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

Why is narcan free and insulin isnt?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No hope. Please save our resources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please distribute more lethal doses throughout downtown.

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

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

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

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

They died doing what they love. Be happy!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drug state. Dealers fund the politicians.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why does someone who has never tried drugs, think to themselves, I should try drugs today? NOTHING ever good comes out of being an addict. If your life is bad, its about to get a hella lot worse after you start putting crap in your body!!!! Use your heads people!!! BE STRONGER

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

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

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

Clearing the decks . . . not so bad.

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

Addicts' choice, it is what it is.

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

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

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

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

I feel bad for poor ol' Rex. Seems like a honest Joe who works a job and has to deal with CHUD every day; he has it figured out, the inmates are running the asylum in Portland. Don't give up Portland. You voted for the Whirlwind, now reap it.

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

I know the person in the first clips dated my sister for a long time has been around drugs a lot of his life a really good guy in heart but the depression in Oregon is to bad and people get bored and stumble into drugs some people deserve second chances

Just ban Narcan and let the problem solve itself.

And why are we trying to revive them?

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

I don't feel bad for these people at all they just try to do drugs to act cool. They're stupid get your life together you're a grown man for God's sakes

When the trash takes itself out...

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

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

"I'm happy being a drug addict." While that's sad to hear, he'd have to work 3 jobs just to rent a crappy apt and be miserable. So what's really worse?

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

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

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

Who would have seen this coming? Can't wait for Portland Democrats to make Fentanyl legal.

This is not a crisis. This is Portland. This is normal. Let it play out. Progressive Utopia.

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

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

So very sad

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

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

Good job, KGW.

Hooper is no help at all...