“I Live Second to Second Every Day”
“I live second to second every day” – “I live second to second every day” This is a friend of mine that i originally met in New Orleans, who now lives on the streets of Chicago with a heroine addiction. He is one of the happiest people i know, reguardless of his circumstances. He asked me to take this video of him to show people what he lives with every day… unfortunatly the quality is shotty because it was recorded on my phone. I do not advocate the use of heroine in any way, shape or form, though i went with him to film this, because after failing to talk him out of using the drug, i realized that he was going to do this reguardless of wether or not i accompanied him. I’ve never done heroine, and never plan to, and i suggest you never try it too. I mean for this video to show you just how rough life is for some people. He shot up heroine that he bought from a guy that he met for the first time five minutes prior to this video, with a ring he found on the ground, with dirty water from my orange juice bottle, boiled it in a dirty pop can, and shot it straight into his muscle since his veins were shot, on the balcony of an abandoned building in the ghetto of chicago, in the middle of winter. Homeless drug addicts are set up to fail in chicago, we need to do someting to help them, and banning them from every public place is not the answer. I went back and visited red (the guy in the video) a week after this video was filmed, and had to call an ambulance for him… for his feet were so water logged that they …
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