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Teens share horrifying footage after coming home to find their parents on a 'heroin binge'.

Warning: Some viewers may find the contents of this video disturbing.

A woman’s eyes roll to the back of her head. Her skin purple, her face gaunt, her eyes bulging like a grotesque Halloween mask.

A man collapsed on the floor dripping in sweat, totally oblivious to what is going on around him. Totally oblivious to his children trying to wake him from his drug stupor.

And the whole thing captured and live streamed to Facebook by their very own children.

Welcome to a world where drug overdoses and social media collide.

The footage was posted online. Via YouTube.

The disturbing footage shows two young teenagers trying to wake up their parents ravaged by heroin. At times the teenagers sound desperate, the young girl crying out "Ma, wake up Ma."

At other times they giggle and poke and prod them, showing us that this is something these teenagers, these children have seen countless times before.

The footage was captured in an unknown US city last week and has gone viral. The teenage girl begs her mother “Wake up Ma” while her brother, who sounds a little older films, but their mother’s eyes only roll back in her head and she lolls on the couch corpse-like.

The son, capturing the footage tries to wake his father saying "Man, you cannot be like this around your kids, man.

"This s*** not cool."

The father begins to respond, he starts to sit up but then collapses again, sweat cascading around his gaunt body.

The father begins to respond, but collapses again.

The teenage girl then tries to kick her father into action saying "he can't even feel it, that's how high he is" but the man has succumbed to the drug and is immune to his surroundings.

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Finally, the mother responds after the children shine the camera flash of their phones in her face, raising an arm and then dropping it again.

But her frustrated son has had enough.

“Say cheese. We got you n****s on tape” he snarls at them.

It’s the latest in a series of overdoses caught on tape revealing the extent of the worldwide heroin problem.

"Wake up Ma" her daughter begs her.

The Daily Mail reports that authorities in the US have said they are coping with an “abnormal spike in the number of overdoses after heroin cut with elephant tranquilizer 10,000 times more powerful than morphine.”

Last week footage emerged of bystanders laughing at a married couple as they fell unconscious in the street in broad daylight after overdosing on heroin in Memphis, Tennessee.

Last month this image went viral. The grandmother alleges she had not taken drugs. Via Ohio Police.

Last month, a photograph of a grandmother and her partner overdosed in a car while her four-year-old grandson looked on from his car seat was released by police in Ohio as a means of highlighting the scourge of “the poison known as heroin”.

Locally, a baby girl was taken into care after she was found in the back seat of a car filled with drugs, while a man and woman were unconscious in the front seat Western Sydney's Penrith just two weeks ago.

While the identities of the family in this video remain unknown, it is hoped that as the video goes viral the parents and the teenagers may be identified and receive the help they clearly need.