A city in crisis: How fentanyl devastated San Francisco - BBC Newsnight 

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DEALERS are Addicts

Everyone in CA knows about it, there's no need to report it. Dum dum

Trump was on this problem like a rash and was highlighting it, and yet the BBC never said one thing positive about him. Says it all. End the licence.

@@garner832 its all planned . its all going according to plan

Yeah, I left the bay also back in 2006. Heard it has only grew worse.

I divorced my husband due to drugs. I'm lonely and having a hard time starting over at 50. However this had to be done. I'm so glad not to do drugs. Drugs are ruining this country

@@weaponizedglitter69 I am 54 and New Single Dad of 2. No dates, I gotta go get this money, 2 jobs, no help.

@@armoniqfields8016 I wish you well. I'm 53 as of last week. No kids. Working multiple jobs with kids can't be easy.

You guys are weak and gay republicans; drugs rock. Pussies.

Amen God bless people. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, fentanyl, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health.

Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Australia. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them

Yes sure of Dr.benfungi

Mushroom helped my son get off opioid

How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta

Luckily here in Europe we have not lot of shits usual in the USA.

Londistan gonna have soon if not deported the fake oness

Police In Europe fear to visit no-go zones. They can't handle grooming gangs. But it will fight against unarmed waicists who just don't want open borders.

Most of europes problems come from apathy on the part of the governments while a lot of American politicians are very self destructive with policies like defunding the police

It will be like this in europe too

I’m glad for you, your one of the few who was able to make it out alive!

@@RhysapGrugNo problem sharing... I first tried checking myself into our patient rehab, in December of 2019.. between the therapy sessions and Suboxone I was doing well right up to covid. Then I relapsed hard . Spent the next 6 months feeding a 200 dollar a day fent habit. And then rehabs were all closed so, thank God, I found Ophelia online, which is a zoom based opiate addiction therapy. They started treating me with Suboxone right away but I still struggled with relapsing through most of 2021. Then something just...clicked. And I was done. August of 2021 I used for the last time and haven't relapsed since. The first few months are the toughest with serious depression while your brain relearns how to release it's happy hormones again, but there was no way I could deal with the physical withdrawal without Suboxone. I do find that legal pot edibles helped a great deal with the cravings.. And now I have an actual therapist to help me deal with the damage I caused.. Now that I'm stable I've been working on reducing my Suboxone intake and started weaning down. Everyone's different and I believe you have to find what works for you. Whether it's supervised replacement therapy or cold turkey I found that good mental help is the key.. figuring out how to fix all the damage and how to find happiness again. I still got a long way to go but I'm a hundred percent confident I'll succeed now. And no matter how horrible it is, or how scary the thought of never using again seems.. You'll beat it's ass.. I promise ya brother.

Keep up the good work my man!

Can you describe what the high feels like?

@@cl6107 A super intense concentrated opiate high..if you've ever had an opiate, like a Vicodin or Oxy, you know the feeling: Instant euphoria.. a warmth that spreads from the top of your head to your toes.. your body is instantly relaxed and the "happy" feeling is boosted thru the ceiling. So happy you wanna cry.. You're breathing and heart rate slows down.. basic opiate high that you get from the opiate family: Vicodin, oxycodone morphine, heroin.... But it's at the strength and Intensity level of heroin so you'll also start to nod off and almost always there some puking... But after the puking the high intensifies more..

Be encouraged...

Please accept my condolences. Thank you for sharing your sad story, hopefully, it may even help someone. Stay Safe and Stay Strong, Dylan. Sending love and support from Australia.

I’ll so sorry for your loss Dylan. I hope you find strength.

I rarely read these anecdotal comments. But this one was tragic yet beautiful.

Opiate pain management is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I would have ended my suffering decades ago without it. It allowed me to stay as a productive member of society for over thirty five years. The whole key is the fact that I dont like to get high...I like to live a full life.

*cities run by liberals

Right-wing news likes to highlight places like San Francisco and Portland, but it's happening EVERYWHERE. Even in red state cities. West Virginia is completely drug ridden, for example.

@@Wft-bu5zc total bs, nice try though

@@Wft-bu5zc did republican run cities or states defund the police, empty the prisons of felons, decriminalize felonies, refuse to prosecute felons, release felons with no bail? No! Stop with your leftie commie BS. People aren't that stupid

When you vote woke consistently for several tears, you have to pay the bills. Unfortunately many liberals will flee the mess they caused and import their dangerous ideas to other states like Texas and in turn, destroy them...

I live in SF. I admit it is a mixed bag. These images are real but they are not the whole picture. The city has 35 neighborhoods; I’d say about 6 are rough. There is still a gorgeous landscape, mild weather, interesting architecture, tons of parks and a unique balance of urbanity and nature, delicious food and wine, diverse and open-minded people with a generally relaxed bohemian vibe, culture, tech, and high paying jobs. Its violent crime rate is actually very close to the US average, i.e. low for a city. It’s also an expensive place to live, with homelessness, and high property crime like car break-ins and retail theft. Downtown business has dropped about 25% since the pandemic, but keep in mind its starting point was one of the hottest cities in the country for the previous decade. Stay away from certain neighborhoods, don’t park your car in tourist areas. Otherwise it’s a fun place to visit, arguably the most European and beautiful of American cities.

Everyone thinks of it as poo city.

I lived in West Africa for 2 years and i never saw anything nearly as pathetic and gross as downtown SF 💯

Actually worse than third world countries I've been to

You never lived in SF. Most areas are not like this.

@@Eidelmania oh, not all of the city is like that. So everything is ok then? Nothing to worry about? Totally safe to bring your wife and kids down to have a nice stroll around Embarcadero? No need to worry about stepping in dog shit, when you are wading through human shit right? But hey, I’m sure it’ll get better?

@@Beef8Cake Every major city has a skid row area, the tenderloin is SF. You rightist are pretty pathetic, attracted to SF dystopia like flies to a light bulb.

My mother died from stomach cancer 😥 and it would have been horrible without the fentanyl.

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That’s correct- but the crap everyone is addicted to currently is not the same fentanyl provided in hospitals, etc- it’s fake medication! They call them “blues” and they have the letter “M” on one side and a #30 on the other. Which is a fake medication! People refer to them as “Perc 30’s” when clearly that’s NOT what they are!! They’ve been tested numerous times and they have all sorts of different drugs in them! Cocaine, meth, E, and other crap!

@Alex Korova perhaps when the side effect considered won't matter much for the terminally ill ? I mean giving a highly addictive pain relieve to a patient with acute pain, but highly treatable illness, will be different than giving a highly addictive pain relieve for a terminally ill patient with short life expectancy.

It's being used recreationally. Fact.

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Anna, in 2017 the newly elected president of the Philipines, Rodrigo Duterte quickly brought the dreadful drug problems in his country under control. This was by way of summary/extrajudicial means. That being, anyone caught peddling narcotics or, were in possession of a certain quantity, was shot dead on the spot in the street. It was such a success that he and his team should be brought to the US to carry on the good work. To pretend that any other method/program will solve the catastrophe is kidding themselves.

Anna, there's only one way to solve this catastrophe and that's to find the former president of the Philipines, Rodrigo Durtete and his hit squad to eradicate all drug dealers.

Yet she blaims her son for being addictive that’s odd for me, I’m sure he doesn’t want his life to go like it’s going

@@frankpeterz9002 she just said he made a choice which is true

@@frankpeterz9002 I'm sure he does. Nobody is forcing him to put that shit in his body but himself. H3 doesn't care about his mom or himself right now, for him it's all about the dope and the bullshit lifestyle the goes with it.

Yup. If you ain't rich, you're an invisible nobody. That's been getting worse by the decades. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

Were you there during the crack/cocaine epidemic. If so do you see similarities/differences? I am curious.

Tells you that money and wealth is not the solution. Wealth in that city is actually a curse.

I’m from Oakland ca !!! I can’t even understand how Oakland ca has declined!!!

Amen

They're giving awards to homosexuals.

like all leftists, they think they['re doing a great job

Making green deals, borders or some useless crap. Never do poop

I had the exact opposite experience. I was in San Francisco in 1987 and it was absolutely horrible, infested with drug addicts and homeless people. When I returned in 2017 the place had completely changed, and I didn't spot a single drug addict or homeless person on that trip.

Wonderful , thanks !

@@Qotroz wow yeah, that’s very different from my experience. I remember driving past a lot of homeless tents on my way into the city, which hadn’t been there (to my memory) the first time.

@@luckyDancer100 To be honest I did smoke a lot of weed while in San Francisco, so my recollection might not be the best. 😄

@@Qotroz United snake spend 700billion dollars to destroy other nations instead they could help other Americans

It's not just the tenderloin now. It has spread throughout the rest of the city, and is starting to pop up in the outlying suburbs.

Is it worse than La?

My impression, but have not been in SF since 2020, is LA Skid Row is much bigger than the Tenderloin area, with blocks of tents touching each other on both sides of the street on 6 blocks+ and multiple thousands of people. I have never seen something like Skid Row (at least in the Western world… favelas in Brazil or barrios in some large cities of Latin America are shabby, but they are more built like houses with normal people, just poor).

@@lirraci Definitely not as bad as LA. Skid Row is straight out of Mad Max. Also LA is a much larger city compared to SF, which means more room for homeless and addicts.

Worst part of it that it is not due to lack of money, but it is due to lack of mental stability. Try to host them in 5 star hotels, they would thrash the room they live in quickly and run to streets back, in couple days.

We need to address root causes. It's easy to place blame. It's important for us to come together, seek understanding and demand solutions. All of that talk is what created this problem. We keep talking like that and the problem will just keep growing. And we must remember that every overdose statistic represents the problem shrinking by just a little bit.

The homeless issue in the USA has little to do home prices and more to do with mental health. SF drug issue has been going on decades, the issue is how deadly this drug is. And there is little to no policing.

Ban illegal immigration, reduce legal immigration and reduce foreign ownership. Invest in the idea of small town America. Covid has shown us we can work remotely. The answers are their, but people arent going to vote for the right kind of republican. Economically: Centrist Socially: Right-Wing (both atheist and Christian)

It can cause respiratory failure.

Homelessness and drug use are very intertwined in San Francisco. Think it's about 80% and cause and effect relationships vary.

But they have 33 by for ukriane

They chose to live like that and become drug addicts.

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“Isaiah 5:20 - They say that what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right; that black is white and white is black; bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.” SF is circling the (moral) drain

Yes and the victims they rob need a mention ,I think about them

Democrats world

Well one thing is just a bill that gets money in your account, the other takes money out your account and doesnt change the problem. So you really are comparing to very different things on many levels.

Yeeeaaahhhhh tenderloin!

Scary! It's not an area to drive through, and I fear that tourists can easily wind up in serious danger because they aren't familiar with thee area.

🤣🤣🤣 yup you’re not from the Bay

@@Blackpearl1993 Ha! We walk thru it drunk haha

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And the very fact that she has others to blame, tells me she'll be voting Democrat forever...

Maybe because you are too hard on yourself. and now you blame a woman you don't know. Pretty shitty of you, but who knows what you've done to your child

yeah but in the end how people act is on them and them alone.

That is shocking. Hope you are ok.

The whole democrats cities need to be fixed, but until they realize that there is a problem, they won’t fix the problem.

This is definitely not just a west coast problem. Walk through any city in New England and you'll see this exact shit with a snowy backdrop.

So what you are saying is you also ignored him?

@@upswingcompanyrehearsals4456 just like Hollywood liberals ignore Covid in hotbed LA County

When government gonna make public campaigns against drugs we just can't put all the blame on our neighbors south the border

True .I know this from personal experience staying at a salvation army shelter in the Tenderloin back in the mid 90.if you had a Budweiser in your hand ,they kicked you out.

I just get clean, there are some many great programs in Chicago full medical detox u don't need any medical insurance people just wanna keep getting high

Addicts will die if they don't get their continues fixes. That's why you can't just stop them from using it completely. The people at the shelters should be a little medically educated.

@@RYCH3 only if they are hooked on benzos, or have been drinking everyday for 20 years. Opiates on the other hand detoxing u my feel like your gonna die but u won't ( I know)

I hope you’ve a great and prosperous life. I wish you all the best on your journey 🙏🏻

I take nothing for granted and I won't EVER FORGET what I have lived through. Encouraging words from people like yourself along the way certainly help and are VERY MUCH APPRECIATED! GOD BLESS YOU!😇🙏🙂👍

Well said! That’s awesome to hear. Very happy! You got this.

@@SeaBiscotti thank you for your kind response Sir!

@Richard S I agree with what you said. Jail is NOT the answer. So many people just resort back to drugs upon release. Now the self medicating is to cope with not only homelessness but the trauma of being incarcerated. And it's very much a downward SPIRAL like you said. Addiction is a brain disease but socioeconomic factors weigh heavily on the individual 's ability to achieve long term sobriety. Certainly the cities of our nation need more outreach programs so people suffering from addiction, homelessness, poverty, mental illness, etc. can have half a chance at RECOVERY. Most people don't realize that addiction doesn't JUST hinder the individual but it affects the entire community when you have hundreds and thousands of people spilling over into the streets with no hope or SAFE place to go. Most of the community shelters in Philadelphia have WAITING LISTS to get in. After you finally get a bed then you sit on another WAITING LIST for rapid rehousing or other housing program. There's so many problems and not enough answers. I know it's just been my internal perseverance to make it back and faith in God that helped me survive this storm!

@Roz Alman this doesn't happen in Dallas.

@@boofert.washington2499 I remember going to Dallas and it was so bland, dirty, and boring with ghetto neighbors littered all around

@@boofert.washington2499 even in Austin it has been cleaned up quite a bit.

@@boofert.washington2499 pffft, it will…………Texas is gonna turn BLUE……watch and see…..Toots!

@@JR-tc9xm You, ma’am, are a L.I.A.R……..

LET'S GO BRANDON!!😂🤣

People keep voting Democrat. Enjoy the shithole the elites have created.

I visited the San Francisco 1965 Summer Of Love, saw 1970's Monterey County public use areas posted NO HIPPIES, and still motorcycle 2,000 mile road trips to appreciate the SFBA again. San Pablo Bay south to Monterey Bay

@@signumcrucis71 Republicans don't have a working solution either. If you go after the drug dealers (and SFPD does...) new dealers grow back, if you go after the addicts and homeless, they go somewhere else. Of course you can sweep a city from suffering people, but their suffering is the problem, not you seeing the suffering.

@@Andreas-gh6is LET'S GO BRANDON LGBTI...😂🤣😂

Wealthy landowners control politics in the city, and they really like their high property values. So they don't allow housing to be built, which keeps their property value increasing at a faster rate. It's pretty gross.

This is the inevitable result of the greed and corruption inherent to capitalism. If you worship at the alter of the beast system then you piss all over your fellow human beings. It's all about to collapse thank God. I say thank God because He's collapsing it.

(A failure of leadership.) or of voters who keep electing ultra woke left wing supervisors and Mayors.

Eh, it's only worse in the bad areas. Avoid those, and it is fine.

@@balargus319 these days the bad folks go into neighborhoods to cause crime. Look at Chinatown. Certain folks go there daily to terrorize the community.

you can get interpersonal connections at WORK. Get a JOB.

@@travisashimself2356 I have a job, and have had many jobs... you make no point. And all are under incompetent bosses and in overworked stressful situations where the coworkers end up hating each other (SO NO YOU CAN'T) as statisticcally the majority of Americans hate their jobs. And what I'm talking about has almost nothing to do with that and everything to do with the breakdown in traditional family and social settings when a child needs interpersonal connections the most to become a healthy adult... instead of a mindless robot drone who ends up embracing backward ideologies and past historic glories (that weren't his and he had no actual part in) that have become divisive and destructive as of now. So yeah.... bit more thinking on the next one!

@@travisashimself2356 outdated statement

You know it!

but it is the richest country in the world... I don't understand ... breed ... a mayor in a long line of ineffective, corrupt, feckless and in this case sell out mayors... defund the police ... not all duh... and put that and a billion bucks from the military into caring for those on the street .... richest country in the world... yeah right

Congratulations on the 3 years! I'm coming up on 10 and actually recently purchased a home on 10 acres. I nvr thought I'd be here

@@chrislair6832 thanks Chris for your kind words and congratulations on your ten years and the new property, I'm nearly 52 now and I have very little to show for it but I'm keeping it simple as that works well for me, your lucky to have youth on your side so make the most of the coming years, much love from Wales UK ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

Congratulations on being clean from drugs for 3 years Adam keep at it you got this.

@@Noname-oo9gn thank you,it means a great deal to me when I get a reply so kind and encouraging.

@ Adam Weston What do you suggest to help drug addicts to recover?

Thank Pelosi and that useless Governor Newsom. Democrats.

So it's not safe? I had planned to go there in February 😏

@@Freddy-ff5pq def not safe. Be carful if you are using a car. As SF is notorious for having cars windows smashed I experienced that first hand. So bad people keep windows down while they park

that puts me off going, I always wanted to go especially to see Alcatraz

@@jj-if6it should we still go ?🤣

I’m born and raised in NYC and I thought my city was getting bad/going back to the 80s, but it’s nothing like what I just watched. This country is going to shit

@@meeks1201 I was just there maybe a month or two ago… Beautiful city…

@@meeks1201 this country is going to shit in Democratic ran cities. I don’t even want to make this political at all, but that’s what it seems like.

I am from Belfast, Ireland and have always wanted to go to san Francisco, big 49 ers fan and have always had an affinity with the city . It looks bad there at the minute but my own city is tough. Is it really that bad that you wouldn't recommend to visit?

@@tommccrisken5319 You can visit, but don't leave anything, and I mean anything in your car. I can more than guarantee, it will get broken into. The downtown area is filthy, but we are not experiencing any of the follow home robberies like LA.

Because they would have to do something to survive. No hand-outs and they'd starve to death.

It is still filthy rich

Before drugs it was alcohol. 1950’s downtown along mission st was wino haven. South of market was a common stop for bathroom breaks, 1st st (Old AC transit terminal) was a haven for sleeping it off until the next day. Around 3rd st were liquor stores, cheap hotels, bars & pawn shops. The hippie movement introduced drugs as an alternative to alcohol, free everything, worthless responsibilities and the liberal mindset.

@Angel Jose Mendoza all areas are full of homeless bums

@Angel Jose Mendoza it was the main street which had the Westfield mall, and other stores like Target, old navy etc. Think it is Market Street. But also saw Alot on the walk to the huge Convention Centre

@@pbird5351 This is about accurate. Still worth visiting. No hobos blight the museums though.

LOL...The bottom line here is to understand why these people get into drugs and homelessness. If it's due to income/economic issues, then you must address it properly because if there's 1 thing SF, or for that matter the US, doesn't have is lack of resources. Let's cut the crap bullshit narrative of "capitalism and the (american) dream". This is a serious social issue that needs social solutions (socialism).

Thoughts and prayers will accomplish nothing, but practical data-driven action will produce results. We must move away from Iron Age mythology and turn towards secular humanism and science to seek the answers and solutions to our ills. Particularly if we give people on these streets false hopes about reality in lieu of what Nietzsche might call a Will To Power.

And people choose to do it. So it’s both sides

I also grew up in SF 1958~1974. Downtown along Mission St from 1st st (the old AC transit station) to past 3rd st was worst areas of homelessness due to liquor and homelessness. South of Market was all industry, pawn shops and liquor stores. Along Mission was cheap motels and more liquor stores wino haven. I unfortunately grew up in Bayview district and experienced a different upbringing than many. My opinion, when hippies took over Haight/Asbury, Fell st and panhandle of Golden Gate park is when life changed. Free everything, drugs dominated the winos liquor and liberal mindset established.

I remember in 1971 there was a lot of street people in SF and Berkeley and they city did not to get them off the streets. They would panhandle and then stay in homes that were open with no one living in them.

@@donnavaughn9409 Outright Squatters living there. And they would be a hero to Boudin.

@@JR-tc9xm these people never been to oaktown lol

It's not dangerous ( that drives down rent) but just zombie addicts making things gross. If it was dangerous I could afford to live there 😂

They are “living overdoses” just not fully expired yet. They are walking around but they are hollowed out and dead. What a waste of circulating blood in these veins. Too bad they got high instead of doing homework in school.

Hope you don't vote what u voted for in there 😃

This is the future of the entire country if liberalism keeps spreading

Yea it's called systemic poverty and you were displacing people. Being a doctor doesn't automatically make you empathetic or wise, a lot of doctors are arrogant and out-of-touch. Bye!

Wherever you move, just please don’t vote Democrat.

Doesn’t matter how smart, beautiful and well dressed a woman is, she’s still undateable if she doesn’t wipe her ass after taking a shit.

I am curious how many are san francisco residents and how many are transient populations

Yeah that plus defunding the police, decriminializing and all the other stuff that the DA and mayor are allowing to happen. They are destroying that city

Even if you are not homeless bit just low income and disabled, you are not getting any help from the city at all or enough to make real impact. Thank you BBC for making these reports time to time through the decades. We need to see the issues that the city is usually sweeping under the carpet and dropping the ball about. The divide of haves and have nots are ridiculously marked, especially over in the next city Oakland, which always scared me but even more now. Best not to do any reports in Oakland because it’s not safe at any hour.

So tax the hell out of the super rich.

It's a caste system. That's what the left has set up.

I hope she recovers well 💐

Noticed other countries don't have such a drug problem like we do

Or so many people in prison the US government is the problem greed no given they throw us under the bus lending money that we to other countries like what the list goes on and on

1 g would kill her 100 times over!

Fake no one gives doses of 1 gram fentanyl

Too many people _living in filth!_

I seriously doubt she was a real mom looking for her son Corey.

No Corey is not blameless, he is messing up my city and if it was up to me he would be launched into outer space.

@@geronimo67 Why in the world would you think someone walking around with a photo asking if they'd seen her son Corey? She's trying to save his life.

Biden’s open border policies are to blame

her failure led to him being on the street, the parents are always to blame when the kids go astray

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Agreed. She’s just doing the best she can.

Thats what not disciplining your kids get you.

@@biohazard_ Lol that's not true whatsoever. There are MANY factors that go into drug use, and while parenting/discipline may be one aspect, it's a drop in the puddle.

I know ... horrible. I cannot imagine what I would feel or do if anything like this happened to one of my children. If only these people in charge would focus more on making housing and addiction help more affordable and reasonably available instead of hurling insults at everyone that doesn't agree with their agenda. These are real people, not statistics.

I don't get it. I live in Sin Funcisco too, so how can my experience be so different from the people who say SF was horrible. Two guesses: you see what you're looking for, and complaining about SF is almost an industry in some circles.

Fellow Frankfurter here. Seeing these images, I, too, felt painfully reminded of our Bahnhofsviertel. It's not as bad as SF, but it's getting worse and worse.

Smh Frankfurt and Berlin were the only place I saw American style drug addicted bums in Europe. I was in Frankfurt and saw two bums fighting over a paper box while a third bum nearby gnawed on a giant block of what appeared to be cheese. I don’t speak German but I tried to tell them he had the food and they dropped the box and beat that poor man up. He dropped the cheese on the filthy sidewalk and they kept beating him. It was horrible

I’m from Beverly Massachusetts and we have the same problem here It’s everywhere

Yes Annette, I was in Frankfurt about ten years ago and saw the druggies around the central station. It looked unreal to me. I never imagined I would see worse in my own city of San Francisco. Very sad!

@@rachelmora9866 Dont judge cities from central stations. It's where junkies get their stuff so they traditionally hang out there all day.

Left wing politics for you

Honestly it mostly has to do with the prices. My family wants to move to Georgia but I told them that I don’t think we would be happy over there because last time we came back from a different state we weren’t happy. My parents have a dream of owning a lot of land though. I told them that we can find some property like that in California but it just won’t be close to the city like we’re used to and it won’t be easy. I want to stay because Cali is my home and it’s the only place where I feel happy. I feel accepted in Cali and I wouldn’t want to live in a place where people might make me feel like I don’t belong in my own country like that’s a really sad and horrible feeling so I would prefer to stay in my home state. Overall though idk why the news is trying to make it seem as if this only happens in democratic states because it’s even happening in republican states like Arizona. Arizona is having the same issue with fentanyl but they call the drug blues out there and it’s affecting a lot of the youth out there to the point that it’s extremely sad and worrisome. Sadly this is an issue that’s happening all across the country. Even when I lived in Texas I remember that a lot of the kids there took drugs and there were drug dealers making drugs in the town that we lived in so sadly there’s a drug pandemic in every state. California has a huge problem with prices though and that is one of the main thing’s that the democratic state government in California needs to change and work on. Everything out here in Cali is getting as expensive as New York honestly and it’s getting ridiculous. If things don’t change only the rich will live in the cities or bay areas and the middle class and 3rd class people will have to live in the high desert or go to Northern California or people will have to leave altogether and regular Californians all hope that will never happen.

The problem is incompetent Demokrat policies, and nothing else ..!

@@sleek1988 That is incorrect. Let wing socialist policies and irresponsible central bank monetary policies caused this.

@@sleek1988 left wing liberal socialist "progressive" policies caused and enable this.

It's the reality across the U.S & instead us the American people being republic or democrat going against one another black or white how about we start being human first & using common sense the problem in this country is our government Period we have laws that 1000 years old like come on

You don't have to worry about your child? Lol, of course you do. They are targeted.

What do you feel has caused the decline?

Oh but you will soon enough. It's the old saying... you can run from the problems... yet the problems always find you until the problem is fixed. Not saying you personally btw... by all ,ears I totally understand the decision to move. Thing is, these days you cannot move far enough away... your former city is a microcosm of America as a whole.. all our cities have been neglected and ruined for the most part.. the timing of the F crisis and the sheer amount allowed to ravage our cities and towns and small communities is unimaginable.. ask yourself this, 20 years ago, could you see this coming? Prolly not!! At least not on the level seen today!! Immsure u could see the gradual decline over the years, but never did u imagine how truly bad its gotten! We're talking millions of people sick and suffering from a lab created killer... heroin was bad don't get me wrong, but this is a whole other level of addiction and it's repercussions.... things do not seem to be getting better by any means... but they def are getting worse by the day... their plan is working and it's hard to imagine what kind of life our children will even have left, if things continue to head in tbe planned direction,,, take care and may God watch over your family

@Robert Graddy not my town. Cops have nothing better to do here than give you parking tickets. They’d love some action. The las time a homeless person was roaming around asking for money he was immediately ‘removed’. Been here for 20 years and this town is still clean. Oakland however….

Sorry for your loss.

What about Chicago and Detroit?

@@michaell4262 they said ‘great’ cities yuk yuk yuk

Why fall down? In Vietnam drug dealer was band, drugged was collected.

I had the myth of the city since playing Godzilla for PS2 and seeing that alien like tower, I was 6 or 7 I guess. I'm from Italy but I happened to have an "on the road" trip to the US with my parents when I was 10 or so. I loved San Francisco, like I loved Chicago and many other cities or landscape. I feel sorry for what is happening with drugs and guns in the us right now. Really. This images are terrible. I urge you to do something cause right now me and many other of my age feel like living in US is just a big risk, as it's simply a dangerous country right now. I'm just trying to give my insight on how I've changed my perception of this country, as someone who is in a moment in his life where he could aim for any place to continue their life.

@@stevendee6800 Chicago looks down on San Fran. Not even close lol

Is it really that bad now? I haven't been to Phoenix in years. Last time I was there, it was absolutely beautiful and very clean. I didn't see any homeless people around either.

RU-vid channels Lost in Phoenix, and Tales From The Streets document fentanyl addiction in Phoenix.

Most of the big cities with warm climates are having the same problems. Drug addicts like these, the ones that live on the street year round, avoid places like NYC because they know come January they'll freeze to death.

I live in Phoenix and trust me you don't want to be homeless in the summer. You can also die and many do.

@@brittanyanne6711 no they are being dramatic, while statistically I’m sure there’s more homeless people here in phoenix than the past couple years it does not come close to San Francisco or Portland.

And they will practice Corporate Social Responsibility by introducing Meatless Mondays, changing all fleet vehicles to EVs, and flying a TV test-pattern flag in June. 😁😁

Let's give these wonderful companies some more tax breaks so they can create jobs for more of their Stanford roommates *working remotely from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho*

Its nice they make it so accessible and give it away! Love it!

@@slimfeezy it's nice that drugs are made magnitudes more dangerous by having them made in backyards and diy labs. Yeah let's just keep making things more dangerous, instead of treating the issue as a health one, idiots like you keep pushing for punishment of drug users. Loving your idiocy.

Yes this is what happens when a city goes full liberal

Thats hardcore, and talking about death is a good way to deal with it. Remember that.

Yeah I’ve tried to unstiffen people before. It’s insanely difficult. Always use to be scared I was gonna break someone’s finger lol

How is he now?

@@jsmith1561 dead

@@jsmith1561 Still dead, according to the account above!

Its all TRUMPS FAULT!!!! The only thing that destroyed San Francisco are the right-wing, antivax, neo-nazi, covid-denying, climate-denying CHRISTIAN TRUMP SUPPORTERS!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

The 100 percent democrat run city just say it

I visited SF in 2001-2002 for 3 months(I'm from New Zealand) and was shocked at the number of homeless/addicts I saw EVERYWHERE I went

@@jimmy-rm3cl They aren't regular Democrats. They are radical leftists that want to dismantle the American way of life. They are also incredibly stupid and naive.

@@doradebosco You are lucky to live in probably the most pristine and clean places on earth. America is a big trash can at this point. I still wonder why we even have tourists spending their money to come here.

Heroin

@@tokyodude2715 hasnt been heroin in a long time

Richard S addiction isnt about self control , it starts as a coping mechanism to any number of traumas and ends up a disease. But yes, some of these drugs arent even really drugs anymore. They are just poision. Not like hyperbole… literal poison. We’ve been led to this road by years and years of war on (certain) drugs. Its just sad, people are needlessly dying, and nobody’s going to advocate for harm reduction in government. A person can lead an okay life with a clean, regulated, supervised supply of opiates. They are a million times cleaner than alcohol. But the demonization was done long ago and here we are.

Richard S i completely agree. Its a completely rational thing to do in the face of a shitty world, which is the funny thing about it most people like to dodge Well, it was before they just started putting pure poison in the drug supply anyway

What are you talking about, the Tenderlion was just as bad or worse in the late 80s. You mustn't stayed near the T. L back then. The Tenderlion had the same if not more open drug dealing and using back then. Seemed like back then I would looked out my 5th floor window and see fires every other day where I would see flames blazing out the windows of nearby buildings and SF firefighters rescuing someone from their 6th floor room, or a fool standing on the corner with a bat walking back and forth across the street and every 10 minutes bashing in another car window to steal the bags some unsuspecting tourists who had left their luggage on their car seats. Or seeing some thief climbing down a building fire escape with a busted TV in his other hand. Then back in the late 80s the TL had a whole lot of jig Jack hole in the wall strip clubs that stayed open all day and all night long, then there were the street hookers to, who would be out morning, noon and late night. I got tired of taking my 6AM jog and seeing prostitutes on every corner. I had to move to a cleaner quieter city across the bay back in 1989. When I moved across the bay, I was like wow I can hear birds chippering away again and I can run around the lake without worrying about prostitutes blocking my path. I said to myself. 'Man, Oakland is great.'

Half life is a lot shorter also……prefer heroin as it’s not like you need alot of that anyway.

The potency of the Mexican clandestine lab produced product is all over the place. Those people are truly playing Russian Roulette.

Fentanyl is mixed with horse tranquilliser selling for $5 a bag the hit doesn't last long bout 20 minutes then they need more and more goes on and on,what a sad life they lead...

Democrats for you

Agree! I worked in the city before covid, right on market street. It's not as bad as this! What happened, it's only 2.5 years!

Hello, the police do what the city tells them. Over 90% of the calls to police are service calls for the addicted. Put the blame squarely where it belongs, the mayor , city counsel and your crappy DA. Your mayor defunded the department and tied there hands to deal with this issue and crime. Liberalism Ruined a beautiful city with a rich history. Next election try and vote differently!! Thank you

@@daveoc5770 lol..look at florida...its Republican ran..and their homelessness is rising from people not affording rents...so...

@@elanamccullum1677 I have heard people from democrat ran states are moving to republican ran states in their droves, they will bring the area down also

you are a brave soul

Please take care!

and it's only a few short blocks from the Opera House and Symphony Hall on Van Ness. You can bet the limo's by pass your neighborhood.

Hasn't the Tenderloin always been a rough spot in San Francisco since before the 60s? I was in the city in the early 2000s, and most locals would tell me to avoid the Tenderloin area.