all these people press away and there's a lot more of this wall it's all people who have lost their lives early to edition yeah this is from akron we're just not going to treat our way out of this epidemic and the only way we're going to eradicate it is through education and prevention and stop the kids from using because we have seen people go through programs 10 to 12 different times and go to treatment and just never get it going to end up dying tog masseur is a former drug addict who now heads a private rehab center in akron ohio all the guys been working on this themselves so the one guy up here he was a house martyr at new destiny treatment center and they found him literally dead like this ending up. a guard appear his girlfriend they were found in their

apartment that they'd just gotten. cold and they were dead for life 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 and count tiles and was even called the capitol 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 the i

have respect. she left. we are at the 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. to former prisoners and to people who have checked out of a state 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. 10 months. i mean really don't know why that's huge my last jury.

my 4 story apartment window on the sidewalk and should not be alive here today should not be able to walk just another thing everything just did a nice story. you know they sent a work out. and you get a surgery on my back darker stone oh if i waited like an early day or 2. more still be alive the last time i was in here i was smoke and you're all those. kind of drugs. renard you know i. was you know and corey met when they both rented rooms from rain out and banks had been heroin it misuses for than 10 yes. corey is from

a very poor family in west virginia and his mother about. and she's never seen her biological father. and that's me. is right after they adopted me because the day after that 4 days old i met my birth mom that she doesn't even know who made it so 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. 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 i knew. 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 slate when the the addiction in me was like awakened but never like. consistently or like norrish like i mean i nurtured my heroin it made everything was broken inside of me go away. when we met or all things he was working with one of the crunch rehab centers that had been clean for one of us as well as administrative work for the center. on the streets hoping to try and help them change their lives.

plain to see that's what it's all about you know all it takes is one person. connecting with another person you know believe in somebody else. god doesn't look. like my uncle i'm right and rob you don't. have the right ok so you mean the research is pretty conclusive i mean we have a genetic marker 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 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 one 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 like. a 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 overprescribe we have towns small towns here in ohio surrounding us that have been prescribed millions of pills i mean enough to sedate a small country then we had the sim 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 in 7 years from 2000. 10 to 2017 the death rate among people aged 25 to 64 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 the house here and it has not abated and there 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 coming.

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 and just. picked back up part of the challenge is if you stay in recovery obviously your tolerance lowers significantly. so you go back to believing the lay of the way in this 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 continues to treat pain quite similar to heroin chemically but. compared to here in fenton elice 50 times more potent cough until 5000 times cough into the

is so powerful that it's used as a veterinary try. 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 them to the expensive heroin and meth to increase their profits given addicts more of a high for less money 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. why would you want to kill off your clientele but then you should also hear about people say ray ray over here that yes somebody 3 people just died. and we got to go get the guy was just crazy he did too much you

know he was different you don't know why you. know you are going to the same thing you know ok well we got it wrong let's go get it. for. the ground we're in a house there's nobody around is guess what. drug dealing has long been a simple and accessible source of income for many a time for anyone who wants to quit and break the cycle of addiction because the push is on literally everywhere. it's not hard. i want to be sober but i thought i did it and then i was walking to the bus you know from the sober house is over 3. and i literally met my dealer walking to the bus stop he was like hey you want to sample that's how you. you know

and i was like sure. cat you know and that's that's that was one of my relapse and one curious. byproduct of course of the epidemic is the. epidemic of crime. and i just read here we're 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 at 100 what 90000 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 and 9 millimeter rounds right through the picture windows so this is the wild west you know courtesy of the epidemic. where you put this said here you. know myself. i'm not.

ok we're at a.b.c. church akron bible church on ground street and we came here to do trunk or tree. it's where the kids travel trying to trunk car to car in their costumes to get candy. this has halloween coming up and it's a recovery church and that's what they do the dirty of everybody that's here is the recovery from some sort of addiction. it's a rough neighborhood. the young one transparency they want to know where this is headed and they're very demanding when they're 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 be even more careful it will continue to be careful in the. middle eastern. no

a generation or salad partnerships. secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived within this 0 zone there were 2 view houses were our prison was located only cia people had access to the story for investigators sure hell they uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean one of. the great of nor in thought. of. crying for justice on r.t. . don't. annex a 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 a childhood. my dad raised me work and now fox saying 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 a 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 are marty numbing and it was just a process that never ended and then eventually it got to the point where nothing more. just says please read played 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 childhood and i had a grown up i used to. use it driving foolish when i had 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 your kids but i know we're not spend more time over there because they have kids because it allows me to decompress. there.

are for mark huge. and there was a very emotional. never knew her biological father but says 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 her 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 it takes a village or. more really starts. this is for oh the culture here we're. worried about really we're eating there so they're right here and in the end he is and. 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. the cemetery 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 he was. seth apple also used to rent a room from ray not while recovering from his addictions he was adopted by luntz

and carole pious financially stable and seemingly prosperous in every sense a good christian couple. we. it was 18 days that our son has passed away he died on. november 12th. i got the call at. 8 36 in the morning this. particular addiction to alcohol was an issue for him but. it's called. active. and they also street poor it is called robo tripping robitussin is what

he would do is he would drink several bottles of it and it would cause. 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 those 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. so.

far. well we had let's see little was the best i know them are 6155 pm so this isn't my 1st child it's corey's 1st child my 1st child was adopted. by a major 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 mass you know i was trying to understand sobriety and then trying to become a mother at the same time and it just fundamentally didn't work. we 1st met our protagonist's in june 29th teen and for the last time in february

2020 during that time the rehab center where things worked closed down lapsed and started using it again. then he completed a one month cost at a rehab clinic and found a job now 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 a lot for his work he says he's making more than ever before and feels happily self-sufficient his dream is to save enough by the end of the yeah to rent premises for his own sober house so he can start helping other people again. the most important by recovery man don't lose yourself trying to help other people find themselves obviously everybody wants to help everybody the epidemic is ridiculous after take care yourself before you take care somebody else you know you know getting nobody else if you're poor from an empty cup you can't transmit something you don't have. running a house with 14 guys and every time i would get down every time i would hurt every

time i would feel pain i would go find one of the guys in the house and see what they needed done because you get you get a good feeling when you help somebody else problem is you can't use that as a substitute instead of me going out shooting dope when i feel like i was going to grab somebody else and helping them and that's the same thing you know if i don't base the problem and the problems maybe there's just put a band-aid on it because when that stuff goes away just like the drugs you don't get sick so you know i was using the guys as montrose so i actually i had relapsed in my head a long time before i would put a drug. is it's a process starts and mentally no ghost emotional by the time you get to the physical part is just simply picking back up 70 percent of addicts will ever get rain or something i get it takes a heroin addict i am less 8 times if they don't die. if you add up every treatment center i've been in since i started on my journey in recovery and then the relapse

and then back in recovery and then maria apps and etc i've spent. close to 3 years in programs and that's not counting time that i spent in sober living but every time i went you know it planted a seed and it made i made more connections it wasn't all for not you know because i'm sitting here and i'm alive and i am giving back to the community that they used to be a burden on. completing the studies at the recovery coach academy founded by reno. 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 you know maybe they won't desolate the saddest thing about this field is you're going to watch people die and you're going to watch them kill them so. the colegrove 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 my children i have 4 kids with 3 different dad my 1st daughter's father hung himself my. kids' middle 2 children that i have. who are 5 and 4 their dad is about alcoholic and he's clean right now but i. the last kid that i had 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 that 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 epidemic 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're all going to be working in wildly different capacities please know you are the tip of the spear of the recovery revolution. join me every thursday on the all excitement and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

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