What's wrong with these people? (1 minute video) Are they impaired by drugs? If you watch this, how could you not see that this is the end?

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[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Fentanyl.

It's also the reason the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Were the soldiers using Fentanyl in Afghanistan?

[–]Alphix 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Afghanistan is the world's #1 producer of poppy, which is the plant from which opiates and some opioids are derived: codeine, morphine, heroin and others.

Now that fentanyl has become very much worth synthesizing in labs, due to its potency, the need for a military presence in a country that produces most of the world's heroin, protecting and appropriating said production, has disappeared. "They" can just make fentanyl and get rich off even more U.S. misery.

In the Regan era, it was cocaine and crack, and the USA was involved in Latin America, where the stuff grows. Then it's been opioids. Next thing? Who knows... But probably just good old hot war for military money.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I understand. I remember hearing that the US was not trying to stop poppy farmers in Afghanistan, but it looked more like the soldiers were guarding the poppy farms. If Fentanyl can be made in a lab cheaper than growing a crop in a foreign land, then I can see why the soldiers would no longer be necessary there. This world is so corrupt.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

They have been brainwashed by social media to take drugs as a means to escape reality.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

They have been brainwashed by social media to take drugs as a means to escape reality.

People have been using drugs to escape from reality for a lot longer than social media has been around. Those people are all homeless, I don't think they care about getting social media likes

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They are more like zombies than people.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah they are, its sad

[–]Alphix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Are they homeless because of the drugs or the other way around though? I am not sure...

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are they homeless because of the drugs or the other way around though? I am not sure...

I'd think some of both, but mainly what you suggest. Many people become homeless from addiction issues. But many people also have mental health issues which may be the underlying reason for both their homelessness and the substance abuse. In general homelessness is also a symptom of societal failures though. Japan has alcohol addiction aplenty, but almost no homelessness. Also homelessness is practically unheard of in the most primitive of societies. This is a complicated issue. I'm not sure I can adequately answer this

[–]aaarrgh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

drugs, what else?