Drug users in Pennsylvania died from an overdose every two hours in 2021, but one activist is aiming to save lives in Philadelphia.s open-air drug market.
"I woke up in the hospital three days later," Rodriguez, who grew up and lived in Kensington for years, previously said.Now, Rodriguez returns to Kensington to help addicts. He provides free haircuts and posts testimonials from suffering drug users on his YouTube channelBut when he sees an addict passed out on the sidewalk, Rodriguez remembers his own experience.
Frank Rodriguez films addicts' testimonials in an effort to remind viewers that they're still people — and they're suffering."For me, that’s why I see people overdose and I see people stretched out and laid out and I wanna go there and just be like ‘yo, you alright?’" Rodriguez previously told Fox News."That’s all it took for me to completely change my life, 180 degrees.
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