The Crack Epidemic Taking Over Germany | The War on Drugs

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GO back to your pre CORPERATE roots! Get David Choe to do another thumbs up America or just give him a show.

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@EnlistedBombin choe isnt much better now

[@holdmybeer]

awesome. might have to get a sub.

[@Thomas-e7q2d]

Same thing is happening in scotland crack everywhere! Used to be a unusual thing a crack head heroin was super popular but over the last two years its flipped

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Finally, This WASN'T previously uploaded in 2016.

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Wa? Are they reposting 2016 posts?

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Reuploaded video tho. Vice went bankrupt lol No surprise as to why…

[@NewYearNewMe2025-j6s]

@@vsznry as if this is the comment that got the most likes? Shows where everybody’s brains are in this world, there are people breaking down how bad this drug is but a comment that says “ oh I’m so self centred and happy this isn’t a repeat “ makes it to top space tells me how lost this world is. Selfish pieces of shite

[@FAWCodyCarnage]

Crack was the worst addiction I had and definitely don't miss those days. I can proudly say I'm 14 years clean from it.

[@biggleesh3593]

That’s bad ass bro congrats

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Congratulations 🎉👏🏽

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@@biggleesh3593 thank you, I appreciate that

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@@CuddlesNCassy Thank You😊

[@Biscottomotto]

Congrats man

[@illumination357]

Shoutout to the CIA for the crack epidemic

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facts

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Don’t forget the Epstein epidemic

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This stupid comment about "old vice" staying alive for like 6 years already. they never stopped doing this content you're just delusional

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@@mystrdat i just wanted likes :( btw Camorra videos are like my favourite lol they dont do that type of stuff though

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Old vice content is not this. Its real on the ground journalism from mid 2010s

[@LbB-e8j]

Vice was created by proud boyz a racist right wing group where the owner is scott free living in a mansion in new york! also in germany they do meth as kids

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This is the Typa content I wanna see from vice

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I would like too see vice explain that vice news was created by the Proud boyz! a racist radical group whos leader is living in a mansion...

[@EnlistedBombin]

Except that part were they give OPNIONS on the best way to go about treating the problem with no statistical backing... If they would just report and not give a opnion like its a fact Aka Harm Reduction. It would be better, no proof harm reduction stops use or reduces use. It jus stops the spread of diseases.

[@rundown132]

vice talking about vices

[@AAZ2007RU]

I went to Hamburg a month ago, and the amount of people boiling heroin and crack in the street was shocking!

[@AngiO-f1s]

Here in the US we have homeless camps with everyone openly using drugs across the street from schools and police stations

[@deutschyoutube93]

Im from Hamburg. Which district do you refer to

[@wally9935]

WTF!?

[@wally9935]

@@AngiO-f1s Name them. That's in very few places :)

[@thaaboyy6642]

Hamburg really isn't that bad still

[@wolfheartoutdoors7444]

That one guy really hit my heart when he said that doing crack is all he had to live for...... I remember being at that low. 12+ years off of heroin iv use.

[@robinvanderpal372]

hey congrats, keep up the good work!

[@JonnyMack33]

I used to smoke.. until one day I hit it... it hit me and I ended up over the toilet waiting to be sick (as usual) and I thought.. "you know what...this actually feels fooking horrible" .... not touched it since. My mental health has improved in a big way.

[@Kaa864]

That’s the trick you have to be disgusted by it eventually now when I think of it , it makes me feel dirty and sick 😂.

[@Kingofmine77]

Took me a year to quit. Only because my wife got pregnant. Otherwise, I would still be addicted to the crap. I like drugs too much. I needed to have a kid in order to succeed. 16 years since my last hit.

[@teethgrinder83]

I've never really been into it that much, i used to pipe now and again but the comedown from such a short-lived high (after I'd spent all my cash obviously) put me off too much. Heroin and benzos were my drugs of choice, thankfully been away from everything for years now but i still sometimes take epileptic seizures when I've bad insomnia which was brought about by benzos in the first place. Really glad you got it together mate 👍

[@teethgrinder83]

​@@Kingofmine77great stuff, im happy for you-13yrs since i last used anything except a few drinks now and again (never been much of a drinker anyway, messes with my stomach). Stay well!

[@hawthorn187]

I've used psychedelics and mdma to kick off. It really helped stopping the cravings. Now I live a sober life except for magic truffles a couple times a year.

[@philosoraptor777]

1:28 "Crack is extremely moorish" OK Superhands 🤣

[@nedthestaffieegan3452]

A nice relaxing bit of crack 😜

[@kalix92]

Calm down mate. It's not Blue Peter. It's just a relaxing smoke of crack.

[@americameinyourmouth9964]

Ha I said the same thing. Vice is attributing narcotics to ethnic populations, finally no more sensitivity.

[@JKphotos260]

Man, I know how rough this can be. I have been in recovery for the last four years. I was a poly drug addict with my main drug being opiate, but had a tendency to speed ball with hard. If it wasn’t for me having a minor stroke, I would have never quit. I thank God every day for being alive because I should not be here after many overdoses I pushed everything to the limits. My mother died of a drug overdose when I was 22 and my son was born on her birthday. I believe that was a sign from God that I’m on the right track and it was time to keep pushing for change.

[@futuristic.handgun]

Hey, just wanted to say that I'm proud of you and I know your mom is too. Keep going my friend, you've got this! ✊

[@invan99999]

god bless you

[@RygerPete]

Stay well and stay safe brother! Your child needs you! -And your joy to thrive ❤ Kindly from another poly user❤

[@NewYearNewMe2025-j6s]

Been there done that and never ever again. I was a snorter at parties and then one day I was intrigued so I did one rock, the following week I was homeless sold everything I own and hanging around with homeless people. All your pride goes out the window and then you find yourself sitting outside of shopping places asking for money seeing people you went school with dropping 50p in your Costa cup and you don’t even care, 6 years clean for me and I would never ever ever ever try it again it’s really bad I can explain it enough anyone thinking ahhh I just wanna see what it’s like il only do it once… no you won’t don’t try it

[@TFYS223]

What do you think would've have prevented you from doing it?

[@NewYearNewMe2025-j6s]

@ not thinking I was invincible and knowing that it’s stronger than I am. I genuinely just wanted to see what the hype was, I didn’t realise how instantly addictive it was. If your thinking of trying it just don’t do it brother trust me.

[@Alexander_W]

Well said, very similar experience with me via my addiction to snorting powder then progressing to crack. At the end, even freebasing cocaine wasnt getting me there and I was going to start slamming it intravenously. Fortunately, I committed to recovery after chronically relapsing for years and it’s stuck this time around, thus far. I still fantasize about smoking rock but I simply don't act on it.

[@AG-kz4lw]

i have similar experience, in a way.. i have always been an occasional powder user and my drug of choice was always c. and once i got too curious to try the rock. surprisingly for me.. i did not get addicted, but only because it was not “my high”. i understood what the hype was about, i was doing it occasionally for a couple of years, but never got as hooked as i was on coke. and i believe it is the only thing which has saved me. i lost my relationship to it - my now ex partner who we have tried it together with struggles with severe crack addiction now, ever since. he has lost nearly everything and, eventually, 6 years later i left, too. i wish with all my heart he recovers

[@NewYearNewMe2025-j6s]

@ I hope you stay strong brother, listen I was the snorter of the year.. every year from 2006 till 2012 lol my part trick was I could put a clipper lighter up each nostril at the same time I hear you. My investment into the bugle is at least 80k. It gives you a false sense of being a man when really it only ruines all relationships you have and fills your whole life with regrets you won’t even realise till you’ve stopped, then your a emotional wreck and trying to grip the pain and embarrassment you lived through. I was sitting in spots with heroin homeless lot begging me to split my grab 2 and 1 so they can get “well” luckily I’m scared of needles so I never did the dark. I hope your all good now brother and spread the word to our younger generations not to even try either, the worst part I deal with now is anxiety I’ve never felt so scared in my life and il tell you this I was one hard f’er every one knew not to come to me with a problem because I’d deal with it lol I was the guy that would eat your sneaky dig and you’d run lol but yeah it completely ruins you trust me. I’m back on the gym and trying to get my head back in the game but trust me it’s not easy. Just leave all of the stuff alone spend the money on people you love and stay mentally sound. Anyone who feels alone and wants to try this life style I can only say people love you don’t let your lifestyle tell you different stay strong 👊🏼😎🇬🇧

[@ChicagoHerpetology]

Damn they are 40+ years late

[@JesseePDX]

fo real

[@Hansen710]

yeah its insane how things go on a loop, im not sure you can say they are late just second gen people stopped using it more or less for 30 years, and now its all over europe again i can see

[@AQpizza]

Natz auf Gut&Günstig Edeka cereal box 🤣🤣

[@sergez6172]

No it's been in Europe since 08 and most of England throughout the 90s but it's becoming especially heavy use in migrant groups and the poor... And especially since the heroin supply has become pretty scarce since the Taliban took over, it really became noticable last year... But for hardcore no.3 junkies they binge on it for a few months and straighten out back onto methadone or until decent dope comes on the scene, shits so played out.

[@John-Is-My-Name]

cocaine is insanly potent right now in europe. We are used to really bad stuff when I was younger 15 years ago. You could easily use 1g coke by yourself in a few hours. Nowadays 0.5g is enough for 2 people for a whole evening. I've read alot of drug busts were they have been testing it to be over 80-90% pure.

[@lauraduplooy]

Why are so many people smoking it out of a pot pipe? You're not supposed to use direct flame, except for the initial one-second melt. They're burning their product! No wonder the high for them is only one minute!!

[@SolidBoss7]

Nah if it’s raw stuff even a direct flame hit will demolish you. And that’s a bold faced lie saying it lasts 1 minute. If you wanna be technical that initial blast lasts mere seconds, but if it’s raw you’ll be jacked for a good 20-30 minutes. Only thing is you may be chasing that initial blast so you end up taking hits way sooner than even needed or rational. As a recovering crack/opiate user who’s been clean since 2012 I can speak from very vivid experience. These people need long term support and a network of ONLY clean people. It can’t be done alone. That thing about everything needing to be perfect around you is also wrong. Just need a baseline which can be achieved via rehab.

[@RobMiller-u3s]

Because the "oil" stays in better on metal than on glass.

[@RobMiller-u3s]

You know what I mean?

[@DustinMulligan-w9b]

They probably stuffed it with coir, it's the same as a crack pipe essentially, no reason to assume they don't have coir in there. The one guy looks like he had it buried in ash which would work fine

[@dopefiendsdream]

Thanks for the tips and pointers😂😂😂

[@thecoolestdaniel4554]

The german crack dealer: das ist crack

[@RabbiYitzchakBenForeskinowitz]

oyvey

[@TQFMTradingStrategies]

Crack probably has an obnoxiously long name in German. “WeißerSteinausdemsüdamerikanischenDschungel” or somthing

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@@TQFMTradingStrategies bishdén vastan biele

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@@TQFMTradingStrategies that’s crack dealer ^^

[@vinvalin]

@@TQFMTradingStrategies It's either Crack or Stein (pronounced like 'shtine').

[@phil9977]

Now this is exactly what needs to be heard by more and more people. It's a rapidly rising problem that needs all the attention it possibly can. Thank you, Vice Team.

[@MikeStoneJapan]

As someone who has lost friends (they are dead) to rough street living, and been in drug culture for sometime, safe centers actually seems like a great idea for soo many reasons. The threat of persecution and the grimey, desperate atmosphere of the streets has a huge effect on the anti-social behaviour coming out of this group

[@kieronparr3403]

I don't think people would assume you lost them behind the sofa

[@TRAPONOMICS]

I'm sorry but enabling this behavior is a terrible idea, I'm pro decriminalization of personal use but straight up giving people ways to destruct themselves is a terrible idea

[@MikeStoneJapan]

@@kieronparr3403 could have lost them as is in we're no longer friends.... also yes. friends can get lost behind the sofa. I have been to a few of these parties

[@MikeStoneJapan]

@@TRAPONOMICS comment user name mistmatch lol... seriously though isn't the idea that ppl use anyway hence 'harm reduction' ?

[@TRAPONOMICS]

@MikeStoneJapan look I used to think that stuff sounded good too, but look at Seattle. All harm reduction does is enable the behavior. There needs to be consequences for making bad decisions or the bad decisions never stop. It's like never telling a kid no, then wondering why they're a terrible adult 20 years later.

[@icyyoyo69]

Got off the train from Paris to Berlin a few years ago and I was shocked by the amount of people sat outside the station huddled round smoking crack

[@DustinMulligan-w9b]

So how was it? Lol

[@perfektpeter8037]

How many years ago? Im In Berlin pretty often and never noticed such something...

[@manzanasrojas6984]

Thats every major city central station...

[@icyyoyo69]

@@perfektpeter8037 4 years ago in september. I got off the train from gare du nord which thinking back now was even worse but yeh I’m from a village in the uk and was on a travelling trek across Europe so was wild to me seeing people openly smoking crack like that

[@martindbu]

No idea which Paris you arrived from😂 Crack has been a massive issue there for years, much worse than Berlin. Don't tell me you never heard about the camps... Zombieland

[@baddie42000]

i'm currently struggling with weed addiction, although i know that people often don't aknowleged it to be a drug u can addicted to, you very much can. documentaries like these remind me to take care of myself while i still can.

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Lol

[@Baphometh69]

As someone doing 400mg(!!)morphine, a lot of pregabaling, up to 10 zolpidem, 1-2 zopiclone and Xanax or clonazepam per day, also including weed, I think I’m qualified when it comes to addiction. Weed can be very addictive and extremely frustrating and draining to withdraw from. No sleep, appetite, headaches, cold sweats and so on. I went through methadone cold turkey with similar symptoms also including the usual. Anyone that disagrees about it being addictive and the withdrawals must count themselves lucky.

[@Ragg32]

I’m a heavy weed smoker since the early 90s,I gave up once before for 6 months about 10 years ago..every time I think about quitting the withdrawals always makes not wanna do it..lack of sleep irritated easily etc but over the weekend I decided to order cbd oil seeing as I’ve already tried the gummies and I can only go off my experience with this oil but it arrived this morning and I’ve been using through the day and I can tell you this much I never had no cravings for a joint or a cigarette all day not even a itch I just felt relaxed and zen,I did some reading up on cbd and withdrawals and it does say it can help!.if you do give it a try I would suggest getting a high strength oil….the one I bought 12000mg cbd and cost £250 for 100ml but paid £100 on cyber Monday deal…definitely would advise if you wanna make it a bit easier to slow down or stop

[@bine35]

its true it can be worse becuz it seems innocent but its not, quit asap

[@scottvanpelt4633]

Hold my beer

[@ursulatroxler7428]

I know a guy that has been smoking crack for 50 years

[@thelakeelsinorespecial1796]

Is he a functional person in society?

[@ursulatroxler7428]

@ no but he is alive and he is 70 years old he walks and talks and he knows his name what year it is and he has his own place

[@mendaciousreality8459]

@@ursulatroxler7428 crack is good for you in moderation…. Been 30 years for me and counting… nothing can make me stop. Not even H !

[@criollitoification]

Some people have a mutant genome, I think it's very rare, but it reminds me of Lenny from Motorhead who apparently used to consume tonnes (exaggerated) of whisky on a daily basis and lived into his late 70s I think? or Ozzy who would do all kinds of narcs and is still alive today (minus a few brain cells 😂)

[@CarlBProfile]

It hurts to see all these poor souls suffering globally due to drug abuse.

[@SkinnyEatWorld95]

As a former heroin, MDMA, and meth addict, ALL ADDICTIONS ARE HELL L

[@JamalW239]

I’ve never heard of anyone getting addicted to mdma. Which one was the hardest to quit?

[@SkinnyEatWorld95]

@@JamalW239 Heroin. But the MA in MDMA stands for Methamphetamine so it's as addictive as meth. But heroin was the worst to get clean from. I hope you never have to deal with addiction. It's like drowning in a sea of despair😔

[@mafcarvalho]

All addictions are hell but for opiates there are substitutes like methadone or burprenorphine which together with counselling help users to get back to a "normal" life, study or get a job, etc. With coke (or crack) there is no medication to help kick the habit. People smoke it because it gives them a rush and temporarily blocks the pain, be it physical or mental. Each time you relapse, it's harder to stop again. A single rock immediately destroys months of abstinence. I guess that big pharma isn't interested in creating an alternative to coke...

[@Biscottomotto]

@@JamalW239I wanna hear the answer to this question too

[@DustinMulligan-w9b]

​@@JamalW239for myself it was meth. Was never addicted to MDMA though. Heroin is brutal bevause of the physical withdrawal, but that fades fairly quick. Both heroin and meth are mentally addicting, but that fades with heroin eventually. Years after meth addiction I would still think about it often, and nothing felt enjoyable for years. It releases so much dopamine that it sets a totally unrealistic precedent in your mind that constitutes "enjoyable". Music, going out with friends, video games, watching KZbin, anything... In the back of my mind, it would just feel dull and I knew it's because the dopamine from those activities was nowhere enough to satisfy my brains insatiable desire for ridiculous amounts of dopamine it was used to. I smoked all day every day for nearly a decade. It completely rewires your dopamine reward system, and repairing it is a very slow process. The recovery process was much more miserable then even the depths of my addiction. Granted I didn't use heroin as much as meth and some people will say heroin is harder. It depends on the person and how much they used and for how long etc.

[@rickybaillie4222]

There's no such thing as affordable cocaine it'll cost you every penny you have regardless of wealth

[@Hansen710]

just start dealing then, plenty of rich junkies. they can also be fat in case you did not know

[@rickybaillie4222]

@Hansen710 i think you need to put the crack pipe down you ain't making much sense

[@Internazionale2010]

True but that’s the same with tons of drugs, even the so called poverty ones cause people will do anything for their addiction. But, they call it affordable because it had previously been so much more expensive than it is now before it got popular again, here they’re getting rocks for around 5 euro but at one point they were 50 for a rock In some places

[@maanelmardi410]

​@Hansen710 yh that's a good idea 😂

[@lemagreengreen]

I did kinda wonder when crack would take hold given how normalised coke use has become past few decades. Could get really bad.

[@Jaa__17]

Allteady did this is nothing new. This was already a thing in the 80’s

[@SMOOVKILL1]

​@@Jaa__17Maybe they meant in Germany?

[@redditman3701]

R u joking😂ppl were doing it at parties in the 80s-90sLike ALOT of people. If not more than they use coke nowadays.

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VICE doing contents that brought them to this place...

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finally something about my city

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Die wollen den Platz ja reformieren, der neue Leiter vom Ordnungsamt hat letztens zu RP gesprochen

[@FckWolfGang]

@@asikkanaryadann gehen die Leute woanders hin

[@_zerox_X]

"We'd like to congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs."

[@24allix]

Just remember - it will NEVER feel as good as it did the first time

[@TheZotty14]

I do it once in a while and for me it does. Not saying you should but not everyone has the addiction gene

[@FrankiePacino]

the rush is waiting for your dealer to deliver... the high is nothing after

[@rapgamecastro4028]

They need to play Whitney Houston over German airwaves every morning. Crack is whack 😂😂😂

[@needycube3752]

Einfach nur krass das die Dame alleine in Düsseldorf unterwegs ist mit ihrer Tasche.

[@-ts-1420]

Meistens ist sie in einem gepanzerten Konvoi mit Soldaten mit Maschinenkanonen auf den Schützenpanzern

[@meleeg]

What a great piece! Good job vice

[@twizzy_2002]

More drugs stuff please. That’s why im subscribed

[@NYHeeb]

13 years clean for a hardcore addict. Opiate was my everyday and I ruined my life. Crack will empty your money,life ,soul faster then anything else. Good luck to all my soldiers out there fighting. It can get better,u can have a clean life. It takes everything u have in you and then some ,hard work, fight and it can happen

[@Albendova666]

I do love that sizzle of a premo rock melting down into some chore😊

[@worminator15]

This series here and all of Taji‘s stuff is what I‘m watching vice for nowadays Great as always

[@mendaciousreality8459]

I lost 15 relatives and 19 close friends to crack unfortunately

[@obsidian00]

Sorry to hear that…😢

[@kimjong-un1848]

with 19 close friends you mean people you used to consume crack with?

[@mendaciousreality8459]

@@kimjong-un1848 I was never a crack addict, just tried it

[@ChrisVentino]

Damn, where do you live ? If you don’t mind me asking

[@kimjong-un1848]

@@mendaciousreality8459 so somehow everyone around you was a crackhead except you? Sounds reasonable...

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The fact that we get free videos on KZbin by VICE is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👏🙏🏽🤷

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True.

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the only Vice show that survived the bankruptcy 🥳

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Excelente trabajo, espero que sigan subiedo y realizando este tipo de contenido.

[@AsianBarbi3]

This is so saddening to see. America's drug epidemic is about the same if not worse. I hope they all get the help they need. 😔💔

[@jamaljames2578]

Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾

[@foxyfoxfilms]

Last year, when in Germany during the summer, I saw a drug trade right there and then in the parking lot. I didn’t really know what to think… I’ve never seen anything like that before. Here in China the drug problem is almost non existent, and I’m proud of that.

[@perrycheong1058]

Ketamine is very popular in China. But it is more of a party/club drug than a street drug though.

[@zannierzan9634]

Cause China forces addicts in centres to supposedly help them. Whether restricting freedom of movement for addicts works is anyone guess, but most people like you don't see addicts on the street and that for them is good enough

[@AhmedKayukiTV11]

Say "no" to drugs

[@Hice_T]

I did but they didn't listen

[@yelmak]

Say maybe to drugs, some of them are worth it

[@SwitchFBproductions]

Also, please consider implementing CBT and DBT to affected constituents to help them cope with the behavioral changes.

[@maddog273]

Who are you pleading too?

[@SwitchFBproductions]

@@maddog273 German government, hoping to implement these options in safe use centers.

[@mcgritty8842]

2:20 I believe that’s called “chasing the dragon”

[@xxHooYxx]

Yes and you will never ever catch this dragon from the beginning. That's how the addiction works unfortunately

[@JasperPeters]

That phrase is actually used to refer to heroin use. Smoked specifically. I believe it’s a reference to the blob of molten heroin moving over the aluminum foil with the trail of vapor/smoke coming from it. Which sorta looks like a Chinese dragon.

[@Alexander_W]

Chasing the crack high is actually called chasing a “bellringer.”

[@krizzlec]

@@Alexander_Wyeah cause you get this crazy ringing noise the first time you hit it and then it goes into bliss. It’s truly awful.

[@Alexander_W]

@ yup, I never even got it the first time I tried crack and I still chased it on and off for several years. The only actual legitimate “bellringer” I got was from using nitrous oxide, not crack. At least the ringing in the ear sensation, (”tinnitus”).

[@flaka3325]

Damn I know this place, the drug scene in Düsseldorf. I been addicted to Heroin, Benzodiazepines, opioids and I’ve been doing crack myself too. I know some of these guys, it got really bad with the crack cocaine in this area.

[@DarkSphinxx]

its so sad to hear about the trauma of them, we really need to stop blaming and looking down on people like this - most of them just went through some very bad trauma and we should be more empathetic - it can happen to anyone at any time, and not everyone is going to be able to deal with it without the help of using drugs to stop them from killing themselves.

[@Puuws]

I have compassion but also see its their choice to deal with it this way

[@Peteblz1]

This is all cap. Its way easier to get off than dope. Yeah cravings are bad for a couple days but you gotta man up and fight. Don't lie to yourself and say you can't get sober. You are worth it. Get help if you can't do it alone. And know YOU ARE NOT ALONE! ❤

[@sergez6172]

100% bro cracks so dumb like with heroin I can understand why you wouldn't wanna stop but rock is rottenbl

[@Albendova666]

Oh for sure, absolutely no comparison in regards to withdrawal between opiates and cocaine..you can easily die while in opiate WD, coke just makes you depressed, tired and edgy

[@DustinMulligan-w9b]

Nah dude after being a hardcore meth addict for a very long time and down addict for quite a long time as well, and having quit both successfully calm after many fields starts, and after knowing crack addicts, alcoholics, other meth and heroin addicts after being homeless for 6 months...... I realize something at the end of the day, there is no hardest drug to quit, it all depends on the person and the amount that they use in for how long. All drugs do is provide an escape, that's the addicting thing, and if it's crack for someone then it's going to be just as hard to quit as any other drug. When I was in rehab honestly the alcoholics were just as bad as anyone else. but trust me I've met many people and seen enough things to know that crack definitely is not easy to quit. You just see more heroin and meth addicts because in my opinion they feel much better and they're a lot cheaper than crack. I'm not really sure why someone would offer crack over those two drugs, but that's the thing they probably wouldn't understand why anyone would do anything other than crack. It doesn't matter what the drug is, when people find an escape, that's their escape, and it's hard to quit if you rely on it long enough.

[@DustinMulligan-w9b]

​@@Albendova666in my opinion the physical withdrawals of heroin and fentanyl are nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, compared to the mental withdrawals of heroin itself, but meth and any other hard drug. The physical withdrawals go away and a very short amount of time relatively speaking. The mental anguish, from meth for example, will last for years and is excruciating at times. Physical pain can be put up with if you know the end of it is not to far off. The mental anguish of withdrawal is crushing and at times feels like it will never go away...

[@kayyjohnson8325]

Exactly crack addicts don't get physical withdrawal like fent/dope addicts. It's a blessing to not have physical withdrawal. Dope and Fent addict actually need the drug everyday to avoid the physical withdrawals and it's brutal

[@gemasbeauty3439]

thank you for showing real content again

[@karthikrathinavadivel2311]

In Berlin the amount of crack users increased way too much. You see especially in the train stations and parks. Kids shouldn't see those kind of things om stations and parks. The government should put hard restrictions like singapore.

[@Deedz1924]

When I was a sophmore I had to write a research article about a modern United States historical event. I wrote about the U.S. crack epidemic. My article is stored in Jamestown Community College's archive for outstanding student contributions. Maybe one day a young german will have a similar experience.

[@Alexander_W]

Going to look that up and read it. Thanks for providing the source!

[@kannabis4575]

Honestly its really surprised me that Europe is going through a crack epidemic of all things. I wonder if the CIA is also responsible this time, hahaha

[@glen.simpson]

hohoho

[@bassrooten2217]

Love how in costa rica back in 2021 all the german and European college students were so high and mighty on how much better europe is than everywhere else. Meanwhile this along with the easter europe War, idk what they were talking about 🤷‍♂️

[@RomaAcorn]

Mephedrone as well

[@RecStyle]

Ноу нейм с галкой

[@lemagreengreen]

It's back? I kinda thought everyone got bored of 4MMC, that stuff had potential to be a big problem given how addictive it was.

[@audioroyal]

3-cmc as well, its "new" in east europe known as cristal​@@lemagreengreen

[@christopherbaker7209]

The downtown Eastside in Vancouver is much like this. So many drugs, poverty, violence, and despair. It is very hard to understand how things got this bad.

[@Vlog4dogs]

Trauma induced coping strategies, victims unable to free themselves

[@Lizablue0608]

Exactly. What’s missing is the reasons WHY we self medicate.

[@Puuws]

they talked about it and we get everyone has a story. but next to compassion what do you want others to do about it. Some are selfdestructive and just want to avoid the pain until they can or even want to seek help for the cause

[@bonniejohn6766]

Vice is back👍

[@pistopit7142]

Most people I know/or knew who got themselves into drugs did not have any traumas at all. The reson was always the same and it was a mixture of boredom and desire to feel great. The narrative that these people are victims of some life dificulties which pushed them into drugs addiction is gently speaking silly. It will be true for some, but the main reason is that humans are just hedonistic by nature. We humans love pleasure.

[@TFYS223]

I think the overall message was that they're still human regardless of why they got in that position in the first place.

[@Alexander_W]

Im a recovering addict and can verify this is indeed very true. Very well said.

[@uncle.d.]

I live very close to Düsseldorf, in Krefeld. Our city is smaller but the crack scene is huge. I myself am addicted to heroin since decades and have been stable on subutex but since crack flooded the cities it’s becoming worse. Anyway, I can control my habit of smoking crack, for me it works well to just buy a few rocks and then finish, go home and take a rest.

[@Bex81]

Is there no fentanyl in the cocaine in Europe?

[@jorreshitz]

No. Atleast not in Sweden and i use it regulary and i have friends that does it aswell.

[@james5553]

no, but we are getting zenes in Heroin in the UK. Not a lot of the time, but there have been several deaths.

[@krizzlec]

@@jorreshitzyour supply does not have fetty. Believe me there is 100% fetty cut coke in Sweden

[@oscarmonlas7067]

How much is it in sweden? ​@@jorreshitz

[@charlesmontefusco6341]

As a 10+year heroine addict that quit cold turkey and on top of it all became locked up for 10 years for my charges. As I was mentioning I've came to the realization that all of humanity is dependant upon something that makes us "Comfortably Numb!" All of the justice system needs to be totally reformed, we're still humans trapped like animals in a cage! MAY GOD BLESS YALL AND REMAIN VIGILANT!!

[@ptauszig]

So this is what Bernie und Ert were talking about.

[@vicioushistorytv]

Can you direct us to the source? I'd love to hear them talking about this.

[@ptauszig]

@vicioushistorytv I think its still on KZbin. Just look up Bernie und ert drogen.

[@Crazy--Clown]

Great to see Jamie back

[@Micvic79]

Wow crack still out here?? thought💊💊 completely took over

[@CHMichael]

Cocain never went away. ... and you rightfully pointed out pills. That's why there is more coke/base . Most likely also less police looking for it ( import)

[@Buchu_II]

They got some catching up to do. 😂

[@TheZotty14]

Crack is still very popular everywhere poeple have been been cooking their own from soft.

[@Alexander_W]

@@TheZotty14wonder how many people actually understand how to rock it up into the OG Freebase with ether and ammonia. I wanted to so badly when I was smoking crack but I was terrified of blowing my face off via the conversation process due to the flammability of ether. Thus, I never tried to cook powder via that method.

[@digitalcynicism]

High for 2 mins? I used to take a blast and be geeked for 45 mins.

[@biggieshorty]

Not them talking about how crackheads live as if black people in America didn’t tell everyone in the 90s and beyond.

[@sweetbrownmafia6452]

Black Americans been trying to tell them for over 50 years about the crack epidemic

[@iamkdm1882]

Crack wasn't just a black people drug. It was an everybody drug. I saw white business men in suits buying crack just the same.

[@weirdLEXbutok]

it’s “popular” and “mainstream” now that it’s hit europe and affecting their people smh 😒

[@iamkdm1882]

It wasn't just black people. It was all people. I saw white businessmen in suits buying crack just the same. But to your point, I guess no one learned how bad it is from Americans.

[@mello4392]

They always discount black people's stories

[@filejacker00]

A harm reduction approach? Like San Francisco?

[@biggieshorty]

Isn’t that interesting….

[@mita7488]

8:41 I feel sorry for the guy I hope he gets help eventually

[@sconni666]

Only took 30 years.

[@Suspect604]

SteveO reincarnated serving J’s in Germany

[@owentaylor4798]

1:28 why joke like this. Come on vice :( I hope however approved this script gets pulled up for it.

[@Samps1992]

What did he say? That is was moreish? It is moreish...how is that a joke?

[@lucianadriancordis-zx9vq]

I started 3 years ago. It's absolutely true. You will lose everything. House, job, wife. Everything something even worse is gambling.

[@ptauszig]

Heute, drogen.

[@Dain_42]

I'd spent 10 years addicted to opiates before I properly tried white, the latter 7 or 8 of them being IV use. While I wouldn't say I was functioning well during that time, I did hold down a job, bills got paid etc. I thought I knew what addiction was, but there's honestly nothing like the hold that crack will get over you. Within a year I'd lost my job, sold basically everything I could and racked up ~£5k of CC debt. In a way it's what saved my life, because instead of just coasting through life on opiates it pushed me to the rock bottom that ultimately lead to me getting / staying clean for the last 3+ years.

[@Desmonthedyel]

America had ronald raegan whats germany's excuse lmao

[@CheesyGhostOnToast]

I used to be addicted to crack and heroin. Crack was the only drug that ever caused me to really fiend out for another hit. It's horrible and wonderful all at the same time. I've never seen it smoke from tobacco pipes like in this video. In the USA we use glass stems and chorboy

[@JL-nk1pc]

In UK mid 90s it was smoked in jungle raves in the form of 'seasoned spliffs' basically a weed joint with crack crumbled in. That was seen as the cool or 'bad man' thing to do. Loads of kids were smoking crack like that but the addictions weren't as strong as it wasn't from a pipe. I guess its like the difference between smoking and shooting heroin.

[@Alexander_W]

Choreboy made a snowman out of me…

[@kayyjohnson8325]

Crack heads dont even get physical withdrawal. They jus feining. Try acrually being addicted to herion or f3nt powder . It to the point the drug doesn't get u high anymore but u need it everyday like a medicine to avoid the withdrawals which is brutal and 100 times worst than the flu.

[@CheesyGhostOnToast]

@@JL-nk1pc I've smoked blunts with coke sprinkled in. We call them woo-blunts. But that was many many years ago.

[@JL-nk1pc]

@@CheesyGhostOnToast powder?

[@joebarnes659]

1:27 - peep show reference

[@amoebahunter]

i caught that too lmao.

[@xaques.4469]

Im gay

[@jchastain789]

Lmaooo prove it

[@RecStyle]

Prove in only fans ?

[@jchastain789]

@@xaques.4469 wya

[@weirdLEXbutok]

the handsome ones always are

[@XoTwodG]

Same

[@Anon_Fox]

I remember walking through Frankfurt at night in 2015 and look in the corner as a walked by and saw 20 people lighting up smoking crack. It’s been a problem for a while.

[@blockchainfraternity]

Europe is on the tail end of a failing economy. I love how they troll Americans yet their whole economy is worth as much as the state of CA.

[@Zamollius_the_Holy]

European wages are still stuck in 2008. With insane taxes and less industry they are done. North American Power ✊🏼👊🏼

[@MaxLegr00m]

Took me 10 seconds to google and see your economy statement was a lie.

[@sandcat731]

Never use drugs people

[@memamuv]

Aldous Huxely, a close friend of Krishnamurti's, also has a quote that is remarkably similar: "The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adiusted"

[@whosyodaddyanderson7964]

40 years ago it hit us like a freight train in the USA and we still going through this epidemic and it's 2024

[@dubsthelegacy]

We know what happened when they got their hands on meth, someone go stop this lol

[@aluxbalum]

Drug addiction regardless if it's over the counter doctor prescribed or illicit, is all just a way to people to cope. The governments are fighting drugs and drug cartels yet cost of living, quality of life keeps getting worst, a person that is fulfilled does not need any drugs. Governments want to reduce or downright eradicate drug use, increase quality of life, give the population a purpose and make them feel wanted.

[@vladimirgranovski7793]

Drugs are the most effective way to separate people who can handle problems and who can't. Almost all drug addicts blame the past for the situation they are in. It became a common denominator for all users. Imagine if all individuals who survived the wars, famine, and losses couldn't cope with it and started using drugs. We would not have a society anymore. My Granddad went through two wars and one famine, where he was forced to eat his young brother. Even so, he had a family raised 2 sons who became doctors, had 12 grandsons and all of them are doing extremely well. And all this happened because he was strong and could cope with all the disgrace that fell on him. Drugs separate the weak from the strong.

[@drastikchange]

Its the same factors everywhere. Societal issues pushes people to abuse drugs. and out of response the state just further exacerbate the issue instead of trying to help.

[@Playswell]

In Dave Chappelle Voice: Just Say No what’s so hard about that 💀

[@mikeeddings432]

Some of these guys have some wicked introspection. Anyone who does drugs of any kind can easily see the wisdom some of these people have.

[@grievouszgen6561]

imagine Germany catching up to America's drug addiction trends 4 decades late. incredible

[@criollitoification]

I wish Vice and LadBible vids were made compulsory in the British school system, there is so much reflection that can be learnt from from real life testimonies on so many subjects from drugs to alcohol, vice, greed, abuse, you name it. Sadly, much in the same way that our educational system doesn't teach individual children at a young age about their personal financial awareness and preparedness, i fear all these subjects are neglected by the system on purpose. :-(

[@torethyen3893]

In Düsseldorf Heroin (Diamorphin) is subscribed to people dependant on it. Prescribed crack has been a reality in England and it could work in Germany. The program in England was ended due to political pressure from the USA to do so not because it didn't help these people!

[@aAllGoodMedic]

The problem with drugs is locking up drug users and not drug dealers.

[@whateverman4945]

Tough love and discipline is what makes the world go around. You can only take progress so far until you just start clowning yourselves as a society.

[@perrycheong1058]

South Asia and most of the Arab world are full of heroin (and meth) junkies. Russia had their heroin and krokodil epidemic not very long ago. Besides the rampant alcoholism in the past centuries, the global heroin epidemic, then the crack epidemic in the US.

[@omegastonesquad]

2:31 "get full" is crazy

[@chrisbarry9345]

I'm really confused by how consumption rooms help with crack. What do you just sit there and do it all day? And crack users aren't exactly known for being calm in official settings

[@GetjDeeed]

Very moreish, alright SuperHans

[@JOOPDOPE1881]

Germany has turned into a big slum, people using and dealing drugs with the police nowhere to be seen.

[@lukey1989]

Where does Brussels have their drug problem? I couldn't understand the trainstation area he said/mentioned

[@toppie34]

Midi station (Brussels South)

[@lukey1989]

@toppie34 thankyou that's much appreciated 🙂👍