. >> he came over, and he brought some percocet pills. started squishing them and, i think it's a mortar and pestle thing. >> what was he going to do with the percocet pills that you ground? >> he was going to give it to her, so she would be drugged. >> and then drowned, said yolanda, but she added the plan to kill wendy hit an unexpected snag. at the honeymoon hotel, wendy balked at the taste of the cocktail. so he tried it again at the miami suite hotel. this time she drank the cocktail, but for some reason he couldn't manage to drown her. that's when yolanda recalled michelle showed up in the middle of the night with a dazed wendy in his car. >> did you see anything in the passenger seat? >> i saw a movement of somebody inside the car. >> wendy was still alive. yolanda said michelle ordered her to follow him in his car. >> he got out of the car, walked over to my car and told me, drive around, give me 20, 25 minutes. >> eventually, yolanda said she spotted michelle again, walking down the streets, splashed now in blood and carrying a t

your character is addicted to percocet, vicodin, adderall, and oxycontin. >> right. >> stephen: how muchch did you have to do to get ready for that? >> i take my work very seriously, so i'm, as we speak, doing research. >> stephen: okay, good. ( cheers and applause ). after six years of playing a nurse, do you ever say to yourself, "i could fake my way through a shift?" do you think you could go into a hospital and kind of ( bleep ) for the first stix hours. >> not a chance. >> stephen: just yell the word "stat." >> no, i get more nervous now because people think i can do something. i run in the other as quickly as possible. >> stephen: do nurses ever come up to you and say, "yeah, that feels right to me. you get it right. that's what it's like." >> those are the ones who talk to me. the ones who don't talk to me don't feel that way. >> stephen: in season 1, the show was protested by the new york state nurse's association because your character had no qualms about repeatedly violating the nursing code of ethics. do they not know how acting works? >> i stay so far out of that stuff, you h

not only did you have percodan, percocet, vied din, but also ambien. so if you ever thought the jets looked like they were asleep out there, you're right. what really saddens me-- ( cheers and applause ) you fans of the jets or narcotics out here tonight? what really saddens me, folks, is three of the plaintiffs are members of my beloved 1985 super bowl champion chicago bears who we should have known were jookd something when they made this. >> stephen: how could you suit nfl? you gave your word pup weren't here to start no trouble. next, finally, the olympics. folks, the summer games are just two years away in rio de janeiro, the perfect city to carry on the spirit of the first olympics because everyone there is already oiled up and naked. ( laughter ) and, folks, excitement is building in rio. in fact, that might be the only thing that's building. >> host city rio de janeiro is so far behind in its preparations. >> the project is facing unprecedented delays. >> roads going nowhere, unfinished stands. and an awful lot of construction work still to do.

but nowhere is this more evident than with opioid prescription medications such as oxycontin and percocet in two thousand a lot of alone one point four million americans went to the emergency room for overdosing on these pills resulting and twenty two thousand deaths but now to a district attorneys in california are taking matters into their own hands and filing a lawsuit against five pharmaceutical companies last month da's in orange county and sac clarified a lawsuit against these corporations for their role in promoting new drugs despite knowing the risks of addiction and this month the city of chicago filed its own lawsuit against big pharma as well the companies include subsidiaries of johnson and johnson and have two of the largest pharma companies in the world joining me now to discuss the details of these lawsuits as well as the larger issue of opium. diction i'm joined now by our correspondent megan lopez hi thank you for coming on me on the on so record levels in the u.s. i mean this is just i'm saying the u.s. is one of two countries in the world with even director consumer adv

history was a wrestler all through high school bus would mind go includes and that's when i started percocet and oxycodone one bad injury one per script too many this is how jordan's that slippery slope to addiction began i've been using heroin. in fourteen years it was more expensive to get oxycontin and heroin as. it was a better hiding to heroin when i started smoking heroin than from then on it was game over over the past decade jordan story has become a common narrative in the prescription drug abuse epidemic the united states is in the midst of a severe epidemic of addiction to opioids which are drugs that come from the opium poppy and according to the united states centers for disease control this is the worst drug epidemic in united states history each year scores of people across the u.s. go to emergency room for overdose emergency now the c.d.c. reports that in two thousand and eleven one point four million americans went to the emergency room for these types of incidents also has over twenty thousand people away now this might be ninety nine the numbers go up significantly twenty

now, the company's named in the suit are activists, also endo health solutions which makes percocet and then johns johnson & johnson. this mirrors a similar suit, but painkiller is a huge folk ose and now the focus of a lout for the city. >> apple, shares higher, one day after the conference. many apple fans, though, were left shrugging shoulders. professionals took note and some companies are not happy with apple right now. social media companies in particular have a little app anger today. why are they riled up. >> well, tyler, i messaged the new messaging service that they showcased yesterday, funny features like video chat and voice chat, which makes it a lot like what's app. what's app ceo yokun tweeted yesterday saying it is nice to see apple borrowing. that seemed like a snarky response there. some of the other features are similar to snap cat. there is the ability to send photos th s thas that instantly we definitely are seeing apple play the copycat game. many, many years ago, steve jobs came -- admitted he copies. he said good artists copy, great artists steal. we saw that yes

call that my friend, 52 years old was dead in the hotel room in west orange with an empty bottle of percocet and empty quart have of vodka. >> reporter: with treatment resource necessary high demand the day top program in pittsgrove township will expand to include outpatient clients. conrad is six months in recovery and seen a dramatic change in his life from day top. >> there is hope to get better. >> while this was a bipartisan accomplishment between governor christie and steve sweeney it is impossible to ignore their brewing she down over new jersey's pension system. christie plans to balance this, and next years budget by cutting two and a half billion dollars in pension payments. >> i care about retirees, who should get their pension. we are obligated to live up to the commitment. the governor, there is a way to do this. governor just doesn't want to do it. >> reporter: state unions have gone to court. christie's office is expected to respond soon, governor said he has no choice there isn't enough money for pension payments. >> governor can you comment on the pension payment lawsuits. >

call that my friend, 52 years old, was dead in a motel room in west orange with an empty bottle of percocet and empty quart of vodka. >> reporter: with treatment resource necessary high demand, day top program in pittsgrove township will expand to include outpatient clients. seventeen year-old conrad is six months into recovery and seen a dramatic change in his life from day top. >> certain people, i hope to get better. >> while this was an accomplishment, steve sweeney, it is impossible to ignore their showdown over new jersey's pension system. christie plans to balance this and next years budgets by cutting two and a half billion dollars in pension payments. >> i care about retirees and be sure they get their pension. we are obligated to live up to the commitment. the the governor, is there a way to to this governor just doesn't want to do it. >> reporter: state unions gone to court to make christie to make payments. christie's office expected to respond soon. governor says there is just isn't enough money for pension payments. >> can you comment on the pension payment lawsuit? >> are you

percocet, cocaine, adderall.'t have more, i'd be in major withdrawal every two hours. >> kenny was in rehab seven different times before he got sober. now he takes only suboxone, a relatively new drug that's become increasingly popular for treating opiate addiction. >> blocks the brain receptors that can be activated by those drugs. >> this doctor says the opiate epidemic has escalated in the last two years on wall street and in the suburban tax havens where many hedge funders seek refuge. >> we have people come in and say that, you know, wall street is just hell. and they, by the morning, before they go for their breakfast meeting, they need to take their oxy. they wake up and got to do it because it's so bad they just can't get through the day. >> kenny has been clean for several years, but his wife has left him and he doesn't see his four children as often as he would like. >> now being here, you know, the house is for sale because we're getting divorced, basically liquidating. i guess we're liquidating our li