Heroin Addict interview-Launa

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Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Launa, a heroin addict on Skid Row.
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@charlesaschmidt15 4 жыл бұрын

My husband is a drug addict meth and heroin. He lives on the streets homeless. Our daughter said the other day she didn't care what he did or what he was on, she said we don't have to talk mommy I just wanted to hold his hand like I use to. Your child will forgive you. You just have to reach out. They just want to hold your hand. Words don't need to be said.

@froandcara 3 жыл бұрын

100% true 🥺 it’s so hard. Sending ♥️

@p5ych0_w1tch 3 жыл бұрын

it's sad but it's not always the case... some kids get angry and hang up when you get in touch :(

@SamoGingerYes3 Ай бұрын

I don’t know how old your daughter is but that feeling may not last forever. After years of my addict mother being absent, now that I’m an adult and she’s trying to be back in my life and expects me to spend all this time with her when she hasn’t apologized for all the pain/ violence and neglect she’s treated me and my whole family with I don’t really have any interest in having a relationship with her and certainly don’t when she doesn’t even have enough respect for us to apologize.

@Alisa-kz7wd 23 күн бұрын

Naw, who needs the aggravation she would just end up asking for money

@kelb6073 4 жыл бұрын

This girl is running. She's even running from doctors who could make sure she doesn't lose her arms.

@CMoore8539 4 жыл бұрын

@Kel B What’s wrong with her arms?

@kelb6073 4 жыл бұрын

@@CMoore8539 they look infected considering they are turning purple and she has dirty bandages that I assume she rarely changes. Gangrene is going to set in.

@AliceSpaxxx 4 жыл бұрын

It's hard to understand this...till your’re in this situation!!!! They are so desperate, that they often lose legs/ arms they get hepatitis A /B and still they are using...so it's hard to understand this if you weren’t in this situation! It's really sad....because she has kids...and she should fight for them but just SHE on her own can change something...of course when the person is ready to do it...and get away from the shit, I also managed it and to be honest I never thought I would be older then 24! today I am 27and I hope I will have a long, happy life! When you're ready and you really want to quiet....then help is also a very important!!!I wish her the best!!!

@ontoyoualways9183 4 жыл бұрын

@@AliceSpaxxx Hepatitis B and C. HIV! Hepatitis A comes from contaminated food. Via fecal oral route.

@moodmeditation4458 4 жыл бұрын

@@ontoyoualways9183 Hep A is just jaundice treatable.

@meghanservidio8961 4 жыл бұрын

She’s a Veteran. She has/had people who love her. This is someone’s everything. She’s well aware this isn’t a good spot she’s in, you can hear her at the end say “I don’t want them (her kids/family) to see me like this, this isn’t who I am” that really hit me. Because she knows. So stop throwing stones. She knows.

@knivveschau6453 4 жыл бұрын

thank you.

@jenrich111 4 жыл бұрын

I think the shame keeps them stuck there as well as the addiction.

@nowirehangers2815 4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't know if her son is dead though. Stop making excuses. She does not care.

@ambergreen6714 4 жыл бұрын

Yes thank u for saying it

@jonsilence 4 жыл бұрын

Trust me, her family knows...all to well. They know she's beyond help, and that to try is to hurt themselves while failing her.

@beezer1225 4 жыл бұрын

Her oldest son could be dead but she's scared to find out. That is just heartbreaking. Bless this woman.

@laurent7162 4 жыл бұрын

Beezer1225 bless her two kids. More heartbreaking that one could possibly have passed away without his mother. Tragic.

@Imafed42069 4 жыл бұрын

She goes onto say that her childhood was wonderful. Too bad she wouldn't provide the same for her child. No sympathy here

@beezer1225 4 жыл бұрын

@M Detlef It must be nice up there on your high horse, scab.

@catlady_extraordinaire3019 4 жыл бұрын

Her other child is out there that has potentially lost a sibling she should be thinking of that surviving child not whether she's ready or not. Imagine being that kid... your own mother doesn't acknowledge your siblings death...on top of being an addict. I just feel for the other kid. 😔 the whole thing is sad and messed up unfortunately.

@greensocks4507 4 жыл бұрын

And Donald Trump is proud of the USA.

@dracocaelestis6370 4 жыл бұрын

“my childhood was great” “both my parents were alcoholic” that poor woman ☹️

@mailainathrone8241 3 жыл бұрын

So were my parents. They went to work and we had everything. I went to catholic school, had plenty of food, clothes and my mom cooked, made lunches, washed clothes, painted, and the house was spotless. It happens and no I'm never been on drugs or had an alcohol problem. They argued on the weekends and that I didn't like but other than that I had a good childhood.

@mailainathrone8241 3 жыл бұрын

@Jack Nimble That's true. Some of my friends envied me because I had a married mom & dad in the house but what they didn't understand was I still didn't have a perfect childhood. They drank & argued so much that I hated to go home on Fri. All weekend they did nothing but argue. It wasn't one weekend that they didn't.

@triplet123c 3 жыл бұрын

My childhood looked great looking from the outside, clean home, well fed, dressed like dolls. Only problem was behind closed doors stood a monster. My mom should be glad that out of her 6 kids only 2 became functioning addicts & all they talk about when we try to get them to stop is how f*cked up our childhood was growing up with my mom because we were good kids & we had a great stepdad who my mother kicked out into the streets. A very hard working man who did nothing but come home to his children. & we stood there listening to her lie to everyone about the reason she kicked him out was because he molested us which was a total lie. Thank God I never turned to drugs from the despair.

@jeannemarie5908 2 жыл бұрын

One word: Denial

@same_ole_lemonz4195 2 жыл бұрын

It seems she learned a long time ago how to paint a reality she could cope with and live in that one. I think this is the case with many addicts and others. Drugs help with that process. As long as her addiction is her biggest problem she will never have to face life on life's terms.

@cnye5937 3 жыл бұрын

Too scared to find out if your own child passed?! That's the most disturbing part of this whole thing.

@KathyBryne 2 жыл бұрын

Its because her heart couldn't handle it. I know that I wouldn't want to live if i didn't have my kids. They are the only reason I try.

@cnye5937 2 жыл бұрын

@@KathyBryne my 11 year old passed away almost 2 years ago and I have to go on for my other children but I cant explain how hard it is. I would have to know though.

@GenghisCohen257 2 жыл бұрын

Very disturbing.

@maxinejones986 2 жыл бұрын

That is so wrong their is no excuse , I feel for these children born and tossed aside by their mothers for the excuse of preferring to be on the streets doing drugs .

@cnye5937 2 жыл бұрын

@@maxinejones986 I agree

@darkladyofthemoon4444 4 жыл бұрын

These people don’t need jail they need therapy etc

@corinnaherzog-burkart7005 4 жыл бұрын

They dont stay

@darkladyofthemoon4444 4 жыл бұрын

Corinna Herzog-Burkart I’m sure a percentage don’t stay....but some will. These are not a people that you throw away in jail. It seems like jail is the easy answer.

@ClareSw 3 жыл бұрын

@@corinnaherzog-burkart7005 Stay or don,t ffs a person w/serious desease how could b jailed????? That is horrible.

@GenghisCohen257 2 жыл бұрын

For some addicts jail is the only way to get sober.

@yvettet7398 26 күн бұрын

Sometimes prison is the rehab/therapy - heard of many addicts getting sober in prison

@lenawladyszewski9823 4 жыл бұрын

She is such a beautiful human but she’s in denial. She doesn’t want to face facts, what’s so ever. I hope she gets the help she needs.

@leewhy6238 4 жыл бұрын

Lena Wladyszewski absolutely and no matter how down and under you are you always remember your children’s ages. She had to estimate. I hope she can get the help she so desperately needs.

@nicolemarie3037 4 жыл бұрын

Those bandages are filthy and I’m sure her wounds are just as bad.. she’s gonna die from her infections if not the drugs. Prayers 🙏✝️

@dualitarian 4 жыл бұрын

And prayers do... what?

@nicolemarie3037 4 жыл бұрын

A. Lamia A lot. You’ll see on judgment day 😉

@dualitarian 4 жыл бұрын

@@nicolemarie3037 I'll burn like the sinful nugget I am, thank you very much.

@nicolemarie3037 4 жыл бұрын

A. Lamia enjoy! Bye bye now

@damienholland8103 4 жыл бұрын

@@nicolemarie3037 There are over 10,000 belief systems in the world yet you think your specific one is the truth. Okay.

@jmpardo11 4 жыл бұрын

She doesn’t know if her son passed away or not? Ugh my worst fear is to lose a child. These souls are so lost. :( sad

@maggie0285 4 жыл бұрын

That's that denial. If they don't inquire about their kids then they don't have to face the fact that drugs are destroying their life. They can numb out and not think. It's a very bad coping mechanism.

@sfwatxyo2162 4 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine anything keeping me from my children, but in her case they are probably better off without her. I sure hope so.

@ccm791 4 жыл бұрын

shes not even present in her own life, what makes you think she will in her kids lives? :( life is just passing through her. so sad.

@LeaHenning 4 жыл бұрын

There you have it. Loosing a child is your worst fear. As strung out as she is, taking all those drugs to numb herself from feeling, NOT the state where you could even IMAGINE to cope with loosing a kid on top of everything else. I'm guessing deep inside she knows he's gone, it's something you feel as a mother, she is simply too afraid to face the reality of it.If she could, she would. I'm sure of it. If she could, was able to...she'd put the needle down. She's sadly in too deep right now. I hope she gets help in some way soon and makes it out - she seems to be a precious one.

@veronicafox399 4 жыл бұрын

My worst fear as well

@jennyneedsmeds 4 жыл бұрын

HER ARMS... OH MY GOSH im a recovering heroin addict and i hope she gets help for her arms

@LittleCraftyKitty 4 жыл бұрын

I know right...I'm praying she gets through this.

@Trippystarkiller 4 жыл бұрын

Proud of u

@akay8147 3 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine how bad her arms hurt with the infections...when I was using I had abscesses and could barely raise my arms because of the pain. So sad...

@taylorlockhart6384 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful childhood... no dad, mom that worked all the time, raised by grandma who drank all the time, started smoking marijuana at age 13... she needs to HEAL.

@ceejay1794 4 жыл бұрын

Taylor Lockhart tragic,, that’s a “normal” scene for kids growing up in families that get by by hanging on.

@taylorlockhart6384 4 жыл бұрын

@@ceejay1794 Sad... they feel it was a good childhood because it was her normal. Things that happen regularly become normal to us so we don't see the issues or the impact it's really having on us.

@ceejay1794 4 жыл бұрын

Taylor Lockhart I know. There are so many ways to screw up the beginning of a child’s path but that child has no way to understand that it’s unusual, or damaging. We all have had scary stuff happen in childhood. Whether it was intended or not. Truth.

@bookbag6432 4 жыл бұрын

Most people do not turn to drugs just because parents were not there and I had a lot of friends who smoked week in MS & HS and all of them are doing well, working, graduated college. There may be a correlation between drug abuse and abandonment but I do not believe there is a causation effect.

@jamiegowan8171 4 жыл бұрын

Hearing the baby crying in the background makes me want to cry.

@ericareese4361 4 жыл бұрын

It's heartbreaking. I wish I could wrap my arms around that baby..

@LittleCraftyKitty 4 жыл бұрын

I 100% agree And it gives me the chills knowing kids are born into this 😥😢

@aduneurodivergente 4 жыл бұрын

What part i think i missed it

@aduneurodivergente 4 жыл бұрын

Nvm i heard it lol

@talex1625 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, me too

@MissSerialFan 4 жыл бұрын

Dear Mark, can you try find her or her "husband"? We would love an update on her, hoping that she isn´t doing worse (aka didn´t die/lose her arms)

@triplet123c 3 жыл бұрын

She doesn't want you to find her. Based on what she said, life is dull without drugs. There is no update with her. Did you not see the gravity of her arms & how short this interview is?

@biankabay5546 Жыл бұрын

@@triplet123c Of course there are updates on her! She is a human being. How can you so confidently say "there is no update with her." The condition of her arms is an update right there there.

@somedude5951 Ай бұрын

@@biankabay5546 Be real, the chance she is still alive is below 50%. The wounds on her arms, filthy rags on them, can create several infections, while the wounds are there because of poisoning. It's already miracle she was still alive, when this interview happened.

@Suppitschele21 3 жыл бұрын

Awww. This is one of the people I truly do feel for. I myself am a recovering addict. I used heroin and crack for 12 years. She seems like such a sweetheart. The drugs are just tearing her apart. I was the type of addict who people would look at and say “no fucking way you’re a drug addict you don’t look like a drug addict at all! You’re so put together!” Just goes to show you that there is no specific look for a drug addict. At times I was functioning, job car money apartment , the works. And other times I was down in the dumps, sold my car for drugs and everything I owned. Drugs are absolutely awful. They will steal everything you have/are. This women clearly had her shit together at some point. It’s sad to actually see things from a third person perspective. I wish someone had done this for me a long time ago so I could have seen myself as others saw me.

@loribollinger2457 4 жыл бұрын

Sad part is she does have a pension check from the military monthly.She could have a normal life, what bothered me was her saying she was just bored, so I will start drinking and doing drugs. Not wanting to know if her son is dead or alive was really sad. Now she has been so long in this type of lifestyle she is lost and addicted can’t face reality. She can’t even admit her arms are from shooting heroin, she needs medical attention ASAP. It’s a very sad situation.

@sandylambe5154 4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Those arms are going to get really infected and she is going to get really sick. So sad. I also don't think she started using because she was bored. She was obviously in some sort of denial or pain over something.

@corinas.harvik6404 4 жыл бұрын

Not only they can't face reality, but their addiction disconnects them from it.

@keysersoze213 4 жыл бұрын

yes, the arms look really badly infected. if she doesn't get them treated they might have to be amputated! or even worse: she will die as a result! but you know what the most saddest thing is? the cause for such abscesses is always and without exception the improper injection of drugs! I know people who have been injecting for 30 years and they don't have such arms or legs!!!

@jennajune2101 4 жыл бұрын

My uncle had a pension from the Air Force, social security from being wounded during combat & was a heroin addict for over 22yrs. He made a pretty comfortable life for himself, for a few years, till the addiction got completely out of control. He ended up living with my grandparents & that’s the only thing that kept him alive for as long as it did. He passed away 5yrs ago, after overdosing for the last time. He had overdosed 5 days prior & was in the ICU. Came home & did it again. Previous to those he overdosed over a dozen times. Someone always found him in time, except for that last time. It completely ruined my family.

@aprillockabyradford3679 4 жыл бұрын

I agree

@kokohottie1669 4 жыл бұрын

It's very Haunting how she discussed every tragic chapter in her life as if it was another day on the board walk. She's extremely wounded and her arms are probably a reflection of how bad it is. God bless her, I hope she finds her way.

@echase416 2 жыл бұрын

It can be Dissociation.

@karmakameleon113 4 жыл бұрын

I wanted to hear more about her time in the military and how it may or may have not affected her well-being. She mentioned that the last time her kids saw her, she was in the military. So between then and the time she started abusing drugs, there must have been a significant psychological event. I'm just wondering if it had anything to do with her time in service.

@markorafael8647 4 жыл бұрын

karmakameleon113 good observation. Did you read a recent article saying more war veterans lost their life due to suicide than in war in Vietnam

@sweatytea333 4 жыл бұрын

Life in the military is often rough for women. Rape and sexual assault (along with other traumas and abuses) is not uncommon for women. And it's very rare that they are able to report it and have anything meaningful be done about it. In fact, they are often the ones punished (directly/openly and covertly) for speaking up about it. Many of the women I know who have served in the military talk about experiences with sexual assault... then there's just the fact that much of their training and stuff is very physically demanding. Many of them are young and already getting hip/knee replacements. Any of that sort of physical and/or emotional trauma can absolutely lead someone down a path like this.

@markorafael8647 4 жыл бұрын

Meagan Arnold I think we are missing the point here. Just going in foreign land and kill innocent civilians is trauma and wrong. When will people realize that killing others is a crime, they are justifying that by giving it a names like “service” and verbs such as “defending” “protecting” etc

@danletras 4 жыл бұрын

@@markorafael8647 Yep. 22 vets a day die by suicide.

@emg.9246 4 жыл бұрын

It’s extra sad seeing a person who has served this country now be homeless.

@KatJ3st 3 жыл бұрын

The human body's will to stay alive while under assault is profound.

@elyseeblackstone4597 2 жыл бұрын

Very well said and so true.

@ralex3697 4 жыл бұрын

She won’t be here long with those infected arms So incredibly sad

@shakiraarif6285 4 жыл бұрын

She won't be here long from the addiction too.

@Anangelfromabove 3 жыл бұрын

There was this guy on this channel he had a huuuge hole and he is still alive and it has sorta healed up! Fascinating! Hopefully hers does the same 🤞❤️

@senisand167 4 жыл бұрын

Her face is like heaven and then her arms are like hell.

@lissetteguzman1510 4 жыл бұрын

@eeaalymae9673 4 жыл бұрын

face like heaven!? ookay

@fredthompson4568 4 жыл бұрын

Good God..most real grafic of injection infection...ohhhhh.

@idag7221 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree in a way she has a peaceful face, the face of someone innocent or childish

@Msjuju20131 4 жыл бұрын

@@eeaalymae9673 the same thing I was thinking. TF

@poisonPpaully 3 жыл бұрын

When she shook her head no and closed her eyes when he asked if she was hookin. Dead giveaway

@baublesanddolls 2 жыл бұрын

I saw right through that too. Of course she is, but she still has the wherewithal not to admit it.

@soniamercado9998 3 жыл бұрын

I have a brother that is into drugs for the past 20 years, I have compassion for this individuals going through this, This is just Trauma from childhood that is where it all starts, Some people are just more vulnerable than others......Bless them all....

@tarab7773 4 жыл бұрын

She is an empty shell,robotic and emotionally void to be able to say she heard her son passed away but isn't sure if it's true or not and then carries on with the conversation. And how she can look at holes eating away her arms and say not sure what it is, like it's no big thing. Very sad whatever happened to her in life to completely shut her down in this way but I know it's a survival mechanism and I'm somewhat empty and devoid too of emotion but not to that extreme. So sad.

@Leandatastic 4 жыл бұрын

T Bis you’re very compassionate - I hope your ok 👍

@tarab7773 4 жыл бұрын

@@Leandatastic thank you. I'm doing the best I can here. God bless.

@PennyJackson123 4 жыл бұрын

I can say from personal experience that this is how you can even survive in that kind of environment with that lifestyle. You have to shut off. You have to detach from reality. The drugs help you to do just that!

@meljc2823 4 жыл бұрын

This lady has the same empty vague, look in her eyes as my mum. She is physically hear, but mentally off with the fairy's,, and my mum is happyest having her 3 hour showers every day with all her body wash and lotions,, is maddening to me,,, she is bat shit crazy, but she is my mum and trys her best.... After what mum went through growing up.. iv finally accepted that if being off with the fairy's helps mum cope with life. I have to accept it.... Can't talk to her about her odd behavior,, she just denys it and pretends she is perfect.... Fucking doese my head in. 🤪

@Kshwayzy 4 жыл бұрын

@@meljc2823 sounds like my mom minus the 3hr showers & my mom has been free basing my whole life.

@Leandatastic 4 жыл бұрын

Don’t be so hard on yourself darling 😇 3 years sober is a great achievement and thank you for your service.

@markorafael8647 4 жыл бұрын

Leanda D_g this is probably what “service” did to her so I don’t think your thank you will help her. I cannot believe that you are supporting killing innocent people and call it “service”

@mindlight1189 3 жыл бұрын

@@markorafael8647 If you don't like veterans then leave the country

@hanwentbananas 3 жыл бұрын

Marko Rafael the people they kill definitely are not innocent

@darcyjohnson7182 2 жыл бұрын

She was so straight faced the entire time until the end talking about how there's no way she could call her kids. Broke my heart. I hope she finds her way back somehow. 💜

@Waltham1892 4 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing a heroin addict whose arms were swollen, stiff and it looked like someone had attacked him with an ice cream scoop. I talked to him about it and he says that the swelling was caused by shooting up in his arms was so severe, doctors were concerned that they'd have to amputate his arms to forestall gangrene. So, he was now shooting into his legs. Some folks you just can't save.

@keysersoze213 4 жыл бұрын

yeah, in the worst case the arms have to be amputated! but you know what the saddest thing is? the cause for such abscesses is always and without exception the improper injection of drugs! hey, I know people who've been shooting up for 30 years and they don't have such arms or legs!!!

@Waltham1892 4 жыл бұрын

@@keysersoze213 Yeah, because it you follow a few simple rules of hygiene and follow proper procedures being a heroin addict is SO completely do-able. Really, these amateurs give heroin addiction a bad name when its a viable and rewarding lifestyle.

@actuallyNo... 4 жыл бұрын

@@keysersoze213 , absolutely. It can almost ALWAYS be avoided, with very few exceptions. If you do it properly, & care for yourself properly, otherwise, the abscesses & setting sepsis, will NOT come about anywhere on your body-- not even on the site where u inject, even if u do it in the same spot,all day, every day all.your life.. Lucky for most(I suppose), the human body is an absolutely remarkable and resilient living thing, that will do whatever it takes to compensate for one part, if another park is lacking...and the body ALWAYS tries to instinctively make sure that it covers all its basis,so to speak -- It will regenerate and heal itself during the most brutal of illnesses, or it will die trying(but more often than not, it fixes the problem(s))!!! :-))

@actuallyNo... 4 жыл бұрын

@@Waltham1892 , it is... much, MUCH more tha you know. The problem is, after a while, most junkies just don't care... period... about anything. You've not apparently heard of the definition for: "functioning addict". I don't want to argue. I just want to make sure it's known that these people in this channel of interviews, are only one, not very big, percentage of drug addicts that are living here on Earth

@Waltham1892 4 жыл бұрын

@@actuallyNo... I've been dealing with addicts and addiction in one role or another for about a quarter of a century now. So, I've learned a few things. "Functioning Addict" is a term that means what you want it to mean. Yesterday, while passing Boston's North Station at the end of my day, I saw a young lady dressed in clean and fashionable clothing. She looked like a receptionist or secretary. However, she was standing while doubled over, a cigarette dangling from her insensate fingers. You could say she was functional until 5:15 PM and hopefully would be functional again by 7:00 AM Monday morning. If she had children, I'd think calling her functional would be a stretch. If she'd been shooting her paycheck, ditto. I know Human Services folks who call an addict "Functional" if they can pick up their methadone every morning before returning to the homeless shelter. I'm sure you'd agree, that's not a very high standard. One case that crossed my desk involved a "Functioning Addict" who was a medical professional. In a moment of crisis it was determined that he was less functional than he though he was, and someone suffered for that. Every addict starts off thinking they are William S. Boroughs or Charlie Parker. Truth is, even the most shit-together addicts are Philip Seymour Hoffman, playing their luck until their luck runs out.

@ewechoober3355 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting observation about how normal, humdrum, sober life was just so mundane for her. She was brutally honest that drugs were just exciting and escapism from banal reality for her. Tragic.

@Meg-bq2hy 3 жыл бұрын

I’m a recovering addict (just over 3 years). I was the same way. Now I embrace the mundane and being a mom with a routine. It’s all about finding a way to shift your perspective. It’s a disease of perception. It’s not easy to figure out and change, but it’s possible.

@boltzmannbrain8698 3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. For me, I can only break away from the pain of depression during times I can appreciate the little, seemingly insignificant, parts of life. No matter what a person picks (other than drugs) they needs a passion. And it could be anything as simple as couponing, like my wife does.

@goldensprite3373 4 жыл бұрын

Personally, even though she said it, I doubt she injected because she was just bored. Happy and contented people don't take hard drugs. I think it's more despondency and numbness. For a long time I thought my numb feeling was just part of my life because I don't remember it being any different. You can feel like that with anxiety.

@xslowdivex 4 жыл бұрын

I agree, I think there was more to the story there than just being bored

@9millimia141 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t know... I grew up in the suburbs and a lot of middle to upper-class girls I knew did drugs because they were bored. Had perfectly normal childhoods. I didn’t have time to be bored and I never did drugs, so I don’t know what else to say, but I wouldn’t rule it out.

@1000blabbities 4 жыл бұрын

Lol. stop talking nonsense . plenty of people happy and content take drugs hard or not. actually the happy and content ones are probably doing it recreationally to have a good time or peer pressured by everyone around them having a good time

@ShastaAnn 4 жыл бұрын

@@1000blabbities You're so right!! It really makes me mad when people say, "Happy, contented people don't take drugs." Yes, sometimes they do!! Wake up and smell the coffee, people!! I had an extremely normal, great childhood with very good PRESENT parents, no abuse of any kind, and I did stuff I wasn't supposed to do because it was FUN, and other kids were doing it. Luckily I had the sense to stop before anything took hold of me, but I have ALWAYS said that that could've so easily been me. Addiction can happen to anybody, in any state of mind. Don't think it can't.

@ewechoober3355 4 жыл бұрын

Just so sad to speak about the children she never raised, and doesn't even know if they're dead or alive, barely remembers their ages. Utterly tragic, the grip of drugs.

@nikoscastellanos3323 4 жыл бұрын

i know yall get no views for this, but this is important. Please keep doing this and posting.

@Leandatastic 4 жыл бұрын

Nikos Castellano I’m hoping this site gets more - Mark does this very well 😃

@donnamurphy8066 4 жыл бұрын

This is so important & it helps bring awareness to the problem so maybe help & a change can happen for these people!!! Thank you!!!

@tylerdurden8939 4 жыл бұрын

I bet it blows up over the next 6 months. I don't think youtube algo's promote this sort of stuff tho so i could be wrong.

@Leandatastic 4 жыл бұрын

tyler durden all my comments on Sara keep getting deleted 😱

@tylerdurden8939 4 жыл бұрын

@@Leandatastic hmmm, I wonder if it is the channel or youtube

@divinenectar3292 4 жыл бұрын

Interviewer : Where do you see yourself in 5 years __________________ Launa: Man I’m struggling to stay alive everyday .....

@MaryJenkinsallamericanmary 3 жыл бұрын

Life is hard. It’s really hard to face mistakes we’ve made. I hope she finds the courage to talk to her kids and make amends. That will be so difficult to face possible rejection and definitely anger and sorrow. May she find healing and strength.

@kaylamcderment1517 Ай бұрын

Would be curious to have an update on her

@liljeeper99 4 жыл бұрын

The girl I knew and loved recently passed away because of those same sores from shooting up. At first she fell into a coma and for a bit they told there was a small chance she would come out of it but unfortunately they would have to amputate her limbs. I asked god for strength because I chose her to be with him. Your Auntie misses You Hollywood.

@tiffanysalinas6348 3 жыл бұрын

This same lady being interviewed?

@snookyapo2223 4 жыл бұрын

If they can't look after themselves, why do they make kids? Poor poor generation of this kind.

@Amanda-ev3lg 4 жыл бұрын

they forget fornicating causes a conception...

@darkmindedbutterfly5290 4 жыл бұрын

Because they are addicted to drugs they don’t think of the consequences they can’t take care of themselves and taking care of yourself means making good choices in your life.

@Amanda-ev3lg 4 жыл бұрын

@@darkmindedbutterfly5290 and this

@majahm1373 4 жыл бұрын

Her parents did it too

@opaquejimin 4 жыл бұрын

because when they're high, contraception is the last thing on their mind. plus, most of them spend all their money on drugs, they don't have money for condoms

@cindi7228 4 жыл бұрын

This one is hard to figure out. She seems fairly with it. I don’t understand why she turned to hard drugs. What led her down that path? It just sort of “happened”, it seems like. But you can tell it tears her up to think that her child is dead.

@Lmdeeee 4 жыл бұрын

She mentioned hurting her back and the meds. That's where it starts for alot of people they get addicted to the pain meds from injuries, then when they can't get them anymore they go after what they can and keep chasing the high.

@susansnyder11 4 жыл бұрын

""My kid was in a car accident and he could be dead or alive, I don't know". Like WTF??? Oh well, pass me the needle! She's dead already, it's just that her body hasn't received the memo yet. Just so sad!!!

@WalturdTheCat 3 жыл бұрын

Well unfortunately, heroin and meth both are the devil's drug and they will take away your soul. If you have never been there I am grateful that you haven't been, but I have been and I can tell you it will make you forget everything. Your kids your mom your dad yourself. She may not know because she clearly stated that she hasnt talked to them in years and it may not be by her own choice it may be by their choice, no one wants to see their mother drug addict on the nod on heroin. It is sad and you said it is sad as well but you are also judging her when you don't even understand what she is going through. Someone who has never been there cannot understand how you could not talk to your children even for more than a week but drugs takes all that away from you. I watched a very decent people get on the needle and the next thing you know they lose everything and not only that they start selling their body and they would not have done that prior to being on the needle. Drugs changes every single aspect about you.

@susansnyder11 3 жыл бұрын

@@WalturdTheCat Agree 100%, I never touched anything except pot, I was always scared to death of the outcome of such actions. I know that I would never be strong enough to pull myself away from such a powerful force. I applaud you for having the internal strength to rise above your addiction and come out the other side to talk about your own struggles. Much respect.💗

@WalturdTheCat 3 жыл бұрын

@@susansnyder11 this woman in the video is savable. Although it seems that she doesn't care because she doesn't know what's going on with her child, she still cries at the end oh, she is not completely hopeless yet. And thank you for your compliment

@susansnyder11 3 жыл бұрын

@@WalturdTheCat Agree, here's to hoping for her recovery!

@kathythefostermomthompson9138 3 жыл бұрын

Mark will be interviewing her kid one day. Wow....

@JuditaHoffman. 4 жыл бұрын

Stop judging this people, that's not why they are filmed! Some of you are really toxic and disgusting. Why are you even watching this interviews, is beyond me. Just STOP.

@RenegadeTimes 4 жыл бұрын

There's an epidemic in the U.S. We don't need to judge the consequences we need to address the root causes.

@amandas.7143 4 жыл бұрын

couldn’t agree more!

@nikkibeacth 4 жыл бұрын

Judita J. Judging is the faster way to get themselves into whomever’s life they are mocking. Karma never sleeps. And know everyone’s addresses.

@thepursuitofhappiness2126 4 жыл бұрын

I’m watching because drug addicts took over 2 foreclosed homes next to us. We were retired moved to another state to care for my dad who had Alzheimer’s. As many as 14 were living in one home and sadly one person died. We had items stolen and were threatened. It took a year of phone calls to the police, city, the bank and even the fire department to get them out. I We heard the fight when they broke the toilet so it was no surprise they left behind buckets of vomit and feces in the backyard. We had to fence our yard and install security cams and alarms. I was googling things like what does meth smell like? They sadly destroy themselves, their families and innocent people who come into their orbit. I cried with tears of relief when the police did a sweep.

@user-zp9br7jk9k 4 жыл бұрын

what an ironic comment...

@hopelessly.hopeful 4 жыл бұрын

Can we have an update on this lady, please?

@denesmith1331 4 жыл бұрын

Yikes. Tough crowd.

@manjakwiej2986 4 жыл бұрын

We pray forhe addicts that still suffer

@hanselfam 3 жыл бұрын

@Ryan Smith awww! I hope not. I want her to kick this but she’s not ready

@joyceschuman9921 4 жыл бұрын

Lost ANY sort of feels for her when she said she said she heard her oldest son might be dead because of an accident, but she has not called... FOR YEARS... Im Out!

@bitchlasagna1 4 жыл бұрын

I don't agree. I mean imagine the guilt she feels. That she wasn't there. That she had been so consumed in her own life and her drugs and partying that she wasn't there. I think Launa just knows that the guilt she'd feel from knowing would be too much for her. And at the end of the day of course she has to take care of her

@joyceschuman9921 4 жыл бұрын

@@bitchlasagna1 Totally, I agree. Horrifying. But at the end of the day, she still give not 2 squirts of rat pee if her kid is dead or not. Its all about her. Im Sorry and I Bless You For your Beautiful Heart and her too... just makes me so mad and sad at the same time i want to spit fire, but its not my life. Just a mouth to run in the comments. God Save Us All. XoXo

@necrotize 4 жыл бұрын

Joyce Schuman shes already in the situation she’s in. she can’t go back in time. she obviously cares, that’s why she’s so scared to confirm what she fears. to confirm the shame. she’s obviously not emotionally stable enough to be an effective mother, she barely knows if she’s going to make it to the end of the week. and if all her presence would do is expose them to toxicity, why reopen that wound? it’s very easy to sit and say what you would do or what could have been done, but when you’re in survival mode, malnourished, with traumatic injuries, how do you expect one to function reasonably?

@bitchlasagna1 4 жыл бұрын

Joyce Schuman if she didn’t care she would just call and find out, that’s the whole point

@joyceschuman9921 4 жыл бұрын

@@bitchlasagna1 Its kinda a big thing. xo

@doodleartlover 4 жыл бұрын

As a mom and grandmother, this one cut me to the bone. I'm crying tears for her but I think it's as a reflection of me even though we didn't follow the EXACT same paths. I feel her hurt and pain and that's all I can say. Except, a sincere God bless from me to you, doll. ✌️❤️

@tillysanders2593 4 жыл бұрын

Denial is a reaction to trauma. Addicts are ofren in tremendous denial and live with unresolved terminal pain -- which is what leads them to self medicate / the addiction . Real help is needed

@magdalenaka7097 4 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful eyes...deep, crystal blue.

@abbyhas-candy3437 4 жыл бұрын

Having lost a child, I know it breaks you and without a support system, a home to grieve in and faith, it would be impossible to get through. She is preserving her sanity. She is in no place to know if her child has passed or not. I don't blame her for a second and for those judging her for lack of contact with her children, sometimes the gift of a better life and lack of contact, can be the greatest gift to your child; it's love just different.

@handyandymclovich7261 4 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid her sanity expired some time ago, not to be verbally abusive I feel for people that have fallen this deep in addiction I know from experience that it's the hardest thing anyone will ever have to do I hate what has happened to this country in the last decade because of opiates.🥺

@rl5725 3 жыл бұрын

Did she say she'd homeless? Not all addicts are

@ohjordyn8312 4 жыл бұрын

Those holes are from when you “miss” too many times. It can cause irritation and infection. I have two horrible scars from holes like that. She needs to get those dirty bandages off and get some antibiotics.. they DO NOT heal easy.

@tashas5074 4 жыл бұрын

You are right about the fact that this do not heal easy!! It took years to heal My legs from that. Now 8 years later i Still have ugly scars. But mine wasn't from missing the veins. It was from years and years hitting the same veins and beeing in VERY bad shape not eating and drinking for days. And the acid in the heroin really fries the veins.

@rmblwgn 4 жыл бұрын

@@tashas5074 black tar from mexico you get on the west coast is not completely acetated with acetic acid(pure vinegar) so its got a lot of acid left in it and is brutal on skin. Thank god I just smoked it.. The truth is our heroin is not real heroin like the stuff made in middle east/asia but is semi processed opium mostly containing 5-mam (monoacetylmorphine).... luckily we have less HIV here because addicts on the West Coast happen to have to cook it longer which kill the virus

@burrelleful 4 жыл бұрын

God. This is so heartbreaking. She’s so sweet and you can see the beauty behind what addiction has taken away-just look at those big blue eyes! I hope she gets-wants to get-help. I pray they all do. People deserve so much more than to live like this.

@jonsilence 4 жыл бұрын

Most people who encounter those like Launa understandably feel a profound sense of pity & compassion, and want to help. But what I can tell you about this natural and well-intentioned impulse, from my own direct experience as a would-be "helper", is that those such as Launa have burned all their bridges with family and personal friends LONG AGO, and are beyond any real help or hope of rehabilitation. By the time they get as bad off as Launa is, they've usually been given countless loans, favors, reboots, and "help" of numerous kinds, none of which has actually helped to rehabilitate them, but only made them a little more comfortable for awhile and put a flimsy and temporary band-aid on a festering cancer of addiction. Tragically, there comes a point where an addict is systemically overpowered by their addiction; they are literally and completely owned or "possessed" by their drug(s) of choice. If they could be involuntarily confined, detoxed, and rehabilitated without any opportunities for relapse they would have a chance; but unless they are sent to prison where they can receive such treatment in a controlled and "relapse-safe" environment , there is no hope for such people who are walking free on the streets. We can still feel compassion for them, we can still give them whatever gifts or money we are moved to provide, but we must realize that our "help" is confined to the realm of comfort only, and will not achieve the life-changing rehabilitation they need. Some are irretrievably beyond help, and beyond hope.

@sallyozuna3883 3 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct. There comes a time when you have to excise the addict from your life or succumb to their addiction as well. Too many don't understand that.