Opioid overdoses are the leading cause of death in Pennsylvania which has been made worse by the ongoing fentanyl crisis. NBC’s Dasha Burns takes a look at the controversial solution of fentanyl test strips that were recently made legal within the state.
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Certain people can commit treason with no penalty, others, could get busted and do time over testing strips or smoking cannabis.. see… this is why we are over this ish.. man if you’re rich you can commit treason insurrection and manslaughter by proxy and still be walking around free.. average joes can be locked up for smoking/possessing a joint.. or trying to make drug use safer, which more people are turning to fentanyl for chronic pain because they can not afford doctors that aren’t too lazy to do the extra paperwork you just put on them with the ‘much pain’ act.
did NBC just reference a super bowl(TM) stadium worth of people and fentanyl overdoses? thats messed up marketing.
A lot of people watch the Superbowl. They would see the size of the stadium, full of spectators. It’s to show correlation to make people understand how serious fentynyl is.
@@jeffreymarra231 it’s still a super bowl comercial disguised as PSA
It is actually standard to reference sports arenas, towns, theaters, etc. when you want to portray the volume of people who were affected by something.
fuggin gave he a heart attack lol i thought some knucklehead legalized fentanyl
How about just don’t do drugs?
You are so easy
Holy cow, you figured it out. After all these drug overdoses, drug wars, rehabs, and deaths, the answer has been ‘just don’t do drugs’. This is genius level thinking here. Just don’t do drugs! Someone notify the Pennsylvania governer
Exactly…if you commit a crime then you should be punished… through drug dealers and drug users in jail and give regular folks and law enforcement a breather for a while…this 💩 isn’t exceptable and needs to be stopped before the country implodes!!.💕🇺🇸🇺🇦
@@caravanstuff2827 I vehemently disagree with locking up all the ‘law enforcement’
The average American is addicted to at least one drug.
I’m so glad to be clean! Fentanyl gets people hooked from even secondhand smoke… If dealers are using this to hook people, we have a way bigger problem on our hands than previously considered. The first time makes a lifer!
I’m in full support of any legal or martial acts to remove it.
Legalizing drugs in America would remove it
@@waterloo123100 Not the hard stuff. Clearly, looney tunes like you went too far.
@@waterloo123100 Not the impact on peoples’ health.
Big brother was taking your tax dollars to lock up people for TESTING drugs. That’s how backwards our system is.
Thanks for a good report. This is a terrible problem across the country. Resources like this are sorely needed.
The city of dope fiends the bar owner was loaded
Remove all Armenians and other Arab trash from government agencies and top business managers – so that they cannot influence the situation in the world… these scum work collectively, they must be infringed on like the rest of the Arab gangs to the fullest, not allowing them to advance in any way and not believing their mental kindness and benefit…
With losing close friends and family from fentanyl poisoning when over the years like everyone normally does having get togethers having fun taking group photos, *in the photos we take now, I personally do not see whom is in the photos any longer, but I see whom is missing from the photos since the crises* that has impacted us all!
I’m sorry for your loss
@@Mary-sf8cy … Thank you kindly, God bless you and your family. Have a wonderful weekend!
It’s the whole US
Hopefully one day as a people we can decide to stop doing these temptations that lay before us openly and in such great abundance.
Idiots actually thought outlawing alcohol would stop alcohol abuse a century ago.
Addiction is an equal opportunity employer. It does not discriminate between social status or upbringing.
That’s what y’all get for putting crack in our hoods.
Our government representatives are in favor of legalizing all illicit drugs to further dumb down the population and to depopulate. TRUTH.
As Mr Mackey says.. Don’t do drugs , drugs are bad mmkay. If you are stoopid enough to take this crap you have no one to blame but yourself if you die.
Fentanyl Drug Crisis Continues… Where is the Mighty SS Homeland S????
Oh, Yea, Out Murdering Innocenyt Civilians and Lying About it!!!!!!
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Find out what does have Fentanyl or the like substances in them beforehand or just unwittingly die from Fentanyl or something that does damages like Fentanyl.
As someone that dabbled in coke (and other drugs. Never opioids though) in my younger years, I feel very fortunate to have missed this era.
No one chooses to die when they experiment in recreational drugs. Not only is the morally right thing to do, its an economic one. We are losing 90K+ people a year due to overdose deaths. It’s having an economic hit as we are losing people out of the labor force.
Get the border under control and you will solve multiple problems!
These crackheads should be in jail, if they were black they would be
Fentanyl is good for you
Love that they are doing that, but “12 steps down” is a horrible name for a bar, it’s almost making fun of the 12 step program.
More accurate headline: Activists pass out after taking fentanyl-laced strips.
A couple days ago in St Louis Mo they arrested a couple people with 77 POUNDS of Fentanyl and Meth. But barely a blurb in the news. Just a couple paragraph buried on a few news websites with 2 names an a vague general description of where it happened.
But if someone blows a tire out in a pothole there’s wall to wall coverage with photos and detailed descriptions. Go figure🤷
Alcohol is the worse drug. If your “using” it, you`re a drug addict.
FTP! We need those strips to stay safe!
….I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that drug testing strips were considered “drug paraphernalia” like wtf??
Sorry but not sorry. Looks like a simple case of natural selection. Some people on our society have never grown up and taken responsibility for their own life.
Oh me nor my kids ever lived in Philly and whoever stealing my mail in that town are thieves