Humanitarian crisis on Boston’s 'Methadone Mile' grows worse

According to city officials, more than 300 people are living outdoors on the streets near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard.
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[@johngulotta7951]

We got one of them in Philly it's called Kensington and Somerset

[@ricardofonseca9251]

This video reminded me of PHILLY Looking just like Kensington Sad Situation all around

[@reggiegeorge4044]

Denver Broadway Colfax AREA'S. Rivers , all over

[@FloridaMan69.]

in Miami it's called little haiti

[@bobbydavidsonsr.4935]

I was just thinking about Kensington Ave in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. "Philly"

[@Townie7177]

Kensington looks 100% worse

[@feliciasantiago4345]

Been sober over 12 years and never looked back. 🙏🏼

[@tomporgy1143]

Go help those still addicted, Please!!!

[@albertolebron4095]

Congrats

[@Mickkie]

@Felicia Santiago:🙏🏾💪🏾🙏🏾 Stay Strong!!

[@1597B]

Godspeed, chief. Keep up the good work.

[@user-ru5xz3lz9c]

NO ! Please come back on year 13th! Please 🙏

[@TheINFJChannel]

Methadone Mile. Clever name, all jokes aside.

[@brucew.2805]

Streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Ave Story, What’s going on today, October, 2021. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJWreJp6q8Z7gMU

[@vandie9759]

Symphony hall to Bos.Gen.Hsp. is a mile

[@Townie7177]

It's called mass and cass now but it was called methadone mile because of the methadone clinics over there

[@anthonioalonzo5280]

@@brucew.2805 AQQ

[@ike4459]

Isn't this guy the system??? He's in charge!!! He's gaslighting!!!a👍

[@babadook-qr6pv]

I'm from Boston and it's been like that since I was a little kid in the 90's they don't care

[@charlesflaco7976]

Its starting to look just like California

[@reggiegeorge4044]

California doesn't look like that Only Philadelphia Delaware

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

California stays warm all year, no snow. Does it snow or freezing temps in Boston?

[@izabellaplunkett9670]

Stay strong young lady.Thank you for sharing your story

[@bigblackaf]

I'll never forget making a delivery at the CVS on Harrison Ave and coming back to my truck to see someone passed out next to it..OD

[@ishtar0077]

Prison for dealers 10yrs. These people won't let go of the drugs unless they are force to. Get them on rehab by force. It's the only way. 3 yrs in rehab by force you will get them clean. Let's build the building and hire the right people. We spending a lot money on hospitals and police hours, public sanitation and business can't work with them around.

[@reggiegeorge4044]

We already have that. What is there left to do? I'm done with the Beast Coast.✝️✝️✝️🖤🥛🖤🥛🖤🥛🖤🖤🖤🥛🏙️🥛🥛🖤🥛

[@annanicole1717]

@@reggiegeorge4044 yes

[@richardmccleod9898]

But the liberals don't ever mention that there are thousands of homeless ( elderly people ,some veterans and handicapped but it is always the poor dapper who are generally youger and more able to function and work they are as they are youger and I never heard a mention of the elderly on the streets some being veterans and some handicapped all simpity goes to the dappers you liberals truly are hypocrites!!!

[@johnagiavanam.1609]

I'm down there and I 100% !agree

[@johnagiavanam.1609]

Does he really hear our concerns he doesn't look like he cod fix a bird house

[@sheabaobab3637]

One thing about The Long Island Shelter in the Harbor, Dealers are not readily available...

[@brucew.2805]

Streets of Philadelphia, Kensington Ave Story, What’s going on today, October, 2021. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJWreJp6q8Z7gMU

[@Pattys1967]

who is the mayor there?

[@tedd7028]

Biden took our great Mayor and opened the boarders. This is why it’s gotten so bad again.

[@reggiegeorge4044]

There both gone. Election November. Boston 🌁 🌬️ 🌊 ANISSA Essaibi-George 💒 Boston Councilor Anissa Essaibi-George for Boston 🌁 Mayor. 🧠🛐🍂

[@raymonddelisle6601]

It's going to get a lot worse 🙃

[@mikewu2108]

I have some money but I can’t even afford drugs, cigarettes, and alcohols. How do these people afford to have all that???

[@cnacks4835]

Cause that's all you got. Also you'd be surprised how much you can make panhandling. I work full-time now and I made alot more back in my junkie days.

[@Itsallgravvy]

They live in tents ⛺️

[@jamesjddawkins9770]

Help in needed in that area 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@oceanrock733]

Whoa! Looks like skid row. Why isn’t this on National News?

[@tedd7028]

National new only reports their Demoncrat agenda.

[@robertafierro5592]

I'm very lucky to be smart enough to get the help I needed BEFORE I ended up on the street!!

[@paddy9449]

YOU voted for'em!!!!! Live with it!!!!!!!!

[@Butrcup98]

If you arrest them for possession etc & they go to jail at least they can kick & get some moments of clarity & get sentenced to rehabs or drug court. I speak from experience. Every time I got busted, jailed, detoxed & went to rehab the seed was planted for recovery. I now have 17 yrs. I had to go thru that process at least 6, 7 + times till I got it. But jail saved my life every time

[@elenaarman-tang7811]

I'm so happy you're doing well 🤗

[@joesanchez7920]

I agree, We have so much land in America that we need to build some housing for these people and allow them to move in as long as they attend drug treatment. If not then taken them to a special prison for addicts.

[@GiGi_to_3]

As an RN that has worked in the jail system, it's easier said than done. Until they put more money into the mental health system, which is what either precedes or is the result of the drugs, the jails will just be overloaded more than they already are. It's not that people don't want to help, the officials haven't taken the time & money to really come up with a solid system. I agree that they need time to get a clear head, but until they come up with a better way to handle the funds they have or create more funds, it will be a revolving door. The focus is usually getting the person away from drugs, but if they don't have the coping skills to stay away, it turns into 10 trips & more money that we already aren't allocated.

[@RascalV666]

you think prison is free?? !!!! All taxpayers are paying for it, why should I pay for you wanting to have fun?? I don't understand where this game is leading, right?? Since Fentanyl is on the streets, it's too late for these people. 3/4 are wrecks unsuitable for re-incorporation into the system.

[@RascalV666]

@@joesanchez7920 You're going to build all this with your money? You're going to be a fool to build them houses because they had fun getting high, right? What else are you giving them as a reward for taking drugs? Can you give away cars?

[@jessyurko5351]

Congratulations Caitlin! Keep lookin forward & so proud of your manager position at ur job. Get it girl!!!

[@genomic_]

I have been living in Boston for over 10 years now but was neither aware of this area nor its name until recently. I ended up here at 11pm one evening , by myself, to pick my towed car up. That was a scary experience! I just hope they get some help for the sake of themselves and the community by large. I can understand that lady’s reasoning as to why people hangout there.

[@MotionX01]

Bro you lived here for 10 years and never knew about crackhead Ave? You probably live in Cambridge lol.

[@Revsclipse]

Bubbles

[@supportmytroups7]

@@MotionX01 I lived here 4 years and only found out about skid row like 8 months ago

[@keeppunchin2302]

10 years in Boston and u never heard of MA Ave? What were u livin under a rock? lmao

[@patsully2413]

It will never get better. People here keep voting for liberal Democrats.

[@sheabaobab3637]

WELP Reopen/Rebuild the Long Island Shelter!! Rebuild the Bridge or use Water Shuttles...

[@oceanrock733]

Yet real estate costs millions in Boston

[@sheabaobab3637]

In Roxbury and Dorchester it costs Millions..

[@msgemsgems]

Looks like this is in almost every major US city.

[@FitzSchlitz]

I’m documenting my methadone detox. 20 years and 160mgs per day. I’m now over 2 years methadone free. Thank you for this information!! Healing vibes, love and prayers!!! 💪✌️✌️❤️

[@asmodeuslordoflust6688]

lower the price of rent

[@Brian-im1zg]

I was Born and raised in Boston Michael Rios. Those politicians could care less helping the people in Roxbury, South Boston. DO YOUR RESEARCH MICHAEL RIOS.

[@catistrolling7333]

Move them to gov mansion

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

20 times?? Wow what a waste of a life…

[@seanmahoney2755]

there is an easy answer and it can be done over night. this is being allowed to happen by people who want to destroy Boston.

[@tedd7028]

The country, not just Boston.

[@georgebuonopane6601]

What is the easy answer you speak of ?

[@tedd7028]

@@georgebuonopane6601 Stop the flow of drugs.

[@tonybernardi7693]

You'll never stop drugs from coming into the country I mean get real. What needs to happen is the decrimalization and safe injection sites.

[@seaturtledog]

I'm listening to your answer! My answer would be to buy all the Kmarts and use them for housing. you have the residents manage the place. then you make it illegal to sleep on the streets. you have to have a big cleaning crew to clean every night.

[@chewbaccac-3po129]

It's the life they choose.

[@gamingclipz7309]

As a ex addict I don’t feel bad for these people! Hey clean it’s not that hard! I was addicted to 200$ a day heroin and Xanax and I got clean 7 years now… it sickens me they allow this!

[@toniliggins3479]

Just because your clean now " its not that hard". Everyone's journey is different so dont be so high and mighty. Dont forget where u were at one time in your life.

[@Pattys1967]

why call it methadone mile? there shooting up herion,not methadone,seriously?

[@seanmahoney2755]

it used to be the place where junkies would line up to get their methadone treatment because there was a methadone clinic there. apparently methadone helps people get off heroine. works real good huh?

[@keeppunchin2302]

Actually there pretty much shooting up fentanyl..that has basically replaced the heroin narrative everything is being laced with it..from cocaine to designer drugs like ectasy and synthetic prescription pills

[@seanmahoney2755]

@@keeppunchin2302 i stick with the flower mon. it don't destroy me.

[@mattymatt6970]

Because there are a bunch of methadone clinics there

[@nothingpersonal1239]

My first walking down in that area I'm not from Boston went to see a friend needed to walk to I think the red line I was so scared I didn't want to be in that area I seen so much and felt bad. I'm from NY 🗽 I seen alot of weird stuff before but walking in Boston area like that was something different and New and I'm never walking there again seen a young woman laying on the floor chilling shooting up

[@solarflaresss]

You should ask that lady laying on floor to see any help from there.

[@nothingpersonal1239]

Tbh now in days I understand people need help but whenever someone step in to ask if they would like help can turn into your last moment cuz now they're gonna thinking or feel some type of way💯 as bad as I look just Walking away again not from Massachusetts I was told as a new Yorker mind your own business.

[@johnhouston9764]

On the floor and you saw her? I bet you saw her on the GROUND.

[@sparkerfivethousand1374]

When you teach people helplessness and you treat people less than human this is the outcome that our society has developed within its own structure The haves and have nots is a disgrace and a extreme tragedy.

[@paddy9449]

People make a choice.... I could put that needle in my arm... I choose NOT 2..... What? life got ya down? lost your job? partner F' ck around your back? welcome 2 the club!!!!

[@FOxXyYgRaMpA]

That’s like telling a homeless person to just get a house

[@HoneyBakedHam7]

@@FOxXyYgRaMpA no, you can’t compare homelessness to being a crackhead. Homelessness can happen even when it’s in your complete control. Drug addiction is of pure choice.

[@FOxXyYgRaMpA]

@@HoneyBakedHam7 have you been addicted to any drugs?

[@HoneyBakedHam7]

@@FOxXyYgRaMpA nope. I listened to the DARE officers in elementary and how drugs are bad, plain and simple.

[@quartytypo]

Is there a hop-on-hop-off bus stop on Boston's methadone mile?

[@lovefromacrossthepond4567]

Unacceptable

[@kitt7477]

Kensington, L.A., San Fransisco, Portland, the Bronx, etc. Why cant we all do something about this? Why cant we at least gather all together and protest against drug distribution & homelessness? Why don’t we put our caring comments into action?

[@albertolebron4095]

The police is enjoying this all that overtime they putting in

[@Dillboy]

I’ve been down those streets so many times,it’s sod sad and disgusting, I can’t believe this is is going on in Boston,please we need help.

[@bobbydavidsonsr.4935]

Tough Love

[@tonybernardi7693]

Boston needs to set up safe injection sites. And decrimalize hard drugs like Oregon.

[@keeppunchin2302]

@@tonybernardi7693 I agree

[@fantastiqueberliotz1209]

You want help? Help yourself. Stop electing Leftists who impose their inherently destructive policies. I was born and raised in Boston and I am sickened by what the* Leftists and those who vote for them* have done to my beautiful city. 😡😡😡😡😡 You've destroyed it.

[@RascalV666]

I don't understand what right these people have when receiving help? Help, what am I asking for? For spending half his life looking for a good time? These are drugs and everyone knows the effects of this fun, you don't know the moderation, you rot in the street, it's called cause and effect. Another thing to save these people, 3/4 of them are human wrecks of undertreatment! Fighting to save them to a waste of time, because you can't help them anyway. Even if someone manages to get out, later they will be totally dysfunctional, they will not be fit to return, and they will have to find a job and pay the bills! The girl in the movie is one in a thousand!! 1-1000 get it!! Especially now that the streets are ruled by Fentanol, which is so powerful that it kills through and through, it will quickly clear the streets of the weakest units.

[@donniev8181]

All blue cities will inevitably end up like this.

[@andreabrown4656]

So Sad..so much help but they Refuse it..addicts can only HELP themselves! No one can DO IT for them!

[@globalwarming5050]

if they are arrested and put in a environment with no access to drugs they will inevitably detox, the definition of addiction is the loss of self-will and self-control

[@heatherbentley165]

@@globalwarming5050 unfortunately there is drugs everywhere. Even in jail, prison, rehab, etc.

[@banksy8081]

Every community has a huge fund for housing and homelessness... but sadly to say most of the funds are taken up by case workers and city officials

[@hmartin751]

been down those streets myself I have almost 6yrs clean...if I can do it you guys can too

[@Excremental_Discharge]

The major metropolitan cities are reverting back to the 1980s

[@user-ru5xz3lz9c]

Methadone Mile!😮 - my next holiday destination!🤗✌️

[@crcb4]

Sorry but she is does not sound clean. I know that heroin voice and she sounded messed up

[@melodylucas257]

It's amazing they are homeless and yet they always have money to buy drugs

[@christinedowd1820]

Take them out of the neighborhood and put them on the island. The city needs to have a shuttle boat to the island with treatment available on island.

[@keeppunchin2302]

Although I think a ferry from Boston to the island is a good idea..I think it’s too much of a liability issue..especially if there’s people high/intoxicated during transports and fights break out

[@brandyhuffman8672]

I said the same thing when I watch u tube on Philadelphia, Kensington Ave. On the island there will be no drugs around, clear there mind, drug treatment, mental health for about a year.

[@kelseymariebell1357]

Thank you for sharing. I have not been aware of the scope of the problem. I am doing some research for my Master of Social Work at Simmons, and potential field placement/internship at The Dimock Center, where they have detox programs. The data is really eye-opening - 7 needles per person in Boston, I think they said!

[@z42O]

The pharmacy is making bank over there lol 🤣

[@nikkian-levi1391]

I wonder why it is not working!!! Blame the mayor of Boston!!!

[@madhatter9001]

The City has a plan? lol

[@kathysanders3915]

People know what drugs do to them before they stick that first needle in their arm take some personal responsibility 💉💉

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

Wow. I thought tent cities were only in San Francisco and LA

[@wilfredocatlin9877]

In San Francisco it's the tenderloin District Phoenix Arizona it's Cass Los Angeles Skid Row

[@Ampeautyful]

To say "the system is failing" woefully negates the supply and demand problem. Both the addicts and the system contribute toward a societal failure.

[@RascalV666]

the system does not collapse, the system is thoroughly cleaned of the weakest units

[@Ampeautyful]

@@RascalV666 I typed: failing. You mentioned collapse. Failing can last a long time. Just ask any Divorcee. Collapse happens once. If that's your point of contention, we would have nothing left but the strongest citizens that society can offer for any given task. Is that your summation of methadone mile?

[@RascalV666]

@@Ampeautyful Methadone is nothing more than another leash, only this time at the mercy of the state

[@RascalV666]

Kratom does all the work for me. Fenatyl appeared on the market, after which you don't come back, it takes 80-100,000 people with sona every year, going at this pace, the streets are cleared up to 10-15 years Just Fentanyl is the top tool that will clean the system

[@RascalV666]

@@Ampeautyful Fentanyl turns people into wrecks 3/4 of these people will no longer be fit to reincarnate into the system

[@Jay.critch_]

When winter hits..

[@freidrichm]

and yet people still be voting for Michelle Wu...

[@sheabaobab3637]

Governor Baker could force Quincy to let the Government rebuild the Long Island Bridge... Esabbi George 's Husband is a Developer and will use every opportunity to develop Parcels if land in Roxbury and Dorchester for personal gain.. I'm waiting to see what deep pockets will build Condos on Long Island...

[@Goldfinch815]

Spent half the video talking about how nearby people and businesses are inconvenienced by people needing help rather than talking about how they need help

[@JP-sf5er]

Past 5 years try 10-20 years!

[@SL-pg4dh]

This is why when people say "who cares, adult people should be able to put whatever in their bodies, as long as they are not hurting anybody" The reality is often different. It's impossible for someone to abuse drugs and not affect others around them some way, somehow. The quality of life of everyone around them goes to shxt

[@Praisethesunson]

People who say that have never tried heroin. There is a reason the British(and U.S) use the heroin trade as a weapon of war. It can literally destroy societies.

[@nyyommm9640]

Send them all to jail

[@teovu5557]

Jails n prisons are over crowded....we only want murderers,robbers and rapist etc etc In jail now. Not drug users as it's a personal choice n not enough room....

[@rnxmster]

Arriving Boston in early 90's the worst I could remember was the Combat Zone. Then they got rid of rent control and everything boomed. But this now? I hear rent control is coming back.

[@BillClay88]

Man, I miss the combat zone of early 90s. There were few regular girls and they were fine. Can't imagine what they look like now.

[@Tarisaher]

I feel for the people living near them

[@keeppunchin2302]

But not for them tho right? These people are human beings who are suffering from the disease of addiction. Others have serious mental illnesses that are biological in nature. Most serious mental illness require lifelong medication. Specifically in the case of mental illness..this is no fault of their own. A lot of these people simply have no where else to go.. Mental illness and drug addiction are serious disorders. Everyone knows someone affected either through a sibling cousin uncle brother mother friend or directly or indirectly through a third party. Maybe try putting yourself in their shoes? How well would you handle being in the street..if you can’t help someone don’t hurt them

[@BillClay88]

Classy.

[@maevanessa97]

Make drugs illegal and harsh punishment with anyone dealing with it....send those people to mandatory rehab, after two rehab, if they still continue their drug addictions, then charge with felony crime....if you think this is too harsh and should give them freedom and "safe place" to inject? Then you are part of the courses to make the drug situation worse, and endanger the future of your children...

[@CrookedRosePOD]

Assuming these people want a safer environment lol a lot of these people feel freee living like that

[@johnalver]

Work and SPEND most of the money ON THINGS YOU NEED or give up and do drugs

[@lyzdoherty7065]

This is very sad seeing Tent City ! I've lived in Boston for 70 years ! Never thought this would happen . What about Vets,Homeless people with Children .etc ! What else needs to be done is stop allowing Condos to be built ! Build reasonable apartments for people ! Please Help !

[@charlesdeangelo4055]

Why they would ruin the apartments

[@charlesdeangelo4055]

Drug addicts and criminals are in the Methadone Mile

[@ChrisCollins068]

The lack of housing supply has caused housing to become so expensive in the region. We need to continue building.

[@gij123]

Why do people stay? Really all you scholars n dignitaries don't know why

[@michaelgreen1365]

they dont arrest the drug dealers that's the problem , and the user walks around like a zambie !

[@tralbriggs104]

Wonderful !!!

[@johncamp28]

Stop helping them bottom line The more you help the more they want the more they get Depend it

[@primetime7138]

Bingo. Same goes with panhandling

[@lynneburroughs1599]

What a joke. Any state could stop this in a heartbeat. They don't care.

[@callmecarmella]

It’s a thousand times worse in California. The city better clean this up quick before it’s gets any worse.

[@samjames5664]

round them up and throw them all in jail. there are no drugs in jail

[@sircasm6578]

I don't even care at this point, I really don't. Stupid choices, stupid consequences. Use the drones.

[@Mickkie]

I'm Bostonian. Born, bred. Been away from home 32 yr's now. Looks like i won't be goin' home. I don't wanna' see that.😖😔

[@Mickkie]

@Dank Dank Do i miss home? Yes of course i do, i was born there. NOWHERE ELSE is my home or, home, to me. It's that there is no reason or nothing nor anyone there now, for me to go back to Boston. Kinda' sad.🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

It’s not the way it used to be 😭 It’s not home anymore…

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

@Dank Dank yeah I’ve heard a lot of people say that.

[@Mickkie]

@@MsTinkerbelle87 "😞😣😞😖"

[@stevemerrill-bz7bk]

12 yrs çlean, all my friends gone😢siblings gone,40 starting life over all thru addiction ,idk what to do?cant call no one,talk,go out?and a girl who is a 25 yr old one?on the clinic doing the hustle?man?only friend left?wwyd??anyone got a hint?love and pace!

[@meganmclaughlin9056]

its a housing problem.not a drug addiction problem.plenty of people who are housed are drug addicts.

[@Mickkie]

@Meghan McLaughlin: You have a point. They're in my building.

[@lisica_Alisa]

Очень жаль этих людей, им нужна помощь

[@johnandrews389]

Those years off drug abuse took a toll on her she looks ruuuuff

[@user-te7sc2wj3s]

How come nobody says anything about the outrageous rents that the average person can't afford in Massachusetts

[@mattymatt6970]

Because there are actually plenty of cities in massachusetts that have rents a McDonald's worker could afford with no government assistance, like New Bedford and fall river. Everybody ignores those places tho, cause they're ugly and have a lot of poverty, drugs, crime, and prostitution. People want to be in the boston area, or on cape cod, then complain about the cost of living. Of course it's expensive. every home has a bunch of people competing over it.

[@Praisethesunson]

​@@mattymatt6970Lol the housing supply in your Anglosphere nation is controlled to make profit for landlords. That's the problem. America could solve it's housing tomorrow if you actually cares about each other.

[@OK-ej6sg]

Well I mean the methadone is right there. This story will take forever explaining

[@user-ru5xz3lz9c]

Nice view 👌

[@sandrasoares3311]

I'm happy to see you dow well keep up the Good work good lucky to you guys how are getting your support.🤗 God be with you all if you get hlep god well hlep you Be good Sandra.🤗11 \1 \21

[@mrg0079]

Looks like San Francisco☀️👍

[@joec.5009]

I live in Seattle and I feel yall pain.

[@Praisethesunson]

We love our tent cities don't we folks.

[@Kristina-gz2wu]

You don't have a home but you can't stay here. How inhumane. I understand the need to move the people but there has to be some place for them to go and provide them with help to get off the drugs.

[@grisellimay]

300 people there and no solutions but 7 million spent on 🐷 overtime?

[@Biden666]

My children’s grandmother was just ran down by a car, driven by a man under the influence of drugs right there , she died. Her wake was today.

[@joeyyc8515]

As someone that has struggled with addiction, it’s time for these people to learn the hard way. Have the police remove these encampments by force; it is disgusting and this degeneracy needs to stop.

[@erinstephens5305]

I think that every Judge, Michelle Wu, & many of the other politicians should come live in one of these Boston Projects with NO security around them, just as a regular citizens, for AT LEAST 1 month. They need to actually EXPERIENCE the things that we who live here actually have to deal with EVERY DAY!! Michelle Wu acts like she's helped So many people, but in my opinion it's ALL mostly a photo-op for her. There are STILL A LOT of people that have not been helped. Same with the Judges, they are so jaded they're letting people with a 3rd gun charge walk right out the door. WHY??? Cuz the Judges & Politicians maybe at times drive near or around that area in order to go home to their nice, safe, suburbian homes...,..BUT They have NO IDEA what's really truly going on down there. The sick predators that prey on the younger ones that ended up there due to leaving or being kicked out of a program & have been told they cannot come home. Almost NO ONE down there is from Boston & I don't know what the answer is.....but I DO KNOW That TOUGH LOVE DOES NOT WORK!!!! These people need Love, Hope, Compassion & Someone who believes in them in order to coax them back into treatment. Yes, some people get clean the 1st time they go into a program. But for most of us, it takes 4,5,6,.....or even more times b4 we get it. But I don't think this situation can be completely dealt with unless it's REALLY, TRULY Understood. I believe the BEST WAY to begin understanding is 1) let us VOTE OUR JUDGES in or out. Don't let them get appointed & STAY THERE for 40 years & 2) make all the Judges, Mayor Wu & anyone else in a position of Power, live in these Projects, on Welfare for at least a month. If they all did that, they'd definitely be showing me that they care & they are ready to TRY to understand!!

[@RascalV666]

@@erinstephens5305 What are they for when they receive help? For the fact that they had everything somewhere and took drugs well? Who is going to pay for these rehabs? with what money? Don't you understand that 3/4 of these people are wrecks? They're no longer going back. Since Fentanol reigns on the streets, it's too late for these people! You've read the statistics, fentanol kills about 100,000 people a year. At this pace, in a dozen or so years, it will clear the streets. Politicians and judges will not do anything about it, because they are well aware of how much it costs and who will give money for it? Why should everyone pay for those who wanted to have fun half their lives? Do you consider this to be behavior?

[@jimmyhall4453]

Why don’t they take methadone & get clean. I know hundreds of addicts who have gone that route. That would be first step in stopping withdrawal.

[@magnoliamagnolia2655]

Some rich guy is providing drugs to these people.

[@chipispowdercoatingcharles8444]

You have to go hard core in this situation. Dealing meth or heroin or fentinyl has to be a severe penalty crime of hard labor incarceration. The dealer learns how to work. The user is arrested for the 1st couple or few occasions it's documented and if they are leading an up and up life ok. But if a person gets arrested time after time and they aren't working and living in a tent and now you catch them at 1 am stealing from cars and you find they are in withdrawal then it's easy to see they are looking to steel in order to get a fix...just a scenario...that person can't handle freedom so you incarcerate them get them clean and see if they can develop enough smarts to be able to work and live in a halfway home. These people can't handle freedom. It's not oh your sleeping in a tent so off to jail . No maybe someone is sleeping in a tent in order to save a 1st last and security deposit on a place

[@Aleksa_Lomako]

Tell the freaking suburbanite families to come help their own kids 💀💀💀

[@charlesdeangelo4055]

If you want to get straight and sober do it

[@thevivekmathema]

If it was in chi a they sould be zhot on site

[@charlesdeangelo4055]

The city of Boston has to close the Methadone Mile down

[@cmills1008]

We've learned safe injections sites are the worst idea ever!!