prevention, and about half of those deaths are from something called opiates, such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, or fentanyl and heroin. the government says opiate abuse is the leading cause of deaths by accident in the united states. i hope that shocks you, because it certainly shocked me. here in the studio with me to talk about this, two mothers whose college-aged children died from accidental overdoses. from the east bay, april rovero, who lost her son joey, and from marin county, susan kim. you lost your son trey in april. i want to start with you. we've worked together for several years now, been on a couple of panels together. and i want folks to know about joey. what was he like, and what happened to him? >> hmm, well, joey was a senior at arizona state university when we got the -- the horrible news that he had passed away in his bedroom overnight after a college party. he'd been out with friends the night before, and they'd gone to the nightclubs in the area to celebrate a birthday and an early graduation for a friend. came back to his apartment, and he basically just went to sleep an

so if there's a market for oxycodone for example, they replicate those. if it is a powdered substance that they like in a capsule, because it would rather snorted, that will influence how the package it. what kind of film making machinery you must -- range,e is a broad anywhere from an inexpensive machine for pills to one that costs up to 20,000 which can produce 250,000 pills per hour. some of them are handheld and can be easily used and it is a broad spectrum. >> what are the most likely sources of these counterfeit drugs? >> china is a primary source for the fentanyl but if you're going into mexico, the networks are shipping the merchandise up to the united states. what we are seeing more and more arehe counterfeit pills being made in the united states in different domestic transportation cells around the country. >> thank you. edit dr., we understand that a fentanylictim of a overdose can be extremely hard to define as it does not follow economic structure or community locales. what can you tell us about current trends in tendencies -- and tendencies?

so if there's a market for oxycodone for example, they replicate those. if it is a powdered substance that they like in a capsule, because it would rather snorted, that will influence how the package it. what kind of film making machinery you must -- range,e is a broad anywhere from an inexpensive machine for pills to one that costs up to 20,000 which can produce 250,000 pills per hour. some of them are handheld and can be easily used and it is a broad spectrum. >> what are the most likely sources of these counterfeit drugs? >> china is a primary source for the fentanyl but if you're going into mexico, the networks are shipping the merchandise up to the united states. what we are seeing more and more arehe counterfeit pills being made in the united states in different domestic transportation cells around the country. >> thank you. edit dr., we understand that a fentanylictim of a overdose can be extremely hard to define as it does not follow economic structure or community locales. what can you tell us about current trends in tendencies -- and tendencies?

oxycodone. when i couldn't get that, heroin. but i never shot it. i always snorted it. >> she says she was coerced by a drug dealer. she stole prescription pads in order to obtain oxycodone from pharmacies in pennsylvania and new jersey. >> i'll walk in there as if i have something legitimate and it's not. and then they fill it, they give it to me because they trust me and i walk out. >> why did they trust you? >> i'm nice and sweet and pretty normally. but it's something that i'm not proud of or anything at all. >> collins says she sold some of the pills and swallowed the rest. this is her first time in jail. she is currently on "a" block, a temporary housing unit for new inmates. their backgrounds must be reviewed by the jail's classification team in order to assign them an appropriate housing unit. >> they can either classify me as "c" or "d." "c" is maximum. "d" in minimum. i don't know what the categorical process is. hopefully i don't go to c because c is the hardened criminals of the female world, i guess. i don't seem to think i'm that. but

in phoenix, arizona, about a dozen people were inside when they came in with a gun and demanded oxycodonethe man was carrying his own licensed gun and shot the suspect. >> he said i have a gun and everybody get on the floor and as i was trying to get out i heard a shot. >> a teenage boy is injured after jumping from an airplane after landing in san francisco. the 17-year-old was travel ago loan on a cope aairline flight from panama city, after the plane landed the boy opened the emergency door and slid down the wing and down on to the tarmac before they could stop him and an air passenger crew caught up to him. >>> today prince phillip made his final solo engagement. prince phillip met with royal marines who made a journey to raise money for charity. he announced his retirement in may and has given 4,000 speeches and gone on 336 solo visits overseas. two boaters were able to rescue a bald eagle on the verge of drowning and came upon the bird in distress off the coast of maine. wildlife experts believe it likely ended up in the water after trying to catch a fish and two lobster men spotted

year-old ucsf vascular surgeon entered a not guilty plea monday on charges he unlawfully prescribed oxycodone 36w2 people who weren't under his care. >> my wife was one of the people that he was writing these fraudulent prescriptions to. >> reporter: the 35-year-old worked at the medical center with owen's and she mysteriously died last june and what investigator stop was at drug overdose. >> she had become involved with chris. she was found deceased and he was the last person that was with her. >> reporter: once was placed on leave. he was fired five months later after he was booked on drug charges. those charges with the san francisco das office never stuck for >> i think that this shows that the federal courts will take this seriously and start cracking down and they need to>> reporter: once was arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on fraudulent opioid prescriptions spearheaded by jeff sessions >> to have a person in position of power contributing by providing very strong opiates to someone who is not one of their patients. [indiscernible -- poor audio] friends say she admitted she s

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options for the millions of americans now addicted to opioids, from prescription pain pills like oxycodones like heroin and fentanyl. >> i do think there is a feeling across the country thinking that it's so tragic, that that can't happen to me. that's not in my neighborhood, not in my house, not in my family. >> no. it is. >> you're naive if you think that, because it's everywhere. >> these are the families living heroin hell, and watching their dream and their children's dreams slip away. >> poppy, how has this gotten so, so bad? >> it's such a good question, right? it's all over the newspapers. we're covering it all the time. what's happening is that it's not just heroin anymore. people get hooked off the drugs they're prescribed, then it turns into heroin. now what we learned being on the ground is it's synthetic heroin, fentanyl and carfentanyl. they're literally elephant training we liesers. babies are exposed to this in their parents' home, if their it touches their skin, the babies die instantly. >> you see this young woman featured in the piece, you know, how do you go fro taking

starts from the doctor abe vigoda the doctor and they have a back pain or shoulder pain and they get oxycodone and before you know it they need more and it's really a gateway to heroin abuse because heroin is cheaper. i noticed you mentioned marijuana earlier in the conversation. nobody is ever overdosed on marijuana. no one is ever stolen to get marijuana and no one has ever sold their body. marijuana is not a gateway to opioid abuse. >> guest: i would agree with that. i think doctors have overprescribed and very aggressively prescribed for 20 plus years now and that has created a lot of people, doctors and dentists i would say. and as for example prescribe huge amounts of these drugs with a tooth extraction for example. that to me is bizarre honestly. i would say absolutely right. what you are talking about is one reason why i think football is a gateway to heroin addiction because folk wall is one of those sports that creates the most injury i think. when you deal with injury through firing pills at it eventually lots of kids and lots of football players will get addicted. i think that's wh

former vascular surgeon entered a not guilty plea on monday on charges he unlawfully prescribed oxycodone dirty six times to people who were not under his care. >> my wife was one of the people that he was writing these fraudulent prescriptions to. >> reporter: the 35-year-old worked at the veterans affair medical centers and she died last june and what investigators initially thought was a drug overdose>> she became involved with chris. she was found deceased and he was the last person that was with her. >> reporter: low was was placed on leave. he was fired five months later after he was booked the local drug charges. those charges with the das office never stuck. >> i think it shows that the federal courts will take this seriously and start cracking down and they need to. >> reporter: he was arrested by the dea as part of a crackdown on fraudulent opioid prescriptions spearheaded by jeff sessions. >> when you have a person in a position of power who is contributing by providing very strong opiates, to someone not one of their patients. >> reporter: she suffered physical and emotional a

options for the millions of americans addicted to opioids from prescription pain pills like ox c oxycodoneubled in five months. since december of 2015, we have seen a raise in the deaths. >> reporter: the death rate is three times what it was two years ago. nearly every night his morgue freezer fills up, up to 70% of the bodies in here are mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who die from an opioid overdose. >> there's no one excluded. this is happening to every socioeconomic class, every age. >> reporter: one of them was 20-year-old bradly stokesbury. >> great kid. great student. loved life. >> he died from an overdose in the hospital he was born. >> he was my only son. >> reporter: he overdosed on a sunday, just hours after he went to church with his parents, then to a friend's house, then he collapsed. the doctor found the opioid, more powerful than heroin in his system. do you think this hasn't happened to us? >> oh, yeah. >> every morning. >> reporter: how are you holding up? >> better than others. it makes me feel good to help others talk about it. usually, i'm okay with it, not ok

options for the millions of americans now addicted to opioids from prescription pain pills like oxycodoneo street drugs like heroin and fentanyl. >> since the end of december, 2016, we've seen an amazing, alarming increase in the amount of accidental overdose deaths. >> i do think this's a feeling across the country thinking, that is so tragic, that can't happen to me and that's not in my neighborhood and that's not in my house and not in my family. >> it is. >> you're naive if you think that because it's everywhere. >> reporter: these are the families living heroin's hell and watching their dreams and their children's dreams slip away. >> joining us now with more on the special report is cnn anchor poppy harlow. poppy, they talk about that, the stigma of people not talking about it might contribute to why we haven't heard much about the epidemic until, in a way, after it's become such a problem. there's obituaries where we have young men and we have no idea necessarily why they died. >> because it's an overdose and their parents are embarrassed to tell people that. that's what these fami

former ucsf vascular surgeon entered a not guilty plea monday on charges he unlawfully prescribed oxycodone 36 times to people who weren't under his care. >> my wife was one of the people that he was writing these fraudulent prescriptions to. >> reporter: danielle pattillo worked with owens. she mysteriously died last june in what investigators initially thought was a mere drug overdose. >> she'd become involved with chris and she was found deceased and he was the last person with her. >> he was booked on local drug charges. but those charges with the san francisco district attorney's office never stuck. >> i think it shows that the federal courts are going to take this seriously and start cracking down and they need to. >> reporter: owens was arrested by the dea as part of the nationwide crackdown on fraudulent opioid prescriptions spearheaded by attorney general jeff sessions. >> when you have a person in a position of power contributing by providing very, very strong opiates to someone who is not one of their patients. >> reporter: friends say pattillo admitted she suffered physical and

options for the millions of americans now addicted to opioids from prescription pain pills like oxycodonel. >> since the end of december, 2016, we've seen an amazing, alarming increase in accidental overdose deaths. >> i do still think there's a feeling across the country thinking that it's so tragic, that that can't happen to me. and that's not in my neighborhood. and that's not in my house. and that's not in my family. >> it is. >> you're naive if you think that. because it's everywhere. >> reporter: these are the families living heroin's hell and watching their dreams and their children's dreams slip away. >> you know, i think our goal, and the goal of all the families that opened their doors, let us in their homes like the family who lost their son bradley, and just to tell people that you need to be aware of it. you need to talk to your children about this at a very young age. you need to realize that your family, no matter where you live, what school your kids go to, no one is immune. and this is destroying the country. and it may be focused a lot of attention in west virginia and o

first year the company started selling this product only so forty five million dollars worth of oxycodone by year three they were selling six to seven billion dollars worth of the same product and the only difference was it hit the street and that's where the big money was for these distributors i don't know that the answer is the attorney generals because i handled the attorney general cases back in the back o. days and i don't know that the money actually ends up where it needs to the money needs to go back to the counties that had to pay for the action the extra hospitals the actual dependency hearings in the court system they had to pay for rehabilitation they had to pay for the police increase an increase in the police so the point being is this this case is important south carolina but i think the cases that are really going to move the ball are the cases where counties and cities are bringing the cases against the distributors and now a lot of states are tightening laws when it comes to opioids not allowing people to have their prescriptions for a certain time frame now but unfortu

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and before i left i had a prescription and i noticed oxycodone. so now in my cabinet pills. is to teach doctors that a three to 5-day prescription of opioid social security really what we need to be doing. giving somebody a 20 day or ten day supply is just too much and what this leads to this is ticking time bomb in your bathroom. anybody can get this. and find this and maybe start to abuse it which will lead to severe consequences. it's really a shame that that's still there. >> tell me this, devon. when does it go from maybe i had a surgery i took a few pills to now people are using needles and shooting up and when does that jump take place usually? >> you know, it's often a lack of training by the medical community because when the doctor realizes that somebody has problem, they cut them off. >> okay. >> they don't refer them to treatment. they don't help them get help, and that person has a physical depends to that opioid, and they can't just stop because they're going to get sick. they're going to go the street. they're going to doctor shop and sadly often they end up u

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treating pain as much as possible, then in 20,000, came out said medications objectiondone oeks oxycodonetors side okay this is great we can give you paper medication not worried about patients being addicted, then, in the -- early late -- sorry mid 2000s, we started having these surveys right jacob did surveys, patients, and they coupled that to reburstment problem with hospitals, doctors saying if patient not satisfied as they don't have they have a lot of paper going to say not satisfied what satisfies them giving pain medication, reimburse better the perfect storm. >> now getting the word out should you not keep prescriptions at home if you have them you need to hide them. >> right. >> you need to hide them from kids, because it is very -- >> this is biggest problem -- the kids get aho don't get prescriptions usually and often don't go out and get he them on streets get them usually from somebody they know that is our -- adults that is our last thing keep them safe. >> come back soon, please. we'll be right back. .. i was wondering if an electric toothbrush really cleans... ...better

even in the music, the money in the oxycodone in the pharmaceuticals -- it's about money now. >> oh,, i mean, the guys that are out, because i work with them, guys trying to get clean, they said the deals are no longer on the streets, they're in offices and they're talking about doctors. >> yeah. unbelievable we wish you could stay i wish we could have you on longer -- >> -- amazing having you here. >> oh. unfortunately -- not unfortunately. i have a lot of information. i deal with kids but they don't know the facts. all they know is they're strung out, and their lives are over at 20 so you know, i do the best i can. >> chucknegron.com >> right >> we're going to be talking about this, but i was told it's more of a howard stern type -- maybe we shouldn't do it here. even though we're cable, let's not. let's leave it on this leave it on doing some good. >> i just want to let you know everything off camera. >> that's right. that's right >> they told me i could keep that in my back pocket i don't know -- >> doesn't fit in the back pocket >> can't get it around there anyway, chuck, thanks