they're ingesting vicodin, percocets, oxycodone, and they're becoming dependent upon it. and when that dependency rises and they don't have access to the medication anymore, they go to the street, and they start to buy heroin as a way to deal with the withdrawal symptoms. >> so if they were to go to the street and try to buy the same thing that they found in the medicine cabinet, how much would that cost -- like a vicodin, oxycodone, something like that? >> vicodin and oxycodone are selling for about $25 on the street for a pill, versus $5 a bag for heroin, and that's why they're turning to heroin. it's not that that's what they wanted to pursue, but when they get hooked and they feel sick, they get flu-like symptoms, intense pain, like their bone is shattering under their skin, they want relief, the quickest possible, and they turn to the drug dealers. it's $5 a bag for heroin. >> so, what is the rationale here, though? you know, one is from a doctor, from a pharmacy -- one is legal -- and then the other is illegal, and they know that people get hooked on heroin. it does

the other nurse is accused of taking drugs like percocet. both nurses licenses are suspend suspended. >> bernie sanders, the democrat from vermont will host a meeting at 7:00 at george mason university. in the democratic debate he called for debt free higher education. sanders is trailing hillary clinton in the race for the democratic nomination for president. >> today montgomery county the school board will release the plans. an announcement will happen at seneca valley high school in germantown this morning. >>> a member of the british royal family will be in the district today. prince harry will meet with president obama later this morning at the white house. he is visiting the area to help promote the invictus games, an olympic style event for wounded soldiers. just before midday he is expected toss to virginia with first lady michelle obama. there he will meet with soldiers. >>> an altercation between a man and dc police is caught on camera joompt right now we're heading on 495 towards alexandra. we're tracking that coming up. >>> plus,

the other nurse is accused of taking drugs like percocet. both nurse's licenses have been suspended. >> a pastor has been suspended for having sex with a team. bliss say they had consensual sex in august. the officer started the investigation after the father saw explicit text messages on the phone. >>> we can learn whether a school police officer will be fired. the third video shows her punching the deputy during the confrontation. administrators called fields in because the student was disruptive. he has been suspended. >> what i'm looking at is what our school resource officer did. what were his actions? what did he do? that's where i make my determination based on that. >> a civil rights investigation is pending with a justice department. the richland county sheriff said he hopes to have the results of his internal investigation today. >>> today a member of the british royal family will be here in the district. prince harry will meet with president obama later this morning at the white house. the prince is here promoting the invictus gam

the other nurse accused of taking percocet and another drug. three other nurses are being investigated for possibly stealing drugs. >>> we're getting incredible video into the live desk where a bus calling a college rowing team flipped over on a highway in pennsylvania. right now, 20 students are being checked out at several hospitals in bethlehem. the suspect drove away and were pursuing him. the suspect died when officers pursuing him flipped over and went into flames. the bus flipped over. traffic was backed up for miles. about 20 students were on that bus, members of the men and women's crew team. they had a mix of back and knee injuries and possible concuss n concussions but all expected to be okay. >> thank you. >>> it was video you see only on news4, students caught their prince george's bus driver te texting behind the wheel. now, they're change their policy. texting while driving was added as a disciplinary offense. before it was overlooked and now ranges from suspension to termination. >> after the story we realized parents have quest

a recent study found that the muscle relaxant known as flerxeril and the narcotic percocet didn't ease the pain anymore than the drug alone and both drugs have the potential for abuse and addiction. so you should stop asking your doctor for those. >> stick with the ibuprofen in limited amounts. >> yes. >>> for someone with an so -- >> how important it is for you to have epipens all over the to be? >> it is incredibly important. if we didn't have an epipen and he had a reaction, it could be deathly. >> but the price of this life- saving drug has skyrocketed. tonight on wbz news at 11:00, we'll take a closer look at what is behind this troubling trend. >> which is really tough because if your child has allergies you need them all over the place and it sounds like you're going to be spending more to have extras. >> and you know. >> yes. >> thank you. >>> an invasion of privacy. still ahead, one local med school student claims that she caught her professor with a camera in the bathroom. plus, an eye team investigation keeping college students safe in off-campus housing. what has really cha

person sustains an injury, and they get an opiate-based medication prescribed to them like vicodin or percocet, sometimes oxycontin. or they've had a family member that that's happened to that didn't use the medication and so they're just keeping them in the house and the prescription, you know, in the medicine cabinet. and they take one, and they feel high from it, and they begin taking those pills regularly, or trying to get them from their doctor. and then the doctor eventually cuts them off because the regulation and laws surrounding that are getting very serious. so once that gets cut off, those opiate addicts really turn to the streets to find a.. a bigger... a supplement. right. which is usually heroin, and it's actually less expensive than the prescription forms. so, i don't think a lot of people just make the leap from marijuana or alcohol to heroin. they tend to come in from these other routes, where, you know, it's taking a prescription that your doctor gives you because you have a broken ankle-- doesn't necessarily seems dangerous but if you're on those for several months, trying t

her doctor prescribed percocet. >> i took maybe two one day and really i liked the feeling. it was more of a buzz than just the pain gone and i liked that. it would be the beginning of her descent into heroin addiction. >> what happened when you did it the first time? >> i was immediately in love with it, i loved the feeling. when our cameras began following sarah kordenbrock back in 2012 she was trying to kick her heroin habit. >> when did you start using heroin? >> it didn't take long. um, maybe within a year. it got to a point where pain pills were too expensive. >> what did you pay? >> 80 dollars for one pill. i always crushed them down and snorted them. and the boy i was dating at the time, had hidden the fact that he was using heroin from me. and i walked in and found him using heroin and thought i could try it once, it's not going to hurt me one time. >> we went into downtown cincinnati and pulled up to this back alley in the most awful part of town, no place that i should have been. and waited for a stranger to bring us a bag of heroin, and hope that nobody stole our

the other nurse is accused of taking drugs like percocet. both nurses' licenses are now suspended. >>> dennis hastert is expected to plead guilty. sources told nbc news he used tens of thousands of dollars to hide claims of sexual misconduct from decades ago. he's expected to take a plea deal in federal court. if he does, he could spend between 6 months and two years in prison. >> prince harry will meet with president obama later at the white house. he's in our area to promote the invictus games. they' he will meet with wounded soldiers. >>> here comes escobar. the royals win game one! >> you hear that roar? and the celebration. a 14-inning marathon is finally over and the kansas city royals are leading the world series right now. they won the game with that sacrifice fly shortly after 1:00 a.m. that's a long baseball game. there's a lead off inside-the-park home run. critical eighth inning error and a domer that tied it all up in the ninth. not to mention the crazy power outage that suspended the broadcast of the game. the first game -- i t

. >> and didn't give you anything, no percocet, no nothing, just alcohol?> i did not plan -- it was -- it was like two homicidal woodpeckers pounding into my chest for two solid hours for this tiny little thing. >> please tell me they weren't at least singing while doing this? >> there was people singing in the background, people singing popular music off key in the background. >> wow. did you scream or anything? >> i tried to look manly on camera. >> right. >> as i did, but -- no, if the cameras were not rolling, i would have been yelping and weeping and squirming and whining. >> maybe some of that is on the ed room floor. >> do not miss it this sunday night at 9:0 p.m. eastern. >>> cnn tonight with don lemon starts now. >> gop to nbc, you're fired. this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. the republican national committee is suspending its partnership with nbc news for a february debate. what's really going on? and were the cnbc questions any worse than the fox debate questions? our political experts are here tonight and hillary clinton says black lives matte

i was on vicodin, percocet. and it eventually led to heroin. i've been doing heroin a little over 10 years. >> espinosa said he supported his addiction while shoplifting and would then sell the items in boston's ethnic neighborhoods. >> i would grab a rack of ed hardy jeans, fence the stuff, go to the italians, puerto ricans for the clothes. go to the chinese for the electronics that you can get you know, from watches. >> if convicted of his current charges, espinoza could face several years in state prison. >> sad to say, but maybe it's what i need. >> while his legal future is still uncertain, his time in segregation is drawing to a close. he's about to be transferred to general population. >> tomorrow i get out. thank god. get to play in the big box again. out of the little box, into the big box. hate the little box. >> like espinoza, daniel also aspires to be placed on the general population unit. >> got to mingle with the crowd. you get to get out. be with everybody else. i never been to pop. only time i was in pop was in newman. i've neve

percocet, xanax and all of that kind of stuff and heroin. thought it was amazing. >> reporter: you remember even now? >> oh, yeah. let's say i had never done a drug in my life. i normally would be happiness out of 6 or a 7 out of a scale of 10 and heroin and you're automatically at 26 and you're like, i want that again. >> reporter: hanna says the heroin was so addictive that rather quickly she and several other students went from spoking it at parties and then smoking it up at high school. >> like smoking it in the bathroom at high school. >> wow. you can watch sunday's "60 minutes" to see how heroin is so easy to get and what communities are doing to stop the overdoses. i hope that is a real wake-up call. >> me too. it's not a party drug. >> we keep hearing more and more people are trying it. >> who you least expect. >>> ahead, can drivers handle the new autopilot technology that is already on the on road? >> i'm john blackstone. highway 280 through silicon valley, driving or well, actually not driving, a tesla in autopilot feature. we wil

percocet, xanax, vicodin. all that kind of stuff. then heroin.first. >> you were 15? >> yeah. i was like, oh, my gosh, it was amazing. >> you remember it even now? >> oh, yeah. let's say i had never done drugs in my life, i would normally be a 6 or 7. when you take heroin, you're at like 26. and i wanted that again. >> reporter: she says rather quickly she and several other students went from smoking it at parties to shooting it up at high school. >> like doing it at school, in the bathroom. >> reporter: a certificate syri? >> a syringe. i would have it in my purse, ready to go. >> watch on sunday to see how easy heroin is to get and what communities are doing to prevent deaths from overdoses. >> she learned the hard way. >> you keep hearing more and more people are trying it. >> people you least expect. >>> ahead, can drivers handle the new auto pilot technology that's already on the road? >> reporter: i'm john blackstone, driving, or actually not driving, a tesla in auto pilot feature. we'll have more on tesla's auto pilot coming up on "cbs thi

it went from oxycontin to percocet. i got my stuff addicted to them. blame the doctor some but when still wenturting, i and got pain medication. why can't the doctors do more here? our president was just here in west virginia on wednesday talking about how he wants to put more drug rehabs in west virginia. why can't the doctors understand , this guy has been on painkillers for eight years, he should not be hurting anymore. they cut me straight off. i had to go through four treatment centers to get clean. for two years i have been straight and sober and i've done it myself. response.ill get a thank you for sharing your story with us. guest: coming off yourself is a difficult thing. millionabout 10 to 12 -- 10 million to 12 million americans who have been put on long-term opioids for chronic pain conditions. the best available evidence is telling us that the vast majority of them are not doing well. the we look at where we see greatest number of opioid overdose deaths, it is individuals who are receiving legitimate prescriptions from doctors for chronic