Never thought id hear "Lets inject some heroine together" from the kurzgesagt voice
“The first time you do strong opioids will be the peak of your life” The best anti-drug message I’ve ever heard.
I was found OD’d in a dark parking lot by pure chance back in 2015 and I never look back. I feel very lucky to be alive since that day, it’s been 10 years 🎉
I OD'd in 2016, my best friend saved me. A couple of months later that same friend OD'd alone and died. This addiction gave me heaven for a second and then took everything else from me. I miss my friend, so much.
My uncle got off of fent. About 5 times. The 6th time he tried to stop and relapsed, he ended his journey behind a walmart dumpster. He was an incredibly smart person, he just made a mistake. Get help guys. We will miss him forever
"its the dumbest drug to ruin your life for" Bro woke up and decided to be brutally honest
'you will never feel this good again' hits so hard. That was the most powerful, honest and comprehensive argument I've ever heard on why hard drugs are a bad idea. Growing up we just hear 'is bad, forbidden', which to the right age group, could just as well have been said as a dare. But knowing you will have a lifetime peak feelgood experience, that can never be had again, and to which you will now measure everything else in your life... Honestly that sounded absolutely terrifying. This video should be pinned to the top of YouTube, and left there.
I am currently in drug rehab for meth. I just want to let everyone who is struggling with addiction know that there is help available and that you can truly change your life. When you decide to get clean, there is a whole world of people waiting to help.
I have never seen a better explanation for addiction to opioids before. This is exactly what its like. I have never touched Fentanyl but long ago I was hooked on Methadone and this is exactly how it was. I hope anyone watching this, learns from it. That high at the beginning may be nice. But its absolutely not worth what it will do to you. There is nothing worse than being a prisoner to your body and addiction. There were times when I would envy everyone, just because they were free. No matter how bad things in life got. They could just run away and like in the wilderness if they wanted. But when you are hooked, you cant. You live with a countdown clock above your head. Always counting down to when the pain will begin. Its a horrible horrible way to live. You lose everything from it and everything you loved before that made you happy, no longer matters. Its a living nightmare. DON'T TAKE OPIOIDS. PLEASE DON'T ( I appreciate the likes. If my little comment can help even one person stay away from this stuff then it will be worth it. I dont want anyone else losing everything over these horrible drugs. So thank for helping my comment be seen)
The entire part after injecting heroin to "This will be your peak life moment - forever" really hits hard. It is beautifully animated, almost like a meditation and the unbiased honesty really made me comprehend on an emotional level why heroin is such a dangerous drug. Scarred for life by happiness with an experience you will never ever reach again.
I am an ICU nurse in the US. Everyone should watch this video. Thank you, thank you Kurzgezagt.
My kids enjoy your videos. Suddenly my pre-teen is telling me about Heroin and Fentanyl. I'm like "oh, I didn't know some of that...did you just find out about this from someone?" She goes "no, it's a video, one of those ones we like" and thought "oh dear, this is some joke thing that she thinks is cool" but then saw it was you guys and went "shoot yeah I'll watch this with you" and both kids watched to the end very fascinated. A little scared, but knowledge is power.
As an ex-IV heroin and fentanyl addict for over 10 years, I completely approve of this video. It is extremely accurate, with the descriptions spot-on. The things you are willing to do, your morals that you are willing to suspend in the search of the drug is unimaginable. Anything you've ever said that you would never do, under any circumstances no longer applies. I have now been sober for a little over 10 years and still think of it daily, how I wish I could be pain free. I feel that this will never go away and that is something I will struggle with for the rest of my life. Thank you for this video.
I genuienly appreciate all of the past addicts in here sharing their story because it adds a whole other level of warning to this video.
This. This is how u teach "the dangers of drugs" effectively. If u tell a teenager only that something is dangerous and don't explain the joys and pleasure of it then 90% of what u tell us will just go in one ear and out the other. Giving all the information and then using that to explain why the dangers exist is so much more effective. Common kurzgesagt W
Thank you for a concise and honest video on this heavy subject. My father was a heroin addict in his youth, and later told me why he stopped - he and his girlfriend had just scored, and couldn't wait to get home to fix, so they shot up in a public bathroom. She OD'ed and died there, in a bathroom stall, about 20 years old. Then my father snuck off, leaving her body there, and went home to get his fix. That's the mindset of a junkie, regardless of how good a person you might think you are under normal circumstances. My dad died a couple of years ago, aged 66, from HIV and Hep C - almost certainly from dirty needles in his youth. So even though he battled through withdrawal decades ago, it still killed him in the end. That's heroin for you.
As an addict myself, one important thing to stress is that you will never be the same again after the first time you've been addicted. Addiction isn't something you heal from and then it's gone. Every moment of stress and sorrow and grief in your life will come with an extreme urge to go back to the drug. This will never go away.
I’m addicted to Fentanyl now. Have been for years. These kinds of videos are hard to watch. When it comes down to it, some days it easier to pretend everything is normal even when it isn’t. Looking in the mirror is hard. I’ve tried to get clean so many times. But for anyone who wasn’t already aware/convinced, Opioid withdrawal (especially fentanyl) is the most hellish thing I have ever experienced. It’ll sap every moral, strength, emotion, and piece of who you are out of you. Where you’ll do anything to get well. I’ve never had a worse physical sensation in my life. My muscles feeling like they’re tying knots around my bones until they’re about crack, nausea so bad that you keep dry heaving even when you have nothing left, drenched in more sweat than you’d even think possible. Both ends burning like acid, and so low and suicidal you’d do anything to make it stop. I want everyone to know, stopping isn’t easy. Not even close. It’s the hardest thing most people will have to do in their lives. And I am so so proud of anyone and all of you who have made it out the other side. You give me strength, and hope that someday it’ll be different.
Even without all the physical harms, just on a pure philosophical level the mere idea of "The next few minutes will be the happiest you'll ever be in your entire life" is enough persuasion for me to stay far far away from it.
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