FENTANYL KILLS: Jimmy Woody's Story 

And this is precisely why people should never stop talking about this and sharing their stories. You never know who it might reach and help. Let’s go!! Thank you for sharing this and for hanging in there for one more day!!! Hope, Hope, Hope.. that’s what people need right now. Recovery is possible!!

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@@stevenmcbride9773 that’s right!! I’m always looking for new stories to keep me motivated on my journey to recovery ❤️‍🩹 ❤️❤️‍🩹

Keep fighting! You’ve got this!

She is married

@@mojoe3012​​⁠ ??????. I have never heard an answer that is so out there having NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING on a preceding comment. WTF?

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It is horrible that you went through this. I probably been punching someone in the face. So sorry about your son. Thank you for challenging the system. God Bless you and your family.

thank you for your comments.

How about people stop buying drugs?

​@@stuff1784I agree, the dope dealers sell it but us addicts make that bad decision to buy it, thankfully I'm in recovery now but I've been there

I'm so sorry for your loss🙏

🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻 RIP Carrie Lynn ❤️

Sorry for your loss ❤

So very sorry mine is in active fentanyl addiction I’m so scared

Ugh so sorry ma. Can't imagine anything worse than loosing a child (always your child even when an adult)

Is it a red or a blue state ? Where she lives ?

I believe mom said they live in MO. Red state

Both red and blue states need to do better, to stop the fentanyl poisoning and bring justice to the ones murdered

​@@dieniefay3733very RED, as red as it gets.

Watch some more videos on this channel. It's the same story. Cops failing the very citizens their job is to protect and serve. Most every single video.

Wow, that is too much, so sorry for your losses, please take care of yourself.

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Big hug 🫂🫂❤

Let everybody in your family watch out for him! There's nothing more you can do. Because a lot of times they are very good at hiding it. Because addicts don't want someone else to stop them from using.

Show him all the videos about Kensington and show him all the addicts who appear to be zombies

I always wonder what is the answer to this crisis? This a horrible epidemic, one of my neighbors overdosed on fentanyl and he's 72 years old. He thought he bought cocaine but it was fentanyl. Shame on him though at his age using illicit drugs, it's just sad.

​@@patriciapearl2529I'm 54. And addicted since I was 16. Maybe I'm using too at that age...I don't hope so. But that's more a shame than when a young person does it?? I just hope young people get educated earlier than I did!!!

@@patriciapearl2529you are apart of the problem. shame on him? seriously? why do ppl have to be shamed for using drugs? you don’t know why he chose to go buy cocaine. how dare you shame him for that. this is the problem and why there’s so much negative stigma around addicts and addiction.

@@tianalee4126 get help for your addiction issues. Prayers to you

Shame on him for be this old and still an addiction .

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@@zwan1820 Thank you 💜

@@michellecogdill6128 Thank you for the reply 💜

Stay hopeful because it's a start!!! Don't give up. It took me 30 years to finally stop with everything. I just pray for you it won't take her that long!!

News flash drugs have always came through the border through every administration. This drug kills and is coming from China

Wrong. Stop blaming Biden for everything !

If you think this administration is to blame then why not blame the parents of those kids... same difference.

Don’t be knowledgeable the current administration didn’t open the borders. And the majority of drugs are sent here by poor people but the big cartels that have planes, boats , tunnels etc etc . And we’re in this situation to because America big appetite for drugs , if wasn’t for that , nobody would try to send drugs here if wasn’t a great market for them. Use your cognitive intelligence and by the way this tread started with the previous administration!

@@susiewomack9104, the epidemic started with your macho Trump , big wall blah blah . Use if you have your cognitive intelligence as poor immigrants very rare bringing fentanyl in the country. These drugs are brought here first by Americans big apettit of drugs and wealthy cartels using trucks, airplanes, tunnels, boats etc etc .

I think those agencies are well aware of the problem- they see it everyday in their jobs. they do what their voters and donors want them to do.

Thank you.

Well stated. Especially, coming from your experience. 🏍🇺🇸🎒

@@glcmranger421 thank you!! Glad someone can see where I am coming from. Not from a place of judgement but personal responsibility that every adult should be able to possess.

It is called "poisoning" because in most of our stories none of the evidence indicates the victim knowingly used fentanyl, and evidence (texts, remaining pills, witnesses, etc.) does indicate that the victim believed he/she was using a genuine pharmaceutical. In these stories, the victim used an illicitly manufactured pill made to look like a genuine pharmaceutical product. The counterfeit pill contained fentanyl. Some states are creating laws that identify this kind of death specifically as poisoning. CNN, Fox News, DOJ, FBI, DEA, CDC, LA Times, Washington Post, PBS, the medical community, the addiction treatment community, the scientific community, the law enforcement community, and tons of others refer to this as poisoning.

@@TexasPictures I understand where you all are coming from and my heart breaks for this mom. No mother should have to bury their child… BUT buying illicit anything from a stranger or even a close friend is essentially signing a contract saying “I am willing to take something that I have no idea what is in, including the “poison”. This is why I feel the term was/is used lightly. One is playing Russian roulette’s with their life anytime they take something narcotic wise that has not been prescribed nor verified by a pharmacy. Responsibility has GOT to be taken to some degree. He is/was not a child.

Thank you for saying what I’ve wanted to say for a long time. I went through years of hell with my 2 brothers who were both drug & alcohol abusers, and their bodies became chemically dependent on them (I do not like using the term “addict”; to me, it’s no different than the “R” word). My parents went out of their way physically & financially blaming everything and everyone else for my brother’s behaviors. Rehabs & recovery centers never worked because they do not take the time to get at the root of psychological problems, they do not teach effective and individualized coping mechanisms - all they want to do is get that bed available as soon as possible. Personal responsibility is crucial to becoming clean and that doesn’t happen in 1 or 2 visits with a professional. It’s way too easy to blame a dealer, a friend, etc…

a lot of people vote based on the letter next to their name regardless of qualifications.

@@DriftwoodbabyIt is every person’s right to vote their own way, regardless of my opinion or yours, right?

@@glcmranger421 I didn't say it wasn't- doesn't change the fact that some will vote for someone with zero qualifications, right?

@@Driftwoodbaby What makes you the almighty one who decides who is qualified and to what extent? Your opinion matters as little as the next person, right? Yes! You can pretend, but that doesn’t mean everyone else has to pretend.

@@glcmranger421 dude- I don't even know what you are talking about, but we are NOT talking about the same thing. damn. go have a cookie or something.

RU-vid doesn't care 😢

Illegally using drugs, yes. I’ve used Fentanyl since 2000 and other opioids since 1992, thanks to injuries, cancers and treatments. I fought for over a year, before finally using pain meds to bring some relief. It got me back on my feet and back to work, so I’m proof that “people touch drugs” does not mean “it will kill them.” 🏍🇺🇸🎒

As well you should. An Emergency Room Physician I know of😢 stated that it is in EVERYTHING that you can buy off the street, even Marijuana. Isn't it amazing that the fact that fentanyl is so prevalent in the illicit drugs coming into this country, that people will take them anyway, knowing how risky it is. The addiction is so strong that it overpowers all other considerations (like death, family, employment, and health). Someone has mis- formed this woman regarding Acetaminophen.

I would guess then that Fentanyl deaths in Missouri are seriously under-reported.

@@cindyjo9093 the fact that fentanyl can be in weed is frightening!

​@@cindyjo9093You're so right!!! If people didn't believe it by now ...they should because nobody would use drugs anymore, knowing that every drug can be laced with fentanyl and therfore deadly....it's a disease!!!

Smoking weed isn’t worth it. Get some edibles/THC from a smoke shop. It’s regulated.

Not true. People smoke, shoot, and snort it all the time.

No consequences because her son chose to buy an illicit substance.

I agree. I'm a recovering heroin addict. I had bought what I thought was heroin and as soon as I used, I OD'd. No high, no nod, literally fell out. Mind you, I've unfortunately been on methadone for the past 6 yrs, so I knew there was a possibility of it containing fentanyl. I thought I could handle it, since I have a high tolerance. Boy was I wrong. Got Narcan'ed twice and went into percipitated withdrawal. The worst feeling in the world.

@@Leefuentes5058. I’m in recovery and I’ve heard so many people say, “I don’t OD.” I know where they’re coming from. When I was on the plane to rehab and had just found out they would take my pills when I got there (those particular pills were prescribed by to me, so I thought they couldn’t), I took a handful of them. I was worried I’d overdose and told the treatment center, when I got there, but was asked if I was sure, because if I went to the hospital, I’d be on the streets after that, with no ticket home. I didn’t even feel high, so I just went to bed and was fine, in the morning. A lot of people would have died, but I knew my tolerance. I used to laugh with them, when living people had 5 times the amount it takes to kill someone, when they were taken to a hospital and survived, because it all seemed so subjective and overblown. Then, 5 people I knew died in a year and I began my recovery, in earnest. I’m grateful there was a court order, to hasten my decision, though I do think the U.S: should expunge no -violent subsistence and morals crimes after the person is discharged from the system, because I’ve seen so many people lose their futures, who need something to live for. What people need to know is that no one has tolerance that can allow them to survive the amounts of fentanyl that is often in a single pill or shot, often, these days. If it’s enough to kill an elephant, you’re not going to be able to clear it from your system. I don’t care how much you’ve done. The truth is, there’s no way to know, unless the drugs are tested. What has kept some users alive for so long, in the past, was knowing what they were taking and how much they could handle. Now, nobody knows, unless they produce the product themselves. It could be 1,000 times what would kill a normal person. I’ve heard ISO has 20-100 times the amount of opioids than fentanyl and 5 people in my area died from that, not that long ago. This is nothing we can, in any way, control anymore, so in a way, it is fentanyl that’s killing people. Social and interpersonal problems and individual disorders are why people still take the risk and there will always be people who use drugs to alter their consciousness. There always have been, but because this is such a pervasive human tendency, people will die, when there are such toxic substances around. I dont think we can get rid of the problem, by putting people in jail, but it is a problem that calls for major education efforts and social change.

Yeah, Blacks were treated far worse for any drugs -- even weed. Many sat in prison prison for decades for it and crack the same, (eventhough Reagan deliberately placed crack in Black and Hispanic communities). Not trying to be insensitive, but the disparity in how the races have been treated is down-right disgusting. I believe Karma is real.

Yes!!!

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She talks about her son’s heroin usage like it’s a totally normal thing and is complaining about what the coroners office said about the cause of his death. Lady, your son used heroin regularly and you are sitting here bragging about it that you are filing complaints against these people who do their every day jobs? Seriously tho. I m truly sorry for her loss but nothing will bring her son back.

@@jutka5629I agree

Seriously

Oh my goodness is that all you do ???? Your so intelligent to be able to solve addiction one of our most deadly diseases. Thank you !!!😊