dr. webster for medical malpractice. they reached a settlement out of court. a couple of years ago, dr. webster told a newspaper that as many as 20 of his former patients died of opioid overdoses. he sold his pain clinic in 2010, and no longer sees patients. >> should have stopped him then. should have stopped him. it's been so hard to deal with because i literally regret every day that i didn't do something different. >> every year, at least 16,000 americans die after overdosing on opioid painkillers. more than cocaine and heroin combined. and as the country ages, the face of the 'typical addict' is changing. but there are just a few rehab centers in the country that focus on treating elderly patients addicted to painkillers. we travelled to florida to visit one of them. >> i think many people think of the opioid problem as something that's affecting young people who are abusing painkillers that were not prescribed to them. we see the highest rate of drug overdose death in older americans. and when you look at the groups that have had the greatest increase in problems associated with pr

dr. webster tells us 70% of the time the kids get a hold of these painkillers they do it by stealing themtheir family medicine cabinets. as for dr. sang she could get life in prison next month. she will appeal. >>> a southern california man found on camera assaulting his uber driver says he had no idea how much he had to drink before getting in the car and exploding into a rage. >> i'm ashamed to admit i got to that point. i don't normally do that and this is a situation where i did. and it -- i handled it wrong in a wrong way. i crossed the line and it was caught on camera and i -- i have to face it. >> 32-year-old ben golden says that he had been bar hopping with friends for hours last friday and remembers nothing. he was reportedly kicked out of one bar in newport. uber driver edward caban then tried to kick them out of his car saying golden was too drunk to give directions. golden is fired from his marketing job and facing kimal charges that could put him -- facing criminal charges that could put him in jail for a year. >>> the san francisco restaurant at the center of a shigella outb

are broken over the loss of hall of famer mike webster who had in recent years suffered in mental illness. >> why has the favorite son of >> reporter: as dr. bennett amalu aggressively searched for an answer to that question, he found a brain disease which he believed was responsible for webster's deranged behavior the final years of his life. >> simply fulfilling. >> he said the hits webster took during his 17-year career were to blame. he discovered a protein sludge, which was killing the cells associated with mood and emotion. >> the repetitive ted head trauma turns you into someone else. >> he calls it chronic traumatic encephalopathy. he thought the nfl would embrace his research. instead, he said, a they side lined him. >> they wanted to exterminate me professionally, to retract my paper, accusing me of fraud. >> before cte, football players were ridiculed and dismissed. they are getting the passion today. >> today in nfl acknowledges hits and long-term brain damage and has taken steps to protect players from head injuries. roger goodell recently told "60 minutes" steve kroft, the game is safer than ever. >> i am convinced of it. i

dr. bennet omalu, found it in the brain of steelers hall of fame center mike webster during an autopsy. can only be diagnosed in the dead. the late hall of fame tight end john mackey had it, and so did 87 other former nfl players with serious symptoms whose families donated their brains to an ongoing study being conducted at boston university. >> kroft: do we really know that playing football causes c.t.e.? >> robert stern: do we really know that smoking causes cancer? >> kroft: dr. robert stern, who directs the clinical research for boston university's c.t.e. center, says the science is still in its infancy, but the evidence indicates a strong connection. >> stern: we know from all the neuropathologically confirmed cases of c.t.e. that every case has had one thing in common, a history of repetitive head impacts. that means that... >> kroft: it's not good for you. >> stern: ...it's not good for you. it's a necessary variable to get this disease. but just because you hit your head a bunch, doesn't mean you're going to get the disease. so we have to figure out why one person gets it and a

dr. bennet omalu who's a brilliant forensic neuropathologist and the first person diagnosed was an old steeler of mike webstering out of his truck and in train stations and when doctor began to study his brain tissue, we found the kind of damage that, you know, he had only found previously in people with dementia or by the way people who had boxed for a living. and now obviously, we know more about this than we ever did before but that hit that you just showed, i mean, it's a vivid memory. i grew up a giants fan in upstate new york and teammates would say later, they thought frank was dead in what moment. he was stretched out flat on his back and in the world where we discuss con suggestions so often, brian, because it's better for business than calling them what they are which is brain wounds, that was really the first famous concussion in nfl history. >> so if you're the nfl, mike, this is a tough one. it's a violent game. players have only gotten bigger, stronger, faster. we've seen head to head hits. we saw quarterback of the rams as recently as last weekend punch drunk, staggered and allowed to stay in t