it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively, they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs. >> overdoses from prescription opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. that's one overdose death every thirty minutes. >> the overdose rate, which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our emergency department, is now more like 3 or 4 or 5, if not more than that, in a 24-hour period. >> that's a massive increase. >> massive. >> over the past 10 years, we've had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller overdose deaths. >> the food and drug administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro - over the objections of its own medical advisors, and dozens of lawmakers. >> i thought we had learned our lesson with oxycontin. how can you say with any de

a 275% increase in analysis of oxycodone. >> of what does analysis mean? >> when a drug -- >> increase? >> when a drug is submitted for analysis, it's either seized pursuant to arrest, purchased undercover. what it shows is our cases are moving from the standard drug cases over to -- an increase in cases related to prescription drugs. these analyses occur across the country. if an undercover agent or undercover officer at local county sheriff's department makes a purchase undercover of oxycodone, he submits that for analysis. we get those reports. >> so what is it, tripled? is that the figure? >> 275% in an 11-year period. >> almost. so what do you deduce from that? >> i deduce we have a major prescription drug problem. >> yeah. >> it's just getting worse. heroin is just a symptom of prescription drug problems. >> what you're also deducing is that the prescription drug is a gateway drug to heroin, because if it gets too expensive, then the young person turns to heroin, which is much cheaper. >> i would absolutely agree with that. >> yeah. >> there was an i

a 275% increase in analysis of oxycodone. >> of what does analysis mean? >> when a drug -- >> increase? >> when a drug is submitted for analysis, it's either seized pursuant to arrest, purchased undercover. what it shows is our cases are moving from the standard drug cases over to -- an increase in cases related to prescription drugs. these analyses occur across the country. if an undercover agent or undercover officer at local county sheriff's department makes a purchase undercover of oxycodone, he submits that for analysis. we get those reports. >> so what is it, tripled? is that the figure? >> 275% in an 11-year period. >> almost. so what do you deduce from that? >> i deduce we have a major prescription drug problem. >> yeah. >> it's just getting worse. heroin is just a symptom of prescription drug problems. >> what you're also deducing is that the prescription drug is a gateway drug to heroin, because if it gets too expensive, then the young person turns to heroin, which is much cheaper. >> i would absolutely agree with that. >> yeah. >> there was an i

oxycodone. >> she says she was coerced by a drug dealer. she stole prescription pads in order to obtain oxycodone from pharmacies in new jersey. >> i'll walk in there as if i have something legitimate and it's not. and then they fill it, they give it to me because they trust me and i walk out. >> why did they trust you? >> i'm nice and sweet and pretty normally. but it's something that i'm not proud of or anything at all. >> collins says she sold some of the pills and swallowed the rest. this is her first time in jail. she is currently on "a" block, a temporary housing unit for new inmates. their backgrounds must be reviewed by the jail's classification team in order to assign them an appropriate housing unit. >> they can either classify me as "c" or "d." "c" is maximum. "d" in minimum. i don't know what the categorical process is. hopefully i don't go to c because c is the hardened criminals of the female world, i guess. i don't seem to think i'm that. but i guess i'll find out. >> deanna collins, this is the first time that she's been in

it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively, they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 y -

it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively, they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the

>>reporter: scattered in the room, baggies filled with meth, cocaine, heroin and oxycodone. deputies were stunned when price said he was the headmaster at branson. >> his capacity as administrator of private education this kind of lifestyle at least we know of from the day we encountered him doesn't lend itself to his career choice. >>reporter: we were told price was not on campus today and the assistant head of the school for academic affairs would only say she needs to talk to the board of trustees before commenting. well just within the last few minutes i did receive a copy of the letter school leaders sent to the parents of the students. basically the chair of the branson board of trustees announced that headmaster price has turned in his resignation and the school leadership is deeply troubled by the events that have happened. more on that in my report at 6:00. reporting live in marin counties linda yi kpix5. >> they are both charged with possession of narcotics for sale. >>> san leandro police have two suspects in custody after they opened fire inside a wal- mart last

you're a community which does not have such a service and a loved one passes you have bottles of say oxycodon oxycoton tylenol with codeine laying around you need to wait for a biannual event from the dea or amcc possibly six months for that next event american medicine chest yes you're saying it's they're there but it's not as accessible and you're worried about what people i'm putting words in your mouth i i'm wrong tell me no it's good you're worried about what people are gonna do in the meantime with some of these drugs? it could sit there feasibly six months or flush them down the toilet yes well that's the problem into the waterway am i wrong there? absolutely absolultely jump in now that it's in the waterway now you know better than anyone what happens? well it's a severe problem with the waterways the only way to really treat the water directly to get this kind of stuff out of the water is so... by the way excuse me you should tell people why you know this people don't know your job alright well i'm a hackensack river keeper and... they still don't know what it means a water keeper is

the entire prescription drug epidemic was launched basically from high dose oxycodone, and many of us felt that a high dose hydrocodone product would end up in the same place. >> fur areas have been more immaterial packeted than the state of maine. here, more long acting painkillers are prescribed per capital, than in any other state. >> it's led to one of the highest addiction rates in the country. and a remitted surge in the use of her win her win. this ambulance team responds to a call nearly every day. >> it's about 10:00 o'clock on a friday night. from what we with are hearing there's a 25-year-old male in there, who could have had a seizure due to a overdose. the responders found this man lying on a bathroom floor, unconscious and barely breathing. a syringe and a small bagging of heroine were at his bedside. they were able to revive him by administering a drug that countered the effects. now we are seeing it so frequently, and there are people that you would never expect. it isn't the junky, it is the 25-year-old kid. what we with are finding is that they can't get the prescrip

officers arrested chad alexander terry, he is accused of selling heroin and oxycodone. both are being held in the prison. >>> philadelphia police want to know if a robbery suspect they arrested last night is responsible for a series of holdups. look as lu ann cahn had a word with the suspect. >> reporter: do you have anything to say? >> i didn't do it. >> reporter: you didn't rob the place? >> no. >> we don't know the man's name yet. he is accused of robbing a store. investigators trying ing ting determine if he's responsible for other stores in the city. >>> philadelphia police are hoping a sketch will help lead them to the man who attacked a woman on a hiking trail. he is described as being six feet tall. at the time of the attack he was waring a red polo-style shirt with white letters. the woman was knocked to the ground last friday. they say the man demanded money and sex. she managed to escape and go for help. if you have any information, philadelphia police would like to hear from you. >>> today marks three weeks since a pennsylvania state trooper was shot and kil

it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all relatedium. collectively, they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent of the global supply of these drugs.

patient care -- cancer patients that need help, we have alternatives that work better -- oxycontin, oxycodone, you name it. we have several options it at do a much better job for chronic pain. i've had hundreds of patients with cancer that needed it. >> i'm absolutely for a state's right to legalize marijuana should they see fit. at that level, it becomes a state issue. washington and colorado are updating outdated laws and it's being update -- hampered at a federal level to remove marijuana to schedule one narcotics. it is less harmful to society than a call or tobacco and are recommend its use to anybody. >> absolutely not. defined as a gateway drug and it will lead to worse drugs 14 agers and some adults. we need to hold firm on this. i will not support recreational nor medicinal youse. posit for aing to short break. when we come back, we will ask the candidates about border security, and higher secure --uld -- fire border secure higher border security. >> your voice, your vote. you have been watching campaign 2014 oyster boat. >> welcome back to void your -- voice your vote. agree with pr

need help, we have other alternatives that work -- other alternatives that work better, oxycontin, oxycodone, you name it. i've had hundreds of patients unfortunately with cancer that i have treated. they do well with these drugs. same question to you regarding marijuana legalization. i am absolutely for a states right to legalize marijuana should they see fit. on that level, it becomes a federal issue because in states like colorado and washington, their experiments in updating are being hampered by a failure on the federal level to remove marijuana from schedule one narcotics. tois far less harmful society than alcohol and tobacco, and i recommend its use and enjoyment by anybody. >> finally, republican harris brown. >> absolutely not. marijuana has been defined as a gateway drug, and it will lead to harder and worse drugs for our teenagers and some adults. we need to hold firm on this, and i do not support recreational nor medicinal use. absolutely not. >> thank you. we will pause for a few moments for a short break. when we come back, we will ask candidates about border security, higher

why are they prescribing oxycodo oxycodone? they prescribed 500 capsules last month and now they're prescribing 5,000. wait a minute. this person has gone to five doctors in five pharmacies for the same prescription. what's going on? it opens investigatory doors. and yet, years later, it's now electronic prescribing for all this stuff. the prescription drug monitoring programs don't seem to have yet really come online as a proper investigative tool to give us the common sense information that we need to make these determinations. what are the best next steps that we should be pursuing to try to get this program to a place where we're getting these warnings before we have to go and run up a fake pain clinic that sold 100,000 prescriptions? you should be able to catch that a lot sooner if you're actually watching the data as it comes up. what's our -- what are our best next steps? miss volkow let me ask you first because you talked about this very well. >> well, i would say that we should put the resources that are necessary to m