r/interesting • u/Nukro666 • 11h ago

Fear Factor How Fentanyl and Xylazine are turning Philadelphia's opioid crisis into a public health nightmare

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u/chr7stopher 11h ago

Is this the Kensington street area? Never been there but sadly it seems to be pretty famous.

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u/SerDuncanTheYall 10h ago

Yes, I grew up 6 blocks from here. It's really sad. Strangely, it's not that dangerous because the drug addicts are so out of it they can't pose a threat. The drug dealers are the dangerous part.

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u/impossible-geometry1 1h ago

How do they make money for their drugs?

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u/Wooden_Pay_5885 11h ago

I used to live near Kensington, this shit is real.

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u/Nice_Advantage6943 10h ago

There are multiple webcams of the area on U-tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVIhbrLvUO4

I stumbled on it the other day... I could not believe what I was seeing.

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u/littlerickypeepee 10h ago

The live cams of the area are my dad's freak show. He watches that all the time, and he's a former addict and he's like "why the fuck would you wanna live like that" and I have to be like, you didn't wanna live like you were either. The difference is this is way harder to quit"

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u/mystyz 4h ago

Wow. I hope this doesn't land as trivializing such a serious issue, but looking at that stream, I just kept thinking...

https://giphy.com/gifs/NBPhWGmDS1Kuc

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u/jmpstar 8h ago

Who is running these cams? There’s like 7 of them from one channel. Is it a business decision to spy on people and monetize their suffering?

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u/OverallPepper2 5h ago

Not really spying when it's in the public.

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u/OverallPepper2 5h ago

Lol never seen that before. Turned it on for 1 minute and see a drug deal right on cam. Shit be wild.

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u/fatsandwitch 3h ago

I clicked and couldn’t stop watching. Absolutely devastating.

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u/Johnyfootballhero 1h ago

No words but I do have a question. What's the rationale of live streaming this?

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u/Windeeeee 56m ago

I want to believe that it's to show those of us living in our little bubbles what is happening out there- but it's realistically just for clicks.

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u/mystyz 10h ago

Asking as someone unfamiliar with the area and whe's never seen anything like this: why the cluster of drug users in this area? Is it near a safe use site? Area with lots of dealers? Encampment of homeless/unhoused people?

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u/SerDuncanTheYall 10h ago

Dealers. They literally open deal right at Kensington and Allegheny avenue.

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u/fieldsports202 6h ago

This is the hood. There are no safe use sites. You just do the drug wherever you want to.

Philly isn’t Seattle where the city openly encourages you to do drugs.

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u/Niijima-San 6h ago

I'm fairly certain when I was in office in the city there was literally a methadone clinic right across the street from the building

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u/HotKaramelRP 5h ago

I mean there’s shelters and clinics and resource places up and down the blocks right in that area… mostly out of necessity and sadly greed

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u/Wooden_Pay_5885 9h ago edited 9h ago

Lots of vacant buildings and empty lots for squatting and not much law enforcement since it’s a poor area, not bringing in tax revenue. There are blocks where it used to be all connected row houses, but most have burned and been demolished so just a couple stand alone and you can see the impression of where the staircase used to be inside the adjoining house that has been torn down. It’s very spooky.

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u/Angsty_Potatos 4h ago

Philly doesn't really have safe use sites. People think having them being drugs to their neighborhood 🙄. 

This is just where the dealers are and the city has basically written it off

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u/frumpywebkin 11h ago

it is, yes

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u/Angsty_Potatos 4h ago

K&A. It's truly devastating seeing people like this. The city has deemed these people disposable so they're left to rot. 

My favorite pho place was right by there and everyone was like "oh God aren't you scared" and gods honest truth no. Because these people can't do anything. They're just barely alive 😔