My heart breaks for that father that lost both his sons. I lost my oldest son in 2019 at 23 years old. I’ll never be the same. This drug must be stopped. Talk to your children. Please.

I was an addict during the 70s. I used drugs to escape the trauma of a horrific childhood. But in 1980 I became sober and have been that way ever since. Please do not place all addicts into a certain category because that’s not how it works. I do admire those who were able to say no. Good work.

The smugness and arrogance of the dealer calling from a prison who thought he was "more intelligent" than others is infuriating.

My friend who was only 20 (about to turn 21) passed away from Fentanyl a month ago, August 7, 2022. I'm still struggling with his death because he was one of those good people who deserved the best in life. May he and all the other victims of that poison, Rest In Peace

Lost a friend to this sad drug. My heart hurts for this world 💔

Most people try to escape some sort of events or trauma from the past. Lost both brothers, lost my cousin, lost my brother in law. The rabbit hole of addiction goes deep and dark and 90% don't make it, I myself luckily made it out alive. Every day is a brand new beginning if your struggling you can make that change now.

Losing a child is the most Brutal loss in the world my son died from cardiac Arrhythmia His heart skipped a beat and never started again He was 18 I grieve everyday It's been 38 years ago Seems like yesterday May God be with us all

Dude said a mouthful. "why aren't we screaming?" As a recovering drug addict I sympathize with people fighting these demons. The saddest part is the kids man. Some of them die from fentanyl thinking it was pain pills or cocaine or something else. I remember when the M 30 Roxies were all legit. Now Mallinckrodt is bankrupt or something no longer making these pills but the streets are full of the fake ones. I know it's damn near impossible but hopefully they can do something, anything about it. Sad situation all those people dying man

My heart breaks for the parents,lost my 22yr daughter in 2015. I will never be the same

My father taught me from a young age to stay away from illegal drugs and anyone trying to get me to take some is not a friend but a secret enemy.

As a single mother of a teenager I think it’s really important for parents to have a open conversation with their kids regarding drugs and what’s out there because you never know what’s gonna happen we need to protect our children.

I lost my mother on Sept 1st, 2022 due to fentanyl overdose. I hate this drug.. stay safe out there everyone.

The love of money is definitely the root of all this evil going on.

Just the amount of people in the comments have experienced loss from fentanyl is staggering. Say no to drugs..

That girl came back from the brink of death, amazing. Her story will never be told but we know she will always be the truly lucky lotto winner

How heartbreaking especially for the parents that lost both their sons at once. As a parent of 2 kids one 22 and one 19, an ex RN and the wife of a Police Officer all I can say is more needs to be done in all countries to stop this.

One of the best pieces of advice that my Dad gave me when I came to the US for college was never drink anything at a party that was not opened in front of me. Today I tell my children to take their own soft drinks to a party. One of my children learned the hard way after being poisoned at a friend's house.

As a teenager I never could understand why my peers were pumping their healthy bodies with drugs and alcohol. I wish this news report had explored the "why" behind drug and alcohol use. Saying they are "addicted" is not enough; everyone know these things are addictive, it's no secret. So why do people even start with drugs?

i lost my brother when i was 12 to an oxy od.. i was an addict for the past 3 years. the benzo dope wave and tranq dope wave scared me so bad that I've been sober 10 months on the 11th

32 year old vet dearly loved gone forever

I was prescribed percocet after a surgery and one time being tired and sleepy inadvertently took double the dose. I was such a strange feeling, I wouldn't describe it as a high or euphoria but rather a feeling of almost indescribable well-being. For a long while I thought about that feeling and I started to think about figuring out a way to have it again.... But after watching countless video's like this describing the horrors of drug use I know it's just a lie, only an empty and temporary high. Using could never really make me happy, it's just a fake facade of happiness. Now that I am aware of how drugs are becoming more contaminated and toxic it's not something I want to touch.

just lost my husband to fentanyl overdose. 5/30/22 my eight year old daughter found him. she said something is wrong with Daddy he is blue 🙏 he was 32 yrs young 🙏 I miss him dearly and life ain't the same without him.

Drug dealer should get death penalty if convicted not jail.

Thank you. This was so educational, I'm in Australia and we have a terrible problem over here as well. I watch another youtube channel as well called 'The Life Boat' that really focuses on educating people on drugs, addiction and living happily in sobriety. They have had a lot of great shows lately talking about things similar to this. They have a live stream at 5pm (USA Pacific Time) everyday except Wed and Thurs and a live chat. You can also call in live to talk about your experiences and ask the hosts questions. They are extremely knowledgable and helpful with no judgement. It's just a loving, friendly place to go, regardless of what is happening in your life. Your channel and other ones like this are really needed to educate people about this horrific, growing nightmare .. so many people are dying. Thank you again for your video. Please be safe everyone.

God bless the paramedic who saved that young ladies life of an OD. Thank you, thank you and thank you! I can not thank you enough. You responded so well, you handled it so well and I hope you can educate and train future paramedics joining the career/team.

I lost my dad due to this on my 21st birthday a month ago…No one should have to go threw this and these people need to be held accountable.

I lost a childhood friend from the fentanyl pill we grew up together he has some beautiful kids, he took one & it immediately stopped his heart. I took it hard his brother is still grieving as well as his parents we been hearing about the drug but didn’t think it was in our city so close, it’s been killing a lot of people. My sincerest condolences to anyone who has lost anybody to the drug.🙏🏾I wish it was never created

I lost my son to an overdose of heroin cut with fentanyl. Like Bianca below, he was only 23. He was my only child. And at 55 I think about not having him in my life every day. It has destroyed my life, and I sometimes think about ending my life, but I know that he would never want that.

The family system in America is broken. People come to funeral and talk about how good the dead person was. But when the person was alive they are not extending a hand to uplift. Not everyone is this way. But many are. Families should uplift each other especially in hard times I guess.

I pray for all of you people out there stay safe keep your head up

I can’t imagine the pain! Losing both kids at once😢 this is so tragic what’s going on😢

My friend just died from this...I didn't see the signs or knew he got high...So 💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭I cry now again for him...

As a foreigner I’m shocked, USA has all the money 💰 why are they failing at this? Maybe instead of donating money to other countries, they should help their own citizens first, this is ridiculous Also I see lack of family support in the west, parents need to do better… don’t leave ur kids alone, stay in touch with them even when they r adult

lost my son January 7th, 2022 thank you for doing this

Breaks my heart seing the father of those great kids talking about missing when his son said hey Pops.😔 God Bless his heart and soul ❤️ R.I.P to everyone who ever lost someone for this fentanyl garbage.

This is why I talk to my kids about everything. All the generational family curses. And about don't just take a pill, cuz it will kill you

Alot of the addicted got addicted by the same opioids the doctors prescribed them. When the doctor says "No more refills." Meanwhile the patient has become dependable on the same pills he was prescribed. Now he is told he needs to go cold turkey. Ask yourself "Does that make sense?" Legally the doctor got him hooked on an opioid to help severe pain. When they say no more refills, the patient can still be in alot of pain, maybe not. The fact that we are prosecuting people for using is absurd. Don't lock people up for using drugs, they need help. Locking users up dosent help, but these people need treatment and therapy, maybe an unadictive substance that can help the person wing off the drug. Drug users are going to get locked up and repeat. What does that tell you, our justice system needs change and major change.

Lost my cousin to this 28 years old . My life changed immediately this is the real pandemic

Born and raised in Riverside CA and it seems things have gotten alot worse since I left 5 years ago

A neighbor of ours 15 year old son (maybe 120 lbs, super bright but troubled)was rescued by 3 doses of Narcan after he ODed on Fentanyl early 2021…. Thank goodness his parents found him in time, and they could immediately administer the first dose. They knew he had drug problems, had sent him to inclusive school/treatment centers, but with Covid-19, the programs closed and he returned to the same place same friends that started him on this frightening path. I’m betting that his story is being repeated all over the US, with many lives lost. Thankful that he was rescued, worried that the pattern might repeat. I now carry Narcon at all times, in case anyone else’s child (young or old, rich or poor, whatever ethnicity, religion, gender etc) falls into the death grips of this noxious poison

Wow the brothers overdosed together oh my god…

Why is this country so hellbent on self destruction? It's not a GOP or DEM issue. It's a culture thing.

here in ottawa they recently busted a dealer for having TWO KILOS of fent. i was told by a paramedic that that amount can make literally millions of fatal doses. anything for dealers to make quick money it seems :/

A few years ago one of my best friends that I’d known since 5 years old died suddenly. A friend told me she had been taking ecstasy with her friends. It didn’t make sense, they said she had some kind of reaction. I have a suspicion it was fentanyl, but I’ll never know. Her best friend, her mother, let go of her battle with cancer a few days after her daughter’s funeral.

As a current addict, I can't imagine what this dad would be going tru 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

My parents have my sincere understanding of the loss. Love never dies.

Lost my dad to an accidental fentanyl and ethernol overdose. My heart goes out to the families suffering from this epidemic

Thank you for developing this material. I am now concerned for my health and for my friends.

Why would somebody take a drug without knowing what it is beyond me. 😕

But we got 5 billions dollar to give away to others but not our most desperate, the gop should be outlawed

It's not only the drug that kills the suicidal thoughts and feelings that a person gets with these things that can last for years after addiction has stopped ! Any parent that truly loves their child must educate them that any drugs destroy everything in their world ! But the parents need to be educated before hand and lots don't ever think it's going to happen to their little angel ! And when they find out that there kid is going down the wrong path they disown and tar them with a brush and frighten them off from telling the truth and lots more happens when you kick a dog when he is down! You can't wrap them in cotton wool but we can explain the truth to them but it needs to be done the right way ! I always remember my social studies teacher telling us how bad needles and heroin was at high school it shocked me to hear that and to this day I have never used a needle but got sucked into everything else ! But these days it's so easy to get sucked into the gutter with so many unknowns around ! There is no boundry gate or certain types of people that you have to watch out for so it's hard to isolate from ! I woke up one day and relized what had happened to me and now I'm disappointed that I was so easily led but I also learnt to say no but it took so many years that is why it is worse than a pandemic and it's never discussed properly !most people will not get a second chance at life ! It's so nice to wake up without a hangover or the need to be dependent on something that will kill you ! And to be able to look someone in the eyes again is a good feeling ! Don't let your guard down and don't ever forget to much of a good thing is not a good thing ! Addiction is real and it only takes one try and it will be too late ! Experimenting even is not an option !even if it's free that is how they hook U into it !

I'm a 67 yr old chronic pain patient who has been forced to suffer because of street fentanyl.I was prescribed fentanyl patch a decade before the street fentanyl was a thing.I never turned to the streets .I don't know how Ive lived these past 5 yrs .My pain causing conditions have no fix I wish people would realize there are people who,non cancer pain, that need narcotic pain relief & who never turn to crime.We just want to live,enjoy our family &. What time we have left of life.Being able to eat shower,care for ourselves & not want to end our lives because of never ending physical pain..We've tried to many alternatives that do nothing to ease our suffering.We are not the problem

Our country needs help!!!!’ I just lost my husband from a fentanyl poisoning. Devastating! I was told by the police they Don’t have the manpower to keep up with all the fentanyl overdoses so they’re not able to go after the sources and it’s just a terrible vicious cycle.

I had to stop doing cocaine because of this. I HATE it here.😭

I am real close to begging you, shine an additional giant light on the fact, for every fentanyl death, at least 20 families are devastated and broken by the power of it's active addiction, usually taking decades to recover when they do, but usually the families never fully recovering as a family. Thank you for stepping up about fentanyl! Being so brave, please, also include the #s of families broken due to cocaine, heroin, and meth. Great job though! Please continue, and please always include the information I've reminded you about, spread the word to your fellows of influence, to expand on that, Thank you. 💔

America's moral compass no longer points north, this is heart wrenching.

OMG. The loss of two sons at the same time. My heart breaks!

I'm glad I got clean since '99. Looking back at my pattern of use, I'd probably wouldn't survive fentanyl, carfentanil, benzo dope, whatever. My heart goes not only for the family but also to active users out there. Your fight is much, much harder than mine was. Just don't give up, okay. For professionals whose expertise is in prevention & rehabilitation, please don't act like fentanyl caught you off guard. Every single one of you (us) KNOWS there will always, always be new kinds of more addictive, more potent drugs which are easier & cheaper to produce.

Imagine losing BOTH of your kids. I cant.

I just love seeing Bob Woodruff reporting! I watched the short series he did with his son, Rogue, it was really interesting and amazing!

We have a Fentanyl problem here in the small northern town of Eureka CA. There were five fatal overdoses of the drug just last week. Traffickers of the drug who are caught and arrested, are released a short time later. We have no funding to hold the influx of addicts who are struggling with it. This sucks.

Been clean for over five years going on six now. It's possible if you want it enough. You can do it. Don't give up. 🖤

So sorry for your loss. I lost my only son to this

Yall please pay attention to this. My boyfriend Chad is a living survivor of a heroine overdose that had fentanyl in it. Mixed with the intake of benzos....it boyt to him outta here. He was in a coma for awhile before he woke up. God blessed him.

This is terrible, i'm so sad and worry about this sh**t. I live in Mexico (South San Diego), i have 2 daughters and every day im showing them this kind of information. Thank you so much for this video! Let's pray for a better world! 💗

I’m sorry to break the news, that any addict knows, but that wasn’t the brothers’ first time using opioids. Surely that notion helps the parents cope. In reality it’s far more likely that the brothers initially used genuine pharmaceutical opioids prior to buying street drugs from a dealer with fentanyl citrate laced counterfeit tablets. Buying illicit drugs on the street is almost always a last resort for pill users. Especially since the dealer they bought from was clearly untrustworthy, meaning they likely didn’t know them well, and the dealer didn’t care about the brothers enough to inform them about the product.

I feel sorry for all parents in the US may GOD Save this great Nation.

It's really not a drug it's a poison.

Thank you D.E.A for allowing this to happen. M30 pills are here because of the war on drugs. Heroin.

I couldn’t go on with life if i lost both my children like that he’s stronger than i am

MY HEART GOES OUT TO THIS POOR FAMILY. TO LOSE BOTH OF YR BOYS AT THE SAME TIME IT’S INCOMPREHENSIBLE. GOD BLESS YOU. YR BOYS ARE AT PEACE, TOGETHER, FOR ALL ETERNITY. 💙🙏🏼💙

The "war on drugs" was never won and will never be won because there was no war against Poverty and Economic Inequality in the United States. Hustling will always remain an alternative as long as this country requires a bachelor's degree just to live a decent life or $1400 to rent a small apartment.

All of a sudden a lighter shade of ppl in a certain tax class started to be affected so now it became a huge problem 🤔

Thank you CA!!!

I was born in Chicago in 1942;and had to leave. Cowards kill and do not want you armed. Bullet proof car windows.body armour. Send all criminals to war zones one way. No prison. Air Con leaving all day every day. Everyone must open carry to eliminate these Cowards. Never argue with anyone. Do not cut off criminals. People are evil or crazy.

My heart literally breaks for the families 💔😪

That guy DEFINITELY belongs in jail for life. At least he was honest about not thinking of the consequences to peoples lives.

Please have compassion for those struggling with drug and alcohol abuse. Alot of it stems from trauma undealt with from childhood or any trauma really. It obviously varies from person to person. As as a man who has almost 14 years abuse free, I know people can get the help, people can change and people can heal. Yes the individual has to want it before change can start but being supportive of those individuals is perhaps one of the greatest blessings one could hope for. Many are so bruised and broken and don't know where to go or what to do but there are options, sometimes they just need to know someone cares, help them make the calls, drive them to detox centers etc...sometimes it takes tough love and those who have never struggled with alcohol or drug abuse may never know why it happens and that is ok but never turn a blind eye if possible to do anything if you can. There is no cure but there is hope, that's something most are holding on to....

Lost my older cousin to this Rip Jr 🙏

Lost my little sister at 27 years old to fentanyl in 2019, the dealer is being charged with 3rd degree murder and is in prison right now.

Thank you for this story and your true journalism

The problem isn’t where drugs comes, is why people use it.

I love how they leave out the opioid crisis, which was triggered by big pharma, the medical system, and most powerful consulting firm (McKinsey)

STOP DOING DRUGS AMERICA

2:00+"Just my agency, has seized enough fentanyl to kill the entire country." - Chad Bianco, Sheriff Riverside County CA .Holy crap

Wow I broke down crying my eyes out when that young girl was brought back from certain death, how that young man can cope after losing his two sons is unbelievable,things in America have got to be sorted out,I would hate the UK to be getting ruined like your once great nation ,bless all lives destroyed because of Drugs

This is horrific.😢

This has affected my family. I have family in Florida who all have addictions and my oldest niece almost died from an overdose of fentanyl. A friend of mine’s daughter lost two boyfriends to fentanyl overdoses. My cousin’s son died from a fentanyl overdose. So I hope that the man they were interviewing spends the rest of his life in prison. I can’t fathom that family’s sense of loss, devastation, pain, sorrow, and grief at losing two children. I hope every single scumbag, from wherever, that is involved in these murders spends their eternity in hell.

All people think drugs come from Mexico so they blame all Mexicans. Please need to do way more research cuz they come in by different places. When oxicodone came in there were commercials on TV saying how great it was for pain. Commercials people then comes in all the different races rich poor middle class addicts. Sad thing they did not know how addicteding it was until they had the withdrawals then they got scared cuz they realized how bad they needed it. Their life's were never ever the same again

Drug dealer have no morals. Damn shame

I have hundreds of dead friends. My brother is currently in prison. A year ago my best friend took his own life. Fentanyl is the only reason I'm clean. Worst drug ever. You get totally wrecked, pass out within an hour and wake up with the closest comparison is COVID but with vomiting and diarrhea. The only way out of this addiction is through it. It consumed nearly 20 years of my life. I've been clean for 5 years and I still dream and think of heroin almost daily. But now there's only fentanyl.

Don’t take a pill , you don’t know what’s in it !! Value your precious life

People are addicted to taking deadly risks.

My daughter died from heroin in 2013 age 24 and have another 34 struggling, her boyfriend just died last week from it, she came home from the hospital recovering from PEs, very bad shape doing heroin for long time and found her boyfriend dead. Now she's crying for day's and the mother wants her out of her house they were renting by the end of the month and nowhere to go with no car. The chances of her relapsing is near 100% I'm frightened and don't know what to do, I live in SE Michigan, anyone know what I can do? I can't let her live with me I can't trust her and my youngest son lives here

Its horrible my girlfriend and i just got sober off of it. Almost killed us hope we can figure out how to stop this bs

Only a problem since in the suburbs... and they'll day they were "experimenting"

Anybody else find it odd how the fentanyl crisis and covid started in Wuhan? 🤔

People like drugs and there's nothing that can be done to stop it.

Sorry for your loss

My nephew died last week from an oxy laced with fentanyl. So sad.