turner. catch the top ten of 2014 special here on cnn. it's hosted by brook baldwin sunday at 6:30 eastern time. that does it for me. have a happy holiday everyone. before your feast, see what antho anthony bourdain has cooking. that starts right now. this is where i bought my first bag of heroin. it was 1980. i was 24 years old. in a lot of ways, my whole life up to that point was leading to this address. western massachusetts, unlikely new frontier of america's war on drugs where heroin has become an exploding problem that's begun to touch nearly every family.

♪ ♪ >> there's nothing like the north atlantic. it's majestic. i love the beach.

pretty much had my first everything on a beach. you name it. first time i did it, beach. i was miserable in love, happy in love as only a 17-year-old could be. this is where i lived, very happy summer in the early 70s. that was my room on the left. amazing spot if you think about it. a bunch of knuckle heads working as dishwashers, pizza servers. to live on a beach like this happier, stupider times. i can still hear the play list. if you put on marvin gaye now i'd burst to tears. you're young. you get high, get laid. >> it's where the pilgrims first

landed and where i landed. 1972 washed in a town of orange sunshine and a few friends. a wonder land of tolerance, long time tradition of accepting authors, writers, badly behaved, gay, different. it was paradise. >> the joy that only comes with absolutely certainty you're invincible, that none of the choices that you make will have repercussions or later effect on your life. we didn't think about those things. i don't know what we thought it was going to be. i didn't think i was going to be a cook. i don't know what i thought. i was hanging out in a beautiful place. i look back on golden memories and they seem fuzzy. there's first love and me. this guy, johnny, was a simple figure in all of our lives.

>> my name is john ling. this is spirit pizza here since 1971. this is everything to me. it's a special place people can be themselves. tony was wilder than others but always i guy i liked. >> you let me sleep on top of the walk-in. i cannot tell you how frequently i dream about spirits pizza. i'm walking down the street and there's loss of how i stumble around this province town dream scape of 40 years ago. i was still here living in hope. >> unbelievable. >> many of the old places in p town are gone, but the lobster

pot is still going strong all these years later. still has what i want and need, the essentials. my friends worked in the kitchen here, starting the tradition among my set. the cooking work was noble toil. i never intended a career as a chef. >> it's great to be a cook. >> i was getting to that. >> this is homemade portuguese soup made on the remembpremises. been a long time. >> a p town version of what i remembered. cale, fiery red, kidney beans, potatoes. >> i missed you, missed you bad. >> that was precisely what i loved about the food here, the portuguese dishes like this stuffed c.o.d. with sausage, bread crumbs, crab, red sauce.

i had be i hadn't been working for a while. she came home from work and said our dishwasher didn't come today. you're our new dishwasher. i put on the apron and didn't take it off for 30 years. we'd go to the beach, 2:00, 3:00. roll into work, drink get high, drilling out food. you got all the food, liquor you wanted. >> all the sex you wanted. >> all the sex you wanted. >> it was true. it was a lot of fun. believe me, i remember. >> the flag ship, where my cooking career started. where i start washing dishes, started having pretensions of culinary granger. >> it would seem good for anybody. who else got to live like that did during that time? you had to be in a band. here we were dishwashers. >> you get older and get more sense and realize like you know,

you've got to pay for stuff a little bit. >> of wise we wouldn't still be here. many of our friends didn't make it. >> many of my friends didn't. >> keep drinking. >> thank you tony. >> this place has been here forever. that used to be the back room. that's still there. >> it's all falling into place again. >> not that much different. >> it's early spring now. come memorial day, it gets crazy around here and doesn't stop till labor day. province town was always gay friendly in my time and way before my time n. this place, the atlanta house known by locals and visitors alike as the a-house is the oldest operating gay bar. everybody has come through these doors, most notable naked and

frolicki inking tennessee willi. >> i can get mine back. >> april owns the joint now, taken over for her father, the legendary reggie. forward thinking if there was one. >> how long in the family? >> over 75 years. my father had billy holiday appear, fitzgerald. >> has it changed? 1972 my feeling was this was a gay town and i was here at the pleasure of somebody else which is the opposite of everywhere outside of here at. >> oh yes. >> this was a catholic,

portuguese conservative community. >> it's also where rejects were sent. >> yeah. >> i'm not kidding. province town always had the mixture of bo home yan, pirates, drunks, all that. whatever floats your boat. it's all good.

. over a century ago a, provings town was a hardworking fishing village with multigeneral racitional familie

fishermen. >> i was raised here my whole life. it's where i'm from, who i am. what it used to be, like, two out of three families this this town in community were fishing families. most of them are now gone, and we're like a minority. used to be a fishing community with a homosexual problem, now it's a homosexual community with a fishermen problem. >> the main families made a community based around fishing. it persisted even when i was here keeping up old catholic fishing tra digsz like the blessing of the fleet. now there are fewer and fewer boats to bless. >> my name is scott. i'm a commercial fishermen. fourth generation, started when i was five. it was cool back then. there were 70 or 80 boats five

or six deep. now it's down to seven or eight. i'm proud of my heritage. i would never do anything else. this is my office, man. look at it. i'm going to do this until i can't move anymore. >> we were all in the town like clock work, 2:30-3:00 in the morning. it's quiet. the town is ripped up all night long. come down here, hit the water. what could be better? >> nice weather today? >> might be a little nautical. a little bit. >> i'm sure i'll be fine. i've watched the deadliest catch. >> are you ready? >> i'm ready. time to press the fun button. >> clear. all clear. used to be this was the best thing in the world. the greatest thing about fishing

was you were kind of like a cowboy, a pioneer. you could go out. as hard as you could push, competition was welcome. we were fiercely independent. now independence is little by little taken away. >> is there limited number of stuff out there? >> there's a total catch. >> the payout isn't much. a good day of scalloping brings in $9,000. from 9 thousands take away $3,000 for lease, $1,000 for fuel, split the remainder among the crew. many days there's simply nothing to camp. >> why the [ bleep ] are you doing this? >> we love to do it. >> we say it all turns to [ bleep ] once we come back. when we get out, we feel we're at home. >> like i said, it ain't easy.

today according to beau, scott, zeb. this was just a little breeze. >> how rough does it have to be when you look out and say i'm not going out today? >> it starts like blowing 30-35. we like days like this because the competition stays in. >> my dad used to say when you're dry, you're not making any money. we're fishing. >> so it's not going to snap and come back and knock your head off? >> not too often. in the summer you can smell the coconut. now the guys decided they like this by the beach. they're all out here nude sun bathing.

i pick up my glasses and tell them wow look at the breast on that girl. give it to them, and they see something we weren't expecting to see. works every time though. can't believe you didn't cook nothing. can't believe it. got anthony bourdain on deck. we don't have nothing to eat. >> the best part of it is anticipation to see what's in there. i'm like i can't wait. you look and you're like what's going to be in there? sometimes it's a disappointment. a lot of times it's a disappointment. how many we got? >> got a few. all right. we're out. that's why it's fishing and not catching.

they'll taste all that much better. >> this place had been here forever when i roll into town. how long has this been open? >> i think this is the only place in town that's unchanged. >> how long do i have to drink here to get my face up there? >> 40 years. >> at least. back when i worked in town for fishermen, there was the cook, tap room, and this place, the old colony. of the three, it's the only one left. >> i recognize these. you guys eat? as hardworking men of the sea, we deserve these beer, finest of all oysters. >> these are fantastic. what a treat. is there a next generation of fishermen in the family? what happens after you guys?

>> the next generation of fishermen coming onto our boats, they're opportunist for incomes not the love of being on the water. >> this is the end. fishing is going to die. cheers. >> all right. thank you guys. >> cheers. going to end badly. >> cheers. >> this is a nice house. it just feels like i never left in a lot of ways. it's 40 years later almost. that was by the sea over there. a big candy store for horny, stupid 17-year-old with a taste for chemicals. i was an angry young man. what was the hell was i so angry about? it was a rude surprise when i turned 30. i always thought i'd be dead by

then. i was quite some time away from my first bag of heroin. in a lot of ways, it was a foregone conclusion. my whole life was leading up to that point, my first bag of dope. turn the trips you have to take, into one you'll never forget. earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. expedia plus rewards.

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i left province town with restaurant experience, suntan and ever deepening relationship with recreational drugs. i went to culinary school, new york city and never returned. tod however i'm staying in massachusetts one of the most beautiful areas of the country, gorgeous mill towns, victorian houses, deeply famously upright new england values, norman rock well america where something explicable and unexpected has happened. >> a new mecca for heroin use. law enforcement dealing with crimes commit had the never had be -- commit had the never had been. >> rural towns like this one are

statistically ground zero for heroin epidemic. what the hell happened? >> the next couple of years, if this heroin use trend continues to grow, it may beyond getting a handle on it. i'm a detective with the greenfield police department. my focus is undercover narcotic investigations. >> this is a well known area to us and very active. >> heroin use the past year, it's increased to a level i've never seen a drug come into an area. people in it are all affected. it hasn't topped out yet. >> someone you've known, someone you went to school with, worked with. >> so a ferrari. what's wrong with this picture?

i said a lexus, but they said no. >> it's in the papers there's an explosion of heroin use, heroin crimes and overdoses. what's happened? >> once this town realized we had a heroin problem, we were behind it trying to play catch-up. we are on the 91 corridor. 91 has been dubbed heroin highway at this point. it's a widely used road to go north and south. for low money input they're getting high profit. >> that's the typical packaging. bundles of ten. >> they can charge whatever they want. it's all supply and demand. >> that's one dose for most people? >> they'll do multiple bags. three to five at a time to 30 bags a day. the current economics of the town, i am the only one a assigned to the narcotics

position. >> how many heroin addicts are walking the streets now? >> we're in the high hundreds. >> wow. high hundreds? >> yeah. it's hitting every age group, economic household. it's out there. we don't have crypts and bloods taking over hotel rooms. the person selling you dope is more likely to be familiar than a stranger. going to meet a past distributor i've known for several years. >> we'll meet carmen as we'll call her. she's heroin dealer turned police informant out in the woods. >> how did you get in the business? >> i needed money, needed to support my family. couldn't get a job. >> how easy was it to get in the dope business? >> not hard at all. >> was there money in it? >> oh hell yeah. >> it's like mayberry who's using heroin now?

>> kids. >> kids? today's heroin epidemic is different than the one that raged through america in the 1970s in a few significant ways. back then, heroin was mostly seen as a poor people problem, someone else's problem. the thing criminals got into, marginal people far from the white main streets of mayberry, usa. what those people did to themselves, well it was unfortunate but not our problem until someone broke into your house. today it's absolutely the reverse. new addicts are almost entirely white, middle class, from towns and areas like this. >> how do you make it better is this. >> you don't. >> you don't? >> no. there's going to be more robberies and killings. get one person off the street, two more come in. >> how many customers do you have? >> practically all of

greenfield. >> what happened? how did the kid next door along with mom, pop, grandma become users of hard core, illegal, narcotic drugs? the worst drug with the worst reputation. well, maybe start here. once you've found the right doctor and told him or her about your pain, don't be afraid to take what they give you. often it will be an opioid medication. >> here's a video from the fine folks at pharmaceuticals sent to doctors encouraging them to prescribe the newest, most wonderful drug for pain management, oxycontin. >> some patients may be afraid of taking opioids because they're perceived too strong or addictive. less than 1% of patients taking

opioids become addictive. >> sales of oxycontin, falsely claimed as nonaddictive sk rocketed from $45 million in 1996 to $3.1 billion in 2010. that same year, purdue tweaked the way to make oxy in the attempt to limit the addictive qualities. finally government and law enforcement took a harsh look at the drug. it baim harder to get legally which sucked for thousands and thousands by now had a serious habit. >> i'm ruth poachy, family physician in greenfield, massachusetts. i grew up here. my dad was a small town doctor here. i'm a total generalist. my focus has been on addiction to opioids. >> i can get a bag of heroin

easier than i can get a joint. >> once they start, they slip down the rabbit hole. our goal is to get them out and live healthy again. >> we've created this mess we're in now. >> in downtown greenfield, the people's pint, an eco conscious pub that brews its own beer, using farm-fresh ingredients and compost left overs. it's where i meet the doctor for dinner. >> my question is who's doing dope? >> everybody starts with pills. there's nobody that goes from marijuana to heroin. there's in between step. it's always pills people get from their doctor. from me, particularly young people who had a sports related injury, had wisdom teeth out. they felt awesome on the drug. they want more of that a. after

three to six months, they couldn't find it and jumped. >> is it big pharmacy's fault? drr's fault? >> it's complicated. there was a lot of money to be made by promoting the treatment of pain to the highest level. big i was told get people out of pain. that's how we were taught. we were also told these medicines aren't all that addictive. we started handing out pills like crazy. 100 million americans have chronic pain. we did a disservice as doctors and prescribers. we took data that was a bull sleep sleep and went forth and said prescribe it to everyone. we know what we're doing. guess what we didn't know what we were doing. to everyone.

we know what we're doing. guess what we didn't know what we were doing.

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saturday nights, sox games, beer, bowling. the shell born falls bowling alley is where times seems any way to have stopped. first opened in 1906, this is the second oldest bowling alley in america dedicated to old school new england style candle pin balling. the holy rollers, a crowd that grew up in shell born and plan this as a reasonable expectation to kick my ass. they've been playing since the 50ss. >> i was never allowed to come to the bowling alley. my aunt did not think it was a good idea. >> it's a tiny ball. this looks really hard>> it's

very different shell born falls. i grew up here. very different. people don't know each other as well as everyone used to. >> when i grew up in greenfield, everybody had jobs. i work ed from the time i was 13. if i had to go back there now, i don't believe in drugs, but what choice would i have? standing on the corner, i would have business. a well paying business. i'm sorry, that's where we are. >> yes, it used to be a different world, towns like the this one. there were many. like everywhere else, it seems the mills, factories closed down. with them a social contract with the people who worked there. >> my name is ed gregory originally from turner falls. born and brought up here in 1945. my father was an employee of the mill as was my grandfather. during the hay day, there were three paper mill, a cotton mill,

silk mill, foundary with a beehive of activity here. >> back then a company town like this, the company actually took care of you. they built and provided homes fi for employees, schools. the company provided nearly everything else. >> the hay day is gone. people are definitely struggling to find work. the town kind of died during the 80s. when the folks came to work, there were immigrants. >> attracted by manufacturing here. >> maybe possibility of owning a home in a decent part of the county here. >> so my father was here, a mill wright. a mill wright job is jack of all trades. >> you could work at a mill, live in a nice home, send kids to school, make a living on a mill salary.

>> you bet. >> it's unthinkable now almost. what happened to business? >> things are coming to other countries but not coming back to united states. >> again and again all over the country i keep running into situations like this where industry has died or fled or simply relocated. i meet people like charles guard hill, hometown heroes for some reason though they could probably go anywhere, take their skills and return to where they grew up. shady glenn diner. today's special, a tribute to the old culture of the area, the new england boiled dinner. >> i hear rumors of corn beef and cabbage? >> yeah. every week we do a corn beef and cabbage dinner. >> that's a beast. thank you. >> how long you been here? >> two years. >> you from this area? >> i grew up here, been coming

here since a kid. it's been through a few owners. it went up for sale. i decided to give it a shot. >> who are your customers? >> most are retirees, coming here since they were 30. >> this you don't see so much anymore. homemade pies and lots of them all baked on premises. >> raspberry cream pie. this is not something we see a lot. >> these are made here. they're all original recipes from the 60s. the cards are old and faded yellow. >> how's the business? >> it's getting better. drug problem took over may 2012. by the end of the year, i was broken into multiple times. it wasn't just me. i came in one morning to open up and had a guy in front of the register. he pulled a knife out. i realized it wasn't worth

anything over a knife. >> what you're doing here is terrific. a hot turkey sandwich and slice of pie. it's a beautiful thing.

my name is heather taylor. i'm a mother of three.

the two older kids experienced my addiction. my addiction started with pills. i i started sniffing heroin. i shot up for the first time and shortly there later found out i was pregnant. i had my daughter. she was many the hospital for six weeks because she was addicted to the methadone. i had to watch my baby go through withdrawals. my son was four. my daughter was six weeks when they were taken away. i lost my kids for 33 days shy of two years. i became serious about my recovery. >> so is this the bad part of town or place you're unlikely for people to find you? >> a place people are unlikely to find you. i wouldn't necessarily say there was a bad part of greenfield.

i mean, it's probably pretty spread out bad i guess you'd say. >> what would you do? come here to shoot up? >> yep. we'd go down here and hang out. i bet if we walk along here, we'd find needles and bags. >> so basically you'd come down shoot up and then where would -- >> sit down and hang out. probably hang out under the overpass like that. >> not exactly -- >> there's trash. it's dirty and gross. there's probably people that live down here. >> really? >> there's a lot of homeless people in greenfield. >> what do you think now when you see somebody who's clearly on the street? >> it gives me a yuck, sick feeling. it remines me why i don't want

to be out there. it's scary. a friend of mine overdosed january 1st of this year. my brother-in-law overdosed in wendy's bathroom. they brought him back to life. he was dead in the bathroom. so this is my narc came. i carry this around. i have one of these in my house and in my car. i have a fear that my husband is going to relapse, and i'm going to find him dead. you put this in here and squirt it up their nose. >> in most cases they're right out of it. >> they're instantly sick. >> they don't wake up happy but they wake up. repeat to me. you walk to the bathroom and there's somebody there. you saving their life? >> absolutely. then kicking their ass. >> better now? life better now? >> absolutely. my kids have been home three

years. i no longer have to watch my back. i live a pretty straight and narrow life. which you know people might say is boring, but i love my life today. i'm grateful. >> where we headed? >> this way. to the recover project. this is where my recovery started. >> started nearly a decade ago on one of the two main streets of greenfield, the recover project is community based. an open arms program aimed to help addicts stay clean. >> given the opiate heroin epidemic in our community, we'd like to start the conversation sharing with one another what happened at that point of our life, what that was like. >> as a child growing up in a home with addiction, i didn't understand how they could do all the stuff they did to me and my brother and sister. like don't you love me enough? then i became a mother and heroin addict.

i did all that stuff to my kids. >> my doctor was my biggest drug dealer. i fell down a flight of stairs, had a husband, baby, in college. then i was on prescriptions. >> what are the odds you're going to own a house, have a nice car or any car, place to live, all that stuff? it seems less and less likely all the time. contrast that with what happens when you stick a spike in your arm. why wouldn't you? >> i have this picture in my head when i got the phone call my daughter's father had been in the accident. i just had a c-section. they come in to give me addivan. all i needed was a hug. i needed someone to say everything is going to be okay. >> i'll tell you something shameful about myself. the first time i shot up, i

looked in the mirror with a big grin. something was missing in me whether a self-image situation, character flaw. i had a stable family in the suburbs, a lot of advantages. there was a dark generie insidef me that led me to dope. intervention wouldn't have worked. i didn't have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now who i never would have had. i looked in the mirror and i i saw somebody worth saving. or that i wanted to at least try real hard and save. anybody can find themselves very easily in this situation. you know, i look back on that and think about what i'll tell my daughter. that was daddy. ain't no doubt about it.

i hope i was able to say that was daddy then, this is daddy now alive and living in hope. thank you. [ applause ] we sat out to capture a culture of change. we looked at hundreds of initiatives, entrepreneurs, dreamers and super stars. alone their work is progress. combined they're transforming our lives. the opportunities are everywhere now. welcome to the network society.

is a really big deal.u with aches, fever and chills- there's no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. attack the flu virus at its source with prescription tamiflu. and call your doctor right away. tamiflu is fda approved to treat the flu in people 2 weeks and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursing, have serious health conditions, or take other medicines. if you develop an allergic reaction, a severe rash, or signs of unusual behavior, stop taking tamiflu and call your doctor immediately. children and adolescents in particular may be at an increased risk of seizures, confusion or abnormal behavior. the most common side effects

are mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. ask your doctor about tamiflu and attack the flu virus at its source. in massachusetts, the clam bake is a an original going back to the flinstones, before the pilgrims. today at the long standing

locals only shooting club as it's called in german, the immigrants that started this rustic fraternity back in 1912. club leader takes me through the fascinating process of creating an old school clam bake. >> build the kiln with hard wood and stone. burn it down, remove the wood, cover with seaweed and corn husks. we put clams, lobsters, corn in there like a pressure cooker. >> we've got a pig also? >> no, no. we're going to pull a tester out. you can see a what we've got here. let's eat. >> all right. >> first, some good chowder. there really is only one kind of chowder, new england clam shoulder. >> that is good. steamer clams, lobster, corn,

potatoes. >> that's a pretty luxurious clam bake here. >> that was amazing. can i get everyone's attention. the opioid task force came together months ago. i don't think we realized how quickly this could turn into a crisis for us. the franklin county task force is a grass root response. doctors, law enforcement led by franklin county sheriff, addiction specialists and addicts themselves are coming together to find pay community base solution as finally what is recognized as a public health crisis ralther than a criminal justice problem. >> great opportunity to come here tonight and break bread and look at successes we have had so far. what makes me more proud than anything else about living in frank lynne county is we will

not sit back and wait for anyone to involve this problem for us. we're a model for common wealth and nation for how to save our young people and community. [ applause ] >> again, the city is where all the bad stuff was supposed to happen. it isn't the image people used to have 20 years ago it's a junky in an alley using a needle. it's your kids and neighbors. >> when you have these young people who break a leg and go to the doctor and get a prescription for oxy and become addicted. it's any kid that plays a high school sport. it's a horrible circumstance. >> it's started the last few years. heroin and pills were around, but we didn't have people dying. >> once you've been busted for heroin, that's a hard thing to live down. >> got to get rid of the shame factor. people can deal with it, a distress it, get support from the community. >> i feel we're going to lose a

generation of young people. 18 to 22 is what we're seeing most. the district attorney, sheriff, myself, police department are all united. this task force has grown to over 100 people in a matter of six months. that's what we're committed to doing. we'll do it until the day i die. >> i lost one daughter to drugs. whatever it takes. >> let's start by being honest with ourselves as a nation. for decades we were perfectly happy to write off whole neighborhoods, cities, generations of young men and women as long as it was a city problem, urban problem. black people problem brown people problem. send them to prison from where they will not return. now it's the high school quarterback, neighbor, son, daughter, grandma is likely as anybody else. we'll accept there's never been

a real war on drugs. war on drugs implies us versus them. all over this part of america, people are learning there is no them. there is only us. we're going to have to figure this out together. did detroit is the city of champions. the whole world knows detroit is the city who's products revolutionized our way of living. only in michigan will you find the men and women who's talent made us the arsenal of democracy in wartime and economic pace setter in