. >> is vivitrol better than nothing? absolutely. i think all the three medications should be used routinely, commonly, and with as little barriers to access as possible in community treatment and criminal justice systems. >> reporter: vivitrol is not an opioid, but buprenorphine and methadone are. and that concerns steve durham. he doesn't want narcotics in his jail. >> so they have the potential for abuse. they have the potential to be used as contraband, they have the potential to become barter inside a detention facility. and most detention facilities are hesitant to do that. >> reporter: shanna sermon wants to get the vivitrol injection before she leaves. she also hopes the jail's social worker can find her a spot right away in a residential treatment program, because she knows staying clean is going to be hard. >> i'm really nervous, but i'm excited. i'm excited because i've seen what this has done for me in here. i can't wait to get the real aspect of it outside. >> sreenivasan: how often does human activity trigge

the first time he went to rehab, he was able to get the patrol -- vivitrol. the blocker. lenny: the long acting blocker? todd: it only lasts 30 days or so. i cannot find a place to describe him at. i called in place, the only prescribed patients who went to the treatment center. i was not able to get him in. he relapsed. lenny: dorie, relapse is common . when he came out, we hopeful? what did you think it happened -- came out, or you hopeful? what did you think would happen? dorie: i thought it was a bump in the road. better.y wanted to get he -- i mean -- it is totally out of our family -- are -- realm. i just want to say -- it does not happen to us. lenny: when he relapsed, what clues did you have? what did you see? said, youaviors i reminded me of when -- he said no, no, no. lenny: when he relapsed, was he using pain pills or street drugs? what happened? todd: when he did not have pain --ls, it is when turned to is when he turned to heroin. he relapsed, so we took them back. -- took him back. he did not do as good as he did the first time. he was not as excited. he had

first time he went to rehab, he vivitrol. get the blocker. > long acting blocker. >> then it only lasts for 30 days or so. call around to different places. couldn't find any place to prescribe him that. a place in milton, they only prescribed patients that treatment at the white deer treatment center. that.'t able to get him eventually he really lapsed. >> doory, relapse is common -- dory, that. hopeful? he relapse is common what did you think might happen? >> well, i thought this was in the road. ecause he really wanted to get better. and. he just -- i mean, it's just totally out of our family, -- i was going to say, it just doesn't happen to s. when he did relapse, what clues did you have? you see? that i some behaviors just said, you know, you're reminding me of when -- he's like, no, no, no. that i just said, you know, you're reminding me > when he relapsed was he back o using pain kills or street drugs? what finally turned out drugs? what finally turned out to happen? >> when he didn't have pain pills, that's when orsovo

we are approved to prescribe vivitrol. we've seen some pretty good successes with that. what it does it treats the opiate addicts physical cravings, so it reduces that so we can then put together a treatment plan where we can then unpack the psychological things that they're dealing with. in counseling. we apply both those at the same time. we have other locations, not only in akron and in marrietta, we're in cleveland, tiffen, freemont and sandusky. most of my client population, their individuals that have been sentenced for substance related charges. whether it was a possession charge, selling to support their habit, that would be a trafficking charge. operating vehicles under the influence. other things could be domestic violence, you know, robbery and stuff like that. so when -- you know, about 65 to 70% of our clients that we see have an opiate use diagnosis. the average age like jimmy was saying is 23 years of age. these are young people, good people. they've fallen into the throws of addiction. they have value. why am i here today? i'm here to address our nation's

and for eight months, ashley needed shots of the anti-addiction drug, vivitrol. they cost more than $1,000 per injection. overall, such medications and the counseling cost ohio medicaid $216 million last year. and that doesn't include the costs of ohio's opioid epidemic to its hospitals, prisons and police, or the rising death count. in 2016, 4,050 people in ohio died of overdoses, chiefly painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. that was a 33% increase over 2015 and a 642% increase since 2000. >> think about this. we're losing ten people, we think, every single day in the state of ohio. >> reporter: those staggering losses and rising costs led ohio attorney general mike dewine, a former u.s. senator now running for governor, to sue five major producers of opioid painkillers. >> ...companies that we conclude spent millions of dollars to deceptively market their drugs. >> reporter: ohio's lawsuit levels an explosive charge: that the pharmaceutical companies deliberately misled doctors and the public to downplay the addictive qualities and hyp

i think maggie is right that it needs to be customized to the person or vivitrol is that after which blocks the grading as opposed to continuing the effects of an opioid. that's been very successful for some people but is incredible to me we don't have more options after the people to look at that are not addictive option to get people to the difficult period of recovery. i think that again if you look at this in a broad sense we've got to go back to the core. had we stop people from over prescribing, bobby for the five addicts start on prescription drugs and how to come up nonaddictive medications and then at the other end had to come up with better therapies. if it's really an epidemic which i believe it is, and if we have a national emergency that will be part of the focus. >> very briefly. >> if that wasn't for the "washington post" article what you wante done, i called all my stuff, i knew right then that congressman marino was not to be the drugs are. no one in west virginia would delete after reading that article and also you all collaborate with 60 missy would be fighting for

standard: medically assisted treatment-- that's methadone or other replacement drugs like suboxone or vivitrolh him and his mom at his place in providence. >> brangham: as you start slipping into addiction, you start disappearing from the family pictures? >> absolutely, including even family christmases that i couldn't make it to. >> brangham: his father died from a overdose in 2004; his brother followed a few years later. >> jonathan-- is it, goyer? >> brangham: at the depth of his own addiction just five years ago, this was him standing before a judge after crashing a stolen car, high on hallucinogenic bath salts. >> when my mother saw me on the news the next day, instead of being shocked that i was arrested, or embarrassed, she was relieved, because she knew i was alive. that's where drug addiction brought me, and that's where it brought her as well, too. >> brangham: goyer says it was his overdose that finally drove him to change. >> i woke up in a emergency room, and i was offered a second chance at life. here's what i've done with it. >> brangham: emergency rooms are in fact another plac

get vivitrol, the blocker. it only lasted 30 days or so. milton thatlace in they only prescribed patients that went through treatment at their treatment center, so i was not able to get it for him, and eventually, he relapsed. >> relapsed is common. were you hopeful? >> well, i thought this was just because hehe road andly wanted to do better he just -- i mean, it was -- i'm out of our realm just going to say -- it just does not happen to us. >> when he did relapse, what ? ues did you have >> just some behaviors. i just said you are reminding me of how you were then. >> was he on pain pills or using street drugs? >> when he did not have pain , that is when he would turn to heroin. rehab, and back to he did not do good when he came home as he did the first time. went to drug court and had all the anxiety and everything. and then, like, about three days -- i think drug court would have been good for him because it would have held him accountable and been structured. he would days before have had court is when i woke up to my wife screaming in