Fentanyl Addict interview-Nina

Published 2024-07-19
Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Nina, a fentanyl addict in the Tenderloin in San Francisco.

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All Comments (21)
  • @_BatCountry
    I've never wanted a SWU interviewee to be healthy as much as her. What an absolute sweetheart. You deserve better, Nina. We're all pulling for you.
  • The silence throughout this interview with the pauses was so loud. I just want to hug her.
  • @l.obrien8341
    the crazy thing is that she has so much going for her ... she's smart, articulate, capable, beautiful, likeable, and more....
  • Nina . Don’t give up . Me too am an immigrant from USSR . I also was an addict … 18 yers clean . You can do it , girl . I believe in you
  • That 'once a junkie, always a junkie' statement is Bullshit. Im 65 and been clean for 24 years from heroin. I've quit drinking last year. Cleanest I've ever been. Grew up in Pacific Palidades on Sunset Blvd . Life is fucking amazing and the world with all its diversity is awesome. You can do it....just set your mind to it.
  • @jamifoos
    If there was a more deserving person of paid treatment I’ll never believe it. Mark please help her out she it’s graceful and smart and has so much potential. ❤❤❤
  • I think this is one of the few times Mark's photo doesn't do this sweet girl justice. I feel like it doesn't capture her beauty, her sensitivity, vulnerability and intelligence. Maybe it's the black and white effect, I don't know. She is a beautiful, smart woman who is young enough to still be able to dream and achieve things. Not because she owes it to her mother or her family but because she owes it to herself. Exploit all this potential, there is so much of it and you still have time. I wish you could see yourself the way a lot of us see you after this short interview.
  • @LA-le4dc
    This woman is so intelligent and just needs love and support. She could make such a difference in this world if she just had resources for renewed hope and faith in herself and life. Grief and loneliness is a silent killer please assist her in her recovery
  • @kathykerr1202
    What a gorgeous Soul. So intelligent, mindful, deep, emotionally available. O hunny, I'm so sorry you lost your mom. And so ironically, too. I believe in you. You can do this thing called LIFE...
  • I've been avoiding the addict videos lately because I feel overloaded but something about her face made me try it. I'm glad I chose to watch.
  • That man had no right to take his anger issues out with physical violence. A 23 year old bully grows to be an older bully. He beat you for 10 years. He is an abuser. It’s a humiliating, stressful, and painful way to live. Pins and needles all the time. Constant stress messes with your brain. Long term stress hormones have a devastating effect on the developing brain and other organs and tissues.
  • Captivating... The honesty in exclaiming "its lonely here" gave a resounding pause &i immediately understood the tragedy in the huge difference...
  • @LittlewoodSD
    Incredible interview Mark. I feel so so bad for this beautiful young lady. I was in her position a few years back and I really hope she has a change of heart.
  • @zickityz6549
    One of the most interesting aspects of “addiction” for lack of a better term is that somehow the mind convinces itself that life is going to be harder without a crutch but what it tends to find out is that life will actually be more easy and more fulfilling without that “addiction”. It’s definitely important to affirm and drum in to “mind” that a reality can and will exist where you don’t use crutches if you are willing to have patience and self love and willing to separate yourself from the environment and/or reality the mind has created.
  • This is a letter to Nina. My dearest Nina, my heart goes out to you and I would love you to get clean and live a normal life. I never thought that I would ever know a real Saint but Mark is a real Saint in my eyes. Honey, if you really want to get straight and clean and live a worthful life ask Mark to help you. He has helped so many people that really appreciated him and he also tried to help a 1 000 more that kicked him in the face and abused him. Nina, when you are ready, please ask for help. Mark, I have been following you for years and this is the first favor that I have ever asked from you. What gave me the guts to do this was the gentle way you handled Nina. Love your work Mark and I wish I was a rich old women but sorry for you I am a poor, old, gogo form Cape Town town BUT I have wisdom my friend. Good luck and life and love and God bless you Nina and Mark.🥰😍❤
  • @Koz4concern
    Very intelligent lady. Hopefully she gets her life together
  • Nina is an incredibly intelligent and beautiful person. I wonder what life would have been like for her now had her family stayed in Ashgabat. Very painful to hear about her mother getting her degrees from the esteemed University of Moscow, and having to start from the bottom in the US, like so many immigrants here. Stay strong Nina...you have SO much ahead of you. Clearly a very high level of intellect, just lots of demons in the way. There is so much you will be able to contribute to the world. I wonder if there is a way someone could fund her a ticket to visit her grandma in Turkmenistan? I think that would do a lot of good.
  • Right away.. this Woman strikes me as highly intelligent and full of potential. I pray she gets clean and does something to help others. She can do it.. 🙏🏽💡❤️
  • @mikefurr5281
    I've watched enough of these to have built some callous, unfortunately, but this one broke me. The look she gave Mark at the end. Tears through the scroll. I hope help finds her.