that I can beat the addiction that I can just go back to being Alex that I could be a good son good brother a good father that's like my greatest hope that I can beat this walk away from it and just not look back we lost contact with Alex so I went back to search for him but he was nowhere to be found [Music] [Music] [Music] does that star-spangled 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Length: 57min 3sec (3423 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 24 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Nihilisticky]

My two big takeaways (excluding what I knew)

1. Alex, 48, talks about how he was an honest person before addiction and that he despised himself for having to resort to manipulation and lies.I think this is something affected families should know - that it's hard for any honest person to keep their integrity in the face of such intense desperation.
2. Giving an addict Narcan (Naloxone) is a two-edged sword because if it turns out they're not OD'ing, they are instantly going to be dope sick.

edit: what I'd like to know is why Naltroxone, Narcan's big brother, which can block opiates for a month isn't more forthcoming in this seemingly unsolvable crisis.

[u/kaas298]

I did a placement at a prison up here in Canada. I was only there for 5 weeks and 4 inmates died of Fentanyl OD. several others were hospitalized.

[u/KingJimmy101]

Just watched this from start to finish. The scene that made me cry was the phone footage of the mother lying in a supermarket aisle with her kid walking around her crying. Fucking made me sick and sad.

[u/LDN_to_NJ]

I don’t think America is losing the war on drugs - pretty sure it has already lost.

So sad to see so much potential and life wasted like this.

[u/PirateGriffin]

“the notorious I-95.” Just a highway, connects most of the eastern seaboard. Not like it’s particularly bad in and of itself.

[u/KarmaCollecting]

Never heard it referred to as the I-95 before. And I drive on it every day.

[u/cembandit]

In an RN. Want to point out that Narcan (naloxone) wears off faster then the opioid. More then one dose is usually (always?) required.

Main things we are watching for is level of awareness, and decreased respiratory rate.

When given, the effects of Narcan can be dramatic and fast. I like to be prepared for the person to jump and be scared. Also, the return of acute or chronic pain issues.

Obligatory - seek medical care, this post is not medical advise, just my experience with it.

[u/lunaspice78]

I´m 7+ years clean from opiates and I´m grateful every day. When that baby pulls her moms head...that´s truly disturbing.

[u/[deleted]]

Good video, it’s insane the amount of deaths associated with opiates. I did not know Baltimore was the heroin capital and didn’t realize Philadelphia was in such dire need of assistance. Seems like the North East has been impacted more than the West Coast. But it’s still pretty bad everywhere.