The faces of Portland's now-declared fentanyl state of emergency | The Story | Jan. 30, 2024

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After finding her daughter homeless and addicted to fentanyl in Portland, an Arizona mother tries to keep a connection - even if she can't get her help.
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@IntriguedLioness 6 месяцев назад

"Jades" mommy is an enabler.

@jbfrom503 6 месяцев назад

Shes not willing to help her daughter at all. She willing to keep enabling her own daughter... Sad. Very sad

@thestyledocument 6 месяцев назад

Welcome to Portland, the city where you can "self-medicate" yourself to permanent brain damage! And where you can become your own doctor with an office that looks like a tent! But you have no patients but "yourself," whomever that is ... If you are not completely disgusted by this, you are part of the problem. For almost 11yr now, I've lived in Old Town as a functioning, contributing member of society. Every day I experience all of this sh*t and I'm beyond sick of it. All of it! ... Voluntary treatment doesn't work! The longer you wait, the more you enable someone to wreck their brain via "self-medication."

@blossmayne 6 месяцев назад

I was a fentanyl addict last year. I've sspent plenty of time around the allied in china town. the sane people at the clinic tried to help guard the 5-6th daviis blocks from the crazy shit. I never harmed anyone but myself. we do recover. have some faith in people, it is possible. I have seen all kinda of wretched shit out there and I get it. I just want you to know I llive in your city, did that and am clean. I checked myself into detox/rehab my fucking godamn self, so knock that attitude off, it will never help anyone quit.

@thestyledocument 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for your response ... You agree with the when-you're-ready approach, even though it destroys the city??? How long have you been in Portland?@@blossmayne

@thestyledocument 6 месяцев назад

@@blossmayne And you claim you never harmed anyone but yourself ... I would disagree with that. Unless you lived underground in a sewer 100% of the time, you definitely harmed the city of Portland with your addiction.

@blossmayne 6 месяцев назад

@@thestyledocument nah, not anymore than a drunken yuppie, a highschool brat, or something along those lines. Those drug dealers/junkies would do all that shit regardless if I used or not. Your fighting a losing battle my man.

@blossmayne 6 месяцев назад

you came at me..... remember that. I can tell you are a miserable person.

@chancepaladin 6 месяцев назад

wtf does declaring a fent state of emergency mean. are they going to finally treat it like a chemical weapon attack?

@TheAutisticCat 6 месяцев назад

It appears the young woman wants to remain in a tent just doing drugs on public property. Sorry but this is anti-social behavior and can't just be tolerated and accepted. 98% of us would like to be able to go out and enjoy our city. But the 2% make this impossible.

@bulldaggerwatkins190 6 месяцев назад

You reap what you vote for.

@julieb7785 6 месяцев назад

No. You reap what you raise...and now society is faced with hoards of waifs, runaways, drifters and creeps who are unskilled, unloved and numbing themselves to death. No 6 year old girl sits under a Christmas tree or blows out her candles wishing for a filthy tent, a drug addiction and a life of crime on the streets to support it. Disgusting what Americans have done to kids. And no one will talk about it. Blame society, schools, the government, social media. Pass the effing buck. Look at the mother........begins and ends with her. Oh, but judging is not cool.

@user-xm5le5ok2r 6 месяцев назад

No it’s Karma. In the 80’s remember the crack epidemic. People labeled and treated people in the inner city in a negative way. Now the table has turned!

@julieb7785 6 месяцев назад

What has happened to American Parents? Clearly, there's a back story with this mother. Would love to have been a fly on the wall when the addict was a 2 year old, an 8 year, a 17 year old girl. Where were her parents then? Stop normalizing the complete lack of integrity, accountability, discipline; and the gross ineptitude and negligence of the parents.

@blackbutnotblue 6 месяцев назад

This is exactly what I was thinking. What happened during this young woman’s life that caused this to be her path? Where is her father? Why would the mom uproot her life and cater to her daughter’s addiction? Hitting rock bottom with fentanyl is death, but if the daughter won’t stop using it, catering to the addiction will not save the daughter’s life.

@omarra6781 6 месяцев назад

Why is it always the parents' fault? Once kids get to a certain age they make their own decisions, whether you like it or not. You can try to guide them, support them, but you can't force them. And sometimes people use drugs and alcohol to self-medicate due to mental illness or even physical illness. Sometimes physical illness leads to drug addiction - you know, people who have back surgery or something, get powerful, addictive medications and bam! Next thing they know, they're addicted. Stop blaming parents unless you have definitive proof the parents laid the groundwork by being drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, or abusive and neglectful themselves.

@dukewillum 6 месяцев назад

This news just in: life is hard.

@tonycust8528 6 месяцев назад

I wonder why now. Like what in the last days/weeks has prompted this move. This has been a problem for a long time, so why now? Did anyone from KGW ask that question?

@sunnie_oregon 6 месяцев назад

Why now? Easy. The 2024 legislative session begins next week.

@bobbyb7568 6 месяцев назад

uh have you seen the polls for the 2024 election, only reason anything is happening short of Chinas leader coming to Portland!

@leegalen8383 5 месяцев назад

Come on, we know where they got those electronics. Mom is a huge enabler and Portland is making it easy by allowing tents and encampment. Vagrancy used to be illegal, you never saw homeless 40 years ago.

@BroSlayzer 6 месяцев назад

Stay safe Blair. Poor cat. Lost kids. Stuck in their addiction. So many lost souls

@PKerusso 6 месяцев назад

You obviously aren’t paying attention. She’s not “ stuck”. She refuses to quit. Plenty of FREE programs to get her help. There absolutely no excuse for this…it’s just choices.

@BroSlayzer 6 месяцев назад

These people can't make or understand normal choices. Their view gets narrowed through using and the disease of addiction makes them sick unable to see it's a choice. As a progressive illness, addicts get locked in a belief system settling for limited or compromised happiness and can't get past the belief that they will be happy w/o the drug/ pharmacutical poison and/ or derivative. It's classic physically, mentally, spiritually, addicted disease model type phenomenon. Be thankful You can see it as a choice. I agree it is always a choice to use or not. The excuse came when they legalized it for these People. Thank the Governments and big Pharma

@nancystinson4458 6 месяцев назад

My heart aches for her momma. I'm here to give some hope. In times like these, hope is like gold. My daughter is a recovering heroin user. She has been recovering for 6 years. I don't reflect back on the days she was using because I rejoice daily on these days. Days where I don't have to hunt her down or put myself in situations that could of been all bad. Nights calling friends or people that may have happened to see her. Anything that could help me get some rest because I had to work no matter how I felt. Days at the hospital because she was sepsis. The guilt I felt for everything that I ever done wrong and even the right ones. I questioned everything I did because I didn't know how to save her life. I desperately wanted to. I felt like I was doing things differently then her father or people in similar situations and that felt so wrong. It wasn't until my son, her brother, told me to stop. I think he knew that I was a crazy person at that point. I thought that I would try something a little differently and told her she couldn't no longer sleep at my home unless she was clean. It was the hardest thing that I have ever done. A few days later she came home and really asked for help. She meant it and she did it. My daughter tells me thank you today, for believing in her and never giving up and for putting my foot down. She says she is not sure if she would have been ready otherwise . Today she has her 3 kids full time, works a badass job and makes way better money than most people her age. She is a fighter and a gem. The real nugget is to believe in miracles ! There's hope! People get clean all the time. When the pain of trying to stay well is more miserable than the fear of getting well, then it will happen . Praying for you both

@streetreelspdx 6 месяцев назад

♥️ 🙏

@christinayoung5339 6 месяцев назад

🙏💕🙏 "When the pain of trying to stay well is more miserable then the fear of getting well.." I've never heard that explanation before. That sums up almost everything. Peace and love for your daughter, yourself and your family. Thank you for never giving up. 🙏💕🙏

@Anna-ww4pv 6 месяцев назад

Reflect back and ask yourself what signs you ignored and teach parents to look for these signs.

@nancystinson4458 6 месяцев назад

@@Anna-ww4pv do you have kids?

@Anna-ww4pv 6 месяцев назад

@@nancystinson4458 Yes, I have two. Neither has had interest in drugs and are not into drinking.

@peacefreedom4930 6 месяцев назад

I know it’s difficult to make the hard choices for our children, but Jade’s mother is doing the opposite of what she should be doing. It’s more likely that Jade will have the end she fears because she is literally making her continued drug use possible and her life comfortable. She needs to take her hands off the situation and allow Jade to experience the raw consequences of her decisions and behavior. She can love on her daughter, speak life into her, encourage her, and spend time with her. But she needs to stop enabling her. She thinks she’s helping. She’s helping her harm herself. Stand back and let Jade hit bottom. In the bottom she will be forced to decide if she’s coming up and out, or allowing the darkness to swallow her. Hopefully, the love gives her something to fight for.

@calvinguile1315 6 месяцев назад

It’s sad but true, you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves…

@shutupujerk 5 месяцев назад

That's bullshit . Sometimes people have too be pushed hard -how many people got forced into treatment by their parents? It saves lives.

@ScottRiddleArtist 6 месяцев назад

this first couple? It’s just fascinating how their heads have been filled with these hyper liberal suggestions and vocabulary. Medicine? And obviously because of the disease they’re contributing nothing and menacing the city with crime. Yeah I feel really sorry for them. Forced incarceration and treatment. I think when you lose control of your life and you can’t make decisions for yourself. And you don’t have a rock-bottom anymore? And your disease is affecting greater society? You forfeit your rights to making decisions for yourself. Did anyone see the 60 minute episode a few weeks ago? there’s a doctor working on a very effective treatment for the brain disease of addiction. And it doesn’t involve replacing one drug with another. It’s using ultrasound! That being said. What I’m seeing is a very strategic move that has been repeated throughout history between warring governments. I referred to the opium war in China historically. And now we have the fentanyl crisis. The Chinese government is in negotiations of the US, but now is using the idea of stopping and controlling the production and export of fentanyl, and likewise chemicals to the United States and Mexico as a bargaining chip. being a gay man almost 60. During the aids epidemic was the last time I saw this amount of death without any type of government or social action. These videos do nothing but exploit the sick. Defect is the families of people suffering with addiction, and who have died from fentanyl poisoning have to study how we gave men organized and started a movement against the government during the eighth crisis to get action. All the RU-vid videos in the world don’t amount to shit if awareness was enough then someone would’ve stepped in years ago when we originally started to recognize the opioid crisis, and its affect on citizens of the United States. people who been affected by this need to ban together. Organize take to the streets and fight like hell until they get results. China needs to be stopped. And the same amount of money that’s been poured into worthless wars, and foreign countries needs to be applied to fighting the drug cartels from South America.and as for dealers? Punishable by death. But as long as we’re just making RU-vid videos and enabling people with this disease? This is just a cheap sick form of entertainment.

@nancymorales7602 6 месяцев назад

$80 per day, for drugs, $560 per week, $2240 per month total cost for drugs. Looks like the mom and taxpayers are paying for this? Must be because they aren't working for their so-called pleasure! What a waste.

@blossmayne 6 месяцев назад

yeah, defintely, i did more drugs then her with my SO at the time. I spent my entire life savings (70k ish) and collected cans and shit after when it went to shit. It's so unsustainable its insane. I agree w most of you but the forcing and shaming into rehab isn't going to make anyone quit. I would have proably kille myself out of depression/ shame if that was my case. I just wish there was a way to give these people what I had. a safe facility o detox and the ability enter residential rehab .... coordinated by people who wanted to help and make me understand that I just wanted to be accepted like everyone else. WE dont chose active addiction to fentanyl. its complete shit. i coudlnt sleep at night ever. I already spent 2 years dealing with cold turkey methodone withdrawal and a year later am still dealing with paws but im freee (:

@journeybrook9357 6 месяцев назад

Fentanyl and meth in tents apartments and homes. The homeless just don't have walls . It is a symptom of politics, policy's , economy, addiction itself.

@luvlabso130 6 месяцев назад

FACTSHEET: FINAL FY23 NUMBERS SHOW WORST YEAR AT AMERICA’S BORDERS-EVER October 26, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Homeland Security released its latest “Startling Stats” factsheet outlining U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) September and Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 border encounter data. In the final month of FY2023, CBP recorded 269,735 encounters at the Southwest border, marking another unprecedented milestone under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and President Joe Biden’s open-borders policies. This monthly number also represents an 86% increase from June 2023, when the Biden administration celebrated a short-lived drop in illegal crossings following the end of Title 42. The annual numbers proved just as catastrophic. In FY23, CBP recorded more than 2.4 million encounters at the Southwest border and more than 3.2 million encounters nationwide. Just this fiscal year, 169 individuals on the terrorist watchlist were apprehended attempting to enter the country illegally, and at least 1.7 million known gotaways have evaded apprehension since FY2021. Americans did not need more proof that Biden and Mayorkas’ post-Title 42 strategy had failed, but unfortunately, that’s exactly what we have gotten. As this disaster spirals further out of control, the Biden administration does not know how many dangerous illegal aliens are entering the country undetected, especially as Border Patrol agents are being pulled off the front lines to help process and release the historic number of illegal aliens flooding the border. While monthly apprehensions and encounters continue to increase, Mayorkas simply continues to double down on his mass-parole programs, incentivizing and facilitating the entry of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the United States at a scale never before seen. Key Facts: Encounters at the Southwest border (SWB) in FY2023 increased over 40% since FY2021, 4% compared to FY2022, and more than 100% compared to FY2019. Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a 40% increase compared to September 2021 and 18% compared to September 2022. Since President Biden took office, there have been 7.5 million encounters nationwide and 6.2 million encounters at the Southwest border, in addition to 1.7 million known gotaways. In FY2023, 169 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry. 18 were apprehended in September alone. So far in FY2023, CBP has arrested 35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members. In FY2023, CBP, including Air and Marine Operations, has seized 27,293 pounds of fentanyl, coming across the Southwest border-enough to kill more than 6 billion people.

@anthonymarvell153 5 месяцев назад

The fentanyl epidemic has not even reached its peak yet. It’s so sad and gone way past being able to control it. Addiction is very complex and there is not enough infrastructure in the world to be to help and cope with it.

@jasonrichard7560 6 месяцев назад

If only they'd realize that it's being manufactured in the states

@sandrabarnwell8017 6 месяцев назад

This is due to Politics. Barely scrape by paying my bills. Somewhere, somehow, Portland politicians are being benefited by all of this. Meanwhile,, I am tired of being billed by the City of Portland with an extra tax to support this. To the people who truly need help and want it...ask. To the others who just want to take advantage of the system..You've learned how to use it.

@raevj 6 месяцев назад

Democrats work with The Cartels, nationwide, just like the Biden administration is an enabler of their human & sex trafficking along our borders.

@johneagle4384 6 месяцев назад

Wow....As if they will ever do anything to end drug use for real.

@keithinaz9769 Месяц назад

People who say, " Like ", every other word, SMH.

@crystalmasters5082 5 месяцев назад

There is a Book on life. The Bible. Prayers for your daughter ❤

@corvettesbme 6 месяцев назад

Sad

@blossmayne 6 месяцев назад

i spent $100 a day for myself and about that much for my partner at the time. ): I just tuned 30. im a year clean off a 15 year active addiction. I could get blues for $1. I wasn't even homeless. ugh 20 hours...... I got sick as shit affter like 5 hours! I hope jade can say the same thing next year. I have a job and a clean apartment but its not enough. I really want to get involved but lack the resources to get into the recovery industry. if anyone had leads. hmu. when I got out of fora i would have been able to enter the mentorship program at blackburn but there was no way in hell i was going to move to 122nd and burnside fresh out of a 3 month rehab stint.

@Daniel-ci4cd 6 месяцев назад

Jade d

@victoriahardin1560 6 месяцев назад

Matthew 26:11 The poor you will always have with you,[a] but you will not always have me.

@journeybrook9357 6 месяцев назад

So thats why eggs double in price

@thesecurityguardchannel 6 месяцев назад

🙄

@onegreatstarfish 6 месяцев назад

gross

@JamesDirtRC 6 месяцев назад

Ted Wheeler, stood with Antifa against the Fed building an Police. I would Deny Him.

@bencastro921 6 месяцев назад

@@timothyjensen179i do that clown supported anarchists. Portland deserves its current situation by voting these liberal nutcases.

@Buckseed 6 месяцев назад

You stood with the Peckerwood Gurls why they tried to attack good citizens. Fck off, MAGAt

@asianwoof 6 месяцев назад

One of the potential effects of ADHD is addiction. Others have a genetic disposition towards addiction. As the OHSU expert intimated, epigenetics literally changes your genes. There are going to be lots of people who cannot empathize with the mother and daughter. I bet none of you have foresworn alcohol. Alcohol is one epigenetic mechanism to induce addiction. Hope to God none of you accidentally trigger a change in your genes to make you susceptible to addiction.

@bobbyb7568 6 месяцев назад

Are you a drug dealer?

@shutupujerk 5 месяцев назад

Change the law so people can be forced into trestment period. Waiting for people to "feel" like quitting is the resl problem here. How stupid is everyone - even Airplane a movie from 1980 made yhe joke about addicts never thinking its a good time to wuit. Logan is obviously a danger to himself and others! He needs to stop or live in prison but not in z tent, stesling my possessions and doing drugs!!