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. america is going through the worst drug crisis in its history and it's tearing families apart. a generation of children is being neglected abandoned orphaned by parents addicted to opioids. don't want i knew my energies to me to heroin. and then before i knew it was like it was somewhere 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 ears 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 so 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 it's there 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 he not made it out that gas 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 you know die like fire for days and then you're the kid's going to think my moma still loved me.

you know i know mom would be more of me but you think my mom i don't. like her i don't know what's going on and i think it might be for her time to go over doses are now the leading cause of death for americans under fifty. my god i don't know if you don't even think i don't think the american governor you know. they're calling 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 going and. the people that serve you know in restaurants the people that work on your car the people in your landscaping those people are addicts. maybe the first

time was a choice the second time may have been a choice but after that the demon has possessed them. let me. take. a look at taking a way to really see the. seals or anything whatever it was you know you don't you're ok i just let. it. go. more than one hundred thousand people have died from drug 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. this hospital is a program for pregnant women who are addicted to opiates. the women are given subutex isn't that a co-pay would be 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 with. a lot of the women that have been that have come through my group have been heroin users. i would say over half of

them are here when using. 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 and quit using. it it's not that simple. you know that not every baby withdrawals more hope in most the babies 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 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 they'll 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 that 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 do it like a rock. just kind of wondering because i'm 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'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 am i going to have the willpower to want to do this

makes her really emotional to think. why explain that to me but what he feels. like i feel sick didn't care for him to commitments and. i think like i wonder if you can. hold me for. 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 biden one and you're living it high again. is there a moment that you look back on and you remember that you chose her way over your kids yeah many a time. to where i would lie to my son time on my way up money for you know if there were a v. at the. so you know there's been so many times that i have a. three year old daughter and i have it on her right there beside me the dave pelz

that's not good like if she sees one of yours on. you know you're making a choice or 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 hurt. i can sit here and i can admit i chose methamphetamine over my children my flesh and blood and that 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 dictate to bo yes. i remember her coming to bother me she wouldn't stop she wondered what her hampering he was doing high school member fighting with her and her brother both scream and i'm not going to use any one might. do and they say i did. because i'm an addict and oh gee after so long i love 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 meals 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 and i don't know. it's grandparents who often step in to fill the void. to be lured to go over raising four granddaughters after both of their parents fall into drugs and the kids were placed in foster care. get frustrated. and. i was scared because i didn't know how

to take care of my grandkids and one bedroom place and doing what their temper tantrums and they're in there screaming. i would never let go get a shower or i with my clothes on. you know half hour forty five minutes or until somebody would come and calm 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 their 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 now it's what keeps me going. when. they take that because 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 she shall tell me they are my babies. i take 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 looking at like she's losing yes yes to guess she's going take care of the girls that she was two years old erica did with baby after baby after baby and she just took the road on its mommy when everybody was drunk and then uses the. and she still beat her

and have battles over it 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 mommy. the youngest who was in diapers she would diaper her bathe her she still sometimes i have to come home and she'll be in there running about water and trying to get a bounce and if i can't make it do some show tell i'm making and what does it mean to have appeared absent from. their kids' alarms yeah they missed out on basketball games the little things that you don't get to do twice they're gone. for you just like this in this picture where was you doing. with. your kid because graduation. actually mom and dad

didn't get to go to all this a march her become somebody gets what 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 age might not have it all they don't know about our. one day yet 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 yes. and when they say cry and i have to tell them it's ok because grandma is here for nowhere. and trying to give him some stability and some security. to hang on until.

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 cause nobody owes anybody nothing. make your life what it is living here and nothing's nothing's fair. living. inside the world the way it is today can't. you can't. they're getting love from their grandparents and stuff that's not the same as a mother father life. just doesn't. whenever their parents aren't active in their care there is a hole 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 was my worth. that deserve. their entire life. my dad was in the pills and opiates he died of a combination of opiates and prescription drugs so he passed away of 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 packing to go with my grandmother how did you find out when you were a little kid that something was a right with your parents well i always figured that it was cigarettes because nobody is going to tell a six year old your parents are 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 and being 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 do you have much of

a relationship with her do. 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 about my mother as great as your grandma has been to she fill that hole in your heart that's the shape of your mom now. don't kid 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 wouldn't have 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 here. would be me. and my parents were never on drugs. and i just wish they were done tax. your own your very existence is tied up in not meeting collision drugs and 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 i sometimes just. wish that it could have been better for the. time when i want. my diary.

not awake right now this chill of coffee and the rest of the nation struggled to contain the food we were the demi. there's no doubt that the next generation is being shaped by. a question which will take years to resolve just how. the norm back in the day. a mom and dad and two dogs two kids. maybe a parent maybe a grandmother maybe an uncle or maybe a foster home maybe just. maybe 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 and. they're not sure anyone.

really. gone through all. one hundred. what will it is who lives raging. open the door to this is just hate it was there. he opened the door to turn it into the physical reality that the answer lies in the. old line six eight in transamerica at this time i was just earring. the nature of news as it breaks vehicles you can see there in the distance tall shia militia vehicles to the dust you can see on the horizon there the peshmerga telling us are actually tanks with detailed coverage when the mine closed in one thousand nine hundred four many people lost their jobs stabbing is not fun making money from around the world this is supposed to last for

a month but people tell us that it only lasts for eight days if you look around and this is the only food available in this household. it was an audacious bid to capture a city in the southern philippines and turn it into a province of myself. with rai left a smoking room is asia the new battlefront twenty one eastern besta gets at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. hello i'm daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera al shabaab has claimed responsibility for a coordinated attack in the somali capital mogadishu at least twenty.