the last 50 years the population is full 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 this film was shot in several private rehab centers and is about the people who still live in the who have recently 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 red smith 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 state rehab center and need a safe shelter for a while they can stay for free until they find work then they pay $500.00

a month in rent. 10 months and. 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 your o's smoke and you're all those some kind of drug.

as you know corey met when they both rented rooms from reno and both had been to heroin and misuses for more than 10 years. corey is from a very poor family in west virginia his mother abandoned her at birth and she's never seen her biological father. and that's me. that's right after they adopted me was adopted at 4 days old i remember but 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.

louis says her adoptive parents were wealthy and loving but that didn't save her from addiction and the rap sheet. corey have now stay. with me. i was just broken you know i broke in college when i was raped in that stairwell you know that's when i started drinking and that's like when the addiction in me was like awakened but never like. consistently or like nourish i mean i nurtured my heroin it made everything was broken inside of me go away. when we met things he was working at one of rehab centers and had been clean for one another as well as administrative work for the center. of the streets hoping to try and help them change their lives.

hopefully. we'll talk to. plant a seed man 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. the little guy with the white money i'm right and rob you don't look up like heck you might 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 and 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 i was you know a foster homes my whole life my dad could means money on mama's on dope my 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 are 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 same aloa cartels and the other mexican cartels who have to. 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 to 60 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 the 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 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 there are. pick 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 people it seems to treat pain they're quite similar to heroin chemically but. compared to heroin fentanyl is 50 times more potent cough until 5000 times cough into no is 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 until the drugs are cheap and pushes random to the expensive heroin and meth to increase their profits given addicts 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 throw up your clientele

but then why you should also hear people say ray ray over here that yes somebody. was just crazy. different you don't know why oh well i'm rubber on your no you are oh we're going to the same thing oh ok well we got it right let's go get it. for. the ground we're in a house there's nobody around. in a drug dealing has long been a symbol and accessible source of income for many it's hard for anyone who wants to quit and break the cycle of addiction because the pushers are literally everywhere . it's not hard. into

a sober house and i want to be sober area but i thought i had it in but i was walking to the bus you know from the sober house was over and around st great 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 and one curious. byproduct of course of the epidemic is the commercial 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 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 could just said here or here you know myself. i'm not. ok we're at a.b.c. church and church on ground street and we came here to do trunk or tree. it's where the kids travel trying to try on car to car in their costumes and get candy. because how we're 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. some

rumors assumes he's. going to be named chris mihm. you may. remember if you just can't stand forever or both if you feel that oh. antarctica is a very international community i. mean it used to. have to. do this to the kids who face this so studies need to eat. for the position of the world food is for the business for their nuclear cooperation is everything produced polluted with it if one comes to do with the above the. 5 they have i would have acted all day but i decided not to take people's life. with my gave you that.

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 there was for one night just that you know 5 minutes or an hour or 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 childhood and i had a grown up i used to. use it driving foolish when i had my moments i still come

down 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 when i go and i spend 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 her dependence start a family was corey and move into a house in

a nice safe neighborhood. plus so many close. in may using. the. f. word dad every time i go to treatment he have to pretty much any new clothes he. got so good it's like going to the store and getting like women's clothing like the eighty's 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 families or. have already started. this is for oh the culture here we're. about ready we're getting there

so they're ready and in the end he is and i've had the 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 him but. the it's called the. active ingredient in cough syrup. and he 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 that this mess with so he really believed 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 cory'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 it fundamentally did. we 1st met our protagonists in june 29th team and for the last time in february 2020 during that time the rehab center where rob rowling's 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 happily 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 important. trying to help. 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 pain i would go farm one of the guys in the house and see what they needed because. 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 time to get to the physical part is just simply pick. one percent of we'll ever get. a heroin addict. they relapse 8 times if they don't die if you add up every treatment center i've been since i started on my journey in recovery and then the relapse and then back in recovery 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 of that day used to be a burden. completed her 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. 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 my

children i have 4 kids with 3 different dad now my 1st daughter's father hung himself my. kids' middle 2 children that i have dallas and cole and who are 5 and 4 their dad is about 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 all high and 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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dates times that's for sure. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision a little sheltered lives every song came to a complete. the day that i was raised to be instructed you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in the gram my arm and he write me to his birthing curia 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 us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is

more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended by hand and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even. but there just as or put on the registry this is simply an issue of violence. a large part of whoever is there whether that's a man or woman. the

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