Inside America’s Largest Open Air Drug Market

Peter Santello creates "videos about a world the media fails to capture"^X. In this video, he travels to Kensington, Philadelphia to speak with a local man named Buddy Osborn, who reached out to him to tell him about "the horrific realities of open-air drug markets." Buddy and his organization, The Rock, help "to get kids out of crime and drugs and into a healthier environment built upon confidence and clarity."

“When you allow accountability to come into your life … Now you gotta look at your own heart and you gotta say, what’s wrong and what’s right? What do I gotta stop? What do I gotta do? What do I gotta give up and what do I gotta step into? I had to do that myself.”

"You saw how many people, that was just a handful. There’s dozens and dozens of those examples that you saw laying all over Kensington. That’s somebody’s mother, that’s someone’s father, someone’s daughter, someone’s son. It’s a family member. There’s gotta be some stringent rules that have to be put in place and then they have to respect it."

"People have the wrong idea about what a rehab actually is. When they go into rehab, they learn about what sent them there in the first place, the dopamine responses, the chemical imbalances, all them technical and stuff like that, but where they really learn how to be recovered."

"These kids could be standing on the block – moving rock, selling drugs. And now they’re here at a safe haven, safe refuse for these kids."

"Here’s how it works. When you want to get right, you want to get well, we’ll give you a shower. We’ll put clothes on their back and then we’ll get ’em to a hospital. We’ll get ’em to a detox. We’ll get ’em to a treatment place. We use it [donations] to get people to detox, plane fares, bus fares. Every cent that comes from this tent, that’s a benevolence fund."