The Fentanyl Crisis: Stories of Heartbreak and Hope

The community of people who've lost loved ones to the drug is quickly growing, many looking for ways to draw focus to a problem they believe is not getting enough attention.
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[@matts4893]

Stop popping pills, America!

[@DontPretendtoCare]

This is stupid. Everyone knows fentanyl isn't real

[@varnvaschristofi8178]

Addiction is truly heartbreaking society needs to have more compassion it makes everyone suffer. Addiction does not discriminate. Say a prayer for those suffering today

[@ingevonschneider5100]

Before the addiction most of them decided to take that drug. If you believe in a free will, you have to agree on responsibility.

[@deborahfoster4825]

My hometown I can’t believe it so glad I found this series to alert young people I know so sorry you all have lost your loved ones

[@bobbyhousley9877]

What's so heartbreaking is...these poor parents can't hit rewind. Can't bring them back. It's unimaginable.

[@Bullydocuseries]

Thank you for understanding 🙏🏾😢

[@mamacline33]

Story of heartbreak.....we lost our niece at the tender age of 22 to an overdose of herion laced with fentanyl. My husband started drinking whiskey to numb his pain. They were very close. Well in 6 short years I lost the love of my life. Together for 33 years. Lost her grandpa 1 year later. And her step dad 2 years later...so in 9 years we lost all of our loved ones..Life is so heartbreaking. What drugs can do to a family. I'm now a widow raising our son with autism alone. Not worth it. So alone sad feel worthless because I couldn't stop my husband from himself..drinking a fifth of whiskey a night until I woke up on May 2nd of 2019 found him. My heart is forever broken. 💔😢😭😢😭

[@sciencenotsrigma]

I’m so sorry! I have autism, too. I’m glad your son has you!

[@heidimontenegro5643]

Young people are dying! The government has to do something.We need to bring back Mental health Clinics and Hospitals,establish detoxification centers and rehabilitation centers and job training programs.This is Emergency.

[@heatherroberson1648]

Ive been a hospital nurse for 23 years. When I learned fentanyl was on the streets in pill form I cried hard

[@yourdeal2408]

What you expect in a country where the government spend more money on murdering people all over the world then on healthcare and education of their own people

[@Bullydocuseries]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🥲Took my baby

[@sciencenotsrigma]

Thank you for your compassion. The world needs you so much, in this crisis! I can’t imagine what it must have been like to know this would happen and not be able to do anything about it, but you can make a difference and I’m sure you are. If I had known that methadone clinics treat pain patients; including with Suboxone (or what Suboxone is), I never would have bought pills on the street, which my doctor moved and I couldn’t find another prescriber. I was in extreme pain and desperate, but things only got worse from there. I had taken my medication as prescribed, before…never ran out, doctor shopped, or got double scripts. That’s why I thought pills were OK. They looked like prescription medicine from the pharmacy, but they were not! The dose was much higher than the stamp said and I was soon taking it more frequently. I went to treatment after my cousin died of overdose and I lost 5 people I knew and cared about, within a year. That is how I found out about Suboxone, but I had already lost my career and clean legal record. Please tell any patients with chronic pain and on a narcotic schedule that methadone clinics treat pain patients, should they ever lose their care; for some reason. A lot of people don’t know.

[@MsIrie-pp7cj]

@@Bullydocuseries My son too. He didn’t use. Knowledge is power! @corysvoice 💜🕊️

[@tammysavoie9771]

The love and raw pain of these victims families is so heartbreaking. Mental illness is the primary reason people turn to drugs. Mental illness has to be addressed. I've lost 3 nieces and a sister pass away all within a few months of each other. All of them had mental illness issues. To all the survivors who struggle with addiction stay strong and reach out to someone who understands when you feel weak. You've all an inspiration!

[@franciscovalladolid3659]

🙏💐😔

[@traybern]

You LIAR!!!!! MOST deaths are people trying to be COOL, like their “friends.”

[@Bullydocuseries]

Thank you for understanding 🙏🏾🥲💔

[@budenify]

Yes. I sadly just learned this as my beloved brother passed away. He had mental illness as a young child as well. It’s called Co Diagnosis.

[@DontPretendtoCare]

This is stupid. Everyone knows fentanyl isn't real

[@CatalinaFOIA]

The father at 1:40 is heartbreaking 💔

[@biankamiddleton2741]

No one can help drug addicts until they want to help themselves .

[@user-nf8uu3ii9t]

Some of these kids aren't even addicts ...they took a pill that was sold as legit Xanax and died after one pill...they were poisoned before their frontal lobes were even fully developed for sound decisions making, it's callousness such as yours that keep It a "them problem."

[@joyce_915]

Lost my brother to Fentanyl on October 14, 2022. Our life is so hard without him. He thought he was getting a pain pill, it had Fentanyl. He was immediately addicted to that high. He was 32 days sober when he relapsed. The relapse killed him. Nobody was home to give him Narcan. 😕

[@babajaga158]

hmmm

[@slayingthabullshyt6854]

Condolences 💐 to you.

[@sagalicious71]

Sorry for your loss

[@emilybrodman2442]

My brother was killed by fentanyl two days before your brother. 😢

[@slayingthabullshyt6854]

@@emilybrodman2442 So sorry for your loss, my he rest in perfect peace. May you continue to live your life and keep your brother’s memory alive. Blessings to you and yours.

[@mamapoch1915]

My heart goes out of all those who have lost someone to this. Especially parents. I can't imagine having someone you love, especially your child, just gone. And you'll never see them again. Ever. In this life. I've read so many comments about this from people who think the death of these people is a good thing. Trash taking out the trash. To all you people who think this, keep looking over your shoulder for karma. I knew someone who thought this exact same thing until she lost her 16-year-old son to fentanyl.

[@sciencenotsrigma]

Pride goes before the fall! Thank you for saying what you did. It means a lot!

[@operasinger2126]

This is nuts. Today's drugs is not the same when I grew up. Stay away from today's street drug garbage. Please take care.

[@beckieknight6184]

A famous saying: Drugs are cool BUT THEY WILL KILL YOU!!" ONE is too many and a thousand isn't enough.

[@moniaco3462]

Although many Americans find it hard to believe, since the 1960s and the CIA carried out experiments with its own people and foreigners through the LCD and now with the fentanyl crisis in the United States, the American government waited for the moment for it to come into the hands of Mexican cartels so that something they started is the exclusive fault of Mexico, and thus return to this country in the Iraq of the future. At the borders with Mexico and Canada, only Mexicans and Latinos who cross into their country are checked, but Americans or whites are not checked, when they could be letting fentanyl traffickers through.

[@rickboer7715]

And grandparents often end up being the sole care givers of their grand children

[@jeremylamovsky3669]

This Kimberly Griffin is an amazing woman. I just wish people would stop trying to act like their kid was different from the rest of those junkies. I couldn't put into words what i went through those ten plus years. Looking back to an average day using is frightening, and at the time jt was just any other day

[@Bullydocuseries]

Thank you so much for understanding my pain and JT’s challenges😢 I miss my son so much!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@sheliasims5786]

So sorry for your lost.prayers for you and family.

[@jesstill7833]

I know how you all feel as I walked in your shoes as I lost my Son as well 20 years on and still come to terms it’s so hard as a parent ..My poor Wife found our son dead she’s been on antidepressants she can’t cope so all you folks who lost loved my heart hurts as does yours God Bless our Children and all of you ❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😢😢😢😢🦘🇦🇺🇺🇸

[@Bullydocuseries]

Praying for you it’s a parents worst pain 😢🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@slayingthabullshyt6854]

Condolences to all of the ppl that have lost their child to this epidemic.Fentanyl is one if the must dangerous pain medications. My father was prescribed it after brain surgery. He told his doctor to remove the fentanyl drip bc he didn’t like how it made him feel. He hallucinated heavily, thinking he was in Vietnam fighting a war and I was with him. He forgot I was his daughter, but remembered me 15 min earlier. That mess is strong and shouldn’t be used at all. I thank God that my father didn’t have a long term issues. I learned how easily it is to get hooked on it as well.

[@raefarnsworth4278]

So, you believe that people that are terminal, with let's say bone cancer, should not be allowed to be pain free with fentanyl? They should suffer because, your father hallucinating?

[@slayingthabullshyt6854]

@@raefarnsworth4278 You my friend sound stupid and misinterpreted my comment. The danger risk over rides anything deemed healthy about this drug. Many ppl have died from this drug. Going to Mexico to purchase it with a prescription speaks volumes as well. A small drop of that shyt can kill u immediately, the risk isn’t worth it. For the ppl that Need meds for pain management they should be given morphine drip not the deadly fentanyl.

[@kastaway2]

Here’s the truth: No one “falls in to the wrong crowd” or “had no idea what the dangers were.” Kids know more about the risks than their parents and the DEA combined. The y don’t care. Sorry folks, moose out front shoulda told you.

[@sciencenotsrigma]

That’s simply not true. Kids know what they are told, but drug education has a long way to go because it’s truly effective. 75% of people with opioid use disorder first got opiates from a doctor: I, personally, made excellent decisions, but I was still injured and was laid up for several years, before I was prescribed opioids. I could finally work to support myself and my family. People aren’t supposed to get out of bed? People should be able to trust their doctors.

[@familydutton6568]

The results of prescription pain killer crackdowns. Society should have never done this atrocity. Now people turn to this substance.

[@raefarnsworth4278]

So, you believe chronic pain patients should suffer?

[@donnawentz2221]

@@raefarnsworth4278 I took it as them saying that because they did a crackdown on Prescribed pain medicine making it hard for pain patients to get their pain medicine. Which made them turn to street drugs.

[@lisasilver1032]

That's right ! Slot of people were on pain meds for years then the doctors were told not to prescribe pain meds .you go to the er for pain and they don't want to give pain meds the will tell you on Friday to follow up on Monday with your primary my pain is now not on monday

[@dianesavant2818]

@@raefarnsworth4278 Yes, Family Dutton, is that your belief?

[@DontPretendtoCare]

This is stupid. Everyone knows fentanyl isn't real

[@tracyengle7829]

Why are they calling these tragedies "overdoses" instead of most of them are "poisonings?" Thank you and God Bless!.

[@FLBeautyQueen]

I understand Methadone & Suboxone saves people from RX addiction BUT all the specialist doctors agree, “It’s so bad for the body they wouldn’t give it to their dog.” 💔

[@boundariessetinstone5893]

So many chronic pain sufferers are also dying like my parents trying to relieve pain. My heart is so broken I feel sick having so much trouble coping but I have to be strong for my daughter. 😢

[@monicaalva2423]

1:50 broke my heart. So true! All of these people are someone's son or daughter. They deserve a chance to survive, regardless of the bad choices they made. Again, so heartbreaking!

[@tiffanystidham5329]

That magazine name "BULLY"... Even though it isn't an abbreviation for anything, I thought maybe it could be abbreviated for... B = Beautiful U = Understanding of L = Love L = Life and Y = YOU (YOU meaning any & everyone that life has bullied) My thoughts & prayers are with all of these people, & everyone affected by this poison. 💜

[@moniaco3462]

Although many Americans find it hard to believe, since the 1960s and the CIA carried out experiments with its own people and foreigners through the LCD and now with the fentanyl crisis in the United States, the American government waited for the moment for it to come into the hands of Mexican cartels so that something they started is the exclusive fault of Mexico, and thus return to this country in the Iraq of the future.

[@Bullydocuseries]

Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏🏾

[@rodneyhill9909]

When we realize that we are all bad we won't look down on one another

[@judithheard6079]

are u rodney hill from bunnell florida

[@kastaway2]

Arresting drug dealers only adds to traditional institutional racism.

[@jodiebird1551]

Wonderful service

[@stefanialaviola4326]

Quanta sofferenza in questo mondo ,vedere il dolore di questi genitori che hanno perso i figli per questa droga maledetta,rattrista molto.

[@pattyoconnell1950s]

Thanking God for the people who give everyone a chance to make a better life through recovery. Praying for the victims families and friends who tell what loss is about.

[@dashcamvideos6742]

Heart wrenching stories. I live in WA State. We are having record OD’s. The morgue is overflowing.

[@user-xn7pr1wt1j]

What part of Washington state you live in

[@kymharty4802]

Prayers

[@elizabethsalvatore1633]

I don’t understand how people blame the disabled cripples in chronic pain for their ( addicts)addiction!! It’s just an EXCUSE for the DEA’S inability to get a grip on this epidemic!!😟

[@randomlady6899]

DEA is s overwhelmed by the sheer numbers….. blame political policies on border security, Big Pharma and their white coated drug pushers, politicians that allowed regulatory capture of FDA by Big Pharma

[@ytb40]

Fentanyl is indeed a Drug you get when you are in massive pain in a hospital or from a doctor. You don't buy fentanyl in the streets from Dealers.. this is so absurd.

[@tomivang8535]

Good for you Sarah Reed

[@user-cc4uf7vr4d]

It is very dangerous to use any pain killers without knowing it quite sure.

[@xrayban2]

How can 12 y old teens find normal to use drugs ?

[@lisaschuster686]

My daughter was killed by Demon Alcohol.

[@lisaschuster686]

@Jake Byers -

[@DontPretendtoCare]

This is stupid. Everyone knows fentanyl isn't real

[@traybern]

NOT ONE of the DEALERS EVER gets an APPROPRIATE SENTENCE: LIFE, WITHOUT PAROLE!!!!!

[@Midnightblue45]

That’s some crazy stuff

[@Blackbeegirl]

Don't do drugs.

[@shirleyanngilbreath4353]

I just want to say this today, a week after being admitted to the hospital overnight after being involved in a car accident that could have took my life had it not been for the airbag... when I was settled in at the hospital the first thing the nurse wanted to give me for pain was Fentanyl. I said no, I'm not in that much pain but I did get the impression at the time that the nurse didn't care one way or the other but I had to say it again, yes, sure I don't need Fentanyl 😮 what is this poisoned world coming too.

[@louern123]

😞. i am with you 💯 - but i’m also so glad for you that you survived 🙏🏻

[@joolzg1936]

Hospital administered Fentanyl is SAFE. It is used in Labor/Delivery all the time. Street Fentanyl is something else entirely.

[@louern123]

@@joolzg1936 it is still super addictive though

[@queencerseilannister3519]

​@Little Poots Vee Blogs They gave it to me and it wasn't pleasant... and I can easily get addicted to stuff. So not everyone will like it to the point of addiction... but it is like Russian Roulette.

[@DontPretendtoCare]

This is stupid. Everyone knows fentanyl isn't real

[@johnnybgood3909]

Hang on i might go to a street corner and buy a painkiller, what could possibly go wrong.

[@lsrose]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@ktcooki276]

P.S at 4:21 and throughout, you say "recovered" drug user...this is not usual practice in the recovery community as one is ALWAYS in recovery....recovering, if you will. The pressure on an addict to be told they're recovered is alot.😊

[@angiepellar6441]

🙏❤️

[@TrueReligion-yr9kx]

It's only gonna get worser and broken family's and corrupt system just fuels the monster.

[@michellewells4043]

My baby brother rip bryan i love u this horror is real

[@todopoderoso5490]

I miss you Sloter

[@vzvzxvzx]

Dopamine overload isn't causing narcotic deaths.. At least be accurate.

[@maryshaffer5675]

They're infants in the system. They're adults on the street.

[@garyh5541]

🙏🙏🙏

[@yahpr4548]

😔😔😔💔💔💔

[@kcufelgoog3225]

Just say no

[@blackonblackprimenews-fba34]

Booohoooo.... What did y'all tell us back when we were on crack in the 80s? 😂

[@davidhavard1908]

I had been addicted to pills and H for yrs . Methadone actually got me high so I had get off that and go to Suboxone 8 mg and without that don’t know what would of happened to me .

[@angie2088]

Why are we not addressing the problem before we start drinking, drugging? We are just blaming an outcome that comes for children not being loved, cared for, listened too. WHY DO WE DRINK< DRUG IN THE FIRST PLACE???

[@Sierrz]

Because life is worthless

[@peternorthrup6274]

Each of you take 5 minutes out of your day and call your doctor. Ask him 1 simple question. Can you please write me a prescription for suboxon. See what he says? Keep in mind that he is able to write each of you a prescription for some of the deadliest drugs ever made with no problem at all. Let us know what he says?

[@malayaanderson8222]

I feel for the families, & understand some of them thought they were buying something else. However you are agreeing to the risk when you buy something illegally. Drugs are drugs, if you’re buying something that isn’t prescribed to you you’re still in the wrong. No one forced them to buy illegal drugs, or to take them. That’s probably why it’s against the law.

[@jerseygirl07105]

I wonder how true the making of fentanyl really is. It seems too many deaths meaning how does all that gets across to the U. S. and into the hands of the users. Could it be produced here in our own backyards and easily blamed elsewhere? Not sure just wondering.

[@orsolyahargita-varadi8726]

In the first place, why do doctors prescribe opioid for tooth removal or back pain? Opioid is for last stages of cancer patients. In my country, they would never ever give you opioid for this and especially not for young people. America is crazy, running around with loaded guns and everybody taking medicine like no tomorrow. Sorry for the lost life's.

[@spacexghost888]

How tf hard is it not to take drugs or substances you don't know?? A lot of these people were stupid

[@user-xn7pr1wt1j]

That's why you don't pop or snort fentanyl you supposed to smoke fentanyl

[@teejaye6226]

The "Just Say No' campaign worked so well with minority communities in urban cities in the 1980's/90's.....Why doesn't America re-start that successful anti-drug campaign??? Just Say No Rural America!!! .

[@debroahisaacs2452]

I am sorry for my comment......it is wrong but I don't know what is going to stop fentynal from ripping out parents and families heart.

[@Willballla]

Prayers for all affected. But a lot of misinformation in this documentary

[@kierst1390]

The

[@rodneyhill9909]

Jesus Christ 🙏 said that there is only one that is good and that is Jesus Christ 🙏 make him your Lord and Savior 🙏

[@ktcooki276]

Wonder what precisely is it's legitimate use if it's so strong? and...OMG....I've never heard that police routinely respond!!Is this the same in all states???? In the UK, this practise stopped in the 90s because sadly it stopped so many people reporting their overdosing friends from fear of arrest...mind you...we don't have guns,

[@lynnhexler-haan3357]

@ktcooki276 Your ignorance is astounding, regarding Fentanyl & it's uses, prescription or otherwise. The suggestion that street drug use in the UK ceased is ludicrous ! I suggest you do a little research on the topic.

[@moniaco3462]

Although many Americans find it hard to believe, since the 1960s and the CIA carried out experiments with its own people and foreigners through the LCD and now with the fentanyl crisis in the United States, the American government waited for the moment for it to come into the hands of Mexican cartels so that something they started is the exclusive fault of Mexico, and thus return to this country in the Iraq of the future. At the borders with Mexico and Canada, only Mexicans and Latinos who cross into their country are checked, but Americans or whites are not checked, when they could be letting fentanyl traffickers through, they must search everyone who cross to the U.S. border. As long as the American government continues to assign blame and does not solve the root problem in its country, it will be useless for Mexico to continue destroying fentanyl laboratories.

[@nikireide885]

What are we voting for why ❤oh i been a victim make you sleepy help us heal get together and get this off the streets i surrender Now ❤

[@b7e286]

Fentynal freedom. They dont have to suffer the evils of the world any longer.

[@jeromebaker4314]

WWAAAAAA😫😫😫 WWAAAAAAA😫😫😫 THE SECRET ALLY......

[@moniaco3462]

As long as the American government continues to assign blame and does not solve the root problem in its country, it will be useless for Mexico to continue destroying fentanyl laboratories.

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Good old You Tube. IN the middle of this tragic but important story for viewers, the a**hols sponsors cut in with a dental plaque cleaner. I'm outta here. I'll watch PBS, thank you.

[@tonyyytoe]

So its not fentanyl its some concoction disguised as fentanyl?

[@senorstronk]

lots of synthetics that are almost fent but aren't. analogs. china research chemicals

[@tonyyytoe]

@@senorstronk ughhh always something to destroy humanity.

[@deliafredericks7578]

I only hear excuses These guys used drugs How come in the first place and why

[@terrieclark5445]

Jesus

[@PeterTissot-cx7qd]

Trump was going to stop fentanyl. But you voted to keep fentanyl.

[@tinalindsey1598]

Close the US border now!!!!!

[@DannyD-lr5yg]

"I know she had at least tried, uh.. Xanax or Percocet" - two totally different classes of drugs... And then it turns out the police actually found an "opioid-like blue pill" in her bed, which would more likely indicate possible Oxy....

[@moniaco3462]

Although many Americans find it hard to believe, since the 1960s and the CIA carried out experiments with its own people and foreigners through the LCD and now with the fentanyl crisis in the United States, the American government waited for the moment for it to come into the hands of Mexican cartels so that something they started is the exclusive fault of Mexico, and thus return to this country in the Iraq of the future. At the borders with Mexico and Canada, only Mexicans and Latinos who cross into their country are checked, but Americans or whites are not checked, when they could be letting fentanyl traffickers through, they must search everyone who cross to the U.S. border.

[@suckafree6195]

BIG PHARMA IS TO BLAME FOR THIS TRAGEDY. Countries like Mexico do not use narcotic pain relief. It’s highly regulated and controlled.

[@simeonapajarillo6499]

Fentanyl comes from China then Mexico to us

[@babajaga158]

it's not their fault its everyone else's. they are just perfect, they tripped over and accidentally took drugs. As always no responsibility to those that chose to ingest drugs.

[@babajaga158]

@@KoalaBeer. LOL Lace the drug??? lol is that drug laced and bought from pharmacy??? or street??? you must be real dummy to trust street druds. But then MR Perfet thinks he deals with an intelligent being that trusts Street dealers more then "BiG Pharma" as you no doubtly call it. Yeah dont blame a Human that makes a decission to ingest it blame everyone else!!!!

[@raefarnsworth4278]

We have a winner! No one takes responsibility for their actions. Other people are suffering because, some cannot control themselves.

[@dianesavant2818]

@@raefarnsworth4278 It takes guts to speak truth. There are many who use their medication correctly to treat chronic pain from illnesses they never asked to develop, yet are tossed into the pot as addicts. It was their choice to take the drugs. It breaks my heart to watch the suffering of addicts and their families; but it breaks my heart to watch those who have illnesses fight to live each day in chronic pain.

[@williamdapoz]

That is true ppl look up to you if you overcome something like addiction especially family members bc they saw just how low you were in your addiction stealing,begging,prostitution or sleeping on the streets takes some strong will to come back from that hell¥

[@bendikkirkbakk1833]

Well, I would by a test kit if i were an American this days.

[@roddykelusky4625]

IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO

[@Scorcher-ii1ty]

It’s not 100 times stronger then Morphine. It’s 100 times more POTENT then morphine. Fentanyl uses Micrograms , morphine uses MGS….got it??

[@PompeyGirl747]

Calm down lol

[@moniaco3462]

As long as the American government continues to assign blame and does not solve the root problem in its country, it will be useless for Mexico to continue destroying fentanyl laboratories.

[@simeonapajarillo6499]

Micrograms is 1000 of 1 milligram

[@williambaskins3303]

Jesus