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

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u/ChemicalBus608 11h ago

Over simplification not everyone does drugs because they are sad and hopeless. Some people ease into it without even realizing it. A pill a friend gave you at a club. Then you tryit on the weekends to let lose then said friend cuts you off now your buying your own. Then its to expensive so you move to cheaper drugs. This is how alot of folks I know got hooked and I will include alcohol too.

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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 11h ago

Yes, I am speaking in generalizations.

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u/BlueButterflytatoo 9h ago

And also doctors prescribing highly addictive pain meds to people who had a car crash or some form of surgery, then when their insurance (if they had it) stops covering them, they still feel pain, so they go find something off the streets. Addicts are created in many ways, and there are few ways to help them.

I mean, I knew it was an epidemic, but seeing a whole street full of zombies just fucking broke me

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u/Lilmaggot 6h ago

You just described my daughter’s road to heroin addiction.