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This is the second story in a series about the open-air drug market in Kensington. Read the first <\/i>here<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA \u2013 As overdose deaths continue to tick up in Pennsylvania, one man walks the streets of a drug-ridden neighborhood hoping to keep addicts from dying \u2014 and maybe even help turn their lives around.<\/p>\n

Kensington \u2014 commonly known as an open-air drug market \u2014 is ground zero for Philadelphia\u2019s opioid crisis<\/a>. There, Frank Rodriguez wakes addicts passed out<\/a> on the sidewalks, making sure they\u2019re not overdosing.<\/p>\n

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“I see the drug addiction. You know, I see the drug dealing. I see the violence. I see the poverty,” the recovering addict previously told Fox News. “Most of all, I see pain.”<\/p>\n

In 2021, a Pennsylvanian died about every two hours of a drug overdose, according to preliminary data<\/a> the state updated last week. Nearly 80% of those involved fentanyl.<\/p>\n

And like most states, Pennsylvania saw a large jump in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdowns<\/a>, with the Keystone State facing 5,347 overdoses in 2021, marking a nearly 20% increase from 2019.<\/p>\n

WATCH: SAN FRANCISCO ACTIVIST EXPOSES BUS STOPS \u2018HIJACKED\u2019 AS \u2018OPEN-AIR DRUG MARKETS\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For Rodriguez, an overdose played an essential role in his sobriety and eventual activism. During a relapse after a short stint in recovery, he experienced an overdose<\/a> of his own.<\/p>\n

“I woke up in the hospital three days later,” Rodriguez, who grew up and lived in Kensington for years, previously said.<\/p>\n

Afterward, the Brooklyn native went to rehab where he sat in the front row taking notes.<\/p>\n

Now, Rodriguez returns to Kensington to help addicts. He provides free haircuts and posts testimonials from suffering drug users on his YouTube channel “Morals Over Money”<\/a> in an attempt to humanize them.<\/p>\n

But when he sees an addict passed out on the sidewalk, Rodriguez remembers his own experience.<\/p>\n

“For me, that\u2019s why I see people overdose and I see people stretched out and laid out and I wanna go there and just be like \u2018yo, you alright?\u2019” Rodriguez previously told Fox News. “That\u2019s all it took for me to completely change my life, 180 degrees.”<\/p>\n

“Maybe there\u2019s other people that are like that also. And maybe not, but\u2026” he said, trailing off.<\/p>\n

To hear Rodriguez detail the horrors of Philadelphia’s open-air drug market, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/crisis-kensington-drug-overdoses-kill-12-pennsylvanians-day-watch-one-mans-fight-help-addicts <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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