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How a depressed generation is turning to drug abuse to numb emotions

"My life has been absolutely drugged to the mud, I have lost friends, I have lost family members, I have nothing, I live on the streets, I freeze every night and I steal to eat and to support myself. I hate my life. I hate it. I wake up in the morning wishing I didn't. That's opioid, intravenous drug use for you. I feel terrible. Like am in a death trap," these words are from a video posted on Tiktok by the documentary channel on August 31, 2022.

The speaker is an unidentified young man who is a recovering addict of illegally made Fentanyl, a drug that is taking over the streets of some States in America.

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