tackle the epidemic. tony dokoupil is in louisville, kentucky, where he got a firsthand look of the desperate fight to save lives. good morning. >> good morning. death from opioids have quadrup quadrupled. a's made balances like this one very, very busy. some of the most severe devastation has been right here in kentucky and paramedics who used to go days without a single overdose are now lucky if they go just a few hours. paramedic mary taylor rushes to as many as 25 truck overdoses in a single day that to you think it's peeked? >> i don't know. i mean it couldn't get much worse. >> reporter: but on this day an overdose came to herle she joined a team trying to drive a young man driven to the hospital in the back of a green sedan. the patient arrived unconscious and barely breathing but minutes later he walked out on his own.