you have seen within the alliance this has been something which has been met with a lot of understanding because nato allies do not accept chemical weapons are used, and therefore , we strongly support the efforts of the fact-finding commission to try to find out what happened and to make sure we don't see any use of chemical weapons in the future. president trump: ok. thank you very much. thank you. >> we have more with nato secretary-general this morning when he speaks at george washington university.

live coverage at 11:30 a.m. eastern time on c-span, c-span.org, and the c-span radio app. >> all month we're featuring our student cam winners in c-span's video documentary competition for middle and high school students. this year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. our second prize middle school winner is a great is from maryland. 8th graders from maryland. they believe the heroine and opioid epidemic is an urgent issue in their documentary titled "on the edge." virginia, 28 people overdosed in a county in just over four hours. i started getting more

interested in the opioid epidemic. that is how we got to where we are at. >> we started i think it was in december. we worked until middle of march. middle of february. we were working every day in class for 2.5 months. it took us a while. editing.long time we had to plan everything out. we had to plan what we wanted and where we wanted it. it was not a simple process. >> going to huntington in november right after the election, that took about three days overall planning all the interviews and talking to people. existed not know this before charles joined our group and was like this is the topic i fishepitched for.

we each hadtopic, to write our own individual pitch, mine was about the decriminalization of drugs and how that might be a better alternative to jail time or it might not. them.d of combined >> huntington, with virginia. virginia,ton, west overlooking the midwest. it used to be one of them was most successful frontier towns. now it is one of the most depressing industrial failures in the u.s. another thing on the rise in the community, heroin addiction. here, withd ended allowed the industry to flourish. the transportation trains began

to blossom in huntington. things began to get worse. >> huntington was like a lot of cities in america that at one time produced a lot of products, whether it be railroad cars or glass, and a lot of that industry went away. >> as the industry went away, the number of jobs also went away. sadly, this depression was in the middle of the opioid grace. -- craze. companies marketed oxycontin to a large population. >> there is no doubt they played a role. when you look at how many substances were marketed and pushed into west virginia when our population is one of the smallest in the united states. >> slowly but surely, people began to be addicted to miracle drugs. people bega became so dependent

on them, they did horrible things. >> i literally ran over my ex-husband's arm. arm -- i ran over his arm so it looked like he got hurt so we could get painkillers. >> the government began to realize the issue and took away drugs like oxycontin. the elimination of these drugs did not help solve this problem whatsoever. people looked to the next cheapest option for their fix, heroin. while local government and marketing played a huge role in the addiction coalemic,

production also affect the prices. >> we are such an economy that is based on coal. a person goes for making $80,000 er all as a good coal min of a sudden loses his job. completely gone. >> recreational or extermination or extermination will use of drugs can also cause addiction. >> i think it started out with marijuana. i assure a lot of people can use marijuana and stop. from their, it went to pills. >> it nearly destroyed her life. >> the matter what i would do, i would hurt him i would sit down, it would hurt. >> substance use disorder runs in my family.

i believe some folks are genetically predisposed to have dependency issues. >> on august 15, 2016, the crisis in huntington hit a staggering piece. 28 people overdosed within a matter of 4 hours. lovely, there were only two deaths. most experts believe this is not a normal batch of heroine. normally, large overdoses are contributed to th other drugs. addiction does not discriminate no matter where someone might be from. >> i have lost everyone. has affectediction the populace of huntington and deteriorated huntington itself. property runs rancid. not only can you see heroine

affects specifically, but you can see the depression heroine has left on huntington economically. a possible way to alleviate the problem is treatment. virgini west virginia, a six to nine month program. many believe this sort of treatment deserves much more funding than it currently has. >> we need funding for treatment. we need funding for people when they get out of treatment because a lot of them have been in trouble with the police and the law. isthis sort of treatment normally completed in over five months, which can be a hit with all those in need help immediately. another way is to lock up many of those who take drugs. this in theory takes addicts off the streets. >> we know what to do with people that are addicted. live along in the criminal justice system. if we do not have a drug

problem, they would be stealing rolexes or cars. >> it is a well-known fact the u.s. has the highest incarcerated population in the world. >> we don't want people to do this so we will have a really extreme penalty if they get caught. you boil penalty is if it down to simple as terms, it is putting someone in a cage. >> ideas on how to alleviate this are inflicted, but there is one thing unanimously agreed upon. there must be funding put into the alleviation of the crisis. huntington is beginning to put money into treatment and mitigation of addiction. to say really pleased that our state is finally coming together. we have a lot of different organizations and people that are working together to fight this epidemic. we have the people at marshall university. we have the law enforcement people, the police, the hospitals, the emergency rooms.

we have a lot of people working together now. schools that we have not had before. >> if we all come together and help>> with funding behind some of these programs, critics, and campaigns, we can possibly cure the disease of addiction. if we start enough of an outcry against the epidemic, we can possibly get the attention of our president donald trump and his upcoming legislation. >> to watch all of the prize-winning documentaries in this year's studentcam competition, visit studentcam.org. >> today on c-span, "washington journal" is next with your phone calls. at 11:30, nato secretary-general george washington university. live coverage of cia director mike pompeo. live from the national constitution center in philadelphia for a symposium on the constitution. in about one hour, we talked to georgetown university professor angela about u.s.-russia relations.

mit president rafael reif. b will talk to mark jensen -- sen about the rights of airline passengers. host: "washington post" reports this morning that the trump administration is stepping up efforts on deportation, including finding more spaces to house undocumented immigrants and opening discussions with local police forces that could be given enforcement authority. "the hill" this morning looks at whether president trump's advisors, steve banknown, may be leaving the white house. the story focuses on those close to the administration, saying despite what the president has said in recent days about the extent of his role in the administration, that mr. trump still holds mr. bannon in high regard. it's the "washington journal" for april 13. today we want to get your