Non-profit helping those who struggle with addiction [Video]

MESA, Ariz. — For years, the 65-year-old Mesa woman who goes by the moniker “Mama-Jo” has lived on the streets, suffering from severe addiction to fentanyl. The founder of a Valley non-profit is stepping up to help her, and is encouraging others to do the same through the use of the social media platform Tiktok.

“This is our friend. She is a double amputee due to her usage,” Brock Bevell, the founder of Fentanyl Project AZ, said during a now viral video posted in late May. “Unfortunately, she’s trespassed from most locations, can’t get her inside, but we did the best job we could to get her cleaned up.”

The video, which has garnered nearly one million views, shows Mama-Jo slumped over in the parking lot of a Walgreens in Mesa. Bevell does his best to clean her up, but struggles to help the woman who struggles to help herself.

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