we thank you so much for watching "special report." happy new year. i'm mike emanuel. thank you for being with us. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. happy new year. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." with every new year comes resolutions to make ourselves better. tonight we have a special on sobriety, fitting for the holiday. millions of americans struggle with addiction to alcohol, illegal drugs, painkillers. o addiction has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. tonight we won't just talk about how the addiction happened, we will discuss how to escape it.w we'll talk to people will turn their own lives around.l first up, dennis rodman. he's an nba legend and part-tim diplomat. even fame and money was no protection against the perils of

substance abuse. for many years he struggled with addiction and he credits his agent on the path of recovery. dennis rodman and darren prince joined us recently. you have an you've lived your life so publicly. i think viewers are aware of. you've gone on and off the wagon. now you're on the wagon. how are you maintaining her sobriety? >> it's very difficult. i'm trying to maintain the facte that i'm 50 years old. i'm in good shape. i need to focus on me know instead of worrying about everybody else around me. i've done a lot of partying in my life. i'm trying to revive the rest of my life in a good, clean way. it's a struggle every day. >> tucker: is it worth it? how do you feel? >> i feel good. i'm going to the right direction

right now. i have good people. my sponsor is here. they give me a big boost. they call me when i'm down low. i have this guy right here who wrote this good book. friend, agent, partners for 22 years. i'm happy to be here. >> tucker: you have been sober i think for 11 years? how do you do it? how do you stay sober and keep this man on the straight and narrow?n >> for over 11 years. i have to clear something. i give all the credit to dennis for his journey. i'm part of a 12 step fellowship and the one thing he's granted to you is my positive mind-set. i like to have a different perspective on things. certain ways i like to live my life. everybody has their own journey when it comes to sobriety. he's doing it by himself. his way is working.lf >> tucker: how did you do it?

>> for me, part of a 12 step fellowship. i go to a lot of meetings around i work with people in recovery. my book, that's been tremendous. it allows individuals to email me, find me on social media and ask for help. there's a treatment center in florida. they have 11 different properties and four different statesin. there is nothing better than using my experience to show people that hope and recovery. >> tucker: you hear people say it, and it's working because i'm part of a 12-step program. why does that make the difference? what's helpful?d b >> we know one day at a time as a struggle. he also learned how to get through the hard stuff in life without picking up a drink or substance. just being clearheaded and staying positive. we will cover as a group.

we celebrate the good times and we get through the rough times. >> tucker: he calls you and says, i'm thinking about vodka. what do you say to him? i'm not joking. >> nothing wrong with that. i tell him why he shouldn't do it. after his espn "30 for 30" which was tremendous, he had his own awakening. i've seen it with and being a father, a colleague. everybody and his life. something has happened to him. >> tucker: do you feel that way dennis?y what flipped and you're sick of being loaded? >> you said vodka, it used to be yeager meister. kamikaze and stuff like that. i'm taking it one day at a time and it's the fact that i'm conscious now. the espn "30 for 30", it says a lot about me. i haven't watched it yet.

it's a crisis of my life. i need to understand what dennis rodman is all about. instead of being loaded and drunk all the time, i need to focus on dennis rodman. i have people in houston. i have sponsors. there behind me. dr. drew. i respect all of those guys. i'm in a good place right now. >> tucker: we are certainly rooting for you. thank you. we appreciate it. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> tucker: outstanding. thank you. across the country drug addiction has devastatedou america's blue-collar communities. being rich is no protection either. america with the most privileged background can say that too. the grandson of kirk douglas, his battle drug addiction

throughout his life. d he did a long stent and presented. now douglas is the author of a frankly remarkable new book called "the long way home." we spoke with him recently. >> it seems like you're never going to get better than you do. what was the moment that changed your trajectory? >> it was an evolution for me. first of all, thank you for having me on your show. pleasure to be here. it was an evolution for me. i believe the moment where i started to change direction when i was giving my second sentence. i was in solitary confinement. i felt something cracking or breaking inside of me. at that point i knew i had two paths left open to me. one path would not have gotten

back from -- made it back. the other one was one that gave me purpose. it allowed me to get out of the rack every morning. a purpose to put myself in the best possible position once i was released from prison. >> tucker: it seems from the outside looking in, and it's obvious you want to stop using. your book describes this passionate love affair you had with getting loaded, with drugs. the question is, now that you're off and clean, do you miss it? is it better?n why is it worth getting off drugs? >> absolutely. life is amazing not being addicted to drugs. it's something that takes i think a long time to get to the point that i was at.

to answer your question, life now has a purpose. i have a beautiful daughter. i have a lovely girlfriend. i have a great relationship with my family. it started as a young teenager, i felt lonely. i felt uncomfortable in my own skin. it gave me, it soothes that for me. it allowed me a connection to peer group and what have you. over years and years, it starts out fairly innocently. over years and years of leaning on that and using the addiction as a crutch, it starts to consume you. then you can tell yourself apart from it. that's when things start to get bad.

>> tucker: you're from a prominent family, but you had people who loved you. they watched you go to the lowest possible place. what would you say to parents who are watching their kids go there? what do they say? what can you say to a child is slipping away? >> depending on where that person is at in their journey ay far as the addiction goes, it makes a difference. if they're flirting with it or starting to walk down that path, you do everything in your power to help them. one thing for me that i realize and looking back on my life and the decisions i made, one thing that would have been helpful would be if i took advantage of therapy. kids these days are more involved. they seem to be. i have younger brothers and sisters. they kind of get it. if you could offer them therapy,

that would be the first move. aside from that, you do everything in your power. there reaches a point where i think you have to let go and pray to god that they land on their own two feet. >> tucker: that's the truth of it. your story suggests that. welcome back and congratulations on all of you have overcome. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: joe namath is an nfl hall of famer, but the challenges of pro football turn out to be nothing compared to addiction. we visited his long journey to sobriety. our special on sobriety continues tonight. ♪ sobriety. our special on sobriety continues

♪ >> live from america's news headquarters. the storming of the u.s. embassy prompting mike pompeo to delay his trip to ukraine. they are targets in iraq and syria. in response to the killing of american contractor last week. president trump who blames the rod ordered the immediate appointment of 750 troops to that region. don larsen has died. he passed away wednesday night. he reached the heights of baseball glory in 1956 for the new york yankees when he threw a

perfect game and the only no-hitter in world series history. in his autobiography he writes, "i must admit.ck i was shocked." he was 90. ♪ >> tucker: welcome back to our special on sobriety. joe namath was an nfl hall of famer, and of the most famous living football players.s his victory in the super bowl could be the greatest upset in sports history. once he left the grid iron, addiction devastated his life. he said he almost drank himself to death. he appeared visibly drunk. he tried to kiss a sideline reporter. the embarrassment from that day motivated him to get clean for good. he came on the show and opened up about his path to sobriety. here's what he said. how do you feel? do you feel different now that you're not drinking?do >> well, yeah. i feel different.

i feel good about myself and the effort because i know addictions take place throughout our lives. they can take place. many people can be brought to their knees for a variety of reasons.s. i think we all can actually. addictions come in different shapes and forms. alcohol is one of them. opioids is another one. every day sugar, you could consider that addiction. the foods we eat. yeah man. getting an education, getting help is important. i think, i know we have one instrument. were the only one who can take care of this body and mind. we need to recognize the importance of how we take care of ourselves to be able to take care of the ones we love.

>> tucker: what was the key for you to get over your addiction? >> the key was love for my family. it was an embarrassing moment that occurred after i'd been sober for a number of years. i was challenged originally by my wife and my first daughter who was a year old to gett help. i didn't think i needed help. i figured i could quit. i didn't quit. she challenged me again. i promised her i would stop. this was dealing with alcohol at the time. when i learned alcoholics anonymous. i became a dry drunk for 13 years. i didn't have a drink man. i found an excuse.

i found an excuse. i learned going through a divorce was an excuse for me. i did that until i had an incident with a young lady that was during a football game at halftime experience. at a jets game. man, i didn't even remember. the next day i found out about it. i let a lot of people down including myself with that behavior. i did reach out to get help.pl i got an education. i'm so thankful for it today. one of the good, good things that i've experienced being an athlete, being out there over the years. i will go through airports.

i will go to the grocery store. people come up to me, how are you doing? they lean over and whisper to me, i'm a friend of bill's. i say, you don't have to whisper. where in this together. for real. i want to encourage them. that's a good thing. i do like to help out and encourage people. throughout my life people have come up to me and i've learned good vibes, good vibes and smile. it's healthy. i want people to treat me -- treat my children the way we treat one another. i've been lucky. >> tucker: amen. joe namath. great man. thank you. i appreciate it. >> thank you tucker. >> tucker: addiction doesn't just affect the people who are addicted suzanne somers explains how itit can affect family and friends. we will explore the halo effect as our special edition continues tonight.

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>> tucker: welcome back to our special on sobriety. drug addiction is harmful, sometimes fatal. it can be just as harmful for people who are close to the addicted. suzanne somers has seen a lot of this. she's an actress and an author. she is also an expert on the so-called halo effect.is she spoke to us about it recently. here's how it went. the question of sobriety. we spent a lot of time talking about drug addiction on the show, mostly because of the opioid epidemic. youu have seen it from both sides. why is sobriety worth achieving? what is good about sobriety? >> i think what you're talking about in my case. i'm not alcoholic or drugli addict. i was extremely affected by alcoholism. my brother and my sister and my younger brother were all

severely affected by alcoholism. my younger brother younger brother alcoholism and drug addiction, he's no longer with us. it's the collateral damage. what happens to the kids like me? night after night my mother would come to our room, get in the closet! all the stuff that would happen. we would go to this closet. we had a lock on the inside of the door where we would sit and hide from the monster downstairs. night after night. it affects you deeply. when you live with an alcoholic they beat you down. i remember my father, he would say you were stupid, hopeless, you're nothing.es that becomes who you are. many years later and i wrote about this and my book, "keeping secrets." 1998, i was a teenage mother.

all these things happen to you. my son was run over by a car at five years old. i was in this despair. no child support, no nothing. i took him to the community mental health center where she charged me according to my ability to pay. t she charged me a dollar a visit for each of that. she said he's okay after a year. he's not having nightmares anymore. she said, i would like you to stay. she said you have the lowest self-esteem out of anyone ever met. you take that and you take it to what i've accomplished. what it says to me. if you can get caught by the system like i did. this incredible woman, an angel in my life. she used to say, want you to make a list.

what do you like about yourself and what don't you like about yourself? i couldn't think of anything. i would say, i like my hair. one day, she said, where did you get the feeling that you were worth so little? i said, i don't know. i always thought i was stupid and helpless and worthless and nothing. she said, we told you that? that was my breakthrough moment. she repented me. because of my potential, i was able to grab my potential. i have done to so good with my life. with what i have done with my work in the books i write.. life is good. >> tucker: you've seen over the course of your life being involved in this issue, people go from being chemically dependent on alcohol and drugs and then to sober. what difference does that make?

>> i think people. the aa program is divinely inspired. so was the al-anon. when my mother died i found her diary. it was tragic. one page she wrote in her rickety handwriting, "can i stay or must i leave?" that's the question they ask in al-anon. the people who go through addiction, alcohol or drugs. they find the help and they come out on the other side, those are the people i like to spend my time with. they are not messed up. they're very honest. in order to survive, you have to see the part you played. you have to go, what did i do? how did this manifest in me? it's about turning your life

around. these are success stories. i wrote keeping secrets in 1998, i couldn't believe. i didn't drink, smoke, do drugs. do you know what i did? destructive behavior. i spent money i didn't have. i could not believe the people wrote me saying, me too.o. why would you do that? i would you spend the bulk of it today because you need a crisis. every night of your life growing up during all of that wounding was one crisis after another. you get off on it. your heart is pounding as a little kid. you're terrified the closet. when you leave this environment, there is an empty hole in you that needs filling. you fill it with whatever destructive behavior you can find. you don't know you're doing it. i told my son, you were born to a teenage mother.

they took him from my body looked at me and thought, oh, no, you're my mom. i said i promise, going to make a good life for you. this awful accident that he had saved us both. you have to look at theha negatives in your life as opportunities to grow. like rocket fuel to propel yourself forward. >> tucker: so nice to talk to you. thank you. in a lot of ways patrick kennedy seems set for life. he was the son of ted kennedy who was elected to congress at 27 years old. like so many americans, he derailed his left completely with addiction. he struggled with alcohol, cocaine, and painkillers. one night he crashed his car out by the capital. in the end he turned his life around completely. now he is a mental health advocate and wrote the book, "a common struggle." patrick kennedy's life may be one of the most complete turnarounds we've ever seen. we recently talked to him. here's how it went.

i wanted to ask you tonight not of your political career, your advocacy, but really what i think is an inspiring story of a man overcoming addiction. if you would, give us the quick -- why is it worth being sober? why is it something people should want? >> for me my sobriety date is february 22nd, 2011. i never could really count the days prior to that in the almost 30 years i was drinking and drugging. it was principally because i thought i had it under control. it wasn't as bad as it actually was. frankly that is the single greatest characteristic with someone with addiction or mental illness. their lack of insight. for me, a moment of clarity.

it wasn't my dwi. it wasn't numerous other scandals i had in congress. it was the sense that i was really slipping. i wasn't sure if i could ever make it back. i decided not to run for reelection because i really worried that of course my disease, it's a progressive illness. i was constantly getting into bigger and bigger jackpots so to speak. i was drinking more. i knew it was unsustainable. if i had taken back the time i had before. i thought i managed a pretty well. at the end of my time i knew it was catching up to me. it was only a matter of time. i was blessed to make it out of congress without having another scandal.

that is when i felt like life had just passed me by. i of course never thought i had achieved my ambitions which was to really go up the ladder so to speak in public office. i had nothing in my life. i didn't know anybody. i had no family for the most part.i for my own. i lost my father. i was really in a place where i could reconstruct my life. i had nothing to hold onto. i left where i had lived in washington and rhode island. i moved to new jersey because there was a person i really wanted to be with. even she didn't want to be with me if i wasn't taking every step i could to get my life back on track. initially it was for her. ultimately it became something i

really got to thrive off of. i was starting to live a life i didn't know was possible. i never gave it a chance. today, i had dinner with my five children. i was running around my dining room because i'd put more whip cream on my cake than theirs. they said it was too much. we had so much fun. that laughter and joy at something so small and so simple is what gives life its meaning. what i think of today is like the highlight of my day. >> tucker: i knew you before and after. m i wanted to hear you say that. that is the most compelling case a man can make. what you justhe said. i'm grateful you said it on the show. it's wonderful to see how thing'

have turned out for you. thank you. patrick kennedy. the addiction crisis didn't come out of nowhere. it happened in part because some people made a lot of money by causing it. billions and billions. others made money by covering it. we will revisit the close ties between purdue pharma and aei, the d.c. think tank. you will want to see this next. ♪ the

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back to "tucker carlson tonight." ♪ >> tucker: the opioid epidemic has killed hundreds of thousands of americans. prescription painkillers were key in starting that. somehow the epidemic kept getting worse and worse as lawmakers and regulators did almost nothing to stop it. why was that? oxycontin inventor purdue pharma showered money on a lot of people in washington including one of america's top conservative think tanks. you've already guessed, they're not that conservative. we profiled that relationship in detail. a shocking story you should know.at here it is. close to 50,000 americans die from opioids last year. that's one death every 10 minutes.

you never hear anyone in power talk about what's happening. it's changing this country forever.r. communities are collapsing. zip codes are being depopulated. they have fueled the single biggest health crisis. how did this start? men in lab coats. the maker of oxycontin. when oxycontin was introduced, they claimed the users were unlikely to become addicted tohe the product. that was a lie. a lie that caused epidemic. they turned out to be terrifyingly addictive. hundreds of thousands of americans have entered into a death spiral addiction. the disaster began more than 20 years ago and yet only now is purdue pharma collapsing under the weight.sa how did the company get away with this for so long?th the answer tells you so much about how the propaganda machine works in modern america. having made billions destroying an entire generation, they paid

for their publicity. some of the p.r. budget went to nonprofits in washington. from 2003 until recently, purdue pharma allocate $50,000 a year to the american enterprise institute. a conservative think tank in washington, one of the richest. the money turned out to be well spent. for the price of a car purdue pharma by year as a positive coverage that helps the company escape scrutiny. in 2004, a scholar published a piece of "the new york times" lamenting the plight of doctors who risk jail time for overprescribing painkillers. oxycontin abuse was nonexistent among those who would been prescribed the drug. as it turns out, the study was conducted and paid for by purdue pharma researchers. it also didn't mention the fact that the piece had been

coordinated directly with the drug company. email show aei scholar, who wrote the piece sent a draft to purdue pharma's chief lobbyist a month before came out seeking his approval and making certain didn't seem to blatantly pro purdue. pretty stealthy. in 2007 that same scholar wrote an article entitled, oxymoron. it briefly chastise purdue for over promoting its drugs, but that it prescribed oxycontin as a godsend. they might have prescribed it in sufficient qualities. the problem is that america does not have enough of it. as for the people who were stranded drop-dead, the article dismissed them as a committed substance abusers. the year that article appeared, 18,000 people died of opioid overdoses. more than double a few years before.d,

the epidemic was raging out of control. according to aei's expert scholar, the real public health damage here comes from the pitch campaign by zealous prosecutors and advocates to demonize the drug itself. according to aei, the real crisis was the fact that not enough americans were taking oxycontin this was in effect add copy. no different than a glossy insert. in one way, one key way it was different. readers had no idea it was an ad for oxycontin. o they assumed it was what he claimed to be.e. scientific research. there was no mention of funding from purdue pharma. meanwhile thousands kept dying. many ironically in this country's red estate. a conservative think tank ran interference for a company whose products were disproportionate killing conservatives. another day in washington.

if you're starting to suspect the establishment doesn't represent your interests, there is a reason for that. there are every bit as corrupt as you think they are. donations to corrupt washington think tanks like aei kept purdue pharma safe for a long while. now the company is collapsing under a wave of lawsuits. the sackler family is offered to settle lawsuits against them. it means the family will never receive the justice it deserves. we profiled the settlement recently. when the company released the drug they claimed it would be less addictive than other up medications. that was a lie. oxycontin turns out to be terrifyingly addictive. it is killed more americans than any conflict since the second world war. we now know purdue pharma

understood exactly what they were doing. recent legal filings have exposed internal showings. the company's sales staff were pressured to sell as many pills as they could without regard to the risk.k. physicians were urged tos prescribe the highest possible dosage of the drug to maximize profits. what evidence emerged people were becoming junkies. purdue pharma responded by shaving the patience they had hooked on their drug. they called them degenerate criminals. refusing to take any responsibility for the human carnage they caused. it's hard to imagine an uglier story. throughout all of it we should note produce pharma, their owners, the sackler family grew rich. possibly rich. earlier this year they were estimated to have more than $12 billion in the bank. thanks to the opioid epidemic. there one of the 20 richest families in the country. they have a wave of lawsuits.

apparently the company has made a settlement offer to resolve all of these lawsuits purdue pharma will pay $12 billion. 3 billion of them would come from the sackler family which would not give up control of purdue pharma. it sounds like a lot of money. the massive tobacco settlement of 1998 totaled $206 billion. no one would have had cigarette smoking, over time it will kill you. smoking cigarettes doesn't cut out young people in their prime. smoking doesn't turn teenagers into zombies. it hasn't destroyed an entire town they're hoping to get offn with 6% of what the tobacco companies paid more than 20 years ago. that feels wrong. it's easy to see why the sackler's are for it. they would retain a billiony dollars after the settlement. is that justice? no, it's not. it's a familiar pattern.

a ruling class gets incredibly rich by wrecking our country. in this case by killing manyny thousands of young people. they get caught doing it, details emerge. everyone spends a week pretending to be horrified.. nothing happens. not a single one of the perpetrators ever goes to jail. no one is ever really punished. we've seen it again andgo again. in the end, in this case, they take their blood money and they head to st. barths for thanksgiving and they laugh. to get away with it every time.. it would be nice if they got what they deserved. it might make the rest of us less cynical. what could and should congress be doing to finally curb the epidemic of overdoses and suicide? nobody cares, they should. we'll speak to a republican senator who does. next. ♪

>> tucker: welcome back to our special presentation on sobriety. a new report by the committee, deaths from alcohol are now at their highest level since prohibition became law a centur. ago. suicides have risen dramatically as well. they been dubbed deaths of despair. if the numbers tell us anything, america has more despair than at

any time in the last century. josh hawley of missouri is paying attention to this despite the fact that nobody else is. we talk to them recently. what do these numbers tell us? >> they tell us we have a crisis on our hands. it's a crisis of hope in my state of missouri. i spent a number of days traveling, talking to economically distressed areas. i can tell you every single person who i talked to talked about meth epidemic. i met one guy in a coffee shop wearing a wristband that said, talk to me. in their little town and multiple teen suicides in the last year. it's everywhere. it's a crisis. >> i think you can count on alcohol, drug ods, diabetes.

they're all forms of suicide. their deaths of despair. why is nobody in washington mentioning this? >> what the democrats are talking about is banning plastic straws. the elite consensus that drives washington has driven the establishment on both sides. things like immigration that have kept wages down for too long in this country. things like free trade. sending jobs overseas away from these communities that are struggling. of course the drugs. they're pouring across the southern border. it's made in mexico. neither establishment has wanted to do anything about it. that's one of the reasons we have the crisis we do.

>> tucker: is hard to imagine this happening to any group outside of rural america and this big ignored. i'm not a conspiracy list, it seems obvious. if they were in steep decline, there would be an editorial about it. >> these are people, they don't have b a voice. they get overlooked by the self-appointed mainstream media. it's black-and-white. it's working people who are working hard every single day. tried to make and beat. they can afford their health care. they can't get treatment. what is the media focused on? whether cows contribute to climate change. we need a wake-up call in washington, d.c. the establishment has failed. if this isn't proof of the total failure of the politics, i don't know what would be.

>> tucker: when people are died by the hundreds of thousands and you don't notice, there is something wrong. thank you for coming out tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: because american elites stood aside were actively enabled it, the epidemic became a crisis of unprecedented performance. the works in the history of the country. that is driving suicide and more. very few people are thinking deeply why this is happening. the author of the book "lost connections."hi he joined us earlier this year. the first step to getting sober is wanting sobriety. i think we are to really reminded why that is something we should want. why is it? >> i came to the subject because we had a lot of addiction and my family. one of my earliest memories is trying to wake up to my

relatives and not being able to. i didn't understand then. i remember thinking, why do they not want to be sober? people have addiction problems are asking themselves that. the angry felt was what they felt towards themselves. speaking to those people who have addiction problems, the leading experts, what i learned is the core of addiction is about not wanting to be present in your life. life is too painful a place to be. if we want to understand people are using pain killers, we have to understand why they're in such pain.e the core of addiction is trying to avoid deep psychological pain.il that is not the story were told.

the store were told is, you party too hard, even divulged, you got taken over by the drug. you become obsessed with theyo chemical hook. that is what we call the being hooked. that is real. it's a small part of addiction. most of what is going on is about trying to avoid deep pain. the most important things we have to do, what are the conditions we can create as a culture that will make moree people be able to be sober, want to be sober. a painful reality, people willlt want to check out. it's not a coincidence. why is addiction much higher in west virginia than it is on the faculty of harvard? through no fault of their own, the people of west virginia have been stripped of some of their

most basic, psychological needs. they been humiliated at work. they been made to feel lonely.y. as all the people in west virginia turned out very well -- it's not the people in west virginia turned out to be weak willed or unable to maintain sobriety. the circumstances of their life are so painful. so many people want to check out. t we can deal with that. it's all about changing the environment. building an environment people want to be present in. >> tucker: i think that's very wise. something that not enough people are saying. thank you so much for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: that's it for us tonight. we'll be back every weeknight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. "the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity,t' smugness, and groupthink. happy new year.

see you soon. >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity." happy new year. buckle up, what a year it will be. for the four hours tonight, we will highlight some of those important monologues from the past few weeks.e first up, my opening monologue from the night of the fisa report was finally released. take a look. >> fisa abuse report is officially out and tonight the deep state, they needed to understand they are all in deep legal jeopardy. premeditated fraud perpetrated repeatedly on the fisa court with all the unverifiable lies from hillary clinton's bought-and-paid-for dirty russian dossier put together by christopher steele who has only one source. yeah, a guy that was an