Disturbing footage shows zombified addicts swaying on Philly …
Jul 18, 2023 · The viral video shot from a corner of the Kensington neighborhood shows two people standing on the sidewalk, hunched over and eerily waving from side to side as they lean on each other with...
Tranq, fentanyl: Zombie-like addicts in Kensington, Philadelphia
Sep 13, 2023 · The Kensington neighbourhood in northeast Philadelphia, which has become notorious for its open-air drug market, is seen crowded with hordes of drug-addled people — many of them sprawled barefoot on the filthy ground, or slumped over in the video posted on TikTok by thebizzleeffect.
I grew up in Kensington, Philadelphia. Let's not glamorize …
Feb 20, 2024 · If you look up videos of the worst of the opioid epidemic, you will see Kensington's "zombies." People seem to fall asleep standing up, lingering under bridges and near subway stations. They...
CRISIS IN KENSINGTON: This Philadelphia area went from a ... - Fox News
Aug 19, 2023 · The drug — known as the zombie drug or tranq — was found in over 90% of drug samples tested in Philadelphia in 2021, according to city data. As Rodriguez walked through Kensington's open-air...
In this neighbourhood, people openly inject the 'zombie drug' …
Jul 12, 2023 · After just 15 minutes on the streets of Philadelphia's Kensington neighbourhood, an encounter that was everything. It was illustrative of a crisis out of control, it was reflective of a profound personal struggle, it was instructive of the power of addiction, and it …
In Philadelphia, skin-rotting drug ‘tranq’ invades a neighbourhood ...
Aug 4, 2023 · The people in the footage are users of a substance called xylazine – often called a “zombie drug”. The videos were all filmed in the Kensington neighbourhood of Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, heroin is far from 'chic'
Feb 20, 2024 · If you look up videos of the worst of the opioid epidemic, you will see Kensington's "zombies." People seem to fall asleep standing up, lingering under bridges and near subway stations. They stagger with needles still in their arms or hunch over in the pains of withdrawal, sometimes motionless in the middle of the street trying to keep standing.
Tranq has become a bigger part of Philly’s street fentanyl ... - CNN
Mar 7, 2023 · “Nobody was coming to Kensington to buy tranq, they were coming to get heroin,” said Laurel of the Savage Sisters group. “You don’t go to your drug dealer and say, ‘Do you have a ...
Philly Fentanyl Crisis Turning Residents into Real Life Zombies
Sep 10, 2021 · Kensington Beach is an area of Kensington that got its name because of all the drug addicts who are seen lying on the payment, like people would do at the beach. It's heartbreaking to see the amount of homeless people and drug addicts on the streets walking around like zombies.
Opioid Crisis: Photographing Addicts in a Compassionate Way - TIME
In 2012, when LightBox spoke to Philadelphia-based photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge about his work documenting people in the city’s Kensington neighborhood, many of whose lives, he says, revolved...