interestingly, the red on the bottom, that is oxycontin. even though it has gone to play a role, a lesser role after it was reformulated and became harder to crash in 2010, -- crush in 2010, the actual amount of oxycontin is modest. slidecond point of the that is important is the fact it is dipping off. doctors are prescribing fewer pills. that is because there has been so much attention to this. hopefully better training in how to deal with pain, but we are just beginning that education.

dickman and her estranged husband, richard are charged with trafficking after they tried to sell oxycontin pills to undercover detectives. they say rebecca's 20-yea vangundy" drove them to the meeting place. also in the car was the couple's two underage children. for that-- rebecca and richard are charged with child neglect, as well. a college student says he needs his emotional support dog... to help him deal with the stress of freshman year. but to keep the dog... the student apartments at hillsborough community college have rules. rules he says are unfair... so he's filing a lawsuit. austin cline has been diagnosed with chronic depression and is prescribed to have an emotional support animal. but if the management company has its impossible for him to stay in school. and he thought h-c-c seemed like the perfect fit... a community college with on-campus living. because the complex bans pets... he approached peak campus management about his emotional support dog "luna". a lawsuit filed in federal court yesterday says peak insisted on a cleaning surcharge... that roommates agree to the ani

interestingly, the red on the bottom is oxycontin. so even though it has gone to play some role, at a lesser role after it was reformulated and became harder to crush in 2010, the actual amount of oxycontin prescribed is actually modest. the second point of the slide that is quite important is the fact that it is dipping off. doctors are prescribing fewer pills now. that is because there is so much attention to this. hopefully, better training and how to deal with pain, although we are just beginning that kind of reeducation. also, prescription monitoring programs have kicked in. in 2010 and 2011, these till mills in l.a. the , dea crackdown on them heavily. in some places, especially ohio, even though prescribing is going down, the death rates from overdoses are not, and that is because people are moving on to other drugs and other painkillers. this i'm sure you are all , familiar with narcan. i just wanted to show that clearly. that is a godsend, it truly saves lives. it is an antidote. rapid acting, it knocks the opioid molecule of

. - so there's stuff like oxycontin, codeine, other opioids that introduce them to heavier drugs later. - [katie] besides these so called gateway drugs, let's not forget there's also alcohol and tobacco. - most people know that cigarettes, tobacco, is bad for them, but they don't necessarily realize n cancer causing agents that give it a few years, and we're gonna start seeing all sorts of things i'm sure. health effects from those as well. they are not a healthy alternative. - een kids news continues,when t we'll show you how music helped spread the word to refuse to use. we'll be right back. - ? i'm not scared. i'm in denial. it's not as deep as you think. ? - we're continuing our report on new york'h rallys yout to alert teens to the dangers of drug abuse. (upbeat rock music) - part of our dutchess county prevention program is to participate in community coalitions such as we're having here today. - is getnow what we're gonna do sonal story from the band manager. and we want to give our great, great thanks to big mountain entertainment and dwayne harris and his band for joining us h

. - and it's become almost like a social thing - so there's stuff like oxycontin, codeine, other opioids that introduce them to heavier drugs later. - [katie] besides these so called gateway drugs, let's not forget there's also alcohol and tobacco. - most people know that cigarettes, tobacco, is bad for them, but they don't necessarily realize is that e-cigarettes are derived from tobacco. they contain nicotine and they contain cancer causing agents that give it a few years, and we're gonna start seeing all sorts of things i'm sure. they are not a healthy alternative. - when teen kids news continues, we'll show you how music helped spread the word to refuse to use. we'll be right back. - ? i'm not scared. i'm in denial. it's not as deep as you think. ? - we're continuing our report on new york's youth rally to alert teens to the dangers of drug abuse. - part of our dutchess county prevention program is to participate in community coalitions such as we're having here today. - now what we're gonna do is get to your musical entertainment part, but we're gonna open up first with a personal s

i started trying oxycontin. then from there it hooked me right away but it became too expensive. so i switched to heroin. reporter: he became distant, angry, even violent. sandi says there aren't many pictures from that time. >> i became tyler's friend and i thought that was the way to handle it. i lost that power as a parent. reporter: she hopes other parents won't make the same mistake. >> there were signs. maybe if i had picked up some of those signs, we could have model bedroom. >> this is built by experience. reporter: with at least 60 warning signs of drug use. >> that little stand has at least five different signs. >> five signs? >> just on top of that little shelf. reporter: some are obvious >> the high times magazine is a sign. reporter: you might recognize pot magazines or shot glasses but others are camoflauged what was like a battery or air freshener. >> some of them are so subtle, that you would have to have seen it as a sign before for you to pick it up. reporter: even ordinary stuffed animals could be hiding drugs. the room is only meant for parents up these stairs

my husband had a shoulder replaced, he walked out with a prescription of 90 onto gotten -- oxycontin. dr. frieden: this is a huge problem. when i went to medical school, they taught us you can get a patient with rain in opiate and they will not get addicted. completely wrong. laura: lying through the mouth. dr. desmond-hellmann: there has to be a complete rebooting of pain prescribing and it has to be done with a sense of urgency that is not consistent with typical continuing medical education. background,ogist by so there are times when you need pain medicine. however, what we have got in the united states today is inconsistent with those times. >> can i ask another drug-related question? a number of states have legalized marijuana. is the science good enough on that? what is your feeling on the safety of increased marijuana use as a result of legalization? dr. desmond-hellmann: two comments -- one, it is severely understudied and needs more research. i'm a data-driven person. we need more data. there are data on young people and marijuana. that is from a public health standpoint. th

. >> reporter: the oxycontin pills are fence nil. the norco, phone knit, this back door -- fentanyl, this black tar heroin, fentanyl. >> reporter: the police took this photo with a child in the back seat. this couple overdosed on heroin laced with a version of fentanyl used to sedate elephants. >> it's 10 times stronger than morphine. >> if they get the same quantity they think is heroin and it's fentanyl and ingest it, they'll die. >> reporter: i don't would they day -- why would they take it? >> because these's desperate. >> i started to use the illicit pain pills. >> reporter: because they were too expensive, he took counterfeit to ward off withdrawalled. addicts will do anything. >> because they're sick, throwing up in the shower, they just want out. they doesn't want to be sick anymore. >> reporter: as to why fentanyl. >> a little goes a long ways. >> reporter: the opioid is preved by mexico california cartel -- preferred by the mexico california cartels. >> reporter: a kilo the heroin can bring you $80,000, but fentanyl, you ca

i started trying oxycontin. then from there it hooked me right away, and then it became too expensive so i switched to , heroin. even violent. sandi says there aren't many pictures from that time -- that time. >> i became tyler's friend and i thought that was the way to handle it. i lost that power as a parent. >> she hopes other parents won't make the same mistake. >> maybe if i had picked up those signs, we could have deterred the path i went down. >> so together they built a room , called 'hidden in plain sigh'' inside the hartland fire department. >> with at least 60 warning signs of drug use. >> that little stand has at least five different signs. >> five signs? >> just on top of that little shelf. some are obvious. >> the high times magazine is a sign. >> you might recognize pot magazines are hot glasses, but others are camouflaged. >> some of them are so subtle, that you would have to have seen it as a sign before for you to pick it up. >> could be hiding drugs. >> the room is only meant for parents up th

. >> reporter: from vicodin to norco, by 10th grade oxycontin and eventually heroin. >> it was cheaper and achieved the same high. >> sometimes if they can't get prediscriminations, they will buy pills on the street -- prescriptions, they will buy pills on the street or turn to heroin. >> this is bigger than any drug epidemic we've see to date. >> the worst drug epidemic in united states history. >> reporter: millions of americans are now addicted to painkillers. >> it's been caused by overexposing the u population to prescription -- the u.s. population to prescription opioids. >> they are prescribed by a doctor and deemed to be less harmful. >> i frod the professionals. >> reporter: -- i trusted the professionals. his mother vacuumed holding her purse. >> they'll buy them on the street, try to buy them online. >> reporter: with a click and a credit card. >> you can google it and buy it literally. >> reporter: more californians today die from an opioid related overdose than from being in a car crash, nearly 50% more. who would have thought it's more dangerous to stand in front of ad me

. >> guest: my son went in with his shoulder done and oxycontin. they said we don't want our students to be taught in pain. it has to be done with a sense of urgency. we've got iwe thought it then ct with those types. >> can i ask another drug-relatedrug-related questio? a lot of states legalized marijuana and they are presented iin mac. as the science good enough on that, but if you are feeling on the safety of increased mariana usage as a results of legalization. i made a event driven person, we need more even though our data on young people and their lives that's my number one concern is. i think there are harms that are known but not well under, not widely known and i think we don't know because it hasn't been legal to study. as we know, we need to know more but there are no. would you be advising a state to legalize or criminalized for marijuana use? >> i would say decriminalizing could sign me up. legalizing, i want more data. >> i agree. from the business standpoint it's never seemed over the last half decade or so that we have not been very

"rebecca dickman" and her estranged with trafficking and child neglect after they tried to sell oxycontin pills to undercover detectives. they say rebecca's 20-year-old son "taylor vangundy" drove them to the meeting place. the couple's two underage children were also in the car at the time. bogus bills are turning up at disney. two people from argentina are facing federal charges after trying to use fake hundreds and fifties at disney world. it's just the latest incident of counterfeit cash in central florida. secret service agents say that to counterfeiting, education is key. if you think you have fake cash, you're asked to report it to authorities so it doesn't get into the wrong hands. developing this morning in clearwater. a string of robberies have store owners worried. someone has targeted three different gas stations over the last two days... with the latest coming just hours ago. and police believe they may be connected. fox13's "shayla reaves" is live at the 7-eleven on shayla, i imagine store owners have to be worried. thanks, shayla. we have a fox 13 news alert out of philadel

interestingly, the red on the bottom, that is oxycontin. even though it has gone to play a role, a lesser role after it was reformulated and became harder to crash in 2010, -- crush in 2010, the actual amount of oxycontin is modest. slidecond point of the that is important is the fact it is dipping off. doctors are prescribing fewer pills. that is because there has been so much attention to this. hopefully better training in how to deal with pain, but we are just beginning that education. also, protection monitoring programs have kicked in in 2010 and 2011. . pill mills were cracked down on. especially ohio, even of the prescribing is going down, the death rates are not. that is because people are moving to other drugs and other painkillers. ms., i am sure you are familiar with. i want to show that. >> this, i am sure you are familiar with. i want to show that. this is a rapid acting antidote. available by prescription in all states. in about halft up of the states without a prescription. a large part of those opiate --pdoses are due to kin

ago overdosing in record numbers as legal cousins opium -based painkillers such as oxycodone and oxycontin. ohio has been a particularly he runs the dea the nations drug enforcement administration.e some time we overuse of historic and on president this is an epidemic within a lose 47,000 4 people this year to a drug overdose concept in some ways that number is a significant undercut because we have many more people who overdose but don't dive. does a small town euclid records show is fire department minister the locks up their hair went and and an j people last year alone i wish i could say this was just a temporary thing and is going to go away but a dozen appeared to be getting worse. what is driving the increased demandnd for hair went and its opiate cousins. one of the things driving increased demand for all authors prescription. four out of five new heroin users started on pills. giving that statement from the to drug enforcement official encourage doctors to be more careful at the prescribed fewer opiates to manage pain but in fact the opposite is true federal policies put pressure

my husband had a shoulder replaced, he walked out with a prescription of 90 onto gotten -- oxycontin.r. frieden: this is a huge problem. when i went to medical school, they taught us you can get a patient with rain in opiate and they will not get addicted. completely wrong. laura: lying through the mouth. dr. desmond-hellmann: there has to be a complete rebooting of pain prescribing and it has to be done with a sense of urgency that is not consistent with typical continuing medical education. background,ogist by so there are times when you need pain medicine. however, what we havgo

those prescription opioid painkillers -- like oxycontin... are no more effective in treating persistent pain after a car crash than over-the-counter meds -- like ibuprofen. researchers looked at more than nine hundred people for six weeks after a car crash. overall, they found the risk of persistent pain was about the same no matter what pain meds they took. but here's the kicker....those who were initially prescribed opioids the team says the study can help doctors work to manage pain and addiction better. apparently knowing the high number of calories in fast food doesn't deter people from eating it! research shows the nutrition facts posted at restaurants go unnoticed by nearly two-thirds of fast food customers. study authors recommend increasing the visibility of calorie content by making the type size bigger-- and changing the color to make it stand out more on menus. people in the study also didn't k intake should be each day-- so they had a hard time comparing how many calories are in that cheeseburger and fries. preventing obesity, hy

interestingly, i was just going to call attention to the red on the bottom, that's oxycontin. even though it's gone on to play some role and lesser role after it was reformulated and became harder to crush in 2010, the actual prescription is actually modest. the second part of the slide that is quite important is the fact that it is dipping off. doctors are prescribing fewer pills and that's because there has been so much attention to this. hopefully better training in how to deal with pain, although are were just beginning that kind of reeducation. also, prescription monitoring programs have kicked in in thousand ten in 2011. these pill mills in l.a. in florida and other places where the dea crackdown very heavily. prescribing is going down, but in some places, especially ohio, even though the prescribing is going down, the death rate from overdose are not and that's because people are moving on to other drugs and other painkillers. i'm sure you're familiar with this, narcan, i just wanted just wanted to show that. clearly that is a godsend. it has truly saved lives. it is an

. >> opiates, oxycontin? a lot of stuff out there on the street right now? >> oh, yeah. >> if i leave tomorrow, i'm scared. >> you leave tomorrow? >> yeah. >> what are you going to do different this time? >> go to my meetings. trying to do the best i can to stay away from old people, places and things. >> easier said than done. >> yes, sir. >> talk is cheap. >> yes, sir. >> knowing that drug use, jail officials have dedicated special housing units to inmates who want to make a change. >> we talk about women have very difficult in recovery because of guilt, shame and remorse they experience. because you made a mistake doesn't mean that you are a mistake. >> the program is called enough is enough and it's run by the jail's substance abuse program coordinator kentucky wright. >> you have a disease and you are not responsible for having it but you are responsible for recovery. >> the focus on basic recovery to help them get back into main stream society. one of the things that happens traditionally in corrections to address rearrest, the same old kind of soup ev

. >> reporter: home to the fort >> oxycontin, marijuana, steroids, heroin, cocaine. >> reporter: the cases in the back. >> bulk -- what they call bulk submissions. kilo of cocaine. over there in the back in that corner is the candy which actually has fentanyl. >> reporter: we are inside the federal drug enforcement ag agency's largest lab in the united states. the dea lab deals with new drug compounds so the location isn't publicized. >> a new danger not just for the public, but also for the law enforcement. >> reporter: simply bringing potent illegal drug means s suiting up. >> we go in level 8. this hazmat suit that you see here. >> reporter: and taking extreme precautions before chemists can even analyze them. >> a lab coat is a must. proper shoes, gloves and goggles. >> reporter: the reason, a rise in synthetic opioid. >> fentanyl is dangerous because it is 100 times more potent than morphine and can actually go through your skin and if you inhaled it, it can cause death. >> reporter: fentanyl, it has legitimate uses like pain relieve for cancer patient delivered in time release

our people who come into drug court are addicted to heroin or other opiates, painkillers, vicodin, oxycontin. it is a serious problem. >> intensive. >> if they are medically fit to take part it in, we require people to take vivitrol which reduces the cravings. >> reporter: drug court is open only to county residents. it is a high intensity program that can take up to two years to complete. in rockville, jackie bensen, news4. >>> next, the news4 i-team digs brazen thieves targeting the same expensive rides we see doing stunts on our streets. >>> a local mom to the rescue, jumping into action when a father and daughter drove into a lake. >> you are supposed to help people. i have children, i certainly would hope in the same situation ? ? what? is he gone?? finally, i thought he'd never leave... tv character: why are you texting my man at 2 a.m.? no... if you want someone to leave you alone, you pretend like you're sleeping. you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. tv character: taking selfies in the kitchen >>> a fairfax county first gra

marijuana use as an alternative to potential date -- potentially dangerous opioid painkillers like oxycontin. >>> virtual-reality is now bringing special places right to veterans homes. 19th -- 92-year-old joseph cook, a world war ii veteran who lives in texas wasn't well enough to visit the memorial in dc but an organization called honor everywhere gave him a special headset and through virtual-reality, cook got to feel like he was just inches away from it. the veteran says he wishes his fallen friends could have experienced the site as well. he got very emotional with that. it's a great gift for a veteran who can't travel to see the memorials. >> i would love to do that for my father. he can't travel right now and he's a veteran. >> that's a great idea. >> i'm going to go look that up . i have things to do over here. >> go ahead. [ laughter ] >>> let's go ahead and take a look at traffic right now. starting with the altamont pass 205 just nine miles an hour you are reaching your way through to where speeds pick up to 30 miles an hour and then let's go over to the castro valley area where w

encouraged them to prescribe the latest, newest, most wonderful drug for long-term pain management, oxycontinds because they're perceived as too strong or addictive. but that is far from actual fact. less than 1% of patients taking opioids actually become addicted. >> sales initially and falsely proclaimed as not addictive, absolutely skyrocketed from $45 million in 1996 to 3.1 billion in 2010. that same year, perdue tweaked the way that we're making oxy in an attempt to, they said, limit its addictive qualities. finally the government and law enforcement took a harsh look at the drug and it became much harder to get legally which sucked for the thousands and thousands who by now had a serious habit. >> i am ruth, a family physician in greenfield, massachusetts, and i grew up here. my dad was actually a small town doctor out here. i'm a total generalist, but for the last four, four and a half years, a larger part of my practice has been focused on addiction to opiates. >> i got put on pain medication. then when they started disappearing, everybody else is doing it. >> the heroin? >> yeah. i c

. >> reporter: from vicodin to narco, by 10th grade oxycontin and eventsly heroin. >> cheaper and achieved the same goal and high. >> sometimes if they can't get prescriptions they will buy pills on the street or turn to heroin. >> by the time i was 19, it was just out of control. >> reporter: kent is far from alone. >> this is bigger than any drug epidemic that we have seen to date. >> the worst drug addiction epidemic in the united states history. >> reporter: millions of americans are now addicted to painkillers. >> it's been caused by overexposing the u.s. population to prescription opiods. >> they are prescribed by a doctor and perceived to be less harmful. >> i trusted the professionals. >> reporter: he stole from his family to feed his habit. his mother vacuumed holding her purse. >> they will do unspeakable things. buy them on the street and online. >> reporter: with a click and credit line. >> you can google it and boy it. >> reporter: more californians today die from an opiod related overdose than a car crash, nearly 50% more. >> who would have thought that it's more dangerous to

in america time that we were seeing the prescription of oxycontin and other types of drugs that were addictive, the same time that that was happening a second thing was happening, the production of heroine grew by leaps and bounds throughout latin america, central america, and in afghanistan. we see poppy field being one of the cash crops. people are getting addicted to opioids at the same time production was increasing. we need to continue to do our enforcement efforts and we need to recognize that drugs and alcohol and mental health issues are all related and many of these problems are based on drugs, alcohol and mental health. have a problem. most family dysfunctions are related to drugs, alcohol and mental health. some of my closest friends have had children of theirs died because of drug overdoses. we need to start educating kids ages, especially as we see it start to emerge in realizeols that they the dangers of this very destructive and addictive drug. to promote programs that encourage prevention at young ages and collaboration among different government agencies. >> senator

more ohioans died of drug overdoses from oxycontin or oxycodone or heroin or the new drugs that, the new synthetic drugs we're seeing more and more. we've got to do more. the billion dollars in grants in this bill are critically important but it needs to be mandatory funding. it can't be that some powerful member of the house or senate stands in the way of this down the road to actually get these communities the money. we can't fight year after year to get these dollars appropriated. the cures act gives significant concessions to big pharma, which is the big drug industry, drug giants in this country, but does absolutely nothing to combat drug prices. we benefit concessions to the big drug companies but we do nothing to fight the high cost of drugs in this bill. we shouldn't be spending time on this flawed bill until we keep our promises to the 12,000 mine workers i mentioned. these miners worked in some of the most dangerous conditions of any jobs in this country. they deserve the full pension and health benefits they were promised. they worked a lifetime to earn these benefits. the

when they made the to objection -- oxycodone to oxycontin, the longer lasting, this is something our bipartisan task force is already looking into. we have 85 members of congress, republicans and democrats, working together. we passed 18 bills last june, very rare, and now we're getting the funding for education, treatment, long-term recovery, investigating about pain management and techniques companies. as well as the funding for law enforcement. so absolutely the answer is yes. josh: congresswoman, would you support an amendment, constitutional amendment, to balance the budget? ms. kuster: here's what i support. legislation with senator shaheen for a biannual budget which is the process that we use here in new hampshire. so you spend the first year creating the budget and the second year on the spending. part of the problem in congress is that they are in a now it's broken down completely under speaker ryan. so i don't think we need the constitutional amendment. i think we can have a balanced budget. and that we can do it in a biannual budget cycle. mr. lawrence: yes, i would suppo

literally, my husband had a shoulder replaced, he walked out with a prescription for 90 oxycontin. >> this is a huge problem. it shouldn't happen. >> they say we don't want our patients to be in pain. >> when i went to medical school, they taught us, if you give a patient with pain an opiate, they won't get addicted. it's completely wrong. >> i threw them away. >> there has to be a complete rebooting of pain prescribing and it has to be done with a sense of urgency that -- i'm an oncologist by background. there are times when you need pain medicine. however, what we've got in the united states today is inconsistent with those times. >> can i ask another drug-related question. a number of states legalized marijuana. we have a couple of questions sent in. is the science good enough on that? what's your feeling on the safety of increased marijuana use as a result of legalization? >> well, just two comments. one is, it's severely understated and needs more research. i'm a data driven person. tom is a data driven person. we need more data. there are data on young people and marijuana. from

i was younger like many other people i had my wisdom teeth taken out and what was i prescribed, oxycontin some kind of derivative of the outcome of some kinthat,some ki. as for what all of my other friends got, and what does it do, a lot of people start selling it in schools. that is just what's happening. >> guest: i will touch on the first point in particular about the cultural issues that surround marijuana legalization. i've written in my book tracing this path of cultural indoctrination in the country about which marijuana is, and it creates this misinformation about how often marijuana acomes a substance abuse disorder, how often it is viewed as a gateway drug, and part of it has to do with the governments messaging overug decades about the drug.ience most people who use use the drus experience it in some way don't have experiences that match what the government has been saying so that creates this disinformation for the average voter and it makes people more curious and think about reform in a more serious way. but cultural pressure exists in the public end of the medical al commun

. >>> and we now head to the opiate epidemic, heroin, or oxycontin, you know how confedera terrible thellot, stay with us. it's not a banner that goes on a wall. it's not something you do now and then. or when it's convenient. it's using state-of-the-art simulators to better prepare for any situation. it's giving offshore teams onshore support. and it's empowering anyone to stop a job if something doesn't seem right. at bp, safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. >>> welcome back to america's election headquarters on election day. right now we look at another issue that matters to the voters, this issue, drug control. rick levemthal reports. >> reporter: agents join local police, busting suspected including buyers in manchester, new hampshire. home to more addicts than almost anywhere in america. >> new hampshire has suffered so greatly from the heroin crisis and the drugs pouring across the border. the rate of heroin overdose has gone up three times in this state. once again our politics have failed the issue. >> when you're ready to get help there is not enou

at the same time in america that we saw the prescription of oxycontin and other types of addictive drugshe same time that that was happening, a second thing was happening, the production of heroin grew by leaps and bounds throughout latin america, andrew america, and afghanistan. we see poppy fields being one of the cash crops. people were getting addicted to opioids at the same time this production was increasing dramatically. it was cheaper than ever before and more accessible. we need to continue with our enforcement efforts, but we need to recognize that drugs, alcohol, and mental health issues are related and many of the problems we face in society are based upon these problems. 75% of the people in jail have a drug, alcohol, or mental health problem. most family dysfunctions related to drugs, alcohol, or mental health. some of my closest friends have had children's of theirs die because of drug overdoses. this is an epidemic killing us in long island. we need to start educating kids at very young ages, especially when we see mental health, drug, and alcohol problems emerge in our s