john hohman has more from peru. >> a teenager views it the way he always has done, but there's a new danger in these waters. 3,000-barrels of oil burst out of a pipeline and into the main source of water and food for several indigenous communities. the government told them they shouldn't eat fish from the river. it's hit families hard. they're surviving on bananas and eucah. >> they're coming in be a contaminating the forest more and more. my grandparents didn't ever illnesses. they didn't used to control the fish or what they ate, but fish are now sick, just like the people. >> it belongs to the state company, petrol peru. they told us the oil is almost all gone and the fish are now fine. >> we say it's safe to bathe and you can seat the fish, but the population addition trusts us because they don't know oil and its behavior. >> i asked him if petrol peru had results to back that up? >> the studies are being taken and analyzed. we haven't got the results. >> although he's quick to declare the river clean, the company has been accused of acting late, only providing widespread food, w

john hohman, al jazeera, chapas. >>> authorities in australia seized $1 billion of meth called the biggest r. the drug was found inside a shipment of clothing from hong kong and in art supplies in a storage in sydney. four hong kong residents have been arrested. >>> a growing number of americans are struggling with drug addiction. president obama's latest budget proposal calls for $1 billion to treat them. >> for those hooked on heroin, it can be hard to find help. >> at 30 years old, vanessa is out of the 3 million americans fighting an opioid addiction. she is 18 months clean and living a normal productive life that no too long ago seemed completely out of reach. >> i never thought i would give it that much time to get clean. i didn't think it was possible. >> she began abuse be pain killers prescribed for her lupus and graduated to heroin. according to a johns hopkins university study, 80% of addicts are not getting treatment. vanessa got lucky. two years ago, she was ordered to rehab after facing jail time for drug charges. the center cost $24,000 a year. the center has been run for de

as al jazeera's john hohman reports, another focus of this trip has been making amends with message co's>> pope francis' visit was all about the indigenous community. they make up most of population in mexico's poorest state. his visit to them in which every denounced many years of exploitation. the people have been misunderstood and excluded from society. some of considered your values, cultures and traditions to be inferior. money and market trends have stolen your lands or contaminated them. >> few expect his visit alone to change things, but for manuel mendez, one of the survivors in a massacre in which paramilitary killed many people, including six of his family, the fact that the pope has come means something. >> i feel this i also the real pope in favor of the indigenous communities, the marginalized and survivors. i lost six of my family in the massacre. i'm very happy that he came. >> mexico's government may feel differently. chapas is famous for an army of farmers who rose up against authorities in 1994 and are still active. pope francis' more conservative predecessors preferre