over the past year, ian pannell and cameraman darren conway have followed a number of addicts as theyfficult to watch. a darkness has descended across america. a aoish—year—old female, possibly not breathing. od. a plague of drug addiction and death greater than there has ever been. opioid painkillers and increasingly heroin are killing more americans than ever before. oh, my god. what is wrong with her? get out of the way! we were just past here for a female in her 40s who was not breathing. it was an apparent drug overdose. how common is this? every day. every day? every day. sometimes more than once a day. we have a dry spell where we'll go a day or two, but mostly every day we'll have a call like this. i started when i was 17 years old. i was at a party, high school. i started doing the pills... when i was 13, i started using pain pills. five, six people i know died just last year. all my values and morals went out the window. it will take everything you have. all of the money you have and everything you have worked for, everyone you love. there was almost nothing i wouldn't do fo