>> reporter: jeff guthrie was only 14. >> you can stumble into a bottleanywhere you go. >> reporter: he was getting high on his father's painkillers. >> it was impossible. i just couldn't stop. >> reporter: guthrie is now 34, a father, and stepfather. and a student at asu. but he has done time in prison and a recovering drug addict living for now at phoenix's cross roads treatment center. >> there's a level of our being that wants more than to stop and can't. >> reporter: one person dies every day in arizona from prescription drug poisoning. prescription painkillers are the state's leading cause of injury related deaths. higher than car crashes and guns. and there are 83 prescribed opioid pain relievers for every 100 people. as a part of the push to fight opioid drug addiction, governor dug ducey on -- doug ducey limits painkiller prescriptions and we're acting on it. >> reporter: jeff guthrie graduated to heroin. now he faces a lifelong recovery. >> i think i'm doing real well. i hope i'm doing really well. >> we are pulling for jeff. the details of the governor's order must be work

be eating >> reporter: jeff guthrie was only 14. >> you can stumble into a bottleanywhere you go. >> reporter: he was getting high on his father's painkillers. >> it was impossible. i just couldn't stop. >> reporter: guthrie is now 34, a father, and stepfather. and a student at asu. but he has done time in prison and a recovering drug addict living for now at phoenix's cross roads treatment center. >> there's a level of our being that wants more than to stop and can't. >> reporter: one person dies every day in arizona from prescription drug poisoning. prescription painkillers are the state's leading cause of injury related deaths. higher than car crashes and guns. and there are 83 prescribed opioid pain relievers for every 100 people. as a part of the push to fight opioid drug addiction, governor dug ducey on -- doug ducey limits painkiller prescriptions

. >> reporter: jeff guthrie is getting treating -- treatment for heroin addiction. decades ago. >> i was 14. my dad was prescribed vicodin. he was asleep and i took some.>> reporter: guthrie said after that it was easy to fake his way to his own prescriptions. >> i have no back problems whatsoever, but you will find some bulging in some discs in my back. that qualified me for a prescription.>> reporter: director leave pre-ossie says even though they have 300 beds, their list is a month-long. >> we are using 80% of the opioids in the united states. a lot of that starts with the ease of prescriptions that our doctors are giving out to everybody.>> reporter: he and guthrie say the new restrictions from the governor are good first step>> the opioid epidemic makes the zika >> so many people pass away from opiate addiction. it's difficult for me to hang them all off your kids so commonplace. >> reporter: in addition to the seven-day cap, the governor also signed a law that requires doctors to check the database before they prescribe opiates. the idea is to prevent double