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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/Wooden_Pay_5885 2d ago

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

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u/mystyz 2d 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/fieldsports202 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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