this is the new Young face of fentanyl addiction before and after 22-year-old Katie Mather forehead and Chin clawed open by her own fingernails because the use of fenil makes her skin crawl I spot her on the Strip Siri's Infamous drug hangout and ask if she'll talk to me she puts cover up on her raw skin so I'm literally just did my mascara and I'm good to go Katie settles in to tell her story there we go perfect how she ended up living on the street 3 months ago addicted to fentel well I've been using it's
actually funny well not funny it's terrible I have a really addicted personality I've always been like addicted to something whether it was shopping or or Facebook or whatever and um I did an oxy I got addicted right away and then I got I finally like I found a regular dealer and I started picking up all the time I remember the day the fan andol came out and my dealer said you know I've got these new pills they're fake oxies he didn't tell me they were fentanyl because nobody knew what fentanyl was yet he just said
they're aund times stronger and they're only $5 more and I was just like okay because I you know I was getting a pretty high tolerance at this point oxies oxy conton led to fake 80s fentel posing as oxyc conton immediately Katie wanted nothing else I could buy one of these fake 8s put them into four lines lines and two lines would last me a full day that's how strong it was and if I did a full pill I would OD Katie says she's overdosed 11 times most recently a few days ago brought back by paramedics
or friends on the Strip who have Noone the powerful opioid antidote every time I do dope I know I'm taking a risk I know that I might die but like it doesn't matter how many times I've OD I still use the next day because the withdrawals are so so bad Katie has been in the news before she and her sister attacked by a rotweiler cross back in December Katie was badly hurt and spent time in hospital she says that cemented her addiction to fentanyl as she talks Blood starts to seep through her makeup Katie you're
22 why would you risk this well at first it was just fun right it was just for fun it was just a party drug that you know like and there's been some things that I've gone through and helped with a lot of pain and especially after you know that dog attack I I just couldn't stop you know I ask Katie if she worries about herself and her future sometimes I mean I I don't know I'm I just like to take things one day at a time right I kind of just go with it and hopefully
you know hope for the best for now the best Katie can hope for is to wake up from her next fix of fentanyl Eric Ranken CBC News Siri
