welcome. this is a show you cannot afford to miss. junkie as a heroin a needle addict. today it is affecting all-american kids in suburbia and the moms and dads you see here today are proof. their children started by taking painkillers prescribed by family doctors. those painkillers led to abuse of one of the most dangerous and addicted street drugs there s. >> honor students and athletes are getting high. >> 30 overdose deaths last year. >> prescription pills to heroin. >> if you did not know, heroin is already in the suburbs. katie: 34,000, that is how many kids between 12-17 will start

using heroin this year. over the last 10 years teen heroin use increased a whopping 80% from coast-to-coast. no one is immune. john bon jovi's daughter suffered a heroin overdose last year. >> i cannot get over people that said my son and daughter. people they love, admire, respect. it happens to all kinds of families all over. >> the new jersey rocker stood by governor chris christie as he signed the protection act protecting those helping overdose victims from being arrested. >> i hope governor chris christie's actions will cause others to stand up and pay attention and follow in his footsteps. katie: why are teens turning to such deadly drugs? from painkillers to cough syrups, some of the most common

prescription medications fall into a class of drugs called opioids, and they act the same way on yourrain. 1 in 5 teens are abusing prescription painkillers. but they do not come cheap. a congress oxycontin can cost up to $80. so they found a che cer alternative in heroin which they can score for $5 a wag bag. it may be a cheap fix but can cost them their lives. katie: zach johnson became addicted to heroin and his life has turned upside down. >> i never thought that my life oday would be revolving around heroin. i am 23 years old. i don't think that i will make it to 24 at the rate i am going. >> as a kid zachary was funny,

lovable and extremely outgoing. >> played football, hocke hy an lacrosse. mom and dad came to every game. ighth grade i was awarded to phelps scholarship. >> it felt like i was on top of the world. junior year of high school i committed to play lacrosse at the university of maryland. my freshman year of college i got mersa. >> he was in a significant amount of pain. >> when i got the first shot of morphine it was like a warm blanket covered my whole body. it was the feeling i looked for my whole life. i was fully strung out on pain medication. 1ook good. 3 i felt amazing. probably over $1,000 per r day. it was so expensive and i could

get high on heroin with $5. this is where i started my high school career. fast forward seven years, i did not graduate college and now i am hustling heroin on the streets. i don't know how to stop. these are the spots where i i inject the heroin. i have sold everything that i owned, every computer i had, play station, anything my parents owned of any value is gone. >> i don't worry about whether he is taking $20 or if a tv is missing. i worry i will get a phone call that my son is dead. >> you can look at her and see how she is affected. yet i am scheming right now figuring out is there a way i can get drugs. my drug use will end when i overdose and die. katie: please welcome zach and his mom, begina. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having us.

katie: so zach, do you really think that this is the only way that you get out of this situation is by dying? > death or jail. i don't see any other way out right now. i triedie countless programs. i have been hospitalized. lived in sober houses, halfway houses, state-run programs. i am still in the grips of it today. i don't want to continue to live this life but i don't know if i could live a sober life. katie: begina, i know zach is your only child. >> he is. katie: to see him like this must be so heartbreaking to you. >> he is a shell of the child that i raised. katie: you must think to yourself how in the world did this happen. >> that is my number one thought. i look at friends that use. it hasn't taken their life.

they can use today and go to tomorrow. katie: we often hear the expression hitting rock bottom in rehab. do you think you have come to that point? >> personally i don't think i have a bottom but if i die. i started out going to prep school. i thought leaving prep school was my bottom. thenoing to college and getting a scholarship to go play lacrosse. that was my bottom. katie: for people not familiar with addiction, it is hard to understand the hold that this drug has on you. can you describe it? when you wake up ae nd you say that i am not go to get high today, why can't you stay firm to that commitment? what is it? >> see, that is something that i don't know. i do wake up saying that i do not want to get high. but at the same time i don't want to get high but it is all

that i think about. katie: your body craves it? >> bodis craving it. my head is running with it with different schemes and ideas of how i can get it. katie: ga, you and your husband have been dealing with this. and as we heard in the tape, it is terrifying for you. >> i never thought that i would have to ask my only child to leave the home. fwow protect ourselves from him we had to have him leaving the home. we make sure every window is locked. every time that we are home the doors are locked. my purse is with me at all times. i sleep with the purse. we hav ha safe in our home. we live in fear of what he can do. katie: where are you now? >> right now i have been staying with my parents. before that i was living with my girlfriend on the south shore. katie: you have been in and out of your mom and dad's home?

>> yeah. it is tough because i have seen the damage that i cause. katie: you try to get help. what happens? it doesn't work? >> i would feel good in the beginning, 2-3 months in like i have it beat. but you never have the disease beat. it is just waiting. after eight months of sobriety, i relapsed and was using the same amount of drugs by the end of that week that i had been eight months earlier. katie: steve is the c.e.o. of the partnership at drug-free. does zach's story sound familiar? >> zach rewired the reward pathways of his brain. his body and brain tells him that this is something he needs. it is something that begins with the first uses and begins to spiral out of control. it is not an issue of will power. zach is a different person now and he needs specialized help.

treatment and recovery is possible. this is going around everywhere in arica. katie: is this a recent phenomenon? >> it is beginning to explode because of the misuse of opioids are out there if you are hooked on a genearic pain pill rather than spending a lot of money onn that, street heroi is inexpensive, readily available and very pure. katie: well, up next could zach's parents somehow be enabling their kids? we will talk about that when we come back. you can see how the parent, like gina, would be so conflicted. he says he is hungry. should she cut him off? anyone have occasional constipation,

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>> zach's addiction has devastated our family. zach will call saying i have no

food. i am starving. you can spend me $40. i never know if i am giving him money for food or money for dope that might kill him. katie: that was ga talking about r son, zach, whose heroin addiction is tearing their family apart. abuse of prescription drugs are leading teens to opt for a cheaper, more dangerous high. through heroin. but could gina a be partialally to blame for zach's addickeds? jeff vanvonderen is now a substance abuse counselor on "intervention." jeff, thank you so much for being here. h it sounds harsh to say but is gina somehow playing a role in her son's heroin addiction? >> she is responsible for her enabling. he is responsible for his addiction. if she stopped supporting everything on the outsiut that

she did not agree with on the inside his problem would be more his problem and the odds would go up that he would get better. katie: you can see how a parent would be so conflicted. he calls to say he is hungry. she wants to try to help him. what should she be doing differently, jeff? >> first thing she should decide that her health is the most important thing to her. you know as addiction is fatal to the person, eventually before that it becomes fatal to their lifestyle and their quality of life. katie: should she cut him off? >> she should stop supporting agree with.oest >> you think he should be buying drugs? >> no. >> don't give him money he uses to buy drugs. that is different than cutting him off.

we are not done with him. you can't be done with him if you love him. but you don't have to help it happen. >> the problem is that it is counter intuitive to parenting. as much as i made strides over the past year, it is still very difficult. katie: joanne is here. she found an organization called learn to cope. what advice would you give? i know that your son was able to successfully complete a rehab program. >> yes. katie: so, congratulations to you. and to him. >> thank you. katie: what would you tell people like gina? >> one of the most important things for parents is to get education on addiction. thout education, you want to get educated. there is nothing you can do to let go and kick them out. we need to be reminded that

there is hope and a way out for our kids. katie: can you understand that she is as it is so counter intuitive to do the things that you need to do to force a kid to get help. >> brings me right back. you know being a mom you spend yourself wiping their knees when they scrape them or bringing them to the doctor and taking care of the kids that we love. then yav have to spin it around and change the sails and go a whole new direction that is very scare ande they can die. they can die in our house. katie: we heard zach tried to get help. >> yes. katie: he hasn't been successful. what is the most effective treatment for someone like zach and other kids that are in a similar situation? >> i help people like zach all of the time in our treatment

center. we make your detox very comfortable. so you go through it. everything gets ok. then we individualize and customize your therapy and try to get to the root of the prlem of why you keep using and we keep you there until you are ready to leave. until you he a plan so that you can live life without y you addiction. katie: are you successful? what is the success rate? >> we have been very successful. our figures show our facility is more successful than many other programs. we know if you go to a regular 12-step program theurigures of success are 8% to 12%. our statistics show that if you complete all of the stages of our program, which is usually at least 90 days that over 70% of patients will stay clean and sober for a year. zach, i would like to invite you to come with me today to

cliffside malibu where you will start your road to recovery today. > thank you. katie: zach, do you think that you are up to this? >> yeah. more than -- i'm sorry. yeah. right now. i havtried everything in massachusetts and n new england. if i have an opportunity like this i can't not take it. thank you so much. katie: well, good luck. good luck, really. jeff, thank you so much for coming by to give us your insights. i know folks can watch the final episodes of "interervention." up next, can kids overcome their heroin addiction? we certainly hope so. we will hear from a young woman

that did when we come back. >> coming up next -- katie: this does not look like the face of her 2001 me. you have been to rehab 16 times and even went to prison. >> one suburban mom's prescription secret. >> for a long time i able to hide my addiction. [ male announcer ] frequent heartburn? the choice is yours. chalky... not chalky. temporary... 24 hour. lots of tablets... one pill.

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katie: welcome back. you know prescription drug use among american teenagers is a growing epidiction but even ore shocking is skyrocketing heroin abuse. orange county, california. >> before i started using i was extremely involved in high schohool. >> i was a cheerleader, soccer player, -- >> it i was around 17 years old i was doing heroin. >> i started to use oxycontin at 15. >> i overdosed nine times >> i lost my best friend. he died in my hands. that really did not stop or phase me. >> i lost six friends to overdoses in less than a year. >> out of 15 friends back home probably five of them are dead. >> addiction devastates the entire family.

it takes over the entire family. >> it can happen to anybody. by doing it one time, one time hat could be one too many. katie:nd it happened to 24-year-old andreaea who struggled with heroin addiction for four years before finally getting clean. i look at you next to me and think this does not look like the face of her 2001 me. you are a beautiful young woman. how did this happen? >> it all happened so quickly, katie. i did not even know what i was getting myself into. it started off with the pot and marijuana. you know as soon as i figured out those things would not kill me i forgot about any drug education or warning signs. i was available to trying anything at that point. the first time i used heroin it

was passed around at a party. we smoked it off of tin foil. i tried it and i loved it. katie: why did you love it? >> i struggled with problems with self-esteem and feeling less than. i was never as comfortable with myself as i thought i should have been. katie: you continued to smoke heroin. then you would alternate with other painkillers. why the back and forth? >> i preferred to use the pills. when i couldn't get ahold of them would use heroin. katie: because it was less expensnsive. >> i could always get ahold of heroin. pills were more of a challenge. katie: this addiction took you to pretty dark places. >> absolutely. emotionally i was extremely

depressed. i did not see any way out of this life. i feel i let everyonene down. i knew how much i was hurting my family. the inside alone it was as horrible. when i look at the places i was and the people i surrounded myself with, i was doing things that i never imagined i would spend my young adult years doing. it was incredibly depressing and seemed there was no way out. katie: you even went to prison? >> i did. to support my drug habit i did things that are not acceptable in today's society. i was arrested and tonight state prison for them. katie: can you tell us what? >> i can. they are forgery related crimes. katie: anything you could do to get money to buy drugs. >> yeah. it is an expensive habit. katie: you have been to rehab 16 times. that is a lot of rehab and a

lot of money. so, why were you successful the 16th time? >> i had just completed doing a year in state prison. the stthate funded a bottom of the barrel treatment program. prior to this i had been to all of the nice ones which were lovely and taught me a lot. this was a completely new, humbling experience for me. and for thfoe first time ever i decided that for a year i was going to give it my all. i was actually go to try. i still wasn't convinced i wanted to stay sober but i was convinced i could do it for a year. if i was miserable i could go back to what i was doing before. it only took about three months of honestly trying for my life to really change and for me to know this is the path that i wanted to continue on. katie: how long have you been clean? >> a little over three years

now. katie: you know,evs every day a struggle for you andrea? or do you feel like you have been able to kind of wash yourgds of this terble desire? >> yeah. in the beginning i definitely went through that at lot. at this point the obsession has left. i am no longer mentally craving or physically obsessing over the drugs anymore. i am able to be there for people that need help and supporting others that are coming into recovery. it is no longer this thing that i have to live with every day. it is definitely still there. i have to be aware of it. i am more vulnerable to certain situations but it no loner feels like a huge burden. katie: we just saw zach. it is tough to see him like this and to feel the only way out for him is death. i guess that is a feeling you are familiar with. >> yeah. listening to his story broke my heart.

i know exactly where he is at right now, feeling like there is no way out. knowing how many challenges that there are ahead of you. getting clean and sober, you have to clean up a lot of the mess that you can made. it can bee scary to think about this big task and all of the people you hurt and you disappointed. you can. there is hope. there are thousands of others just like me that have been able to turn their lives around. katie: i hope kids are watching this what would you tell kids that think that they are invincibl and that it is ok to experiment and try things and go to parties and smoke that heroin that is sitting there in that tin foil? what would you say to them? >> my goodness. it is not worth it. i have known too many people that overdosed their first time trying it. if you do your research and really look into what you are getting yourself into, it is extremely obvious it is a

horrible idea. i did not do my homework before i made all of the poor choices. think abouabyour choices. think about everything you love. consider you may lose all of it. it might not be immediately. but eventually if you continue you may lose everything in your life that matters to you. school. your parents. your girlfriend. your car. whatever. i lost all of those things over a period of time. is it worth trying it to potentially give all of those things up? i wouldn't think so. katie: thank you andrea. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. katie: you know, if you still think that this is not happening in your neighborhood up next we take a ride along with the authorities and what they are calling the heroin highway. that is right after this? >> up next do you know the code words your kids are using that mean drugs? >> they talk about molly, junk. katie: skittles. what do we say as parents

katie: today we have been talking about how prescription drugs led some kids down to abuse of hard and illegal drugs like heroin. now if you do not think it could happen to you or your family, think again. we took a re with jack riley as he gave us a tour from the suburbs to the inner city on what is commonly referred to as

the heroin highway. >> there are two outcomes if you use heroin. number one you meet a guy like me and get hooked up and go to jail. number two, you die. i can tell you after doing this for almost 30 years, there is no coming back from heroin. people need to really wake up. we are going to jump on interstate 88 commonly referred to as the heroin highway. this is one of the main arteries for heroin trafficking. i n't tell you how many hours i spent in cars, on surveillance. i see mothers with babies in car seats as they get out in a tough neighborhood like this and purchase a $10 bag of heroin because they have to have it to get through the day. i think that if you look to the left as we pass this corner, you will probably see drug

activity. looked like a hand to hand exchange of money and drugs in the car. right there in broad daylight. mo parents would have no idea their kids may venture down here to purchase heroin. katie: special agent jack riley joins us via skype. jack, y are parents so clueless about what is going on here? >> i think most parents have their head in the sand. they are not recognizing the signs that kids are giving off to indicate a change of behavior, friends, lack of interest in things. it is time they wake up. this is a national issue as much as it is for me here in the midwest. it is time that parents pay attention before it is too late. katie: what kinds of kids are doing this? >> kids from the apluent suburbs here in the midwest to

clearly the inner city kids involved in gang activity. it really cuts acrossac all famies and all communities and schools for that matter. katie: what are you all doing, what can be done to stop the epidemic and stop the kids from getting involved with these incredibly dangerous substances? >> that is something i am so optimistic about. here in chicago we put together the first of its kind in the nation a strike force made of all of the law enforcement agencies you can think of. our goal is to attack the cartels who have really gained a foothold here in the midwest and across the country and have been supplying very low cost, high potency heroin which really moves right into the prescription drug abuse. one is feeding the other. we are attacking the organized crime on this end >> katie: education is so critical

as well, jack. jack mentioned the warning signs. you as a parent probably can't do much about the mexican drug cartels. how do you stop it at home? >> you really have to look for the behavior changes. if you have a happy kid that becomes a sad kid, warning signs. if you see changes in their behavior, switching out of their friends, trust your gut. do not write them off to changes and things like that. there are other things that may happen. money may go missing or need for more money. can you increase my allowance. give me more money for food. you might see your kid talking in code. there is an entirely different language they talk about. they talk about molly. talk about getting junk. katie: they use words like skittles. >> code words for cough medicine abuse. syrup. if your kid talks in code, theris another warning sign.

what you will fine they come in groups. katie: what do we say as parents to our kids about this? >> you have to show them your heart and how much it matters. it is not about a big scary drug talk. an ongoing conversation to help your kids understand that this is incredibly risk and he worries you and makes you sad. we know that not pushing their parent that final step is one of the main reasons why they don't use. kids that learn a lot about the drug issue are half as less likely to use than kids that don't get that. having the conversation. keeping the conversation going makes a huge difference. katie: say you are legitimately prescribed prescription painkillers. what do you do to make sure kids do not get in there? >> they abuse their own home or family members medicine cabinet. monitor your supply.

think about them differently. they might belong in the family safe or in a place only mom and dad can get them. when have you anything that is old, expired, dispose of it. >> don't flush them down the toilet because they get in the water supply. >> put them in the garbage. ruin them. mix them with kitty litter and put them in the garbage. we have seen cases of young people taking pills out of the garbage. katie: any thoughts from you? you are out there on the frontlines. >> i have been doing this for nearly 30 years. this is a community problem. parents, educators, faith-based practitioners and coaches play a role in this. d.e.a. and law enforcement will do our part to stop the trafficking on the street. but we need their help too. without them we will not be successful in the long-term. katie: thank you so much for

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katie: prescription drug abuse is not only rampant among teens today but increasingly adults. like nearly 7 million americans suzy from jupet ter, florida ended up with an addiction. it started with painkillers that she was taking for her back problems. >> i am a typical american mother of three daughters. i had several surgeries over a period of 15 years and was prescribed a variety of pain medication. when i was about 40 years old i was put on oxycontin. it was only a matter of time before things spiraled out of control. i would horde pills sometimes. i would go to different doctors. prescriptions.

i was prescribed xanax. during my addict addiction, i take up to 15 viocidin a day and five or six xanax. rock bottom came for me when i woke up on the bathroom floor after an overdose in a pool of blood. by the time that i got myself into treatment i was pretty close to dying. katie: suzy, thank you very much for being here and telling your story. unfortunately it is a familiar one, isn't it? >> certainly is. katie: you are not the only person out there that had this problem. why were out bathroom floor covered in blood? >> i almost bit through my tongue. i had no idea i had overdosed or how long i had been there or how i got this. that is just how i woke up and

found myself >> so that was really a turning point for me. katie: did you realize that you were addicted or were you in denial? how did you see yourself? >> i was in denial for a very, very long time. towards the end when things got so bad i just couldn't remain in denial anymore. and i wasltimately confronted by my middle daughter. she was really the only one and the only person that confronted mepecifically about the pills that i was taking. katie: how did these pills make you feel or not feel? >> they made me not feel. in the beginning i did get somewhat of a euphoric feeling from them. i had a legitimate physical problem they started to take the pills for. but then after a certain amount of time it was an excuse to

keep taking them. kati sounds like it was so easy to get these pills. >> it was incredibly easy. i think part of the reason it was easy. i am educated. i have a bachelors degree. i had a profession. i was in a long-term marriage. i was a mom. katie: what did your addiction do to this really normal, nice life that i just described? >> it damaged my marriage. katie: what abou your relationship with your girls? >> it damaged my relationship with my children because i was emotionally not present for them for a significant period of time. katie: how long? > i was in very active addiction for 6-7 years. and it was becoming clear to me from them that i would not be involved in their lives if i did not do something.

they were watching their mother disappear. katie: how did you get well? >> well, i got into treatment. i finally reached a point of everybody talking about rock bottom. one of the things that i was very fearful about, and i think that it is something thatee kee a lot of addicts out there, is the fear of detoxing and coming off of their drugs. it is an uncomfortable, painful thing. katie: was it? >> it wasn't. i was in detox for 12 days. they detoxed me comfortablely and safely. i went into a treatment program for 30 days. it was the recommendation of the treatment program that i live in a women's sober living house for six months. at my age, that was interesting. katie: that must have been weird.

>> most of the women in my house were my daughter's age. i sort of became the resident mother of the house. and i think it had a big role in giving me a good, strong foundation in my recovery. i was able to help some other women, too. that played an important part in my recovery. katie: are you tempted every day? >> no. there are so many things about my life that i have back. there are so many things about my life that are so good. i have a beautiful 2-year-old grandson. i have a granddaughter that is going to be born in july. i have a wonderful relationship with my kids kid. i do a lot to help other women in recovery. i have so much knowledge now about how it haedened and why it happened. it is so important to me now to enspend my recovery passing tha on, i guess, and educating people about how it happens and how aware that people need to be about the danger of these

prescription legal drugs because they are very dangerous. they can get people in a lot of trouble. kati we are so glad you have come out the other side and have repaired the relationship with your kids. we wish you all the best. >> thank you katie: thank youu so much, suzy. [applause] katie: and up next as suzy just pointed out, prescription drugs may be more dangerous than we think. we will tell you the questions you need to ask your doctor we will tell you the questions you need to ask your doctor before taking "the demococratic party of virginia sponsored this adad." ken cuccinelli is on a mission. he wants to overturn roe v. wade, in virginia, to make all abortions illegal. cuccinelli even tried to bully the state board of health to get his way.

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katie: put the drugs in your medicine cabinet put you at risk for addiction. here are the questions you need to ask your doctor before taking your next pill. what are the questions? what do you need to say to your doctor before you take the next prescription and get it filled? >> i think a patient should be their own advocate and encourage the patient to ask the doctor what is this drug. does it have addiction potential. what are the possible side-effects? can i take an over the counter

medicine if i get a side-effect like they can't sleep. they really need to find out before they start taking the medication. katie: what painkillers should we be careful about? >> all of the opiates have imilar risk for addiction. viocidin is extremely addicting. anxiety drugs too have that same potential. xanax. um, klonopin and katie: shouldn't r responsibili be on the shoulders of these pharmacies and doctors that give multiple prescriptions to people? they do pharmacy shopping? some action has been taken in a number of states, hasn't it? >> absolutely. i think doctors need to take responsibility. there was a te doctors were accused of not taking care of people with pain. now there are acts and laws being passed where doctors can

go online and find out if a patient is going to different doctors to get the prescriptions. i think that will be helpful with this problem. katie: is there a way to manage pain without prescription drugs. prescribed? overly >> i think so. joint pain, headaches, back pain. earns all have. then there is behavioral things patients can do to help them. physical therapy. massage therapy. all of these other items together with other. anti-depressants, anti-epauletic drugs, these are all nonaddictive options patients have to hp their pain. katie: thank you very much. thank you for helping zach. we are anxious to hear how he is doing.

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katie: a huge thank to you yll my guests today. veryone in the audience is going home with "ending addiction for good." and thanks to cliffside for generously providing treatment for zach. for more resources with families struggling with the issues we talked about, including a special drug guide go to our website at katiecouric.com. thank you so much for watching. talk to your kids. we will see you next time. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good evening.

storms are popping up in parts of the metro area tonight. >> what is in store for the rest of the evening? doug hill is tracking the weather. it is all location, location, location. cloudy skies outside the belfort furniture weather center. in arlington, about 80 degrees. to the north and east, there is rain. radar,per doppler seven just east of the city, upper marlboro, heading towards davidsonville road and bowie. all of this activity moving to the northeast. bethesda, moving through olney and eastern side of gaithersburg, damascus. only one lightning strike, so much of adjust rain. the sohern sons of frederick county, theugarloaf some heavyurbana downpours. those of the areas we are watching and monitoring. a lot more during the day tomorrow. the showers and storms developing ahead of the cold

front. numerous showers and storms the next few days. from the rooftop come over the city, skies rather dark. generally in the direction of the showers in montgomery county. must in inch of rain in glenwood in howard county. but that's over half an inch. ther 70s, low 80s at moment. there are scattered thundershowers through the evening. overnight, most likely the storms will come to an end, only to reform in the heat of the day tomorrow with more widespread showers and storms. a lot more coming up. gordon? >> fire rips through adc apartment building, forcing a teenager to jump out of the window. >> my son was screaming. >> tonight, a mother and her children are recovering as investigators try to figure out what started the fire. the family is doing better tonight, but now they do not have a home to return to. >> abc 7 is on the scene in