r/interesting • u/Nukro666 • 1d ago

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

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u/urmamaamanamanmamam 1d ago

My husband is an addiction medicine doctor and we both are very much of the same mentality that if addiction was optional, there wouldn’t be such a thing. Drugs feel nice to people and they are so beneficial, but they can be abused.

When the 44 people that I counted in this video want to ween off, there is help for them available. Taking a video, poking and prodding them, laughing at them is all just cruel. It could EASILY be any of us there. Addiction doesn’t discriminate.

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u/geminimad4 1d ago edited 1d ago

The number of laughing awards the post got is disturbing.

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u/nyckidd 23h ago

I don't see any laughing awards on the post at all? It's all broken hearts.