2023-06-12 02:08:00
Referential image. In the US, the use of drugs, such as fentanyl, causes the ‘zombie’ effect in young people in Philadelphia. Photo: Pixabay
Las images that people addicted to leave drugssuch as heroin or fentanyl, have caused the United States and international media to portray a neighborhood of Philadelphia as a ‘zonezombies‘.
That place in Philly looks like it’s straight out of a horror movie. Its inhabitants walk like ‘zombies‘, its streets are full of rubbish and the unsafety She is the queen of the area.
This is because most people are consumers of heroin or the fentanyland for that reason wander not knowing where to go.
It is about Kesington Avenue, a neighborhood of which there are creepy images In Internet. Although there is more talk about this topic recently, it is not a new situation for the city, since in 2017 the BBC described the calle de Kesington as the “camp of drug addicts outdoor”.
According to Forbes, this neighborhood has english heritage and Irish, considered a banner of the working class. However, there is a great problem and it is the consumption of drugssince there are cases of overdose even in the bathrooms public libraries. Furthermore, poverty and prostitution They are also seen in this area of the city.
“Needles are injected into armsneck and between the fingers of the pies. They limp and nod. some are taken away on the ground and appear to be muertos”, described The New York Times in 2018.
Not even the years of pandemic could change this place, it even seems that the situation It only gets worse day by day. Despite attempts to eviction that local government has had, drug users still they haunt Around the area. the panorama alone gets worsebecause some of the people become aggressive.
Drugs, the main problem
One of the most commonly used drugs is fentanyl, which is a compound used to potentiate the effects of other drugs. This makes the heroin be 50 times more powerful and 100 more than the morphineassured the portal Centers for Control and Prevention of Disease Control (CDCs).
It is worth noting that there is two types of fentanyl: the pharmaceutical and the illicitly manufactured. Both are considered opioids synthetics.
fentanyl pharmacist It is prescribed by doctors to treat Intense pain of patients recently operated on or in advanced stages of cancer.
In the streets of Kensington Avenue, one often sees the fentanyl manufactured illicitly. It is distributed in illegal drug markets for its similar effect to the of the heroin. In addition, it is usually added to other drugs due to its extreme powerwhich makes the most economic become more powerful, more addictive and more dangerous.
However the problem of Kessington It is not only because of its inhabitants, but this area attracts thousands of personas from all over the country who wants to get and consume drugs.
Overdose deaths
According to the Control Centers and Prevention of Diseases, half a million people died in the last two decades from overdose of opioids.
Likewise, this organization assured that the place lived three epidemics of this drug. The first, in the 1990s, for opioids; the secondin 2010, where thousands of deaths by heroinand since 2013, also for the fentanyl.
Another of the drugs that became very popular on this site is the Xylazine o ‘trans‘, what is a deadly sedative which is used to improve effects heroin, cocaine and fentanyl. This substance is so potent that the White House declared it a ‘threat emergent’.
“Xylazine has hit Philadelphia particularly strong, causing an increase in deaths due to overdose, as well as serious injury that can cause sepsis and amputationsaid the Department of Health and the Board of Health Philadelphia in a press release last April of 2023.
As a result, the Department of Philadelphia Public Health was working closely collaboration with partners from all over the ciudad To address this new aspect of the Epidemic drug overdose,” he said.
Multiple complaints from neighbors
According to the newspaper La Razón, the neighborhood organizations of the neighborhood denounced in numerouss occasions the permissiveness of the market of the drug in the district.
Residents claim that the authorities they do not act against the points of neighborhood sale and yes they do it against consumers.
On the other hand, they emphasize that they live a “racism institutional”, since the majority of residents are latinos or of African-American descent.
“Let’s be clear: the effort successful containment campaign in Kensington is racism systemic in action”, commented the president of the Association of Neighbors of the neighborhood, Eduardo Esquivelto the already mentioned medium.
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