1981 SPECIAL REPORT: Heroin Junkies | Deformed By Drugs | Real Stories

[@mickeyshooter5298]

2 years for me. Anyone struggling hang in there. Find your reasons to want to be sober and keep them in your mind. It’s up to you

[@lorrietayaba5761]

Congratulations. I’m two years clean from heroin. I’m proud of you!

[@gmoneyApexTrader8]

@@lorrietayaba5761it’s not worth it anymore ! There is no more real heroin like the good ole days . I don’t mind the real shit. This new stuff is garbage.

[@nikkisolo9080]

God Bless You both!!!

[@thebunkreport]

2 years in August brother. Never again. Stay strong my friend and use your resources.

[@useall7665]

2 years for me to after over 20😊

[@darlenetroise7079]

This is intense. I was doing similar shit for 15 years in Coney Island. Brings back memories that I'm about 8 years removed from, gratefully.

[@jennie3186]

Got clean off drugs April Fool's day 2011, I always say I got tired of being a fool. Recovery feels great 🙏💯

[@InkaPley]

❤❤❤

[@dawnlee866]

🙏🏾

[@WhatsyourIQ1]

That light bulb actually turned on Ta Daa…

[@dawnlee866]

Most of these guys that were heroin addicts had girlfriends & wives..they unknowingly passed the HIV virus to them, then if their wife or girlfriend got pregnant, more then likely their unborn child was infected. A deadly cycle back in the day😢🙏🏾

[@teekolinski491]

I think its the other way around. The women were catching aids from prostituting for drugs. That started becoming a problem two more years ahead of this film. Hepatitis was mostly contracted from dirty needles

[@myreasonforlife.9511]

These should be shown twice a week at all schools and workplaces!!

[@HecateTheDog]

Need a new version filmed. Meth and fentanyl being injected is causing very similar body scarring, drugs are brutal. God bless everyone facing addiction ❤

[@richardvillanueva559]

💯👌

[@andreasfranzgass8525]

It would not change a thing.

[@tonightsdelight2393]

I saw this video when I was 11 yrs old, and it was this video that kept me from ever using drugs, especially when the guy showed his leg and said “and this is the good leg’ this documentary mentally steered me away from drugs, perhaps those guys are not with us anymore, but I can truly tell you they saved a lot of kids from ever doing drugs.

[@robertafierro5592]

Anyone with compassion would feel for these guys. No one planned for things to turn out like this..

[@scoon2117]

These guys seem much more educated and aware of their condition than the people on the streets today.

[@PhillyPlumbDad]

Because it was real heroin . Today it’s fentanyl and tranquilizers

[@pleasedpopper4521]

Yea they both have good vocabulary and are more insightful than I was anticipating

[@scoon2117]

@pleasedpopper4521 probably because the fentanyl on these street is 100x more powerful than the opiates back in the day.

[@girumzemichael704]

@@pleasedpopper4521 The whole generation dumbing down thing; it’s not just people’s lives but our intelligence that’s getting shortened by these dumb shows and movies that two generations by now have been consuming. We have to snap out of it all and fast.

[@susanjoseph2380]

I've never injected anything but I'm going to tell you about my dead cousin. She got addicted to shooting heroin left a high paying job. She started living on the street. For ,10 years she lived on the street stood on the corner with a sign begging for money. The family tried to stop her but she would run. Any way met a man lived in his apt. Developed cancer of the neck. She hemmoriged bled to going into a coma and life support. Her arms were scabs about 50 to 60 scabs. She was taken off life support and we buried her. Rip barbra

[@redroseofsummer2979]

I'm so sorry for your loss Susan. It's heartbreaking when an addicted family member refuses any form of help. May your cousin rest in eternal perfect peace. X

[@MecoAvant]

😮😢 love this story thanks for sharing

[@junemiller7166]

Thank you for sharing your story these stories need to be told and heard especially by the younger generation.

[@kasangasaddler2724]

So very sorry for you losing her and her losing herself 😢

[@KaylaHumphries-us8jq]

Sorry

[@maylinosborne3156]

They need to still show this in schools!

[@sadhu7191]

But it got worse since then?

[@tiwanaloves]

But woke parents will go off.

[@BF0202]

@@tiwanaloveswhat difference would it make? They’ve done anti drug education for nearly a century. It’s never worked.

[@dabanks4877]

❤ Board of education so corrupt they rather have sexy red come to the schools to teach the youth how too be the lowest scum on this earth... look it up!!!

[@dabanks4877]

​@@BF0202of course not when you get it shoved in your face from tv, movies, radio, magazines, corrupt politicians, the church etc...

[@robertafierro5592]

Those poor guys probably all.died within 10 years of one another. A couple of them.might have even been HIV Pos.if you noticed one fellow mentioned having Pnuemonia before..dont forget, AIDS didnt even have a name back then, all.we saw was that our friends were dropping like flies..it was usually Pnuemonia or their Livers. I believe this was filmed in 1980. The Club Scene was in full.swing and the motto was still "If it feels good, do it!". Studio 54, Massage Parlors, New York City was always a den of vice.

[@israelruelas5756]

Dig deep and keep an open mind. All the so called “AIDS” symptoms were around way before HIV/AIDS was even thought of. Again, dig deeper

[@richiehoyt8487]

The guy who was saying, he wouldn't even feel right about 'making love' with a woman anymore (his words, iirc)... You've got to wonder if he didn't inadvertently save some lives with that mindset...

[@oscarpena6691]

3 weeks clean and don’t miss it at all this is the worst thing I’ve ever experienced in my life thank goodness for my family and friends

[@WesleyGravolet]

Congrats..keep it up!

[@DjangoFreeman-t9h]

Clean from what? How did you detox? Work a job at same time? Just curious thanks..

[@WarChild-g1r]

11 years clean for me. Ended up hospitalized with a MRSA infection on my thigh. Thank God I didn’t lose my leg. I had to go through hell before I started caring about myself.

[@julieann4616]

We’re glad you’re here. ❤❤

[@WarChild-g1r]

@@julieann4616 Thank you

[@eddie20307]

6 years for me... Huge Misfits/Samhain fan from NYC

[@WesleyGravolet]

3 and a half years clean for me..same, hospitalized for a month with mrsa... Unfortunately that wasn't enough for me to go sober, took me another 5 or so years but it eventually came to a stop...couldn't rip n run anymore, haha...

[@WesleyGravolet]

@@julieann4616 thanks..so sweet!

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

So glad I'm no longer like this, but I'll always have the scars to remind me.

[@kimdayne2012]

good that you got yourself together🌈

[@bio-plasmictoad5311]

@@kimdayne2012 Thanks

[@ellishawkins984]

Same here...myscars are barely noticeable now unless you know where to look, certain viens will never return though :( Peace to you x

[@Bloodsport1]

Stay strong

[@WayBackArchives]

Congrats, stay strong ❤️

[@pauliepeeps7952]

Clean 7 yrs in September did heroin since 1989 can’t believe I’m still alive many I knew and loved are gone God rest there souls

[@dawnlee866]

Wow u were in the height of it all. U must’ve did heroin alone, non sharing or u snorted it. Two of my uncles & everybody they were using with all died from AIDS🙏🏾

[@yolandarentas9904]

Both my parents used to go cop in Harlem and leave me and my sibling out on the street back in the day. They would go up to the shooting gallery, and we would run around with the kids. There was this real old head they called The claw. He was called that bc his arms, hands, legs, and feet were swollen with abscesses that looked like Godzila claws. My dad told me that claw would get kicked out of the shooting gallery bc his infections smelled so badly. They said he had live maggots feeding on him, which kept him alive. Us kids would see him coming down the street and start running and screaming, "The caw is coming!" *When the dude pulled his pants down, his legs, my father father's legs look like that. My father lost an arm bc of shooting up. My parents are blessed to be alive and healthy. They use fentynol now but not as much as they used to use heroin. They are in their 70s. 😮

[@michaelmoran4678]

i remember watching this when i was very young and it lived in my head rent free .

[@r.jenkins5982]

I'll say this, they articulated everything very well and you can tell even ad drug users the manners used back then in conversation. I pray for everyone who is struggling with addiction.

[@richiehoyt8487]

The addicts had more manners than the interviewer! - although like someone kind of indicated, today it would be all 'trigger warning~ed' to death, and the injuries would all be fuzzed out!

[@Tony-hu7uk]

It's great that people have this retro footage from the old days.Thanks for sharing this, making me wonder how much more footage is available.

[@MrLenroc82]

14:37 ppl always leave out alcohol being the gateway.....most drink before smoking. And drinking is usually involved when hard drugs are used for the fist time.

[@novemberjanuary8101]

Yes alcohol is a drug

[@McMc1927]

​@novemberjanuary8101 so is nicotine

[@McMc1927]

Additive

[@novemberjanuary8101]

@@McMc1927 yes indeed

[@DRIVERZLOUNGE]

No such thing as a needle exchange back then if you were injecting drugs you most definitely had hepatitis and probably HIV as well

[@WesleyGravolet]

Yes sir...

[@WesleyGravolet]

Word is people were buying dirty rigs to fix back in the daytime...

[@Stovepipe274]

That's a dark, cold existence..no feelings good or bad...no music, no sex, no enjoying food, no Family, no car, no job, no laughter, unable to feel sunshine, & the Birds never sing, a tranquil Sea of silent Death...with only one single thing on your mind..how you're going to get the money for your next Fix.

[@Ericwolf520]

Sad life

[@Alexandria250]

Described to a T 🥹

[@Stovepipe274]

@@Alexandria250 TY Alexandria.

[@teekolinski491]

Not all opioid users live like that. Some are functional users- work and have families- they just hide their habit. I did for seven years. Kept my appearance up, went to the gym, was head of the PTA at my sons school at one point. You never know.

[@v.w.1000]

@@teekolinski491I know, I can look in someone eyes and tell if they are off something.

[@trainedbyDRLIAM]

how can you see someone look like that and then say...yea I wanna try it..

[@trustmesonimyourfather9097]

everybody thinks the worst would never happen to them

[@mickeyshooter5298]

@@trustmesonimyourfather9097 that’s exactly right. I sure didn’t (but it did)

[@ohmeowzer1]

Agree

[@jarrodanderson2124]

They can't all be glamorous like Rush Limbaugh bro-bag. 💛

[@BF0202]

You could say the same about alcohol lol

[@Gaetano-hf2zh]

Good way to get the attention of the young people. If 1 person never uses drugs because they saw this video, it was DEFINITELY worth making it and showing the 'real' devastation that goes along with using drugs. I, as an older human being (not that old) encourage you to continue making more of these types of real life videos.. Thank all of you who told your life stories.

[@WesleyGravolet]

This is easily one of the scariest drug scare videos i have ever seen... Harsh reality.

[@dawnlee866]

It’s sad that heroin junkies didn’t get the same attention/help that fentanyl junkies get today. We ALL know why 😖😢🙏🏾

[@nikicarrie4071]

There were more white heroin addicts than black

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

Why that, it's not just white people who use heroin and fentanyl. Hundreds of thousands of blacks use it too. Look at philadelphia. Excuse the spelling.

[@girumzemichael704]

What good is it doing, the attention fentanyl addiction is getting? Young kids are dying all over the nation from first time unawares consumption. No, we don’t know anything even those who think we do. For the sick people who exposed people to drugs, they never cared about anyone.

[@dawnlee866]

@@girumzemichael704 the only people that were suffering from heroin & crack addiction were Black people. They didn’t get the same help & compassion that fentanyl addicts are getting today, majority of fentanyl addicts are white. Don’t let me get u schooled on drug abuse in the black communities all over the country! No one cared about them, they were thrown in jail..that was their recovery treatment 🙄

[@teekolinski491]

Because the opioid crisis hit the suburbs first. I lost so many friends. We all came from privileged backgrounds & weren't bad kids. Pain pills entered the part scene and changed the innocent landscape of suburbia. It was mind-boggling.

[@bizygirl1]

This was back in my day. I remember the swelling but the old heads had it bad. After many attempts I got clean in 87, I Had to escape LA and everyone I knew including family. Fast forward to 2005 I was diagnosed with Hep C after a routine physical. After the biopsy, I got the cirrhosis diagnosis. Spent a year on interferon that almost killed me. I’ve had a relapse on alcohol for about a year because I made others a higher priority than myself. I see and hear youngsters going through opiate addiction now and it takes me back to these days. There’s nothing in this world that I’d trade to go back there. Nobody I used with including my family is alive now. HepC, AIDS, overdoses, accidents, liver failure, and other stuff took them all out. I sometimes wonder why I’m still here but I’m grateful for it. I’ve got 4 grand babies I dearly love that I’d hate to miss watching them grow up. I’m so grateful I was introduced to recovery when I was. If you’re struggling you can find your way out too. You don’t have to keep going like this. ✌🏼

[@regiment6541]

I remember watching this as a kid when it first came out. Never forget it

[@bryanburnap4537]

I love listening to those 3 addicts talk !! I hope they found some peace as they went through life .

[@michelemelucci4667]

Two years free from alcohol myself. God bless all that deal with addiction like this ❤ I pray these men are free , and still alive 😢😢😢

[@IceWataJ3]

This that raw real

[@HecateTheDog]

I doubt you could get drugs like this now days. All fentanyl

[@evesgene3455]

Scary to see a drug so good that it makes ppl ok watching themselves rot away so horribly. 🙏🙏

[@badgalkia10]

They’re not “okay with it”. They feel extremely sick unless they do it. The sickness is one of the worst things ever. I saw a girl in person come down off heroin in jail & I’ll never forget it. She was so thin, sweating buckets…literally drenched in sweat, diarrhea…couldn’t control her bowels, seizures…it was so awful. I feel for these people.

[@benchippy8039]

It’s a vicious cycle of shame guilt and regret, the only thing that keeps the emotions away is more of the same. U gotta be real strong to choose not to do it

[@evesgene3455]

@@badgalkia10 💖

[@evesgene3455]

@@benchippy8039 💖

[@sirjames7800]

Heroin have the best euphoria but comes with severe consequences. I wish it never existed.

[@LiltishaPaige]

The bro didn't know he described having HIV

[@soft_serve_666]

I came here to say the exact same thing. AIDS was just starting to be reported on in 81. I wonder how many men that were interviewed for this report had the virus already and how many are still alive today. It's so sad.

[@dawnlee866]

@@soft_serve_666non of them are alive, if they were sharing needles. Two of my uncles, their girlfriends & friends did heroin together…they all died from AIDS🙏🏾

[@WesleyGravolet]

Yea...mans probably thought he was simply dopesick... Bummer!

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

​@@soft_serve_666no with aids then are alive today. Not one of them

[@yezmirsheppard-halika6892]

Wow! Crazy when you think about it.

[@Davey14]

was in the game but been out of it for nearly 20 years but 99% of the time i got myself no bother in the groin.99% of the people that were in the game are dead,im one of the last men standing me and a handful of others.

[@redroseofsummer2979]

Glad you are still here Davey. Stay strong 💪

[@leetlbt]

Same here I used to hit up in my groin for decades bcos I fxxked my veins in my arms but I'm clean now but most the people I know are now dead.

[@myspacebarbroke7550]

Real shit back in 99 me an the hombres were duco laco shootin' every weekend. i dont miss it.

[@GeorgeCarr-ee1yk]

So brutally fucking honest,my kneck is so scarred,i hate myself for what I've done to me n those around me,im on a methadone program now n doing much better, this should be shown in Scottish schools

[@mntlhlthaddtnstilltrying]

Don't hate yourself be proud your doing better and if you happen to ever slip up ( U won't) but don't throw everything away 1time in a yr is better than before. Also you guys get that shit brown heroin which is so impure . That's why there is like valium Xanax and pregabolin

[@leetlbt]

Should be shown all over the uk brother.

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

I agree I started using heroin 1995 I was not even 16 it was a few months before. I was using up until 2022. Methadone maintenance has helped those time. Although I have DVT blood clots in my legs and arms and now I'm on bloodthinners for life. My leg swells up after a few hours of work and the pain I'm in is unbearable most days. I did it all to myself and I hate myself for destroying my life and my body. Hope you're doing well. I'm from Birmingham England.

[@EdwardLucas-b3s]

I remember watching this on t.v on channel 7 with Gil Noble at 12 or 13 and i tell you that's all it took for me not to do that drug.

[@country4lyfe365]

I shot dope in the same vein for 12 yrs. And never even got a scar. Weird. Been clean for 20 yrs now. And thee only pain I have now is regret for waisting alllll those years, delaying my true life n purpose

[@BG08.18]

I have a question not to be rude but genuinely curious. I don’t know much about shooting up drugs but I’ve seen it and in this video it looks like they’re doing it wrong I could be wrong too but don’t they only need a little bit of blood once they hit the vein? Cause it looks like they filled the syringe with blood

[@leetlbt]

@@BG08.18 I'm totally stone cold sober now and I know talking about injecting drugs sounds friggen gross. Aye mate, I think looking at this video that they are missing there Veins bcos they are not using clean sharp needles,looking at the age of this video and its set in America I bet they weren't given out free clean needles at the chemist's like they have been doing in britain for at least the last 25yrs I think. So I believe bcos of the dull bluntish needles they were forced to used this was the course of all there injection injuries

[@PackWoods-st3oh]

​​@@BG08.18that's called a flush once you shoot up you pull back just to make sure your still in the vein..they probably were doing it just for the camera filling it right up

[@totallysxmmyyt6787]

I remember first hand how heroin destroyed and devastated my family, for example because of heroin my brother took a 12 gauge shotgun and from behind blew the back of my father's head off, the crime scene was etched into my consciousness, he assassinate our father. I remember, the track marks on another sibling's arm, I remember the days I was in love with eight balls of cocaine while attending undergraduate, university until that one day my nose flowed buckets of blood, it was then, I realized that this stuff was killing me, and when I saw the dealer a maintenance guy for off campus housing, he waved at from a distance, I waved back at him but it was good-bye, and during that moment of clarity, the urge was gone that was 1983. Last year my brother that assassinated our father dead in the VA hospital, he got his karma.

[@daydreamerz]

Tragic. It sounds like something went very wrong in your family that you and your siblings were all on hard drugs, and your brother even murdered his father.

[@thebunkreport]

I live in the Phoenix metro area and people are dropping like flies because everything is laced with fentanyl and xylazine (tranq). I really feel for these folks and the homeless population in general. I wish I could do more to help.

[@mythoughts1763]

WOW THIS VIDEO WAS RAW!!! I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS VIDEO!!

[@BJ-if9oh]

With so much sensory and sensitivity these days I’m surprised TV was this raw and uncut back then

[@Ericwolf520]

Different times

[@MariaWoods99]

They need to bring this back.

[@Buttaflyy_]

This is a great documentary but I had to listen only... seeing the skin on these men made me feel physically sick

[@Day-ZDuke]

Ya this is super gnarly. It’s amazing what humans do to ourselves sometimes, and what we can endure. I cannot imagine being in that condition, but these dudes still manage to deal with it and survive. At least for a while anyways. Many can keep this lifestyle up for years

[@drewwhy5541]

This is the good leg. Horrific

[@Ericwolf520]

🤣

[@WeloveyouDave]

Clean since lockdown after nearly 20 years. I'm living a life now that I didn't ever believe was possible. For anyone out there who can't see a way out ..... there's a way , you just have to be ready xx

[@Johnbeat100]

Do u still think about it after 20 years

[@WeloveyouDave]

@@Johnbeat100 honestly yes now and again.its weird but for instance I was buying a roll of tin foil in the supermarket and I thought I only used to ever buy this to smoke heroin .and then the smell ,the thoughts just pop in your head but I've learnt to move past it and honestly take it day by day

[@Johnbeat100]

@WeloveyouDave great job broi tried it once was not for me I smoke my tree but keep up great work thx

[@paperboy856]

Looks like they had tranquilizer back in the 1980s as well

[@captainpugwash7174]

Blunt needles.

[@Lennylo238]

After being addicted to pain killers now i understand what”feel normal” means the withdrawals are killer

[@Wizardly.hogwarts]

Omg I never knew the real horror of heroin until now. Their skin got so bad they looked like mutated monsters ( no disrespect). I have a phobia of holes in the body and this definitely is the best anti heroin video I’ve ever seen .

[@abraxasjinx5207]

It's so much worse these days, with xylazine and nitazines added to fentanyl and heroin, which literally rots the flesh.

[@JohnSmith-fq7hj]

There's something off here I never seen nothing like that before been in the game a long time

[@abraxasjinx5207]

@@JohnSmith-fq7hj yeah I agree. These kind of wounds are now common with xylazine and nitazines being added to the fentanyl supply, but back in the day when heroin was real this kind of thing was very rare. You had to get an abscess from missing a shot and then fail to keep it clean to get even one such sore. I never saw any junkie with their whole body covered in rotting flesh like this until the last few years.

[@ponyboy2984]

​@@JohnSmith-fq7hjIt looks like he's just been injecting into the muscle under the skin and not into a vein, such a sad state for a human being to end up in 🥺

[@Melloooooo949]

I have a phobia of holes in the body & skin

[@daydreamerz]

People deny that marijuana is a gateway drug, yet you never meet a drug addict who didn't drink and smoke weed before moving up to hard drugs. That's called a gateway.

[@Labella_504]

How do you account for ppl that have never done anything outside of marijuana? You don’t jump from weed to heroine.

[@rgsgl2xx4xx4]

Not how it works….cmon

[@rellie_90]

You will never convince gonja smokers of this, because it’s no different than drinking alcohol and never becoming addicted. A gateway doesn’t mean ABSOLUTE lol

[@hoodtohollywood]

There was no treatment or resources for addicts in the 60- 80s, just jail. Shameful

[@bizygirl1]

That’s right… We used to joke with each other… “Marks will get you 90”… Meaning, if you got caught with track marks you could get an automatic 90 days in jail if the cop wanted to book you for it. Free detox.. Some of the worst time you could do in LA county jail and all you could get when you were dope sick was Tylenol and Maloxx. Unless you were on Methadone maintenance and you could get it in jail. The old heads and long term heroin users usually were on maintenance. I was a youngster still working my way to reaching that goal (it was a goal in my sick little mind at the time).

[@mntlhlthaddtnstilltrying]

Love how this man is trying to get them to say marijuana is the gateway and these gentlemen realise some people are fine with pot and others seek a different high, this is one of the few documentaries that doesn't make me want drugs

[@CheckYourPremises]

This is so sad. Some of them are not dumb at all...

[@ohmeowzer1]

Thank you so much .all kids and grown ups need to see this

[@Rivera__444]

I am proud of everyone who is clean. You guys are doing great keep up the good job don’t quit. Good bless

[@whispermcgaughy7251]

Reminds me of the description in a Donald Goines book about the shooting gallery.. 😳 Lessons like this are absolutely priceless and timeless..

[@ohmeowzer1]

God Bless these people .I am sure they are not here today. I hope they found peace .❤

[@Budfp413rd]

13 months SOBER and I very grateful that I was able to do 180. Meaning i turned my back to the old life. It's just not worth it anymore.

[@xo_kayde]

I never understood why the clinics gave a away free needles to drug addicts. Now I understand why.

[@tiffmonique7154]

Even with clean needles these wounds still happen.

[@monae2ish]

This made my skin crawl I pray these men made it out of this life. And I pray the ones dealing with it today finds a way out. Praying this demon leaves 😢

[@enohp660]

I was 10 years old when this aired and I remember it like it was yesterday.

[@Tony-hu7uk]

Really,I was 9 in '81 but I don't remember this.What a great year '81 was.You were a year older than me and you remember this, interesting.This is pretty shocking,if I would have seen this I definitely would have remembered it too.

[@enohp660]

@@Tony-hu7uk there were a few men in my neighborhood at the time that I would see with puffy hands and leaning over. When that show came on, my parents used that as an opportunity to really show me how those guys in my neighborhood got that way. That’s why I remember it so well.

[@Tony-hu7uk]

​@@enohp660You must of lived in a big city to see people like this.Back in '81 that was only a big city thing.I live in a small city, fortunately you didn't hear of Heroin around here back then.

[@ClarkKent-bi7oq]

These guys are very informative 👏👏👏

[@tiwanaloves]

This is the generation of my parents. I remember New York in the 80s. I remember my father’s heroin lean and blankness. I remember their smells. I remember high folks commenting to my father about his daughter inbetween their lucidity. Hoping they all made it out like my parents. Love & Light to them and family ✨🤎✨

[@Anaddictspeaks]

34 yrs old, had clean time on and off. Been struggling not at all my worst but a prettt decent chip for almost a year. Hard to believe I been back at it. I live in Philly right here about 10 blocks away from Kensington and Allegheny. This is where I got clean and thrived. Desperately need to come back to life, to living. Congratulations to everyone with the time you are inspiring ❤❤❤

[@Maximillian-00]

A common theme in the opiate world behind the adulation of the moment of the hit is absolutely broken people. Hurts to see more soft spoken, nonchalant people back then that I have now become accustomed with today.

[@MariaWoods99]

I wonder how long after that filming they passed away.

[@Havingacrack]

20 yrs on the H now 10yrs on yhe methadone im g3tting there but i lost a lot of time with family n friends dont pick up that needle

[@9iineLives]

This video made my stomach hurt

[@DRLEWIS]

When I was runnin' amuck in the 80's there were many junkies in DTLA that looked like THIS.

[@acidbath3226]

"I DONT WANNA LECTURE YOU I JUST WANNA BRAINWASH YOU THROUGH SUBLIMINAL SUGGESTION"

[@MisterFridayOMG]

Man I almost don't want to roll this joint.

[@INDREAMSBEGINSRESPONSIBILITIES]

Pass it... 😎

[@LittletysonA381R]

I’ve been clean since 27.8.03 I took my first hit at 12 last at 18 I’m now 38 married with 3 girls an just had my book published Anyone battling the devil because that’s what addiction is don’t give up trying to quit and don’t punish your self if u have a slip remember it’s a lapse not a relapse just start a fresh the next day!

[@JacinthaDAnjou]

Congrats to you! Can I ask what made you shoot up at 12?? Does your skin also have scars?

[@u-verse]

HE PASSES PERSON TO PERSON

[@dacoldest3896]

dude said he shoot 200 to 300 dollars a day and this was in the 80s wtf

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

I saw this special back in the eighties and it gave me nightmares. It bothered me for days!🥺

[@howey935]

July 1999 was when I got clean of a 10 year addiction. I was finally sick enough of the lifestyle of robbing stealing and cheating to get the money just to feel normal but you know it’s not going to last so have to keep making money. It’s a miserable way to live.

[@captainpugwash7174]

Full time job.

[@healthandfamily432]

Oh wow, this is the exact documentary I was shown in the 80’s at a drug rehab facility

[@tatsnneeps341]

I started having a joint in 1988, now in 2024 I'm a fucking connoisseur 😂😂😂

[@danielle5360]

You don't even have a ROCH when using heroine....... THATS smoking pot, weed, skunk. Not using heroin

[@lindabeale4216]

For real , I was trying to get where a roach come from that's weed ......

[@macpac3803]

Does anyone bekieve if they lets say legalized Oxycodone pills so you could get them very cheap and in bulk quantities, do you think most addicts could live a normal life or would it be a fast track to death? Cause you need to figure it cuts out the risk, running raggid, going without food or meds to get the drug, im not talking about the exception im talking about the majority.

[@HomerSaints-lo7zf]

When peoples skin starts getting bad is when they dont have veins anymore from shooting up too much your veins get so thin they literally get so thin its impossible to find them and they start "skin popping" when they just inject on the skin and this starts happening

[@captainpugwash7174]

They also had blunt pins.

[@bizygirl1]

@@captainpugwash7174we would use match covers or emery boards to sharpen the needles when they’d get dull. Needles could be hard to come by back then. Someone might sell you some claiming they were new but then you find out they’d been used a couple of times.

[@budddove6480]

Over 10 years clean and sober. Drug addiction, especially opiates, is no joke. I wish every single young kid had to watch this video to see the truth.

[@QueenChaslee]

Watching and living are 2 different animals.

[@cjohnson5497]

Dang, im sure they have passed away,so sad

[@HellaReckless]

Before fentanyl

[@Signaman-z9d]

This film should be shown on every billboard around the world.Grafic is what people take notice of. Kid gloves of when trying to get through to kid's.Do it early no good after ten year's old. Strange they have never looked for a cure fo drug addiction, why is that.🤔

[@MarzannaMorana]

I can guarantee you these guys went to prison. So sad. You best believe the government was behind this. The days when Regan was in office and we had to hear "Just say no" lectures. They don't do that anymore. They're right about one thing. School was the best place to find it. LSD was the first drug before anything else. I was 13 in 9th grade.

[@julieann4616]

Blaming it on the government is a bunch of nonsense.

[@HecateTheDog]

@@julieann4616you clearly don’t know about the crack era.

[@julieann4616]

@@HecateTheDog I DO know that no one was forced to smoke rock all day. People make choices.

[@HecateTheDog]

@@julieann4616 You no nothing regarding poverty. Crack was new and the Projects was a Project.

[@gregd4633]

@@julieann4616It’s a proven fact that Reagan flooded non-white neighborhoods of hard drugs. He traded military equipment with the *”Contra-Rebels”* lead by Oliver North for cocaine. Reagan also traded weapons with what’s known today as *”Al-Qaeda”* for Arabic heroin. Reagan was very aggressive against liberal protesting, and he was a known opponent of progressive politics. Many politicians and former CIA operatives have testified in court and congressional committees that the US was involved with oppression of non-white communities

[@tonipowell8625]

We need more leaders than followers....

[@paulab.5154]

We watched this video in high school health class. It scared me enough that I never turned to hard drugs.

[@DUKEDAWG79]

Hey love how are you?❤

[@lukapopovic6668]

I guess none of them is alive nowadays

[@DetectiveLobotomy]

CIAs work

[@ellishawkins984]

wasn't that more for Cocaine?

[@valeriemoore7834]

💯

[@chaddevine565]

Nah,.... girl yes ...,boy no

[@triedntrueiam]

​@@chaddevine565Both, that is how they got the money to start. There are videos on here about it.

[@harriettubman6641]

This is a excellent video from the archives.

[@KingNez89]

I HATE how they started the propaganda that weed is a gateway drug....I have been smoking weed since 21 and I NEVER wanted or had ANY intrest in doing hard drugs, weed never ever made me consider doing hard drugs and if ANYTHING it would make me more conscious and even more scared to do hard drugs... that myth about weed being a gateway drug is BULL$HIT

[@novemberjanuary8101]

You right it’s something in the brain 🧠 that happens to some but doesn’t happen to others

[@slasherx6111]

You are absolutely right im 57 started smoking weed at 16 and it aint never made me want to put a needle in my arm and I grew up in the era when dope was dope even saw people shoot up all it did was make me cringe and say to myself NEVER.

[@daydreamerz]

Know what's funny about gateways? Some people walk through while others don't. Doesn't make it any less of a gateway. Show me a junkie or crackhead who didn't smoke weed first.

[@rgsgl2xx4xx4]

@@daydreamerzi know a few. Could say the same for drinking, And I know even more addicts who started drinking first

[@gameconcept1196]

Show me a junkie or crackhead who didn't drink coca cola first. Some people stop using soft drinks while others don't. Doesn't make it any less of a gateway.

[@michelemelucci4667]

Dear God.😢😢😢

[@ginagage9919]

Wow,,,this is so sad see

[@CallMeSteve88]

All that blood filing up they can’t shoot for shit

[@matthewwillis2389]

Rite! They drew blood 30 times over without sendin down the shot.

[@JohnSmith-fq7hj]

Yeah I never seen no one look like that they were either using bad needles the dope was cut with something it shouldn't have been or they just didn't know wtf they were doin still sad tho.

[@julieann4616]

@@JohnSmith-fq7hjomg!

[@danielleburke87]

If u listened, u would've heard him tell us that he was shooting cocaine as well, and that is what was corrosive and eating his skin

[@nikicarrie4071]

How long do their arms stay like that

[@lindabeale4216]

Forever !!!

[@nikicarrie4071]

@@lindabeale4216 seriously! 🫢😳

[@MrBunghole666]

The state of their skin is probably due to the amount of shut cut into the gear. But man when you look like that, it's probably time for change. I've been using H on and off for 5 years and I don't want to do it anymore. But today it's so weak it's like 1% heroin in Manchester UK right now, and plus I'm a clean freak, the services available now are so muchbetter. Methadone been around since the60s but we still use on top. But it's the bacteria that's gonna fuck you up. Got to use those alcohol wipes. Fuck I felt like I was hitting myself when these guys were trying to shoot. Fucking tense.

[@Alexandria250]

I didn’t realize heroin made the skin like this too. Fent & trans does this to the skin bad too. People walking around with their skin looking eaten alive. Wasn’t sure if it’s the drug or unclean needles. Such a dark existence man

[@MrBunghole666]

@@Alexandria250 it doesn't. Not on it's own. It's the adulterants. And awful hygiene practices

[@chaddevine565]

I bet some of these guys did not last another 5 years ...what year is this ?

[@FUCK_BOSTON_POLICE]

2014

[@julieann4616]

@@FUCK_BOSTON_POLICElol

[@arielthomas9871]

81

[@Raul-ex9hg]

Imagine if they would have legalized drugs back in the 90s. Do you think we would be the same as where we are today or better or worse ?

[@ZillaManTX]

Man here in San Antonio it's been bad for years Young girls out here selling themselves

[@MarlonTormanen]

That looks messed up I wouldent be surprised if they're sharing needles

[@mikehunt9884]

damn, think they had the Claw on there? heard stories about him, like they would drive around the neighborhood to find the guy so he could sample dope to see if its good. He had a big swollen arm.