Philadelphia turns into heroin wasteland: 500,000 used syringes and piles of trash depict ‘heroin hellscape’…(Thanks, CIA!!)
by: Earl Garcia
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, June 25, 2017
The city of Philadelphia has reached an agreement with Conrail to begin a clean-up drive on a notorious half-mile stretch of train tracks, commonly known as El Campamento or The Tracks, that is littered with about half a million used syringes and piles of trash that has made the area a heroin hellscape. The are is situated in Philadelphia’s Fairhill-West Kensington neighborhood.
The railroad stretch was frequented by drug addicts who were known to converge in the area following their transactions with the surrounding open-air drug market. Residents in the area have notably diminished quality of life, largely due in part to the ongoing heroin trade.
“I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that, for them, this announcement is long overdue. They deserved faster action from all of us standing up here today. Over the years, thousands of addicts and drug dealers have used this property as an open-air drug market, and the community has been subjected to the public health problems, crime, and negative impact to quality of life,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said in NBCPhiladelphia.com.
Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Brady was touted to be the main driver for the agreement between the city and the railroad company that owns the notorious property. “I am pleased today that an agreement was reached that will end what really has been a drug hell that has lasted too long in a city neighborhood,” Brady told USNews.com. “We had to decide who was going to clean what, all that hazmat kind of stuff. It had to be more than just clean up and walk away. But we got it done, and it’s a long-term thing,” Brady said in a separate statement in Philly.com.
Part of the train tracks located on land owned by Conrail serves as an encampment to about 75 heroin-addicted people who have put up plywood shacks that resemble a hospital where a certain “doctor” assists otherwise squeamish drug addicts in injecting heroin and fentanyl into their systems. The area, which has been recently labeled “Hell on Earth” by renowned health expert Dr. Mehmet Oz, gained national attention for its significantly high rates of opioid-related deaths. According to the Philadelphia health department, 907 people suffered fatal drug overdose in the city in 2016 alone. More than 80 percent of drug overdose cases were associated with opioid overuse.
Details of the Philadelphia-Conrail agreement
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