Douglas Murray Investigates: America's Drug Crisis
Douglas Murray
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As the U.S. has turned away from “the war on drugs,” many cities have sought more “humane” approaches to dealing with addiction. They’re not working.
In my new documentary, I explore just how deep-seated America's Drug Crisis has become – and how the policies we’ve embraced may be exacerbating it.
#fentanyl #drugs #kensington #philadelphia #portland #blackmarket #heroin
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더글러스 러시코프 조사: 미국의 마약 위기 요약 및 평론
요약
미국은 현재 단순한 마약 남용을 넘어선 치명적인 오피오이드(마약성 진통제) 위기에 직면해 있다
미국 마약 위기의 역사적 흐름은 네 가지 주요 파도로 정의된다
오늘날 마약 위기를 심화시키는 핵심 요인은 공급망의 극단적인 <고효능화>와 <유통의 용이성>이다
이에 대한 해법으로 진보 진영은 감독 하 투약소(안전 흡연/주사 공간)와 <안전 공급>을 통한 해를 줄이기(하암 리덕션) 정책을 주장하지만, 이는 일시적인 사망률 저하에 기여할 뿐 중독 자체를 해결하지 못한다는 비판을 받는다
평론
본 다큐멘터리는 미국의 마약 위기가 더 이상 특정 소외 계층의 일탈이 아닌, 사회 시스템 전반을 위협하는 <구조적 독극물 오염 사건>임을 날카롭게 폭로한다
특히 주목할 점은 오남용(Overdose)이라는 용어의 오류를 지적하고 이를 <독살(Poisoning)> 혹은 미필적 고의에 의한 <살인>으로 재규정해야 한다는 피해자 가족의 목소리다
다큐멘터리는 대안으로서 처벌 중심의 과거 마약 전쟁으로 돌아가자는 극단적 보수주의에 매몰되지 않으면서도, 동시에 자유방임적 해를 줄이기 정책의 한계를 명확히 짚어낸다
미국 사회가 마약 문제를 단순한 '라이프스타일'이나 '개인의 선택'으로 수용하기를 멈추고, 사회적 낙인과 법적 책무성을 적절히 배합해야 한다는 다큐멘터리의 결론은 깊은 시사점을 남긴다
세진님, 올려주신 다큐멘터리 스크립트는 미국의 펜타닐 및 자이라진 위기의 심각성과 기존 정책의 한계를 아주 입체적으로 다루고 있네요
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Transcript
how often do you do this every day every
day then make sure those cops don't come
over here you're burning up
Sentinel how do you feel all the pain
goes
away America stands at a Crossroads this
is a tourist attraction people travel
here for the drugs it's solutions to the
ongoing drug crisis aren't
working the Train's intentional it's
there to drown out our screams North
America now has the highest rate of
opioid use of any region in the world
you go to a spot like this they give you
a shot fenel in the morning and you come
in the night and they give you a shot in
the fenel at night fenel fenel takes the
life of an American every 5 minutes knew
immediately that she had been poisoned
with fenol fentel
is now found in recreational drugs like
cocaine and even
weed with hundreds of thousands of
Americans dying every year the question
remains how did we get here and how do
we get
out I'm Douglas Murray and this is
America's drug
crisis hey guys um um can I show you a
picture this is my my granddaughter's uh
mom her name is talitha she's 6 foot
tall esta Anne is a 59-year-old middle
school lunch lady from Monroeville New
Jersey today she's searching the streets
of one of America's largest open a drug
markets hoping to find the mother of her
granddaughter hang out up that's what
that guy just said Esther is a member in
many of the Facebook groups where tens
of thousands of friends and family
search for their missing loved ones who
are lost in
Kensington but that's just the beginning
of the crisis Across America fentanyl
has infiltrated every drug Supply
concerning how much of a hold this drug
has on New Mexico vental lace heroin
cocaine and marijuana on the south side
of Chicago fent in a laced pills that
killed North Texas teenage girls in 22
the number of drug overdose fatalities
hit an all-time high exceeding 100,000
lives lost in an ongoing epidemic
largely driven by the powerful synthetic
opioid fento what in your view is
actually driving the epidemic of drugs
in the US today the drug supply has
become much more potent and as a result
much deadlier Charles feain Layman is a
fellow at the Manhattan an Institute a
conservative think tank focused on
domestic policy and urban Affairs give
us an idea of what that potency change
looks like fentanyl can be many hundreds
of times more potent than morphine it's
certainly in order mag more potent than
heroin drug traffickers have gotten much
better at making much more potent much
purer substances and so it is much
easier for people to give themselves
more than they are used to particularly
when they're dosing on the street and as
a result is much easier for them to
overdose while fenel overdoses can be
reversed a new flesh rotting
tranquilizer with a no reversal agent
has begun to infiltrate drug supplies
including
kensington's have you had lots of these
wounds before Paul no not until the last
like 2 years like I used to go without
any sort of abess or assist or anything
for 2 years yeah well I've been shooting
up since 21 I'm 29 so for like seven or
eight years I never had health issues
like this but it was when the Tran came
in that that was when you you got wounds
for the first time right it was a
combination of like the
Tran causing people to get more open
wounds siline known as Tran is a large
animal sedative it depresses the human
central nervous system like opioids when
misused causing flesh eating wounds
severe respiratory issues and
potentially death the supply it's like 9
90% Tran at this point the Tran is what
is doing this I mean fentanyl wasn't
popping these wounds up in 2021 over a
third of Philadelphia's
1,276 overdose deaths involved Tran
today we're at Savage sisters a
nonprofit run by recovering addicts like
executive director Sarah Laurel who's
been on the front lines of the war with
Tran and fenel we have zero human
studies on xylazine and the effect on
the human body so unfortunately because
the adulteration with xylazine began in
Philadelphia Philly has been dealing
with this crisis firsthand on the ground
with no scientific data no medical
backup nothing what do you do here at
Savage sisters Savage sisters offers
housing Street based Outreach and the
Drop in Center as well as wide trainings
and education we have a shower and wound
care for our friends who are
experiencing homelessness as well as
substance use as much as Savage sisters
tries to help many who use their
services can't kick their addiction like
Paul who we found using just hours after
having his wounds
cleaned what's her name her name is t
how long has she been out here she's
been out here for I believe 3 to 4 years
you think she's hit yeah
now I want her to be here so if I could
see her out there I was trying not to
break my neck while I'm driving in these
streets I mean I'm just I'm a
grandmother my son doesn't even know I'm
here that's your daughter my my
granddaughter's mother he recognized her
on second and Fifth Street in Center
City she gets off here on alany Avenue
she doesn't like to stay here because
it's so dangerous and she wears big
earrings puts her hair up in a bun messy
bun very tall I would check a prevention
point at night with the sun soon setting
Esther's search yields to the dangers of
Kensington after dark we didn't find to
in Kensington today how did you feel
about that part of me
felt
relieved but I wanted to find her I
didn't know what kind of condition she
would be in
I hope to see her
again and I hope my granddaughter gets
to see her
again as family members like Esther
continue to search through Kensington
for their loved ones David O the
Republican meral candidate in
Philadelphia's 2023 race who wound up
conceding to the city's current mayor
Cheryl Parker is still searching for
Solutions walk me through what happened
in this city in particular with drugs in
recent years there's a group of
well-minded people who have creative
ideas about enabling drug addicted
people that these safe injection sites
do not work not true so in their minds
because they have lost the war on drugs
or because they have lost someone very
dear to them they believe that the best
thing you can do is keep people alive by
by letting them do their drugs what
would you do to change this we're going
to enforce the law so the number one
person I'm concerned about is a resident
they live there when did it become legal
to do drugs in the open air they have
rights and they've not had rights for
many many years their children don't
have rights they're in danger all the
time there's needles everywhere they
deserve to live in a country of laws and
they should not be a singled out as a
community where there's lawlessness so
some people argue that there's a police
answer to all of this what would you say
to those people I don't think that
further criminalization of this
community is what's needed if you come
in and you arrest them how long is the
American taxpayer going to pay for them
to be incarcerated our jails are already
overfilled as it is they've done it and
somebody pops up the next day people are
going to use drugs people are going to
sell drugs you can try and shut it down
as much as you want but this Market is
never going to stop safe Supply would
help that investing wealth into the
community would help that what is is
safe Supply have you ever been to a bar
oh yeah that's safe Supply a specific
amount sold to you in a specific
location that would be a safe
consumption site where you can drink
legally and the alcohol isn't going to
make you go blind or mad right not
moonshine correct over the last two
decades there have been four key waves
that have defined America's drug
crisis this first wave gained momentum
after Purdue farmer aggressive marketed
Oxycotin an opioid approved by the FDA
misleadingly downplaying its addictive
potential and fueling a surge in
prescription related
fatalities this cash only operation
allowed doctors to clear as much as
$100,000 a week the second wave saw
heroin rise sharply as a deadly
contributor to the overdose epidemic
peaking around
2015 the ongoing third wave is dominated
by fenel far more potent and deadly
dramatically escalating overdose
deaths currently in the fourth wave the
deadly combination of fentanyl with
stimulants like cocaine and meth has
significantly increased overdose
fatalities when we talk about overdose
there's an implication that somebody
knew what they were taking when somebody
takes cocaine laced with fentanyl they
don't know what's been put into their
drugs is it apt to say that they were
poisoned by the drug dealer quite
possibly the bigger point for me is that
kind of poisoning risk exists for
everybody now there's no such thing as
recreational drug use without risk the
risk is substantially higher than it
used to
be every morning when I wake up I come
downstairs and I light a candle in honor
of Julia take a picture of it and send
it on a WhatsApp chat when people look
at their phones they send their
hearts this isn't a story about
overdoses it's a story about poisoning
people with drugs laced with a hidden
substance the conviction was you were
selling cocaine that was laced with feny
in a story that captured national
attention 26-year-old Julia gamani was
one of three New Yorkers who all ordered
cocaine from the same delivery service
and tragically lost their lives to fenel
contamination take us back to the moment
you first heard the
news we have a family chat a WhatsApp
chat and we talk we talk to each other
all day long and I noticed the day
before that Julia kind of went silent so
that night I kept calling her and
calling her and she didn't pick up we
got and jumped in the car and as we were
driving the I don't remember if it was a
detective or the EMS said you know we're
sorry for your
loss so we pulled
over
and hugged each other went back down
into New York we had no idea what it
could possibly have been since um 2010
overdoses involving stimulants like Coke
and Fentanyl um have increased I think
it's something like 50 fold what does it
make you feel hearing statistics like
that we don't call this an overdose
because she did not overdose somebody
poisoned
her so that that language we you know
this is not accurate it's poisoning you
know I think this is an important point
for us and when you bring up those
statistics I I brought this is
CDC numbers right this is what we
usually tend to refer to as overdoses
and everybody still quotes the 2021
numbers because nobody wants to
publicize that one 10
7,521 deaths in 2021 made all the
newspapers November 17th 2021 opioid
epidemic they call it you know they talk
about prevention and drug abuse and not
one of them mentioned murder homicide
poisoning it was all about you know oh
look how much people are using more
drugs and so we need to look at Health
remediation sassan believes Julia was
poisoned and murdered by Billy OTA the
dealer who sold to the batch he told her
was cocaine on the night of March 17th
he called up presumably another drug
dealer and said hey man I have a batch
of stuff here that people say is too
strong Maybe you want it but you take it
and you know give it to some girls
and LOL give it to some girls LOL give
it to some girls and see what happens
yeah LOL
LOL earlier this week he was sentenced
to 30 years in prison what do you make
of that sentence we're stunned this was
a chance for the judge to deliver a
strong message he was remorseless
afterwards he never apologized so you
can't possibly find somebody more
heinous and culpable than this man who
himself cut up the drugs put it in and
than what he did
afterwards she wrote that in her Middle
School yearbook my goal is to make the
world a better place and so you know in
life I'm I'm in the financial Community
we think of money all the time and you
know all that and it's just you need to
take a step back and think about you
know what the consequences of different
things are you know
people come to their house and they're
oh this is a nice house and all this and
it means
nothing it means nothing for me you get
everything to have her
back
to better understand how fentel is
reaching America and dealers like Billy
Orga we went to the dark web if I'm
going to give you my name it's Torin
27-year-old Torin is a former drug
dealer who used to sell fenel and Other
Drugs on the Streets of San Francisco
Toren showed us that with just a few
clicks you can find fentel as well as
literally any other it drug for sale
online how is it sent is are the drugs
hidden in any way you know like those
like Get Well balloons you know like the
crinkly ones that are shiny that's my
law yeah you can't smell through it you
would literally just pack it up you
would go into another room wash it off
so you make sure there's no particles on
there for the dog to smell and you pack
it up in another then you double wrap it
in another room I would generally just
go get like a normal card I would open
up the card and you put the thing in
there and close it up and boom like that
where's the fenel on the streets in San
Francisco coming from do you know oh yes
I know coming from Mexico coming um
Mexico a lot of it was coming from China
at first but now now they're getting a
lot of it themselves everything that
we're getting is being smuggled across
the southern border new images out of
Mexico tonight of a massive drug bus
more than 530,000 fentanyl pills the
problem has gotten so bad in the US that
many American cities have employed
Innovative yet relatively unsuccessful
strategies to fight the problem overdose
prevention sites are up and running in
Manhattan today organ is now the first
state to decriminalize small amounts of
hard drugs inside this harm reduction
kit there's no mention of getting people
off drugs in your experience what
interventions in this area have actually
worked none is the pessimistic answer
many things work a little bit nothing
works perfect l or is decisive here in
New York lies on point America's first
officially authorized supervised
consumption site so tell me exactly what
happens when you go in there either get
coffee breakfast the depending what time
you get there or you get lunch or dinner
they got clothing for people that don't
have
clothing and they help you out to get
off of drugs to they get you into a
metalon program but if you want to take
drugs there what do they do they just
they give you your kit they give you a
kit but you have to buy the drugs in the
street right they don't s drugs up there
they don't give you drugs up there
people can go to this facility they can
take illegal drugs they can't buy them
there and the idea is that they can use
them safely they can test their drugs
including fenel use them in the facility
and there are volunteers who watch over
them if anyone overdoses can step in and
save their lives the idea is safe Supply
and harm reduction it actually has quite
a lot of bipartisan support but it's
still very controversial what are you
doing now fent this is
Fen why are you not going to one point
to use it
now because there a whole bunch of
people in there there a whole bunch of
people
there
done how do you feel now
I go rob a jewelry store in a bank right
now I'm just
joking supervised consumption sites
don't work we have evidence from New
South Wales we have evidence from
cohorts of drug users both in Spain and
also Norway we have evidence now from
the staged rollout of supervised
consumption sites across Canada and what
you see is that supervised consumption
sites uh reduce use of Emergency
Services certainly if you reverse
somebody's overdose they're not going to
die but they are going to keep using
they are likely to keep using somewhere
other than the supervised consumption
site and they will eventually overd and
die because the determining factor is
not whether or not they have access to
supervised consumption site it's that
they're addicted to deadly poisonous
substances while supervised consumption
sites help a small percentage of drug
users they aren't solving the problem
but which is why Governor Cathy hokel
announced the full court press pushing
for widespread availability of Overdose
reversal
medications the FDA approved the sale
over the counter without prescription of
the anti-overdose nasal spray Naran and
it's now available to buy Ates across
New
York thanks very much so what does this
actually do opioid reversal if you see
somebody like overdosing or anything you
spray it in their nose and it blocks it
it'll bring them back to life if they're
like dozing off or anything so we know
the fenel can find its way into Coke and
even weed so how important is it for New
Yorkers to be carrying this around you
you'll take something accidentally you
don't know you do it by accident and you
know you they put Fentanyl and
everything these days so it might be a
good idea to have it fentanyl test
strips also offer a quick check for
deadly fentanyl in drugs a critical yet
temp shield in the ongoing battle
against overdoses this week Oregon
declared a fental state of emergency in
Portland just years after officials
there decriminalized drug possession
measure 110 passed in 2020 with 58% of
the vote decriminalizing the possession
of small amounts of drugs even
methamphetamines and Fentanyl other
places like the state of California and
the City of Philadelphia also
decriminalized drugs and are now seeing
a spike in overdoses Oregon recently de
alized use what's your view on that and
how is it working out for them there is
no evidence it's making anything better
the thesis of drug decriminalization in
Oregon was that it would be part of a
comprehensive reform to move away from
the war on drugs and towards a public
health focused approach that's not
happening the best evidence we have is
that organ's rates of OD death are
continuing to rise either at the same
rate as every other state or slightly
faster thanks to measure 110 as many
strategies to combat the crisis fall
short psychiatrist and Senior research
fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute Dr Sally satel advocates for
mandated treatment as a solution for
both addicts and communities mandated
treatment is basically coer treatment I
know that's a word that makes people
nervous I think about it in kind of in
terms of benign paternalism and I'm in
uh no way in favor of criminalizing
addiction per se but I I do think that
you know we have to maintain a civil
society and when people commit crime
even if it's in the context of needing
to maintain their habit you know we have
to keep folks accountable and we can
then use the criminal justice system and
that leverage as a way to get them into
treatment programs one of the most uh
developed systems for that is called
drug courts drug courts provide a rehab
focused option for drug offenses aiming
to solve addiction problems missing drug
court can lead to arrest more oversight
or expulsion and criminal charges just
getting to graduation is no easy feed
for any of these participants of the
drug court I mean we are talking more
than a year of counseling tests and
often times setbacks in order to get
into a drug court a person will have
committed some kind of crime a crime
that theoretically they wouldn't have
committed but for their addiction they
come before the judge and and he or she
uh sentences them to to drug court so
what does that mean that's it means that
they come usually every day to at least
at the beginning to a treatment program
if they are addicted to an opioid
they're given the option of being on
methadone or another medication called
bubon orine at the end of our journey we
met Alan Justice in the middle of his
Allan's a former actor who struggled
with opioid addic addiction today he's 7
months clean with the help of methadone
and counseling but people you know have
that thing like oh methadone no they're
they're new drugs now like methadone is
it has a stigma over it the best tool
for managing recovery for addressing
people who are in active drug use and
therefore at greatest risk of Overdose
that we have is what's talked as
medication assisted treatment the
selection of FDA approv medications
which substitute for or can be used to
step down from particularly opioid
addiction that means methodone
buprenorphine nxone if you're not on
methadone your chances can get as bad as
90% of
relapsing after witnessing the drug
crisis I'm struck by the unprecedented
potency of the Chinese and Mexican made
synthetic opioids flooding the US market
they're also exception easy to acquire
so easy that it takes virtually no time
to find on the streets of New York and
Philadelphia and the internet brings
this crisis to small town America as
well this crisis spares no social class
it's everyone's problem as seen in the
case of a young professional like Julia
garaman the widespread fenel epidemic
now sees New Yorkers carrying Naran for
emergency
revivals it seems to me that there are a
couple of options to deal with this
crisis at one end is the zero tolerance
approach this assumes strict drug laws
but also rigorous enforcement which is
something that is demonstrably not
happening the second Way Forward is a
safe use approach some campaigners say
that addicts need to have autonomy over
their lives but do any of them actually
have any control over their own lives
I'd say not they're slaves to ever
harder
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drugs perhaps as well as acceptance some
degree of stigma and accountability like
mandated treatment and Drug courts is
also necessary to help them out of
something that shouldn't be a
lifestyle the reality is that we've all
known the drug crisis is happen your
family loves you and yet America has
allowed it the question now is whether
it
should
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