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tonight, the "20/20" special. david muir reporting. "breaking point -- a," starts now. >> reporter: the calls coming in. heroin overdoses. all of them heroin overdoses. and in manchester, new hampshire, we're there when a panicked driver calls 911 with what he finds at a busy intersection. >> i got a white male, approximately in the face, so i need help now.
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trying to revive the young man. >> 1-2-3-4.wn, veteran medic chris hickey gets the call. >> how quickly do you have to get there, if there's a chance of saving this person's life? >> within the first five minutes.overdose, right in the middle of the road. >> reporter: we arrive. and there he is. the young man in the street. >> yeah, i just had a long day at work.eve his heroin addiction, so strong he couldn't wait to get home from work before shooting up in his car. >> you sure you didn't take h. >> we're not the police. you can tell us. >> no, i know. >> reporter: and we meet that panicked driver who made the call. >> i came around, saw him heel. >> reporter: a father on his way home from work. he says he gave that young man mouth to mouth because he knew what he was witnessing. it's everywhere, even in his own home. >> you know something. i lost my son to a drug overdose.e to do what i did for him. i miss him dearly. we need to do something. we have a problem in our country
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it, period.or more than a year now, "20/20" tracking the explosion of heroin in america's suburbs. 129 people die every day from drugs.vast majority, prescription pain pills and heroin. is this the neighborhood here where you'd find it? >> there isn't a single part of any community that's untouched.l small town. very safe community. very trusted community. >> reporter: we've met so many lindsided. >> spencer's world was football. >> courtney was a lot of fun. she would bring a smile to everybody's face.ited to go off to the marines. >> reporter: they never thought heroin would take hold of their children. >> spencer got hurt in a game.escribed >> the oxycontin. >> reporter: over the course of a year, we see there are no boundaries. rich, poor, the middle class.
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far easier and far cheaper to get. >> spencer switched over to heroin. >> heroin. >> heroin.me to my door at 1:00 in the morning and said my son was gone. >> reporter: drug overdoses are now more deadly than car this country. and tonight, you're about to see the struggle in real time. >> i love you. >> reporter: we meet a young husband and father who loves his boy, camden. >> what? >> reporter: but aaron is at a breaking point.'s future, his own future, is on the line. >> everybody thinks their kid's the cutest in the world but i literally have the cutest son in the world. aaron also carries with him something else. >> more or less this is all you need. literally, tade. >> reporter: aaron is a heroin addict. it's only been a year. >> it snowballed really quickly, to the point where i'd get up r one task was heroin.
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families, he tells us prescription pain pills came first.. >> reporter: then, the heroin. four out of five new heroin users start off with the same opioid fix. his parents tell me they just want their boy back. >> before this heroin had taken was a wonderful kid. a great kid to be around. i miss that about him. >> put it in drive.on wants that back too. he wants for his son, the childhood he had. that's aaron right there.ll team. the player who grew up being shuttled from game to game. in grade school, meeting the girl who is now his wife. kaitlin norton.her basically our whole lives. he's just a good person. like, genuinely, a good person.ws, they all know, that this is a crucial moment.
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doesn't get better.eeks now. about three weeks every day on the phone. literally any place you can a 300, 400-mile >> reporter: but aaron hears what so many hear. the waiting list, weeks, if not months.s 49th in the >> okay. >> reporter: but we're there >> i just got a call from phoenix house. they're going to accept me.ally getting in a place. there is an end to this madness. this is unbelievable.n make it? 48 hours until he gets to that bed. and you're about to see what happens. >> if i don't get better now at's it, period. >> reporter: so close to treatment, we witness the mind games. >> i'm planning on throwing fore i go to treatment. it's unbelievable how tough it is just to get rid of these because i want to get better but
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it's scary. but you know what, i'm going to get rid of them right now.ably wait because i don't want to throw them in my trash. >> reporter: aaron tells us he's now in withdrawal. the grip heroin has on the body is punishing. the hell out of you. it feels like i was beaten with a sledgehammer. for heroin. >> i don't know, it might be a 20. i might need a 40.e to see, okay? >> reporter: whatever he can find. >> hello? >> reporter: he works for his dad. >> reporter: and he tells us he needs to get that paycheck. >> i was just seeing where you were at. love you. >> reporter: his dad has the money but his father also knows what he'll do with it. aaron tells us he's been stealing from his own family. >> family members that you once loved, all they are to you is a money sign. lower
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>> reporter: even with no money, we watch as he heads down the street to find a friend. listen to what he te >> he helped me out, he did. he gave me a little bit so i'm feeling much better now. it's literally instantaneous.it literally just gets you normal. it's really disgusting.ed it to function. you know what i mean? >> reporter: but just moments after shooting up, it hits him. he breaks down, knowing he's atment and using again. and he starts telling us about his wife.to me. i just don't want to lose her. she's the mother of my son. i don't think i'd want to be alive if i don't have them.eporter: kaitlin, the mother of his young boy, has already
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she too began with prescription pills and then the heroin.o getting help too, aaron knows these final hours before treatment are critical. he has overdosed twice before. what it was like to find him. >> he was gray. i yelled for the phone, to call o give him mouth-to-mouth. he was not breathing, and i couldn't feel the heartbeat. >> reporter: can you tell me what that's like?obably the worst thing i've ever had to do in my life, o-mouth. i, just -- i said, is this how it's all going to end? right here, in my basement? >> reporter: the paramedics arrived with the drug narcan.effects of a heroin overdose. >> and he came right through, t from being flatline
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looking at me and talking and i was obviously elated he was alive, but heartbroken.r: did he say he was >> yeah. he did. >> reporter: now months later and just hours from treatment, is wife kaitlin, who is still in rehab. >> could you ask her if she's just taking time to herself or ould just call me and let me know that. >> reporter: she is now refusing to take his calls, knowing her own recovery depends on it. and we wit. looking at the photos of his boy, who is now living with kaitlin's family. of july before he got his haircut. see, he's always got a smile. see, he's a big boy.rally the best day of my life.
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every night, i go on this, and ugh the pictures. because it's the closest thing i have to them right now. 'm going to close this right now, i don't want to look at it anymore.makes me want to get high even more. i know it's destroyed my life, but right now i just want to getike this. >> reporter: when we come back, just 24 hours before rehab. >> perfect. his trip to find his boy camden. what his family tells him when he comes for his boy.to me? [ crying ] >> reporter: and later tonight, the youngest victims. as we look for solutions to the heroin eme following so many families at a
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pictures of his son. >> i can't look at it anymore. [ phone ringing ] >> reporter: he's back on the phone. if i could meet up with you for a 40. bye.es this is it. the last of the heroin before he gets help. >> this is what runs my life, that's what they call china white. >> reporter: china white, he tells us.he's talking about. heroin that is now often laced with something even more dangerous, fentanyl.y. >> reporter: fentanyl is used by hospitals for pain, 50 times more powerful than heroin. but the fentanyl now found mixedthe streets is cooked in makeshift labs. >> it's crazy how, like, you get excited doing this. it's embarrassing saying that but it's a fact. dirty old cotton. it's a small one but it'll have to do.
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>> reporter: he walks into the where he shoots up. >> it wasn't much but it gave me a little rush. i know i will. i need my son in my life.y, he goes to kaitlin's family -- his in-laws -- to visit his son. one day before rehab. >> what? why you upset?ll. >> reporter: they have told aaron they will allow him to see his son one more time before he goes away. >> did you miss me?t it. get in, put it in reverse. i'm going to rehab for a month. it's a good surprise i get so see him before i leave. i'm not going to be able to talk to him so this is great.
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away at rehab, her father tells aaron he will not get his son back until he's clean. >> my daughter ain't going to put up with it, his wife.o be clean, 'cause she's got to be clean. >> reporter: for so many families dealing with heroin, it is a vicious cycle. >>going to go inside for a minute. >> reporter: and here, it is about to erupt. >> is there any alka seltzer here, roxanne? >> reporter: inside the house, way, he closes the bathroom door. and his mother-in-law knows what's happening. >> canthe door? it's the last of that i have to get rid of before i to go to treatment! why do you do this to me? step out and i'll talk to you in a minute. thank you!ing ] i have to find out if they'reght. >> reporter: outside, his father-in-law tells him he's not welcome here tonight. >> well, you ain't staying here.
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>> reporter: the struggle faced milies. >> let's go. >> reporter: when tough love is all you have left. >> i'm kinve a place to sleep tonight, so i got to go find a place. >> don't let this make you go off and --to -- it ain't going to change. i am still going to rehab, this is just an obstacle. >> reporter: with his son at the door, his mother-in-law asks howou put the family through this. >> we've been dealing with this for what? over a year now? you think we don't get stressed out either?it well sometimes, but this is all kind of new to us. >> trust me, i don't want it to be like this anymore.omes up that is stressful and everything i have to go stick a needle in my arm. >> i told you, you got to make sure you get there tomorrow. >> i know, i know. >> well, i leave at 5:00. then his
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if he's on his way to rehab ning. the next day, his brother waiting to drive him. aainging. >> i'm not bringing much. i got my aa book. packed some envelopes so i can send my wife some letters.uld learn aaron has quietly found help on facebook from a stranger, a mother turned advocate. we went to find her. kerry norton.itely knew that he was wanting help. >> reporter: she helps young people find treatment. >> he's making all these calls places. >> reporter: she knows this is the moment when they break through or they unravel. and aaron leaves for rehab. how i'm going to handle it. this drug has taken a year from my life. but that's all it's going to take. all right.r. >> reporter: we watch as they leave.
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>>rook, new hampshire, that in that car. his brother, driving him off to rehab. >> see you guys later.eporter: aaron and that wave, it was the last time we ever saw him alive.rehab facility. a 28-day program, but he only lasted three days.al facilities across this state, they couldn't provide medication to manage his withdrawal, to specifically help wean him off the heroin.y that medication is critical.
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eight days later.father, out of town, gets the call. >> 5:00 in the morning, i'm boarding a plane in dallas airport, and my son ben calls "dad, aaron overdosed again." and i says, "whoa, whoa, what do you mean?" he says, "aaron overdosed again."lly was thinking, "okay, what hospital is he at? what, what, where, where did they take him?"t make it." i had to keep going through it again on this plane to get home. i -- there was nothing i could do at that point. longest six hours of my life, that flight. >> you never think it's going to happen to you.eporter: their son ben, an army medic who served in iraq, found aaron. are you convinced that given the
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families just like yours?oroughly convinced that there are people right now that have lost a loved one today in the state of new hampshire.e of, of one death a day. >> reporter: and on this day, it's their son.r at the funeral home. including the woman aaron found online, a perfect stranger, a mother, a nurse who helped aaronthat bed. >> i don't want it to feel normal that people are dying.et aaron and kaitlin, but she never met aaron's family. she and her husband walk into that funeral home.we see aaron's wife, kaitlin, after her rehab, for the first time.erything you did for him, or tried to.
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he wanted to get better.s not provided the access for his treatment that he deserved. hi, i'm kerry. so sorry. i will fight for him. i promise you. >> reporter: she writes, "i will never forget you." personal. just months earlier, her own son overdosed on heroin. he's now in recovery. >> i'm sitting here in profound sadness while everyone has just feel guilty because i'm just like, "thank god it wasn't my kid." >> reporter: kaitlin allows her nal good-bye to his father. he draws a heart for him.
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she got the call that her young husband, the father of her boy, had died with a day left at rehab herself.k that that you love, somebody close to you. and it's real. i mean, here we are. tells us she could not take those calls from aaron for her own health. >> i had to make, to set those i just, i mean -- [ baby cries ]s he'd been able to hold on during treatment like she did. >> you see things so much clearer. like, you can't, i can't put and go back to everything just because of love, really. i mean, i hope he knows how much i loved him and cared about him o get better.
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know. later, we find kaitlin again. more determined than ever to break free from heroin for good. >> here we are!he home where she's now living, with other recovering addicts, who help push her. >> and this is my bedroom that i this is my clean-time app.n clean one month, 13 days, 17 hours, 41 minutes and 25 seconds. boom. >> reporter: we stay with kaitlin on her journey. kaitlin norton. back, this young couple and a decision they're about to make this moment. it will change the course of their lives.hing we had never seen before. the moment an alleged heroin camera, and what he's about to tell us.ove
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r: you are looking at one of the youngest victims. three days old. just four pounds. he doesn't even have a name yet. he's already facing a battle. shaking. crying. a rapid heart rate. his little body in withdrawal. and kerry, that nurse, that mom turned advocate, is right there in the room. >> is this grayson?n. >> reporter: here in america, every 25 minutes a baby is born dependent on opiates. at center, they show us how careful they are with the morphine that helps wean newborns from heroin.. it's got .5 mls.ld is the newborn? >> reporter: 6 days. and tonight, the story of this call chloe, she was one of those babies. and look at her now. >> boo!r: two months old. those beautiful blue eyes. and that smile. and you're about to witness her
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their lives. both recovering heroin addicts in new hampshire, and both are determined to stay clean for their baby.er the course of months, both are about to be tested in ways they could not predict. will their heroin come back to haunt them?hree, two. >> reporter: 21-year-old savannah i heroin during her pregnancy. she wants for her baby girl, some of what she had growing up. >> i was a good kid. i didn't stop playing with dolls until i was like 14. i was pretty sheltered.8 when she met matt. he was using and selling. and soon she was using, too. >> i don't remember that. but -- we're high? i mean, i look back and laugh at the dumb [ bleep ] i did now.ok and within a month, i was shooting up. i was so oblivious and high all the time that i didn't even realize that i was five months orter: she had no idea. but once she learned she was
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stopped the heroin. >> this is my peanut's bedroom. did the border. >> reporter: the wall reads sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. >> look at the big smile for dad. >> reporter: matt now earns $10 an hour fixing tractors, loading hay.ess, i'm heading off to work. love you. >> reporter: a stop home, for lunch. >> just have to get something in me.are anywhere between 40 and 65 pounds. because, you know, i earned everything i have, everything that's here, you know, we've earned. >> reporter: he makes just enough for the rent, the food, and perhaps, most importantly, for that prescription savannah >> this is subutex. >> reporter: subutex is a medication commonly prescribed to recovering addicts to curb withdrawal. chances of staying clean.
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>> i have a prescription.money to pay for her daily dose. her daily cost is $17 a day. >> i don't want to go to cvs s. so it works better for tomorrow night anyways. >> here. >> thank you. >> reporter: every day savannah counts the money.ive, six, 16 -- >> reporter: we watch as she scrounges to find $17. she can only afford to buy one dose a day. >> there's a quarter.s short. i'm literally going to give them pennies and they can get over it.oing to dump these all in my change pouch. i'm going to have to give them pennies. it's expensive these days.h savannah as she takes the daily trip, the half-mile walk to the pharmacy. >> this is my lifeline. my subutex. the pill under her tongue.
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take? >> just one. minutes to completely dissolve, so. it makes me feel like, it's like what am i, i'm still having to you know. yeah, it's legal and it's not heroin, but i still have to take it every day or i'm sick and i need it. really, right? >> reporter: when there are no more pills, she immediately starts going into withdrawal. th prescription runs out. >> welcome to dopesick! my appointment today, so i feel like a hot sack of [ bleep ] right now.useous, it's your stomach, it's your head, it's your body. >> got to go, savannah. >> you're a piece of crap, dude.
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would have been nice to have had some help from mama, but that's obviously not happening today, ' cause you really think it's my personal choice.e sometimes a rough day for savannah. she can get pretty cranky because her medication, she gets prescribed it on wednesday and to tuesday night. >> reporter: we watch, as they run late. >> got everything, got everything.drive nearly an hour to the only treatment program they could get savannah into. this is where savannah gets counseling, medical check-ups, and that prescription she sorely needs.n, this week's session has already started. >> how are you feeling today? and any abuse of substances?sed all day. i've had a hair across my ass since i woke up. and so has she, clearly.liken runs the group at dartmouth hitchcock medical center. and she tells us she's witnessing an emergency.ee this wave of mothers coming in, young moms. >> absolutely, young moms struggling with opioid
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honesty. this is stephanie. lls, opiates, pretty much whatever i can get my hands on. >> reporter: savannah tells the room she knows they are selling heroin right on her street.neighbors, school teachers, retirees, a nurse. and the heroin dealer is literally next door. >> very eager.can have some. >> reporter: this is everywhere. it's hiding in plain sight. >> this does not discriminate against anybody. >> reporter: back home, savannahrom that therapy room on her own. and we watch, as she tells matt, she needs a break from the baby. >> no. >> i don't want to leave the baby up here. >> she is fine. i fixed her all up, so she is fine.p. >> reporter: matt tells us he knows the cycle. and he's simply waiting for the medication, the subutex, to kick in. >> it's not going to hit her forat least.
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remember she told that room, she knows how close the heroin is.insulin syringe. i mean, a needle. and we see it ourselves. shows us the needles, the tool kits. children and their parents often finding them.lling you saying there are needles in the park, needles on the little league field. and he tells us that if the needles are everywhere, so are the dealers.s can pinpoint who's most vulnerable. we watch as this man walks right up to savannah, despite the camera.s us. how easy it would be to give savannah heroin. and once she's hooked again, more business for him.cheme. okay, like, i'm at the top, i get it from wherever i get it from. the more people i can get to sell and buy off of me. >> and to do it.ke.
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anymore now. but -- >> so even though there's like this wonderful, new young mother, you'd still try to like pull her back down? >> it's not about who i am or being a mother. >> i like her, but i love heroin. >> they're dirtbags. those people. >> reporter: when we come back, we witness the biggest test yet for this young couple, and their baby.the heroin, come back to haunt them? carry the centimeter, divide by 3.14 something something something...ing ] great caesar salad! and now the name your price tool shows peopt their budget. is that a true story? yeah! people really do save an average of over $500 when they switch.u inventing it. i invented the story, and isn't that what really matters? so...
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related to the drugs., you know, and trying to maintain a sober happy healthy life is the right thing to do and it's the hard thing to it is also hard to face your past. but he's about to. he hears of a new law back in vermont that gives some addicts t instead of a cell. >> they're trying to get addicts help instead of -- >> criminalizing them. >> instead of putting them in st you know keep repeating the cycle. >> reporter: but he knows there is a good chance he'll be separated for a time from savannah and the baby. >> hi, mom! live with his mother in nevada if it comes to that. >> what date will you get here?he 22nd. >> all right. well, i'll talk to you later mom. love you. i was able to see my daughter born. i was around long enough to where she won't forget who i am.ee a lot of good milestones. her first teeth come in, you know, her sit up for the first time.
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before matt turns himself in. his mother, pam bowman, arrives to help. >> you're not taking it. throw it in there. >> reporter: pam is a licensed abies born addicted. we can see that matt is anxious. carefully picking out his tie for the judge.ear this blue tie, babe. there's two here. what do you think, savannah? >> yeah.ind about being separated from matt because i've got no idea how long or how short it's going to be. love you. >> love you, too.eporter: three days later, we're with them, as they arrive at the courthouse unsure of matt's fate, or the fate of this young family.the decision to get clean and go to rehab and try to change our life for our
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the love of my life.what i have to right now. she's the reason for this whole thing. i'm not sure what's going to happen. maybe send me back to rehab, program which you know, i've been in this far anyways. the worst that's going to happen is they're going to put me in jail and i'm going to do some time. be strong for her. >> reporter: the thought of matt being sent away is terrifying for savannah. >> it's the best decision for our family. remember that, okay. i don't want this to ever be a part of her life. >> reporter: a kiss.reaches out, too.t's okay, savannah. it's okay, it'll be okay. you've got my mom and you've got
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you got her.e that long, okay. love you. >> love you, too. >> please be seated. his court appointed attorney. >> he came back to vermont at this point because he believed le enough to be in this environment and not relapse and he wants to get thisharges resolved. >> reporter: the hearing takes a punishing turn. >> i don't think he has the option of just simply walking out and walking ins. you just cut off all communications with your probation officer, who arguably help to you., i'm going to set bail at $5,000. >> i love you. >> reporter: it is money they
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and matt is taken away., let's get her out of here. we don't need to be sitting here. it's only going to make it worse. >> reporter: we walk out with baby, now both with matt's mother leaving the courthouse. unsure when they'll see him again. >> this moment is the hardest moment of my life. my heart bto feel without his daughter or how his daughter is going to feel without him. it was the right decision for but it's a lot easier said than done. we've tried so hard and we're such different people. i feel alone.r: they leave in the pouring rain. and they have no idea what awaits them in nevada.o to nevada to check on savannah and we only find pam. that young mother no longer treatment program back home, is now missing. >> come on, baby. >> reporter: it's been weeks now
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pam.ay, is this image that just appeared on facebook. her baby, now without her. >> mom! about savannah every single night. she's 21. it bothers me. but i also have to have that fine line. for temporary custody of the baby. she now needs to find savannah, to get the baby's birth certificate for custody. baby that can't make choices for herself. so if i have to step in to make those choices for her, i'm going to.hat's where we're at, at this point. >> reporter: pam finds her at dusk in a pharmacy parking lot. >> what is a good number to contact you on? >> this is my number.something up with you with the judge, too, for you to have visitations. >> oh. >> okay, it'll be supervised visitations.ome over to the house. by yourself.
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go. i spoke with my lawyer. >> yeah, it's going to go like that. >> and he says that i have full custody and actual monday. >> no, you didn't file.did file. look, i have a copy of my paperwork. >> reporter: but savannah is unable to produce that paperwork.ould get custody of my daughter. >> okay, we'll see you in court. >> reporter: when we come back, where we find savannah months later after walking off into the night.of that beautiful baby gir the kitchen...that's home.y grandma cooked, my mom cooked... ...i cook. chocolate bread pudding,
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track to have their deadliest nd they are trying to stop it. new hampshire spends 20 times more on law enforcement than on drug treatment. you'll remember matt and savannah.ght, matt is still behind bars, and savannahby marking a birthday with her grandmother. and we go to the dea, the drug enforcement agency, to ask, what many are now asking.ing to say, "can we arrest our way out of this?" >> we cannot. this is medical issue. this is a public health issue. and it's a law enforcement issue. everybody has to come together
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targeting families at home. now, teaching 11 and ear-olds how to bring someone back after a heroin overdose. >> put it right in. the students have seen it everywhere. >> i was like, what is that for? and my mom told me. i was like, reporter: and kerry, making her pitch for recovering moms and their babies. >> we need to roll up our >> reporter: the home goes up for a vote. >> 3-2, you win. >> reporter: by one vote, theyo open up hope on haven hill. and on the right, kaitlin, smiling, m, still heroin
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tonight, she has a full-time job, and her boy back with her. we checkn her app. >> four months. >> reporter: her little boy, often asking her, how do i t daddy? >> remember how i showed you? put your hands together. anddaddy. >> reporter: a little boy, a mother, and the community behind them. >> what an adorable boy. help still overdue. and people still need help. >> we put together a team of experts, the conversations live on facebook. i'm david muir. >> and i'm elizabeth vargas.
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emotions boil over. political ideals turn violent. they are forced to cancel the rally in chicago. could they follow donald trump here to cleveland tomorrow? this is what it looked like in chicago tonight. protesters, they are flooding the streets before and after as they are overwhelmed on the rally to shut it down. >> this is what it looked like inside that arena at the university of illinois. the fights are breaking out. people are yelling. now the man who is prompting all of this is headed to
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