Why is narcan free and insulin isnt?

@keithbannister9271

Жыл бұрын

AGREE 💯

@calvinsmyth

Жыл бұрын

Narcan may be free to them, but for non-addicts where I live, it costs $100 to help these losers. F that.

@DerBingle1

3 ай бұрын

That is an absolute outrage! Insulin should be free. Should have been free all along.

I can't believe it formerly beautiful downtown looks so awful. SMH.

@JetSkiSuper7

Жыл бұрын

Yep, city leaders do NOT care one bit.

@chuckruckus3648

Жыл бұрын

@@JetSkiSuper7 voters. Not leaders.

@Constitutionalknight

Жыл бұрын

Democrats

@Weshopwizard

Жыл бұрын

Was such a beautiful city. Very sad.

@whiteymcprivileged3144

Жыл бұрын

Liberals destroy everything

Decriminalizing drugs isn't working so well. It just gave people permission to die in our streets.

@Kirkvanhouten55

Жыл бұрын

seems to be working as intended. cost a lot less to cremate someone than incarcerate someone

@whome8444

Жыл бұрын

@@Kirkvanhouten55 My thoughts too

@RyanRuark

Жыл бұрын

Don’t worry, the state legislature is working hard to make sure Narcan will be as limitless as fentanyl. The beatings will continue until the voter improves.

@jezibelvoss

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the free money and crack pipes. Thanx Brandon!

@hankyhank1652

Жыл бұрын

It's culling the whacked out druggie herd. Measure 110 the decriminalizing of hard drugs like meth, coke, heroin, fentanyl, etc, is working it's magic and working like a charm. Dropping like flies one by one. 👍

Remember, Oregon....YOU decriminalized it. Stop acting so shocked.

@jamescarpenter7161

Жыл бұрын

Trust me it wasn’t all of us. There are unfortunately two counties that run this state and they voted for this crap. Most of the rest of us didn’t. As soon as I’m able I’m getting the hell completely out of this state.

@euminkong

Жыл бұрын

​@@jamescarpenter7161you are an Oregonian for sure

@russkiy00

Жыл бұрын

​@@jamescarpenter7161where do u plan on going to?

The last guy saying he’s happy being a drug addict so next time he overdoses, Oh well…..

@yesmhm69

Жыл бұрын

Let him

@michaelhollis764

Жыл бұрын

Narcan. They're gonna bring him back so he can do it more.

Enforce all existing laws, incarcerate criminals, Institutionalize mentally ill!

@ksmith2852

Жыл бұрын

Such a simple solution that would work. However, they will just keep spending our taxes on endless studies and social outreach crap.

@LegalShield3000

Жыл бұрын

DA Schmidt will never do that.

These fentanyl users are making me miss the old-school junkies and crackheads that used to be downtown. Wild times.

I've worked at the hotel across the street for 4 years before the pandemic. That building has been completely empty of business since 2016 and since has been a haven for all homeless for good or bad. I had to personally deal with people from that spot causing problems at the hotel. I have always wondered who owned the building and why nothing was ever done. There was small fencing around it for a year or 2. As far as I know the ceiling collapsed on the inside. 7 years of disrepair and people damaging it more. This building needs to be condemned and torn down.

@dayzdnconfuz3d

Жыл бұрын

What’s the address ? Should be relatively straightforward to look up property records

@ryanbarker5217

Жыл бұрын

yet, it the water gets shut off to my house the city declares it condemned and will want to confiscate it. these kinds of properties are a blight on every city, homeless or not. i'm sure someone would point out the legalities of why they're not torn down or forced to maintain the structure, but in my way of thinking just paying the taxes on abandoned properties isn't enough if it's been condemned for x number of years. that could be why cities don't pursue demolition, force the owners to sell, or make them renovate because if the city takes the property they're stuck with no tax income on it and now just have the financial burden of demolition on the taxpayers. you can't force someone to pay for a tear down to the tune of millions of dollars if they just don't have the money. cities already put aside a certain amount for demolition as it is, but it's never enough.

@ryanbarker5217

Жыл бұрын

@@olecamohatmcgilicudy4256 this is true, there are bad landlords. anyone in a dire situation has some options; depending on your state, you can withhold rent or put rent in escrow until repairs are made, you may even get a rent abatement for those months. slumlords are bullies, i don't know if they know how to manipulate the system as much as push around people who can't or won't push back. we'd probably be surprised by what landlords can get away with, too, especially when it comes to things like section 8 or rent-controlled properties simply because we're entitled americans who expects perfection at below market value. i think that's an issue where there's a ton of misleading information and no one is really sure of their rights and obligations. believe me, as someone who's watched his mother rent homes out to people and did everything in her power to do right by them, renters can be the absolute worst scum playing their own legal games. it goes both ways. right now she refuses to rent the top of her duplex out even at double the usual rent price just because she's over dealing with renters.

@ryanbarker5217

Жыл бұрын

@@olecamohatmcgilicudy4256 how about the scum tenant who tried to burn my mom's house down she was renting out to avoid paying rent? or the $25K damage another did to a different house, then her insurance dropped her. those are the worst example i can attest to from experience, but that's not including the thousands of dollars she's had to pay *on average* just to get the place back to a livable condition, and that's doing all the work herself. meanwhile, they live six months rent free, suing them is absolutely pointless, and neverminding all the drama, chaos, sob stories, lies, and bullshit these prospects that good on paper bring. while i sympathize with you, that's not a landlord, that's a thief and a con-man. try to be a good landlord, see how well that works out for ya. you'll gain a new 'appreciation' for humanity once you do.

@jamescarpenter7161

Жыл бұрын

There are also bad and unscrupulous tenants.

once an addict always an addict- you either stop and abstain or continue and face death. it is fortunate that he has been revived by people willing to save his life, one day, those people won't be there and he will just be another statistic.

No hope. Please save our resources

@Fido-vm9zi

Жыл бұрын

What like the BILLIONS in pharmaceutical settlements? Is that YOURS?

@robertbalfour4313

Жыл бұрын

GF YOURSELF

I left Oregon in 1982, enlisted in the Army. I remember visiting Portland many times and thought it was a beautiful, wonderful city. The city of Roses they called it. Roses were everywhere. Look at it now, what a disgrace.

@williammurray1341

Жыл бұрын

My son left in 2018 for DC returning 2021. Is moving to St Louis because he feels safer walking around the streets at night there then walking to the homeless advocacy non-profit he directs in daylight in downtown.

@esterhudson5104

Жыл бұрын

The City of Roses….ah, all nostalgia now…

@jamesmanolakis2420

Жыл бұрын

Thank the nwo

Portland, way to let your downtown infrastructure go to hell. I spent 26 years in Portland and never saw it look this bad.

I wonder if legalizing the drugs and giving away free needles, foil, crack pipes, etc. has anything to do with the increase in drug use?

@sidewalksurfer96

Жыл бұрын

Considering that they’ve been providing clean kits for 10+ years I’d say no. Canada gives out actual drugs for free and has none of these issues

@monawilliams4916

Жыл бұрын

@@sidewalksurfer96 yes Canada does just seen a video about in Vancouver

@michaelhollis764

Жыл бұрын

Narcan. Hard drugs have no negative consequences anymore. Once they took away jail time; death was left. Now they have narcan and death isn't nearly as likely as it used to be. When I was a kid the word overdose was more or less synonymous with death. Now it just means you took too much and need to recover.

Narcan is costing taxpayers a fortune. Let Darwin do his job. Druggies have to decide to become clean. Resources are readily available. Even the guy interviewed who said "I'd do anything to get clean" also said that he quit going to treatment because it was too hard

@dancalmpeaceful3903

Жыл бұрын

yeah....they say that tripe to the news....but NEVER mean it. If he really meant it....he would have handed all his dope to the reporter to show his desire to quit. He didn't.... Don't worry - "tranq" is coming and I heard narcan doesn't have any effect. The problem will soon be resolved.

@sidewalksurfer96

Жыл бұрын

I’d love a source on “narcan costing the taxpayers” bc that’s the most made up bs I’ve read

@calvinsmyth

Жыл бұрын

@@sidewalksurfer96 You are not informed or as delusional as the druggies.

@navdeepkumar5085

Жыл бұрын

​@@sidewalksurfer96 where do you think it comes from? The hurricanes deliver it free of charge?

@jamescarpenter7161

Жыл бұрын

I don’t care how much it costs. There are better things our tax money could be spent on. Let these parasites take responsibility for their actions.

I drove around the block on 4th and Washington yesterday. It was post apocalyptic! It's a mess! I've never seen so many pipes out in the open. I've been living here since the 90's and it took 20 years before I saw someone with a meth pipe in the open. Last night I counted ten pipes in the open in one trip around the block!

@bimmjim

Жыл бұрын

@Gulls Comic ---> Be careful you don't trip over the dead Junkies. .. You might twist your ankle and that hurts. Ban Narcan.

@ksmith2852

Жыл бұрын

Where are the police? Soon the financial effects of them destroying the businesses will be felt. No study, no plan no social outreach will be able to do anything about commercial loan defaults to banks. It's coming soon.

KGW News just did a whole bunch of free advertising for the drug dealers down there. Even gave everyone the location where all the drug dealers sell from. This video was better than a billboard advertisement!!

@tuffguydoe7937

Жыл бұрын

yep I got new peeps to work with

@NadiaSeesIt

11 ай бұрын

Just for the stupid

Portland voted all this in (and continues to do so)...the policies of decriminalizing drugs across the board thoughtlessly has just enabled and attracted all this. Defund the police and trash law and order will not work. It attracts more and more of the element until the city-scape changes as productive members of society flee. Property values decrease and a graffiti and trash-laden playground and living area for the drug culture remain.

@circesoul2218

Жыл бұрын

I don't get it but I don't have to live there. Glad the people of Portland got what they wanted.

@jessebaldwin2661

Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct. I moved to the coast to get away from Portland. It used to be a beautiful, family-friendly city. Now it's a filthy dystopic sh-t hole with no hope of recovery. The voters and politicians are the root cause of all this.

That kid is so young, he hasn't yet realized he is throwing away his life. He likes being a drug addict now but that will change and I hope when the kid realizes it, there is help available for him.

@ksmith2852

Жыл бұрын

"Kids" his age are fighting for democracy in Ukraine. BS about him just being young.

@ditch_magnet

Жыл бұрын

@@ksmith2852 they're throwing their lives away, too.. at least the kids in ukraine have the luxury of knowing it going in. no one ever expects to become addicted.

@tonigallegos1325

Жыл бұрын

This is not a kid. Do not give props to someone "thinking" they want to get sober because it's bull. My druggie brother used to say that at least once a month...for 5 years straight... Theres a dude in my building going to rehab soon....been saying that almost everyday since he moved in here...which was 2 years ago.... This guy is full of it...

@angeldee7287

Жыл бұрын

He doesn’t like one bit of what he’s doing!!!!! The demons inside of him KEEP HIM PRISONER in his own body, and the big demons, govt and social workers and drs and pharmacies…… yeah they love this. They get rich off of our helpless addicted family members that are too weak to get help!!! Their demons keep them there, and your govt enables this and convinces the woke that “they” want to be on the streets, and the sheeple just nod their heads in line with the other sheeple. It’s horrific and they just don’t care. The outreach centers and the rehab facilities are all in on the jig too. You’re monsters. God is so angry 😡 He is coming!!!!!

@angeldee7287

Жыл бұрын

@@tonigallegos1325your druggie brother has demons leading his butt to those nasty drugs too. They don’t know what they’re doing! They are empty vessels consumed by demons now. Those drugs have mind altering effects that possess these ppl. Every once in a while, their sweet old self comes out, not for long, just long enough to hurt them and remind them of their past, then they get that demon juice, and they are ready to destroy themselves again. Never ending cycle and THEY knew the effects 😡 GOD IS ANGRY!!!!!

It's going very well there. Things are as they should be, when you fail to hold people accountable for their actions.

@hankyhank1652

Жыл бұрын

Passing measure 110 which decriminalize the possession and use of hard core drugs like meth, coke, heroin, fentanyl, etc... what can go sideways, what can go wrong? The result is THIS. 3 dies, 11 OD's, next week 6 and 22, and so on till it's 1000 dies, 10000 OD's per day, till Portlandia is a ghost town. Mission ACCOMPLISHED. 👍

@Scorch1028

Жыл бұрын

This is what people in Oregon voted for. The politicians don't care how many people drop dead in the streets -- as long as they have the "freedom" to get high in public.

@dh2392

Жыл бұрын

Thinning of the herd.

Man you can just expect an addict (who JUST said he’s smoked fentanyl 15-25 times before noon) to just up and go get help because a random reporter asks him too lol he said he’s already bailed out on help not long before that

@ksmith2852

Жыл бұрын

He just wants attention. From anyone.

@yesmhm69

Жыл бұрын

LOL

Everyone on this earth has choices, when your young you usually make dumb ones . Hope they make it out of hell and get the help they need . It’s going to suck and it won’t be easy . Good luck to anyone who is struggling. Sobriety is the best choice while being here . Feel your best everyday naturally. No drugs . No booze . Just peace and health . Health is true wealth. ❤

@ronburgundy8941

Жыл бұрын

Says the person who most likely hasn't lived in poverty

@renegallegos7938

Жыл бұрын

😊😅wqw😊😊😊

@renegallegos7938

Жыл бұрын

😊😊

@Big-three492

Жыл бұрын

@@ronburgundy8941 oh we found the Portland enabler. Sure go still my car because you are poor because your too effed up to get a job! This is what’s wrong with Portland! People just enable people to do what the f they want then feel bad for them😒

@karlabritfeld7104

Жыл бұрын

​@@ronburgundy8941you can be poor, doesn't mean you have to be an addict or alcoholic.

Congratulations Portland for keeping it weird. You've done a great job and the city looks absolutely wonderful! 👏

Dear Nate, Thanks for destroying the city and making your drug use our problem ❤

@DerBingle1

3 ай бұрын

There's that 50-person, blue-ribbon executive committee that meets daily to work on the problem...how's that coming along? "Everyone got their coffee and donuts? OK....."

This is what happens when you decriminalize hard drugs! Portland is the only one to blame for this!

I honestly couldn’t care less for someone who has made countless bad decisions, knowing pill, meth, crack, drinking are all extremely bad. They knew the outcome, you pay the price with your life one day. I don’t feel bad anymore

@hankyhank1652

Жыл бұрын

YEP! The first druggie dude is saying THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER over and over again until his in the morgue. 🤔

@jntj3007

Жыл бұрын

@@hankyhank1652 That's how it goes nowaday. "Wash, rinse, repeat".

@James-ck4bg

Жыл бұрын

It's not that they don't know the consequences of their behavior, it's about them not being able to put enough value to the consequences. Whether it be due to underlying depression, anxiety, personality disorders, PTSD, consequences of prolonged drug use, etc. I mean, it would only be appropriate to feel bad for someone suffering the disastrous consequences of their mental processes, right?

@obgmugen

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@James-ck4bg i have had HORRENDOUS personal problems i've had to address in my life. Never did i think about turning to drugs. Ya cant fix stupid or improve a weak mind.

@MaryJohanna

Жыл бұрын

I hear you but what gets me is a city/state administration that is clearly ossified and drowned in their money making non profit homeless industrial complex to be bothered to actually legislate. Why should tax paying residents be exposed to the filth and crime?

Stop rescuing them. This is what they want to do, let them pay the consequences.

@dancalmpeaceful3903

Жыл бұрын

Tranq is coming and it's extremely deadly. The addict problem will soon end. Apparently, Narcan doesn't even work on it.

@1000XL

Жыл бұрын

It's a wonderful thing for them

You can see flashlights at night in the vacant building from across the street at the Hi-Lo Hotel if you rent a room there

Isn’t narcan just an enabler, just let them go to sleep, the kind thing to do!

@hankyhank1652

Жыл бұрын

It's like playing Russian Roulette, you don't know if you will revived wake up or DOA, in the morgue...

@eckankar7756

Жыл бұрын

@@hankyhank1652 so what, they don't care.

I saw a video a little while ago, where people were in Bosnia, walking around the city. It was so clean, and beautiful. No graffiti, no homeless under tarps. It reminded me of what cities here looked like before those in charge lost their minds. I believe in compassion for our fellow man, I just think it has been misplaced compassion at best. Letting people do whatever they want to wherever they want to doesn't help anyone. The people with drug problems are still dying. Those with mental health issues are still suffering. But now everyone else suffers too. Businesses close. The owners have to find another way to make a living, and there are fewer opportunities for those who don't want to end up homeless. What about compassion for all of those people, instead of the ones who don't care. Like the guy here who is fine with being a drug addict on the streets. People like him, whether they see it this way or not, are ruining the lives of others in these cities. Ruin your own life if you want to, but find a way to do it away from good people who want normal productive lives, or you don't deserve any kind of compassion. This can't continue.

@Grimreaper45705

Жыл бұрын

A lot went on in Bosnia and death so many left

@hswing11

11 ай бұрын

BLA BLA BLA BLA

You get to a point when you realize there is really nothing you can do to help people that don't want to be helped by you or anyone else trying to help. Short of forcing them into housing to get them off the street, treatment, or therapy, which the court system has already said you can't force anyone to do, what are you supposed to do? Sad to say this but the only option is to send out recovery teams every morning to collect and dispose of the bodies, and eventually the problem will take care of itself.

@cafferacer

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been ‘nice homeless’ for 7 years as in went from sleeping bag to tent to van to trailer etc. saw whole fenty start to now. Mostly meth is the issue on the streets tho. I’ve never been a sucker helping people but never been a fool that won’t help peeps that deserve it. It’s a dicey thing helping people that don’t give a fuk but you can’t group all the fools together. Some can be helped and if you’re a caring person, whether you believe in Jesus and his tenets, help those in need, it’s the right thing to do. Or just ignore poverty, pain, suffering and move along it’s all up to you.

Police, Fire and EMS should just stop responding and the Portland problem will solve itself.

My son's out there , P town . We haven't spoke in a while. T , your in my prayers & My thoughts everyday . B Shaft & the grem be safe guys . Walked away 11 years ago .traded it for a beach .

I quit fentanyl after 8 months of addiction, I quit January 28, 2022 I really pray all of these people beat this addiction it’s so terrible.. the withdrawal about killed me. I was so weak and fragile. Jeezzzz GET THIS SHIT OFF THE STREETS.

@yesmhm69

Жыл бұрын

Don't pray! Condemn!

My favorite thing about this building is i get the morning surprise of accidentally stepping in a liquid human shit. It truly wakes me up in this beautiful city.

They keep saying they want help but they don't want to follow the rules they will only tell people what they want to hear they are happy with no expectations or responsibility put on them and where are their parents at you know self respect and respect for others is learned at home also manners

@cherylbarney9057

7 ай бұрын

@@andlusen I agree I said that a while back drugging is a choice made by the weak that can't face responsibility and want others to take care of them they receive to much help but this is an unfavourable outlook by the ones patronizing them

You can't smoke cigarettes downtown but you can consume all the fentanyl you like. Leadership in this area must be making millions......

They died doing what they love. Be happy!

That one guy wouldn't be so happy being an addict if it weren't so easy to be one out there. He's basically saying, if you leave it like it is, I don't plan on ever stopping.

I hope they get the help they need, but my sympathy is almost non-existent. Who doesn't know about drugs?

@dancalmpeaceful3903

Жыл бұрын

I have NO sympathy for them. People keep enabling these addicts. They don't want to even try....

@rs72098

Жыл бұрын

We don't give free housing to alcoholics, and we don't hand out beer, liquor and give them safe spaces in public to get wasted. I don't see why we should do this for drug users.

@HolgerDanske

Жыл бұрын

@@rs72098 It's what they call 'harm reduction'. It's believed that the outcomes are better if they are housed first then sent to rehab.

@chrissantos5580

Жыл бұрын

I feel for the people trying to earn a living and raise a family in this dump of a city

I've never heard someone say I love being a drug addict shame on him

Please distribute more lethal doses throughout downtown.

@CivilShepherd

Жыл бұрын

You support the Mexican Cartel then

@steveanimatrix3887

Жыл бұрын

@@CivilShepherd The people of Oregon do. The state that decriminalized it, and meth, and heroin, and....

@CivilShepherd

Жыл бұрын

@@steveanimatrix3887 Do you realize there are people in Oregon that didn't want to decriminalize? For you to say all of Oregon approve is ridiculous. This is what happens when you let governments dictate your life.

@steveanimatrix3887

Жыл бұрын

@@CivilShepherd Doesn't really matter if a minority didn't vote for it. It passed by a majority of Oregonians and has had devastating consequences over the last 2 years. It all directly supports the cartels. Meth, heroin, fentanyl, even cannabis.

@mikeyman1974

Жыл бұрын

@@CivilShepherd supporting the cartel is bringing these people back to life just so they could continue using

If they want to get out, why are they starting?

We don't supply alcoholics with free beer, free liqor, and free housing, why should we do this for drug users?? We are just enabling them. People need to take responsibility for their actions and they need forced rehab.

That whole block with two vacant high rises was fenced off for a week but then the fence was mysteriously removed

@RyanRuark

Жыл бұрын

Why pay for a fence, which is not cheap to rent, if it’s just going to be ripped down by junkies? Why throw more money away until the city, the police, and the voters CHANGE?

@CivilShepherd

Жыл бұрын

@@boofert.washington2499 They changed their mind i guess

"IM HAPPY BEING A DRUG ADDICT" (yeah right this guy is full of it )

@mctrimm7097

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought. He's either a rookie or his DOC is pot.

Time for all the good people of Portland (citizens, taxpayers, business owners, homeowners) to say farewell to their city and move on. Then put a big fence around the city limits and let the zombie hordes eat themselves.

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Spare the rod and spoil the child.

@PonderingGhost

Жыл бұрын

Damn right.

Unfortunately, Fentanyl has invaded our small community here on the Oregon Coast. Florence, Oregon a beautiful coastal playground that is fighting hard to squash this deadly drug before we get overwhelmed. A special task force is needed ASAP to tackle Meth/Blues/Fentanyl abuse.

@billmM3605

Жыл бұрын

Cindy, I am as concerned as you are about this, but I think we are fighting a losing battle for the time being. The Cartels have a strong hold in this state along with other states on the west coast, and the rest of the country for that matter. As long as our southern border is left wide open, the Cartels and drugs will continue to flow into our area. And as long as drug use remains decriminalized there will always be a high demand for them.

@RyanRuark

Жыл бұрын

I don’t understand - If we know where this is being manufactured, if we know how it’s being smuggled - Why haven’t we hit the place with Tomahawk missiles and told Mexico “You’re welcome.”

@justme-dm7sb

Жыл бұрын

@@billmM3605 Huge boxes of "blues" are shipped into the US daily from CHINA. It may be Mexicans selling it but China is sending it. Same as Afghanistan shipped in tons of heroin. That is how these countries are beating us down, and have been for years. It didn't help that our government made it all legal (that was stupid). Its like we were set up to lose this battle. The answer is not to use drugs and imprison those who do and anyone possessing drugs. Otherwise, we continue down the same path. Do what you did, get what you got. It really is that simple.

@giuseppe4909

Жыл бұрын

It’s cheaper to just give them more - the problem will take care of itself in short order.

@meatpopsicle1567

Жыл бұрын

@@RyanRuark It's because of the "tolerance" of the Biden administration that prevents this course of action.

Legalizing Drugs wasn’t a good thing after all. Oh well…

Why do they just dont let them die so others will learn and think before they using drugs again Our government is helping the drug cartels by providing money to the drug addicts

Stop saving them, a waste of time, they turn around and do it again. Tranq, and fentanyl is to addicting, they can't quit. Its horrible. 😢

Drug state. Dealers fund the politicians.

When criminal activity is decriminalized & getting into rehab treatment is voluntary, this is the result. What so many of the “advocates” fail to understand is that what all these addicts need is uncompromising tough love, e.g. to be forced off the streets and forced into treatment. That’ll never happen, though … so, welcome to the new Portland.

@junglesuperstar9270

Жыл бұрын

Work . They need labor therapy

@Rocanala

Жыл бұрын

Who thought that decriminalizing FENTANYL even in small amounts was a good idea?!? It’s unfathomable.

@robert-zg8or

Жыл бұрын

It's what they voted for so 'live it up bros'.

@shagggadoo

Жыл бұрын

You can attempt to force someone to do anything. It will never be successful until the person decides on their own that it's time for a change.

@shagggadoo

Жыл бұрын

@@Rocanala fentanyl was never decriminilized

Damn he survived... another drain on the taxpayers. I love Portland's utopia!

What's the problem? Legalize hard drug use and wonder why this happens?

The police are short staffed. Maybe they should stop responding to overdose calls. No one is making these hop heads shoot up fentanyl.

The decriminalization of hard drugs has allowed the local and state governments to dehumanize the addicts that need help. Instead choosing to let them suffer living in tents hooked on the drugs that make life not worth living.

They need lock down methadone facilities. As a recovering addict. Been clean over 6 years. They want help….for 5 minutes or so then back out. Make them stay for their own sake. Sorry if this sounds bad but lock them up and get them clean whether it be jail or a facility. They are going to die.

I would like to know; when will one of these parents acknowledge that their children were introduced to drugs and specifically downers by their own parents & inpatient educator’s very early. And word to the wise just because the Dr says you should medicate YOU’RE child doesn’t mean you have to comply. Smh, some ppl are ridiculously judgmental now that they have full fledged drug addicts that have learned by the adults in their lives to find their happy place by popping a pill. Why does that surprise anyone?

@Fido-vm9zi

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Yes, you are very right. They grew up when pill pushing was in full effect.

"Drugs are bad." -- Penny from Pee-Wee's Playhouse

Our tax money shouldn’t be squandered by these addicts. A lot of them probably voted to defund the police yet when they OD they want the cops to come save them. I say if they OD it’s on them. Let them take responsibility for something for a change.

Good luck to you, Nate! From a stranger who can empathize and relate.

@deborahvenetucci8278

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Amen.

Blair Best is always out there in the trenches. Admirable. I hope she stays safe!

Clearing the decks . . . not so bad.

Is anyone doing tours to these zombie areas? Could be a great money maker

What has happened to my country? Heart breaking. Dystopia to the nth.

@missyk2984

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It’s game over

At @4:12 I really can't believe that they have "cited" a building 4 times like it is a material part of the issues. Bad building, bad building! Sadly there is no way to help the insanity now that the inmates are running the asylum.

So very sad

🗣️Hey everybody, Fentanyl is winning!!! 🎉Go BLUE!!!! 🎊🧟🧟‍♂️🔵🧟‍♂️🪦

It would seem to me. That the best way to solve the homeless problem. Would be too buy them all a bag of dope. And don't save them when they OD. Let the trash take itself out.

@ksmith2852

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Put them in jail. The get a home. They get food. There are psych wards. And, the "disease" of addiction magically goes away when in jail without being able to buy drugs or steal things to get drugs.

There are a lot of people getting rich off of selling drugs. Why are they going to stop? You think they will because you say so? And addicts love their drugs. So why interfere? You're not going to stop this.

Step over them. Walk around them. Avoid them. Don't give a F about them. It is their choice to start, to continue, to stop, to stay clean. It is on them, start to finish. Using losers are a plague to society.

WHEN YOU LEGALIZE SOMETHING DEADLY DIDN'T YOU JUST HELP COMMIT A CRIME WHEN SOMEONE DIES!

Don't do drugs not rocket science sick of drug addicts thinking we owe them

Letting the city look like this is less compassionate than locking people in prison. Sad but true

Be careful you don't trip over the dead Junkies. .. You might twist your ankle and that hurts.

And why are we trying to revive them?

That building has been a disgusting eyesore for years. If I remember right, it was called Washington Center Mall. It was already bad, but then they let the homeless sleep in it for shelter which consequently made it worse. The Menashe family should be ashamed for letting it rot so badly

Just ban Narcan and let the problem solve itself.

Omg, that street looked like the worst street filled with drug addicts in Philadelphia. Never thought I'd see Portland looking so horrible. If you have the means to move, why are you staying there? I don't mean poor people with no money, but average people with a house to sell. Sell your house while you can still get something for it and move to a cleaner, safer, cheaper part of the country. Don't worry, your kids can always come and visit you. Plus there's a telephone, remember those?

Addicts' choice, it is what it is.

@RyanRuark

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Well they can choose it somewhere else. Enough bullshit.

@amatingmind7258

Жыл бұрын

Addicts are attracted to permissive environments. Complain about the number of bars and strip clubs - that might actually get you somewhere.

@ksmith2852

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Yes, it is a choice. It has been marketed as a "disease" by rehab hospitals in order to get insurance to pay for treatment or rich parents to be willing to pay for expensive "treatments" medically necessary and do not have to admit their part in creating an addict.

Oh well. They want to abuse drugs they deserve what they get. No sympathy.

This problem will sort itself out

Sad on this young man; I talked to my son a lot as he growing up to be a responsible man

Sure he wants help but the odds are against him. THe second kid is the norm. Stop helping them, stop providing narcan, stop giving them what they need to be useless. The weak will die and the strong willed will survive. That’s the only way this will stop. It sounds heartless and cruel but wasting money and resources on them has proven to not be the answer to the problem.

Irrational fear is what drives people toward addiction and prevents them from recovery.

There is no help, it sucks. When someone wants to get help on the spot, they give you the run around make you wait, come in a certain time and no guarantee you will get in.

@RyanRuark

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The expectation that the state has a duty to manage addicts access to cessation is ridiculous. We have collected hundreds of millions in tax revenue to deal with these issues and it only continues to get worse. If Christine Drazan runs again, she’ll have my vote. I have completely lost faith in Democrats pedantic, academic approach to a very obvious problem. I am tired of my government resources being used to rationalize this bedlam. Enough carrots. It’s time to use the stick.

@meatpopsicle1567

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@@RyanRuark Hear! Hear!

@ksmith2852

Жыл бұрын

Please. The only time people want the government to be involved in their lives is when they want free money, free narcan, free needles, free place to live..without any rules or restrictions. This has to stop.

It took three Narcan to bring him back, and what has he done with his second chance at life? Yup, smoked fentanyl about fifteen to twenty five times before lunch. Why bother? He obviously doesn't value his own life, so why should anybody else?

Get rid of Narcan, and reduce crime

When the trash takes itself out...

Good job, KGW.

This is so disgusting how local officials are enabling this epidemic. My neighborhood in Southeast Portland is now loaded with a bunch of fentanyl smokers. They’re doing it out in plain daylight with their trash camps strewn across the streets. There’s no accountability in the city. This is disgusting. Why anyone would want to move here is beyond me.

I love this story. I live down town. I want to help so bad. One of my long friends since high-school was one of the 3 stats from this weekend. RIP slover. Thank you for helping Nate. Nate if you need help hmu or if your hungry. Love you bro!! Frfr

@robertplant2059

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A slow way to clean the city, but whatever it takes to get rid of the losers!

Why respond? It's all good. How's that song go..."Let it be"

"I have been given Narcan 3 times" - do you think it might be time to give up drugs???

@ksmith2852

Жыл бұрын

It is his identity.

Hooper is no help at all...

@RyanRuark

Жыл бұрын

Then he can detox in jail.

Well, the feds just released narcan as a nasal spray for over the counter purchase..I’m sure it’ll be super cheap…(lol). Let’s hope the user sticks to his weekly budget so he can carry this stuff around with him just in case.., you know, so he can schedule his overdoses …and curb his substance spending.

@calvinsmyth

Жыл бұрын

Where I live, it is free to addicts. For do-gooders who want to save a junkie, it costs $100.

Didn't Pete's Market used to be called Peterson's ?

And of course the reporter blames the police.