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alex overdiced in her home. >> we did a do not resuscitate order. the priest came and passed. >> alex might have been brought back to life with this. thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. it is jaw-dropping, the spike of heroin use in this country cropping up in suburban neighbourhoods and rural communities, and lives we never thought would be lost to smack. it's been called less than a national health crisis and the fight to combat it is critical. now more officers armed themselves with an important weapon, an antti dote that can save lives and rescue users from the edge of death. lori jane gliha found out what happens when that help late. >> it's the worst nightmare that a

parent could go through. >> reporter: renay's son alex was clean for six months and home for the holidays. >> it was very special, loving, giving, affectionate. you know, would do anything for anyone. give the shirt off his back. >> alex became addicted to oxicontin in college. raena raen raena -- renae thought he was turning his lie around. a rainy night last january was his last at home. >> we had plans to go to the gym at eight in the morning and meet a friend for early lunch on his way back out of up to. the next thing -- out of town. the next thing i know, when he went to bed, at four in the morning one of the neighbour's boys screamed for me to wake up, that alex had stopped breathing. >> reporter:

alex overdosed in her home. alex went to the hospital. he was not mentally going be the same. we had to make the decision whether we wanted to resuscitate him or not. which was another hard decision. in your heart you do, but in shouldn't. >> reporter: alex might have this. >> it's 1 milligram per nostril. >> reporter: once you inject it into someone's nose, how quickly do they come to life. >> up to a minute. >> reporter: it's narcan, and can bring an overdose victim back to consciousness. scott davis is with the montgomery county police. members of his department were on the scene, responding to renae's 911 call. weeks later police would be trained and equipped with the drug that could have saved alex.

>> so many things went wrong - all the what ifs. what if he had narcan, what if his friend had narcan. what if he had woken me up. there's a lot of things that could have changed the course of events. >> the most recent numbers showed heroin deaths tripled nationwide since 2010 and 2013. with a growing epidemic police departments are changing their approach to drug addiction, arming with ant dotes instead of making arrest. >> an ambulance might have this. what's if the police officer gets to the scene first. >> if we get to the scene, we can administer it. we are authorised to go ahead and minister it. at this point when overdosing, seconds count. we have to get it to them. >> it has been around for decades, injected with a needle. police departments, emergency crews are turning to an easy to

use nasal spray. >> we take the cap off. >> a use not approved by the f.d.a., considered off label by the government. maryland is among dozens of states that allow law enforcements to carry it. a law moving piloty from people that -- a law removing responsibility from people that administer it much the price has nearly doubled in a year, leading to profits for the maker. stock jumped by 70% since it went public last june. into many municipalities like montgomery county have contracts that set long-term pricing for the drugs they buy. >> do you think lives will be lost as a result of police not being able to afford it. >> yes, if it gets to the point where it's cost prohibitive, it will go away. we may come on and overdose -

wow, i don't have narcan, not wait 6-8 minutes. you have to be there when they are obvious dosing. >> reporter: both the price increase and the stock jump caught the attention of lawmakers. senator bernie sanders and maryland representative elijah cummings wrote this letter to the c.e.o. of emfa star pharmaceuticals: they are working on a response. "america tonight" made requests for comment. all went unanswered. in the past emphastar said the price increase is due to the rising cost of the materials, energy and labour. renae is planning to receive training and keep the drug with her at all times. she's rushing to the hospital to pick up her son.

her other son, who is also an addict. michael has been addicted to opiates, including heroin, for years. his mother encouraged him to appear on camera to demonstrate the powerful grip the drugs have on him and a struggle to keep well. can you describe to me what is your situation with drugs? >> i always, for some reason, resort back to them. i - it's - they control me, and everything, and make me hurt the people i love the most. >> reporter: when you think about your brother do you worry it happened to you. >> i'm in a dark place. i envied my brother. it's like a prison in your head with the anti-and drug use, i tried to commit suicide.

i wished it happened to me, not him. >> reporter: that's the last thing that renae wants. why is it important for you to have narcan here? >> i know when you live with an addict every minute of every day is a potential time for them to overdose. it allows to you have some peace of mind and comfort that should an emergency like this come. you can help. >> but she can't be there every minute of every day for michael. shell need to rely on first responders. hoping she'll never have to relive her worst nightmare. >> "america tonight"s lori jane gliha is standing by. this is remarkable. you say more and more police departments are getting this medication, are putting it in the hands of their officers. is it that accessible? >> yes, a lot of states are starting to do a programme were not only do they train law enforce.

but regular citizens, like renae and you and me can go through the training and we can get a certificate. >> this may be a good thing. if you live or have friends with an addict or you have the potential of overdosing. you may have it in your homes. in this case the police got there first. fire and emergency got there. counts. >> that is what the officer was saying. that it was important to get there quickly or have it in mind. then. >> no, it's very simple. they add this atomizer, you put it up the nose, it's a squirt. training is simply. yes, it doesn't seem hard to use at all, and people can get a certificate and use it. >> you said the f.d.a. has not authorised this medication for use in this way. is there an option. >> they consider this an off label use.

they didn't approve it as a naval spray. there's an autoinjector, it had a needle on it and comes in a little box. basically it talks to you. it tells you the instructions that you need to do. you have to go through training to get a prescription for it. it's a little needle and you inject it in the leg. they say most insurance companies - the cost out of bucket is $30. >> it's simply to use. it's the one out there as well. >> "america tonight"s lori jane gliha. next - on art heist on the street. one of the world's most celebrated and secretive artists, banksy, and the caper that led his latest work to disappear later, a hot spot in south-east asia. both for western tourists and for ongoing

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whose jobs are replaced by automation and robots. the digital resolution demanded a shared economy, letting consumers order cars to carpenters to condos, and

tapping into excess capacity is efficient, it comes at a price. i talked about that price with guy ryder, the director-general of the international labour organization, the ilo was created in 1919 as part of a treaty that ended world war i, the mission to promote strong work and economic conditions. the shared economy may not benefit everyone. >> it's a big debate out there. more and more are talking about these things. convenience is a positive in our lives. we have to look at the other side of things. what lies behind the availability of services in terms of the people who provide. now, there is a theory that we are moving from the economy which we have known as it's been organised for decades, where you are an emplorks and that's how life goes. >> reporter: an agreement to labour contract with certain provision, to a mediated by the

net, a straightforward demander of service, a provider of the service. what does that mean if you look at it from a labour perspective? you are turning an employer employee contract into a commercial contract. a provider of a service, a demander of a service. >> some will say what is wrong with that? >> there may not be much wrong. there's a lot attached to that in terms of the way we order the society. for most of us, if you have a labour contract. that is what social protection is about, your guaranteed income is about, and where your health care comes from. we have to think carefully. and society will have to adapt to the idea if the employer, employee relationship is going out of fashion, we have to deal with a new situation. if you want my opinion. i don't think it's as widespread today as some might imagine. >> it seems to work in places where there's excess capacity or sufficiently used capacity, a

limo driver doing a couple of runs to the airport and has time. or a retiree who is handy, someone on vacation has an apartment to reject. >> it's bits of the economy which lends itself to that, and where technology can mediate the relationship. i don't think in terms of volume that the current state of play - this is where the norm lies. >> who knows where we are going with these things. one of the things in the world of work is we are faced with higher degrees of uncertainty. we have change which is quick, it's profound. and it also asks questions that we are not used to asking ourselves in the past. there. >> an art against the readily available on demand shared economy is that it undercuts an expensive education or a good >> a global climate crisis >> two feet of sea level rise is projected...

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national army. 28-year-old cameraman is angry over the government's assistance from the state. >> we have no human rights at all. and everything is controlled these people holding our flag. i want to -- on the country again, he has no illusions.

if he is captured by the burmese army. if they know me, i am a ranger, i'll be arrest. maybe to death. this january the rangers traveled deep in to the state bordering with china and partially controlled by the independence army. government forces recently increased attacks against the separatists and have been accused of bombing villages to drive thousands of mainly christians from their homes. the rangers prepare for a mission to revise revisit the village the site of a burmese army attack last year. they plan to interview witnesses and they can on those who fled. >> tomorrow we go there. we are already in there. so the best thing is to prepare. for any circumstances. >> usually unarmed now they check their weapons in case they

encounter army patrols. >> the journey will take them deep in to government-held territory. deep in to danger. the first evidence they see of the burmese army attacks are hundreds of villagers who fled. now living in a camp for the internally displaced. entire families live together in a single room trying to keep warm. the rangers distribute food and set up an ad hoc medical clinic. one ranger even acts as a done test. ex-tracking an infected tooth in a 15-year-old girl. just outside the camp, the roads quickly become too dangerous to travel. the rangers leave their truck to avoid running in to burmese army checkpoints. when nightfalls, they set out on foot.

>> the reason we are leaving in nighttime is to avoid the contact with the burmese army. the objective is to hurt their people. we don't want to have any unnecessary problems. >> as a grueling three-day trek that travels 60 miles and takes the rangers across streams abandoned rice patties and down hidden jungle paths they finally arrive on the outskirts. >> the rangers film evidence of a national army attack on a school. which survivors say killed an eight-year-old boy. and injured three others. >> they left everything and ran away. >> do you think the road, they meet one of the few villagers to return home. last year, the free burma

rangers dug up a mass grave here and found his son's body. he had been tortured and killed along with six others. when he insists on staying in the village to care for his livestock. he blames himself for allowing his son, who was deaf and unable to speak to stay. >> the rangers take him to visit his son's grave. >> all they can do is offer comfort and record his story. in the hope that one day the old man will see justice.

now the mission enters its final and most dangerous phase. >> while near the village they receive urgent news. the rangers are told that the burmese army is forcing villagers to build an access road to their camp. they quickly develop a plan, get as close as possible, film the forced labor and get out. the burmese army has been accused of forcing civilian to his work, sometimes to death. he is full of bravado. >> but a short while later he's on edge.

>> the rangers creep within a few hundred yards of the camp. camp. >> they start filming a group of villagers work under the watchful eye of a burmese army guard. >> they film as long as they can. then as quickly as they came, the rangers pack up and are gone. later, safely away from the burmese army, the rangers review their footage. and-y represent in applause. the next day he sends a report by at light to the outside world. >> he reports on another loss,

two of their own. free berm arrangers killed in a mortar attack by the burmese army. when the rangers gather to remember their fallen comrades, he gives a eulogy. >> the deaths only strengthen their resolve to continue holding the burmese government accountable to all of its people. regardless of their religion or ethnicity. sheila mick macvicar, al jazerra. sacrifice for the story of their community. that's "america tonight," tell us what you think at aljazerra.com/americatonight. talk to us on twitter or facebook and come back, we'll have more of al jazerra tonight tomorrow. "d" "america tonight" tomorrow.

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