garri appear his girlfriend they were found in their apartment that they'd just gotten. cold and they were dead for like 3 days holding each other. has a population of about 200100 years ago it was one of the fastest growing towns in the u.s. it was famous for producing rubber tires and was even called the rubber capital of the world in the last 50 years the population has fallen by a 3rd and continues to decline these days akron is better known as the meth capital of ohio it's a city where the number of drug addicts keeps growing every year this film was shot

in several private rehab centers and is about the people who still live in them who have recently left. we are at the emma recovery residence a home that's been in my family for over 50 years 53 years i believe you know i've read read some editorial and such lately were and people are saying that the worst is behind us and that is far from true. the statistics such as they are are disappointing on the just released accounting report were and were on track to outpace last year's deaths significantly work with wrenching to former prisoners and to people who have checked out of just day to rehab center and need a safe shelter for a while they can stay for free until they find work and then they pay $500.00 a month in rent. and 10. once i knew is wrong you really don't know why that's huge my

last jury. my 4 storey apartment window on the sidewalk and should not be alive here today not be able to walk it's just another thing every thing just did and i started. you know they sent a work out. i had to go to surgery on my back the darker. my hope. still be alive the last time i was. here all those. kind of drugs. come back. and corey met when they both rented rooms from rain out and both had been heroin and. 10 yes. corey is from

a very poor family in west virginia is mother abandoned her at birth and she's never seen her biological father. then that's me. is right after they adapted me and the day after that 4 days old i remember that she doesn't even know the. big mystery i don't really care it's not important. i have a great family anyway. and then that's me senior picture so i was 17 and a half there. and i was a blonde then. if. this says her adoptive parents were wealthy and loving but that didn't save her from addiction and other things the rap sheet. corey have now states navy. i

was just broken you know i broke in college when i was raped in that stairwell you know that's when i was like started drinking and that slake when the the addiction in me was like awakened but never like bad consistently or like nourish like i mean i nurtured my heroin it made everything that was broken inside of me go away. when we met an old rulings he was working at one of the crunch rehab centers and had been clean for long enough and yes as well as administrative lack of the center he listened to on the streets hoping to try and help them change their lives. and.

hopefully. we'll talk to his young man a. plane to see me that's what it's all about you know all it takes is that one person. connecting with another person you know believe in somebody else. nothing mystical or god not god with. white man that uncle i'm right and rob your uncle jeff might help your wife ok i also believe in the research is pretty conclusive i mean we have genetic markers for addiction the disposition towards addiction certainly it is a learned behavior as well so now we have 3 generations of people under the same roof who know active addiction and again that's a path all of that's pretty entrenched i mean how do you interrupt that cycle when grandma builds dads wasted on this you know the kids are on meth where do you start to untangle that. i'm good now because i don't want to be

a statistic i want to give my kids stuff that i didn't have. in the whole life my dad could means money. you know my aunts and uncles came up when i was 14 i came up to ohio and my whole family were gigantic it was a perfect storm of factors we're just now peeling back the layers of trauma throughout much of the 1990 s. and beyond the doctors were encouraged in some cases incentivized to push we have 2 small towns here in ohio. that have been prescribed millions of pills i mean enough to sedate small country then we had the same aloa cartels and the other mexican cartels who have distribution centers throughout the rust belt in the midwest ohio very central among them drug addiction and the many other just desperate causes is the main reason behind it was steadily declining population

according to the american medical association journal in 70 is from 2010 to 2017 the death rate among people aged $25.00 to $60.00 full rose by more than 20 percent . this memorial was actually conceived built by the young people of our residents here are recovery residents part of who we are part of what we do is we provide ceremony in these people's lives the ceremony of death which. started about in 2013 we buried our 1st young guy from a house here and it has not abated and they are succumbing you know one after the next so these are all the personalized tags of the young souls who came to us and sought help and there's more come.

we had a couple of our crew of our sort of core guys who lived at the house when they left against the council 48 hours later they were dead relapse. stopped picked back up part of the challenge is if you stay in recovery obviously your tolerance lowers significantly. so you go back out of. the way of the awareness changed significantly i mean we're talking about. a chemical that can stop your heart with the net mess of a grain of salt can stop your heart. you know just talking about fentanyl and cough and tamil people it seems to treat pain they're quite similar to heroin chemically but much more potent compared to heroin fentanyl is 50 times more potent and cough

until 5000 times cough until it's so powerful that it's used as a veterinary tranquilizer 2 milligrams is enough to sedate an elephant recent years have seen several mask over doses on fentanyl and cough and to know the drugs are cheap and pushes and them to the expensive heroin and meth to increase their profits given addicts more of a high for less money and to strengthen their dependency it's hard for dealers to get the dose right when they concoct the mixture at home that's why so many people die from overdoses and anyone who survives enjoys a painful withdrawal much worse even than from heroin. doing too much ground. why would you want to kill off your clientele but then why you should also hear people say ray ray over here that yes somebody 3 people just died. all that good stuff man we gotta go get that that guy was just

crazy he did too much a know what he would do i'm different you don't know why you know i'm rubber on your no your child no we're going to the same thing a world we've got it right let's go get it. both of us from. the ground we're in a house there's nobody around is guess what. that simple. drug dealing has not been a simple and accessible source of income for many town for anyone who wants to quit and break the cycle of addiction because the push is on literally everywhere. it's not hard on him i moved into a sober house and i want to be sober but i thought i did and i was walking to the bus you know from the sober house was over and brown street grade area and i

literally met my dealer walking to the bus stop he was like hey you want to sample that's how easy it is you know and i was like sure like what do you get you know and that's that's that was one of my relapse one curious. byproduct of course of the epidemic is the. epidemic of crime. and i just read here were 3 young guys right down the street here were shot in a running gun battle i mean we're talking about a small city we're on 190000 people and we've got a running gun battles up i mean it's like chicago in the thirty's it's wave of crime i've had rounds hit the building next door in 9 millimeter rounds right through the picture windows so this is the wild west you know courtesy of the epidemic. where you put this that. yes you know michel i was starting to come out mom i'm not

the. a.b.c. church and church street and we came here to do. it's where the kids travel. card a car in their costumes. coming up and it's a recovery church and that's what they do. here is the. sort of addiction. it's a rough neighborhood. the young one transparency they want to know where this is headed and they're very the miners are going to get rid of what they don't want rapidly and they're putting themselves together they're courting very slowly this pandemic is making them even more careful it will continue to be careful and they may. at least a generation partnerships.

thousands of american men and women choose to sort of in their countries military. every came to a complete. the day that i was right. you know. kill me and i would destroy. any screen. my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military is a very traumatizing have happened but i've never seen trauma like. military sexual trauma. victims punished. and almost 20 or career or chose. very invested in and i gave the sex offender who was not even put to

justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue our in violence male sexual predators for the large part have charted whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women. alexa colegrove is a member of the crime bible church she has 4 children and no husband she hasn't used meth for over a year and believes her drug and sex addictions a rooted in her childhood. my dad raised me work and now boxing he raised me like as if i was his son instead of his daughter so that's how i dress and a lot of people would make fun of me for it that i and then at home my dad choosing my step mom over me i feel like because she didn't like me and she didn't like the relationship that my dad and i had and he kind of wanted to please her which kind

of left me lonely i think that's where it all came into play i just wanted to sleep with somebody even if it was for one night just that you know 5 minutes or an hour couple hours of being with somebody for one night made me feel like i had self-worth. the drugs would know me but then the more people i slept with or the more bad things that i did or you know people that i heard i'd have to use more drugs to try to numb those feelings on top of the feelings or mardy numbing and it was just a process that never ended and then eventually it got to the point where nothing worked. this is the place for a play baseball yes i was real good at it played little league world series when i was 14. very good at baseball was my escape baseball was my getaway because of the child who deny growing up i used to use music driving foolish when i have my

moments here. you know i love being around kids and you know helping kids and stuff to the point where ultimately i don't want to use them for their kids but i go and i spent more time over there because they have kids because it allows me to decompress. wasn't there for mark huge. and there was a very emotional. never knew her biological father but since she's immensely grateful to her adoptive dad he kept believing in her throughout her years of addiction largely because of his support that she managed to overcome dependence start

a family was corey and move into a house in a nice safe neighborhood. lost so many close. in may using. the. f. word dad every time i go to treatment he have to pretty much buying new clothes he . got so good at blake going to the store and getting like women's clothing like the ladies at the store a new when they go she need more clothes you know my dad. found this neighborhood for us he thought it would be a good place to start a family without her dad we would not be here. but that's what it takes to take family for. more really stuff. this is for oh the cover here we're. worried about really we're eating there

so they're right here and in the end he is and i've had since i was baby my mom got does they're collector's items now i guess dad sees her for like all these years and then gave them to me for lizzie oh. oh oh. we are at. terry in the highlands where. we come every morning of course for pride to do his thing but we also visit. a number of our misfit. in this place is. fairly planted with them. tom was 36 is actually one of the institute's very 1st volunteers and staff people just tremendously creative spirit really a beautiful person to look like a viking. 36. seth

apple also used to rent a room from ray not while recovering from his addictions he was adopted by lance and carol apple pious financially stable and seemingly prosperous in every sense a good christian couple. there are some. number 12. i got to

call. 36 morning. had a particular addiction to alcohol was an issue for me but. the it's called the. active ingredient in cough syrup. and they also the street name for it is called robo tripping robitussin and what he would do is he would drink several bottles of it and it would cause some. effect and that's what he was. pretty much with using drugs for about 12 years he did have some very stringent rules that he voiced that. no heroin you know he said don't mess with those so he really we believe he

thinks thought he had a handle on this that he was using it properly and he was not quite. willing to give it up. well we had let's see a little was the best i know them are 6155 pm so this isn't my 1st child it's korea's 1st child my 1st child was adopted. by

a fusing family to say that it was the best option and you know my cousins ended up adopting her. but the 1st time was just it was a you know i was. trying to understand. and then trying to become a mother at the same time and fundamentally. we 1st met our protagonist in june 29th team and for the last time in february 2020 during that time the rehab center where rob rawlings worked closed down. and started using it again. then he completed a one month course at a rehab clinic and found a job you know he delivers heavy white goods like fridges and washing machines he gets up at 5 am every day and mostly lives in hotels because he has to travel involved in his work he says he's making more than ever before and feels happy

self-sufficient his dream is to save enough by the end of the year to rent premises for his own sober house so he can start helping other people again. the most. trying to help themselves obviously everybody wants to help everybody the epidemic is ridiculous take your yourself before you take. you know you know if you're poor from an empty cup you can't transmit something you don't have. running a household 14 which i would get down every time i would hurt every time i would feel pain i would go far and one of the guys in the house and see what they needed . problem is you can't. grab somebody else and that's the same you know if the problem and the problems maybe there's just put a band-aid on it because when. you go. you know i was. so i actually i had relapsed in my head a long time before. it's

a process. mentally. emotionally get to the physical part is just simply pick. one percent of we'll ever get. a heroin addict. 8 times if they don't die if you add up every treatment center i've been since i started on majoring in recovery and then they relapse and then back and are having in the area and etc i've spent. close to 3 years in programs and that's not counting time that i spent in sober living you know but every time i went you know planted a seed and it made i made more connections it wasn't all you know because i'm sitting here and i'm alive and i am giving back to the community that i used to be a burden. completed her studies at the recovery coach

academy founded by. 2022 years since she stopped using more than 10 years ago she went to college to become a social worker. wants to use knowledge and experience to help addicts to break the vicious cycle and claim back. they have this false belief that the streets care about them and those people support them that are out on the street but if they get some support over here you know you can introduce them to like a better way of living slowly no it's not going to be fast and it's not going to you know but maybe they will one day. maybe they want that's like the saddest thing about this field is you're going to watch people die and you're going to watch them kill them so. also completed her recovery coach training a little earlier but she hasn't started working yet she wants to get her life back on track so now devotes all of her attention to her children. you know i love my

children i have 4 kids with 3 different dad now my 1st daughter's father hung himself my. kid's middle 2 children that i have dallas and cole and who are 5 and 4 their dad is a bad alcoholic and he's clean right now but. last kid that i have his dad is an active addiction still to this day so chances are one out of 4 of my kids will be an addict at least if i live the right way and show them how to live instead of tell them how to live their lives my job i can only lead by example and if they choose the opposite way that's ok i'll be here for them i won't enable them but i will be there for them. just a couple of news items is anyone following what's happening in franklin county this week 28 deaths in 10 days again that's 28 deaths

in one county in the past and. continues to help rehabilitate former drug users and educate others he believes that individual coaching is the best solution . other teachers at the academy see addiction as an illness and not just a sickness of the mind and body but an affliction of the spirit and that's what gets in the way for many who are trying to escape drug dependency they don't have the strength of spirit or higher goals to face but they can succeed. again i think it's important to note that it's not an opioid. i mean perhaps ultimately it's an epidemic of spirit it's the fact that we've become so disconnected soul bereft of spirit and community. moving forward now a lot of you. you are all going to be working in wildly different capacities please know you are the tip of the spear of the recovery revolution.

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view houses were. prison was located and the only way you can pool had access to the story investigators she covered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. the great ignore. for. trying for justice. seemed wrong. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become educated and engagement because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

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