catalonia is deposed leader has called for continued democratic opposition to the spanish government takeover of the region. accuse madrid of ignoring the will of catalan people who voted to secede from spain in this month's referendum the spanish government sacked him his parliament and called a new election after it declared independence from spain on friday and to independence demonstrators have gathered on the streets of madrid in support of the government u.s. defense secretary james mattis threats of a nuclear missile attack by north korea is accelerating speaking at annual defense talks in south korea mattis insisted diplomacy was the preferred course of action but stressed it was only effective when backed by credible force he says any use of nuclear weapons by pyongyang will be met with a massive effective and overwhelming military. families

government says it has put in place a plan to harvest rice from london bound the bahrain hinge of families. more than six hundred thousand will hinge on her fled to bangladesh. after a military crackdown by me a mosque matric human rights groups say the decision to harvest the rice raises questions about whether the refugees well be allowed back those are the headlines say with. next.

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heart. america is going through the worst drug crisis in its history it is tearing families apart. a generation of children is being neglected abandoned orphaned by parents addicted to opioids. don't want i knew in your destiny to heroin. and then before i knew it was like it was the where if i didn't have it i felt like i was going to die. heroin is stronger than any human tie. it is stronger than any. compelling argument. it is stronger than. a religious police it is the devil incarnate.

it is evil it's the black plague it's like a zombie apocalypse it's death it's kind of like you're possessed or son like you don't even care anymore. to tell this story we came to chillicothe to a town in ohio. the state has one of the highest drug overdose rates in the country . it seems like almost everyone here knows someone who struggle with drugs. amanda howard's addiction started with a prescription to percocet for back pain. she later switched to her away because it was cheaper and easier to get. when you were on heroin and just had brody what was it really like ok like i would await your all day make my money and

instead of going to whole i would go get my fix then go home and he'd already be in bed though i just wasn't there for him like i didn't give him. the extra he needed i didn't spend much time playing with him which he was really really young. but. it makes me sad you know every milestone like these to me make because they don't like me and i missed out on so much of him. you don't know reality your reality is gone. eventually the cycle kills you if you don't get out. i'm lucky you know because i seen that wake up call i got out i know so many people have died he didn't get that call. so i had you know i'm just sitting in the passenger seat my husband comes out of the store and i am completely collapse over

he goes to pull me out of the car on purple one like boy you like i had a deed he had to do c.p.r. and everything someone called the emergency squad and i don't really remember you know because i was like gone. when you go back to the station was your son in your mind yes actually what breaks my heart was he was in the back seat when that happened. i was thrilled to be protecting him and i died in front of them. what would have happened with brody has you not made it out like a station that he would have a mom. and what would my legacy to my son be like how bad would it be to be a kid and someone to say your mom died like fire for days and then you're the kid's going to think well i'm almost in

a lot of me. you know i know mom will be working for you because i don't see people. like her i don't know what's going on and i think it might be heard something that overdoses are now the leading cause of death for americans under fifty. my god i don't know if you don't even think if you've. got one or you know. to call it a possible double overdose people here like in the truck crisis to a war with police in the mts on the front lines. in the last few years they've responded to more overdose calls than ever it's like a tsunami is hit. but we don't we just keep digging and. the people that serve you know in restaurants the people that work on your car the people of your landscaping those people are at it. maybe the first

time was a choice the second time may have been a toys but after that the demon has possessed them. to make. more. money with taking a way to really see the. seals or anything whatever it was you know that you're ok i guess. more than one hundred thousand people have died from shark overdoses in the last two years alone. scenes like this are happening in homes across the country. and when kids are there you can only imagine how the process of.

care when it can affect the cycle of life even before a baby is out of the home. chilcote is hospital there's a program for pregnant women who are addicted to opiates. the women are given subutex isn't that a co-pay but safer for babies but they can still be born addicted to it. how common is it here to have a woman who is pregnant and use it here when. a lot of the women that have been that have come through my group have been heroin users you know. i would say over half of them are here one uses. a lot of the girls that i have in this group

mothers and fathers also used some of them are still using and then society is like really focused on them because you're pregnant but they don't consider that this woman has been using probably since she was fourteen years old and she's twenty four she's been using for ten years and now she's pregnant quit using. it's not that simple. you know that not every baby withdrawals more hope in the most the baby but the reality. he is. fifty five to sixty percent of infants whose mother is on this medicine do withdraw so more do withdrawal than don't some of the signs can be that they'd be crying a lot they can be shaking they can have a temperature you know like when you guys have went through withdrawal your muscle

start hurting you know and you'll rub your muscles because they're hurting so bad where you know obviously a baby can't rub their muscles so what babies usually do is they if a lot of times don't take their arms you know dig them back into the crib like this and then they'll get like a red or sore spot on their arms or elbows or they or they will take their heels and they will dig their heels down into their cribs and then on the back of their heel right here they'll get like a rock or a rub spot just kind of wondering because it's so are i have kids i have five kids and i know how hard the first few weeks the first few months are of having a baby at home and now it's that and dealing with this and i just wonder so you say you're scared of that kind of what is that like you're going through that i'm nervous like my going to have energy to get out of bed am i going to be able to get the baby when he's crying like i going to have the willpower to want to do this

makes her really emotional to think. why explain that to me but what i feel. like i feel sick didn't care for him to commitments when. i speak to my grandmother if you. told me for. i would be three times off of here when you go d. three times in the last year yes and then i go right back out to the same people that sold me the dope doesn't know about died one and you're living a high again. is there a moment that you look back on and you remember that you chose her way over your kids. many a time. to where i would lie to my son time on my way up money for you is there a b. of the day battles so you know there's so many times that i have a. three year old daughter and i have it on her right there beside me of the day

pulse that's not good like this she sees what is going. you know you're making a choice you're choosing her went over the wall for your kids what is it internally this that what's the voice in your mind telling you what do you love hey when i'm sick i don't care if i have to get through jesus the devil hell or highwater i'm going to get to that drug and no matter what my child said here scream i'm one i'm going to get to that drug and then i'll deal with it as soon as i get it in me and i feel better when you when i'm so cold chills you can't stand for your skin to even potential like if i would take a shower and try to comb my hair and my hair would hurt like this that makes yeah like everything on my body. i can sit here and i can admit i chose methamphetamine over my children my flesh and blood and then i believe was

the hardest thing i've ever done you know i had to admit to myself that i did that . but i hear you use the map and there are one where you would defer to bo yes. i remember her coming to bother me she wouldn't stop she wondered what her hand green tea was doing ice cream member fighting with her and her brother both scream and i'm not going to use a name one might go into and they say i did. because i'm an addict and all g. after so long i look well hell this is somebody else to get high with because i was selfish. you know i still blame myself for her today the things she does.

it's concerning it's frightening it's sad not only for the people who are addicts who get trapped in that. but for their children for their parents for their brothers and sisters for their future. the impact on children is way before somebody over those it's the lifestyle that they're exposed to they're in a home where the parent may not be able to fix them they may wear the same clothes to school every week. whether it's their left alone whether they're there pawned off on friends or family might have been dark i don't know. it's grandparents who often step in to fill the void. be lowered to cover raising four granddaughters after both of their parents fell into drugs and the kids were placed in foster care . get frustrated when he. either scared his i don't know how to take care of

my grandkids and one bedroom place and yelling out their temper tantrums and they're in there screaming. i would never leave go get a shower or i with my clothes on. yeah half hour forty five minutes or until somebody would come and call me down and talk to me you know and the kids didn't deserve that you know they didn't answer me yelling at them it wasn't their fault. you know everything just happened so fast. just got. alone in my life. and then i get a phone call and i have to be in town to pick up four girls you know home of my own to raise them. but i made it there in fifteen minutes and i got them and i tried. to look you have. years of energy in you two periods.

i don't believe i've got fourteen years of parenting my health isn't good but i know i have to do it and it's what keeps me going. when. they take that as if i don't do it who's going to go back to foster care. or they're going to be living in a home full of druggies and alcoholics. i don't want to let go he should tell me to my babies. i've taken care of them like you have and i know that your baby but you're still a child so here to take care of your babies. you know. that that would have destroyed her to have lost them three kids. years old look at what she's losing yes yes yes she said take care of the girls and she was two years old erica durance baby after baby after baby and she just took the road on its mommy when everybody

was drunk and stuff and then uses the. and she still beat her about it was over because she still wants to be mommy and i tried to get her to be a child. you know like what would she do when she was being mom the youngest who was in diapers she would diaper her bathe her she still sometimes i had to come home and she'll be in there reading about water and trying to get a balance and if i can't make it do some she'll tell i'm making and what does it mean to have appeared absent from. their kids' alarms and they missed out on basketball games the little things that you don't get to do twice they're going. for you just like this in this picture which you do in. your kid because graduation. mom and dad

didn't get to go to all this the march her become somebody and then get to work just would take her first steps. to get to see this one graduate from stuff you know. not this last time so they that they miss not a lot they're not going to see your bowl games in your grade so in your report cards when you bring home an eight might not have it all they don't laugh. yeah but i'm just saying you know. if they're not there all the time to do these things with you grandma was the one that does that with you. and when they say cry you know i have to tell them it's ok because grandma is here i'm going nowhere. and trying to give them some stability and some security. to hang on to.

i tell him all the time life's unfair you've got to make it what it is and what you want to be and i don't want these kids to think the world names and because nobody owes anybody nothing. make your life what it is living here. and nothing nothing spare. living then you die. inside the world the way it is today. and. they're getting love from their grandparents that's not the same as the mother father life. just doesn't. whenever their parents aren't active in their care there is in their life. why did they abandon me. why didn't they love me enough to take care of me.

why didn't they love me enough to stop them what they were doing. why wasn't i worth it. that deserve a. higher life. my dad was in the pills and opiates died of a combination of opiates. prescription drugs. accidental drug overdose. my mom was into heroin says my mom and dad on their wedding day nineteen or twenty my dad from the day that he married her to the day that he died looked exactly the same he never changed if you know if there are using drugs or yeah they were there were you know i was put into a foster home for

a little bit when i was young and i ended up having to go with my grandmother how did you find out when you were a little kid that something wasn't right with your parents well i always figured that it was cigarettes because nobody is going to tell a six year old your parents were on drugs in sixth grade my mom took me outside and she was like alexis you know sixth grade and still believe in santa claus he's not real and i remember just like staring at her like what and she was like he's not real and all the lies my mother had been telling me up until that point kind of fell apart for me santa claus was kind of like a metaphor for like the drugs because it was on that same day where i realized there was something more and then the cigarettes it was like a loss of innocence for me to have much of

a relationship with her to. not really we we were having a really good relationship for a while and she had just gotten out of prison but then she got back with her old boyfriend and i know that the old boyfriend leads to getting back into her old life so i own i don't want to be a part of it i have gotten used to saying goodbye to my mother as great as your grandma has been to she filled out a hole in your heart that's the shape of your mo now. don't. if my parents weren't ever on drugs say when have i ever met that's just how far back the darn use goes i mean my parents started out on weird and they ended up heroin and opiates and it's i mean i want to been born if it wouldn't have been for . the choices that were made and sometimes i wish that i hadn't just for

the. the life i might have given my parents. what do you mean. my parents were never on drugs. and i just wish they were done drugs but you're on your very existence is tied up and not me to collision drugs so how do you reconcile that i mean their lives are even more precious than my own i think when a life is taken away from drugs it's just not fair and even though i treasure the life i have i just sometimes think that i sometimes just. i wish that it could have been but for the. time when i want. my diary.

not awake right now is chilled coffee and the rest of the nation struggle to contain the damage. there's no doubt that the next generation is being shaped by. a question which will take years to resolve is how. the norm back in the day. a mom my dad and two dogs two kids. maybe a parent maybe a grandmother maybe an uncle or maybe a foster home maybe just a whole lot of me with nothing set in stone nobody really looks at their head and can say you're going to have a wonderful life when you're older again. because they're not sure anyone.

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