. >> jason said his addiction started after taking a percocet from a back injury three years ago. a year later he took to heroin. his sister also became addicted. describes one of his lowest moments was when his sister hit rock bottom. >> odie. the paramedics. it really was disturbing. the only thing that really was keeping her alive. >> now, his 2nd attempt at rehab. there herehab. there he worked for the chiropractor will help to manage his back pain. most of the staff for recovering addicts. one of the counselors thought addiction for years. it worked closely with jason. >> ultimately is russian roulette. one shot. i think that is some of the emotional negativity that can come. the situations and circumstances, it's so rewarding. >> one of the owners of the spot, what he really wants people to know, there are many success stories. >> depending on what phase they are at home we allow them to go out. if they fail it's okay. we do believe it is a chronic disease characterized by relapse. >> over for seven months. you're never fully over it because it is such a powerful drug. peopl

. - immediate-release opioids like morphine, vicodin and percocet will have strong risks of misusing the drugs and how that can lead to and death... - and now, labels for going to say they should only be taken when there are no other treatments - florida has had a huge prescription drug abuse in the past...between 2003 and 2009, deaths spiked by 61 percent...forcing make it harder for people to get their hands on drugs they might get addicted to - the result? over the next few years, deaths started going down. - the fda's label changes are all part of a bigger effort to keep people from getting addicted and keep them from having to make trips to the hospital - i'm looking into what else other initiatives are happening...i'll have more on that at 6. - live in tampa, emerald morrow, 10news, wtsp. florida's next music festival experiment just suffered and major setback, and it hasn't even happened yet. our partners at the tampa bay times are reporting the orlando moonstone music festival is postponed until september. event organizers say the event is now at the center of a major cyber f

. >> heroin and oxycontin, percocet, they're basically the same thing. >> from chiefs to sheriffs, nobody i've talked to that's not concerned about heroin. >> you can watch our special report on what experts are calling a heroin epidemic on our website at wncn.com. national title. >> the latest from rhode island. >> reporter: the teams are starting arrive here as duke and uncw tip things off on thursday. today, it was all about taking things in. if any champions are familiar with the tournament, several players will be back this year. buffalo basketball team. >> everyone's excited. everyone wants to know who you're facing and what your practice schedule is like. everyone experiencing this. just to see their reactions on certain things. >> now, it's down to business uncw blocks away. all in anticipate of the match on thursday. following it every step of the day. stay with cbs, your home of north carolina news. >>> we are your home for march madness. we'll have dave traveling with the blue devils. >> and reporter todd gibson. who they'll be playing after the matchup. >> what's coming up in

. >> john: stem an epidemic of abuse tied to vicodin and percocet. a boxed warning will be added to 200 opiod painkillers. >>> a new book says david petraeus confided in many e-mailse-mails hecommitted something terrible and dishonorable by having an affair. revelations in a new book by jill kelly who complained to the f.b.i. northbound 2012 when an unknown person sent her harassing e-mails. her complaint triggered a criminal investigation that led agents to expose the affair. >> christine: fresh supplies rocketing toward the international space station. the cargo took off last night. >> christine: the unmanned at lastlasv rocket is on the way. >>> shawn manning has been fighting leukemia since last november but wanted to do something for his girlfriend victoria green. he asked staff at the hospital to help him plan a promposal, he credit also green with keeping his spirits high and he is battles his disease, you see the surprise on her face. the with the ask happened. very nice. good stuff. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and

but when he broke his foot, his doctor prescribed the addictive pain killer percocet. sot/ robert king, recovering taking pills, i never really stopped narr-3 in just a few years, he moved heroin. its a trend seen all across the country. one study shows adolescent athletes in high- injury sports are 50 percent more likely to abuse prescription pain killers. jason ruggeri started taking painkillers after injuring his knee during college football practice. kenneth: did your doctor warn you about how powerful they can be? ruggeri: no. pain pills led to heroin, which led to an accidental overdose. :51-:56 jason ruggeri/recovering heroin addict sot: it also left me completely homeless and on the streetboth former athletes found treatment at st. christopher s inn, which runs one of new york s most successful rehab programs. director david gerber says about a quarter of the shelter )s residents are athletes. 1:10- 1:19 sot/ david gerber/ director of counseling and shelter services, st. christopher s inn these medications mask the pain but do nothing to treat the injury. so it

we caught her with a bunch of xanax, percocet, stuff inside her vagina.then, when she comes in the facility, security comes and we interview her. >> angela has been booked into the jail several times since she was a minor. she's back after failing a drug test, which is a violation of parole on a prior conviction of attempted burglary. >> bellianos. >> hi, santa cruz. >> back in the facility. >> i violated parole this time. i peed dirty twice. >> you have nothing on you now? >> whatever i had is gone. skated right underneath. >> so you came in and brought heroin with you? >> yeah. i didn't right away because i thought you would come after me. >> if i was here i would have. >> when you got search in property they didn't find it. >> it was in me. >> up inside of you. >> i always do it that way. >> that's your m.o. >> that's my m.o. it goes inside. >> so 100% gone. >> it's 100% gone now. right off the bat. there is no cameras in the holding cell. >> no, she sniffed it off the bench. >> off the bench. >> you haven't changed. [ laughter ] >> no, i haven't. >> n

his addiction started with percocet and the doses were raised constantly in considerably in a short time he received a settlement settlement from the insurance company, $90000. after a sign that check the insurance company wiped her hands clean. they're not going to pay for any medical treatment. larry thought that 90,000 dollars would last through this ailment and more. no and more. no longer getting prescriptions he still need to pay medication. he went underground dealers for his fix. the $90000 was completely gone in seven and half months. months. with no money and a burning need for fixing his body and mind he turned to heroin like people do. >> someone introduced me to heroin. >> we drove through north kansas to the exact place were his lowest point. the place he would shoot up. watching him silently look around move me. many motions must have been running through his mind. larry is now clean and ready to tackle his life. >> i'm happy that i don't go through this anymore. what i want to say to anybody struggling, there is help out there you just have to ask for it. take initiative

country, it says, is in the midst of an endickic of pain killer abuse, strong opiates with names percocet, oxycodone and oxycontin and now the cdc is urging doctors to reconsider whether the opiates they prescribe are really necessary. >> reporter: these painkillers are very addictive. they are opiod medications and have the same chemical properties in it as heroin. >> reporter: in jacksonville, sarah willons, a mother of four was taking up to 35 hydrocodone pills a day. >> i was taking painkillers to get out of bed in the morning, to be able to function on any level. >> reporter: it started when her doctor prescribed the opiates after she suffered serious injuries in a car accident. for years opiates were the drug of choice for treating serious pain, especially after surgery or injury. now the cdc says they should no longer be the first choice. telling doctors to use ice, tylenol or ibuprofen first and avoid opiates if the patient is already on certain anti-angst it meds. if prescribing opiates start with a low dose. three days should be enough for most patients. >> it's terrible. dying.

. >>> a prescription warning. labels you'll see on vicodin and percocet in an effort to reduce deaths. >> a huge night for the night. we'll show you how they took down detroit and moved into >>> 4:43. check out this new video from cape canaveral this morning. an atlas 5 rocket successfully delivering severaltons of food, experiments and other supplies station. >>> in pasco county homeowners there still recovering from years. >> you may recall last summer floodwaters swamped neighborhoods, damaged a lot of homes and destroyed roads. >> abc action news reporter marisela burgos explains how pasco county, they are making sure there won't be a repeat this summer. >> i wanted to see firsthand done. >> reporter: pasco county commissioner katherine starkey walked through some of the spots underwater last summer. she wanted to see for herself the improvements they've made to avoid that from happening again. >> it looks good to me. i'm so glad it's dry right now, and we have not had that el nino situation that we were all dreading. >> reporter: to try to make it better next time the county remo

part of a campaign to stem addiction and deaths from the use of drugs like vicodin and percocet. the job fair is taking place at the crown center from 9 until 2:00. it is free and open to the public. job seekers are advised to dress professionally, bring resumes and be prepared for short on the spot interviews and help for those applying to jobs on line. >>> a survey find there is clear generational divide when paying for small purchases. >> a real interesting study, from credit cards.com, says 41% of people under the age of 50 prefer cash for purchases less than $5. 40% for using a debit card, among the older crowd, 50 and older, cash is the winner at 74%. millenials are the most likely to use debit and credit cards. >>> it was a reunion that was long overdue. >> the library book returned to how the school responded. >>> something that's almost unhead of these days the reason a plane full of passengers was kept in the dark as word of the spread around the world. >>> president obama ordered flags, military posts to be flown at half staff through victims of the brussels attacks. t

shipped through mexico and nowto dealers are making moreug moneye by disguising it as oxycodone percocetwhichnt wh sell for mr. money. mr. m it's easy to get on line or l other street.tr >> it's like playing russianlays roulette. they don't know what they'rether getting.in they know that it's potent andpt that's what they want. they >> reporter: a drug treatment specialist foren decades says the problem has reached a fevered pitch. p >> we see more and more people coming in for treatment.reat they're younger and younger. yog you can do everything andnd suddenly find yourself asking ak what happened. hap >> reporter: miss ryan lost her son casey to a fentanylta overdose. >> when i got the autopsy thatt it was a hundred percent p fentanyl i knew in my heart of n hearts that casey had no ideao what he was taking. >> never in my wildest dreamsst did i ever think anything like this would happen. >> parents never do. the biggest concern now is ift o fentanyl is being disguised as other meds in pill form, the dea says kids are getting a g together to so-called pharm parties,rm part, everyone b

new information about certain painkillers like vicodin and percocet. they will have warning labels and will say that they should be used only when other medications and therapies cannot control pain. among the most severe warning label there is will be required on immediate releases. additional safety labeling changes will also be required. according to the cdc more than 40 million americans die everyday from prescription overdoses. injected benadryl into her sick son's feeding tube has been ordered to stay away from him. jessica valle pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment earlier this month. cincinnati children's hospital was treating her 4-year-old for a rare skin disease when she injected the medicine into his tube. in exchange for the guilty plea prosecutors dropped more serious felony charges. yesterday a judge sentenced her to 180 days in jail. she's already served most of them so she will be released in seven days. >>> sad new developments this morning. former toronto mayor rob ford lost his battle with cancer. his family announcing y

the goal being to reduce fraud and fake prescriptions for opioid-based painkillers like percocet or oxycontin. >> we have a certain amount of time to work out the kinks. it should be getting to e-prescribe. be able to see are there individual providers that aren't capable of doing it due to an electric hiccup in the system. christina: the system will take getting used to. the prescriptions can only be sold at the pharmacy that it mandatory on march 27th. >> let's hope nick writes the prescription for sunshine. nick: it's going to be a little challenge to get here. we had a beautiful weekend. march has sunk in. what an ugly day it's been. cloudy, cool, damp, gusty wind, and we started out at 51 early on. it's really been around the lower 40s most of the afternoon. that's our low for the day at 40s. our current is where we should be. we got spoiled by the weather. we've had .2 of an inch of rain. there's the new sunrise and sunset times. 7:07 is your sunrise. down at 7:02. northeast winds have been gusty and keeping a chill in the air. again, earlier, lower 50s, but we've been down much since t

administration announced plans to announce the most serious type of warnings on all drugs such as vicodin and percocet. the link to misuse and prescription opiates climbed to 19,000 in 2014. >>> former toronto mayor, rob ford died of cancer today. he was only 46 years old. drinking and drug abuse. scenes of has drunken escapades made headlines around the world three years ago. but get this. voters by a wide margin chose to elect to return him to office. >>> the house has passed the bill. women continue to have their ashes placed at arlington national tem terry. -- cemetery. they free up mail pilots for combat. during the war, they are considered civilians. but since 1977, federal law has granted them status as veterans. they have placed military honors. but the army revoked their eligibility last year. >>> coming up on wusa 9 at 6:00. police say they're finally closing in on a person who killed a local storekeeper, 24 years ago today. >>> up next, a af at weis to provide choices besthat offer youyou the best prices, quality and selection choose wegmans family pack <

. >>> if you take painkillers like vicodin, percocet, you will soon see the labels on the bottles the fda is adding warning label specifying the truck should only be used when other medications and treatments cannot control pain. this is part of an effort to curb the abuse of painkillers. >>> a lot of unwanted guests and unlikely neighborhood are being kicked out. take a look here, very closely, there are honeybees, 80,000 of them. beekeepers say the bees have been here deciphers long as two years. this community did not notice until last week. beekeepers came in and bees in a box. >> we carry them to an apiary and let them about their lives. >> wildlife control says these are needed for the environment to pollinate plants. >>> some real improvement plan summer. improvements happening from the debary station and bruce -- volusia county down to the sam lake road station in orange county. officials say it will make things safer for the trains, the railroad. >>> if you live in orlando you know how bad traffic and get. a study from the gps company tom-tom says orlando is one of the top 20

painkillers such as ox i con continue, percocet and vicodin are now routinely prescribed for common ailments like back pain. the cdc estimates there are 40 endorsements a day from painkillers. >>> all right, well now to some sports. the first two games of this year's march madness tournament are done. >> we get the highlights from espn. >>> good morning. america. he's stan, i'm neil. inside where it counts. >> ncaa tournament. first four kicked off tuesday night. wichita state and vanderbilt. >> oh, he's repping. >> wichita state, three years ago, they were in the final four. last year in the sweet 16, still got ron baker and still fred van bleat. baker had 14 points. van bleat had 14 points and up nine, baker to connor frank camp. wichita state stellar defensively as well and win by 20. bring on arizona 30. >>> florida gulf coast, fairleigh dickinson. this one wasn't fairly close. it was all florida gulf coast. that was the first game of the city. seth greenberg went to farleigh dickinson. that one from research. florida gulf coast advances and win by 31. >>> more games on wednesday. friday

women struggling with addiction to opioids, prescription painkillers like oxycodone, vicodin, and percocetand heroin. as a result, the number of babies born withdrawing from those drugs, has soared. the rate is three times the national average in tennessee, which has the second-highest rate of opioid prescribing in the u.s. in response, two years ago, tennessee became the first state to empower prosecutors to charge mothers with fetal assault for using opioids while pregnant. sponsors said it was not intended to punish women but to get them treatment and protect their babies. this past week, tennessee legislators voted to discontinue the law, because it was found not to help women and had unintended consequences. doctors testified the threat of arrest kept many addicted pregnant women from seeking treatment and prenatal care. critics also said the law drove some addicts to get abortions. in a related move, the food and drug administration announced last week it will issue warning labels for 175 prescription painkillers, saying they should be taken only after other medications and physical

doctors say it often starts with pain killers and it often happens someone gets a prescription for percocetxycontin. they aren't monitored properly and they get hooked. >> i was in a really bad car accident which started the progression of this. and it really didn't take long for me to become a full-blown addict. the heroin came later. i did the pain killer thing for a little bit. and it just got to the point where that didn't, you know, that didn't work. i needed something stronger. >> doctors say bo's situation isn't all that unusual. some blame the rise in heroin addiction over the overprescription of pain killers. earlier this week, the cdc releasedç new guidelines for providing opiates because of the rise in addiction. bo is one of the people we met as part of our in-depth look at the epidemic. join reporters as they take us into the tragic world of heroin and opioid addiction right here in the philadelphia area and beyond. watch "generation addicted" right here at 7:00 p.m. >>> in south carolina, a firefighter died after being hit by his own pfeiffer truck. the truck was backing up t

. >> i started with vicodin and percocets and graduated to oxycontin. >> how long until you used heroin? >> it didn't take long. i wanted to try it, and i fell in love. it took all the fear out and all that resentment and shame and guilt and all that. >> how many kids do you have? >> i have three. >> three kids. have they visited you? >> no, they haven't. they're very mad at me, which really saddens me. i mean, i know they love me, but they're giving me tough love this time. i beg my mother to put them on the phone, but they don't want to talk to me right now because i died. they just want me to get it right this time. it sucks. it really does. i often wonder why i have this addiction, you know? >> even though the state has an increasing number like cain grappling with addiction, new hampshire ranks 49th in the country for access to treatment. as a result, the prison system has become one of the only treatment centers available. >> whether i started to do this work 25 years ago, i could choose from any number of treatment centers to send people to, hospitals, detoxes, intensive outpatie

somebody that wants to come in with pain, a very easy response is to give medication like percocet. with percocet, if i only give a few, they go back to their primary care doctor who then give them more. before you know it, you've got this vicious cycle of patients on the downward spiral towards dependcy. >> are patients cheating saying i have pain, my amplgle hurts give me a vicodin? >> i think people want relief for symptoms and sometimes, they don't feel like they have alternatives and they have to convince the doctor. goals are talk to our patients, communicate with our patients. let them know what alternatives exist. how they can get rid of pain without pills. >> thank you very much, guys. this is where it's all starting at st. joseph's medical center. maybe the rest of the country will pick this up, ainsley, and we'll see a fight in the emergency room. back to you. >> we appreciate what they're doing there. thank you so much, great job, dr. segal. >>> coming up would you want this on your plane, the tsa just let this through and now trying to explain why. >>> plus, inside an a

the pain kill kirs such as oxycontin, percocet and vicodin are now commonly prescribed to treat back pain and arthritis. >> doctors when they're treating patients with chronic pain should start with aspirin or nondrug approaches like exercise. for those people who have acute pain after surgery, they can be treated to for three days, seven at the most and switch to something much safer. >> the cdc estimates there are 40 deaths a day from opioid pain killers. experts say also guard against addiction and other problems by talking with doctors. >> on there morning, after several major political developments, a heartwarming symbol of our country. >> look at those little three little baby bald eagles hatched in the twin cities. minnesota department of natural resources has been keeping an eye on the eggs for nearly two months. they're using this eagle cam and all three eaglettes seem to be thriving it looks like. >> i didn't know there there were eaglettes. >> whether you think america is great or it was great, take heart from this growing bald eagle family. they look great. >> they hatche

doctors to only use the powerful meds in extreme cases and for short painkillers such as oxycontin, percocet and vicodin are now routinely prescribed for common ailments like back pain. the cdc estimates there are 40 deaths a day from painkillers. >>> all right, well now to some sports. the first two games of this year's march madness tournament are done. >> we get the highlights from espn. >>> good morning, america. he's stan. i'm neil. we're fired up inside where it counts. >> ncaa tournament. first four kicked off tuesday night, wichita state and vanderbilt. >> oh, he's repping. >> wichita state, three years ago, they were in the final four. last year they were in the sweet 16 first this year. they still got ron baker and still got fred vanvleet. baker had 14 points. vanvleet had 14 points and with four minutes to play they're up nine. baker to conner frankamp. wichita state stellar defensively as well and win by 20. bring on arizona thursday. >>> florida gulf coast, this one wasn't fairly close. it was all florida gulf coast. that was the first game of the game. you remember dunk city. m

interestingly enough, you mentioned percocet and darvon. percocet is still around. it is a staple medication used for short term acute pain. darvon isn't though. the fda several years ago found that it wasn't their effect is and withdrew it from the market. and though, the regulators do keep up with research and are constantly looking at nature of medications. and at times taking them away when the risks not outweigh the benefits of them. so some things do change to the benefit. we don't see it anymore because it's not on the market anymore and that is mostly because there was a black of risk-benefit information. but like i said, companies are chasing the pharmaceutical industry with as much as we get from time to time, we really do viewers saw as a to try to improve the health and well-being of people in a safer manner as possible. i hope that is the message i can relate on behalf of the entire industry. >> there's also a lot of research that seems to be going on with medical marijuana and madison area with a number of entities looking into whether that can address

prosecutors say edwin rothman sold percocet and other pills from his office during a two and a half year sting operation. troopers say roth man's office did not contain much in the way of medical equipment or supplies. some neighbors say they thought the practice kept odd hours but they didn't expect a police raid. >> there's a big prescription drug epidemic in the country and it's an interesting contrast from the street dealers. so it's interesting to see that kind of crime on all levels. >> dr. rothman's bail was set at $150,000. >> such a sad story. a month ago i was out there when 12-year-old sandford harling last his life. he went back into his house trying to get his father out of the father. he didn't realize the dad had already jumped and got out a life and the boy did not make it out. the grieving family is speaking. >> i don't know any other kids that would have took that chance to run into a house with flames burning to save his father's life or his mother's life. >> reporter: from his dad in a rehabilitation hospital in havertown. he can't shake the pain, the memory, the visi

this is exactly what the doctor ordered, that and a refill from a percocet.eird chp call in california. there was a unicorn on the loose. it was a shetland pony that went gal lopping into cloud cuckooland. the unicorn's name is juliet. her human mommy is someone named sandra. they were eventually able to lure the magical pony with ambrosia. and they brought juliet home after a three-hour fairytale where one of the pursuing officers were heard saying this. i'm too old for this [bleep]. iewn foreigns aren't just prides for their magic horns. let's see what happened to juliet when she got back to the wrong family. >> boy, does junior go for them, and is likes them, too, and sis likes them too, so let's have a barbeque. kennedy: topic number three. attention americans. tom brady has a new puppy, and his name is fluffy. never let your children name your pets. he revealed the newest brady canine to the world via facebook and a touching whom and to "the lion king." that's a cute dog. which remind me of the time i saw a lion while i was visiting ghana. take a look. t

apply it is part of a bigger federal epidemic of abuse and death tried to drugs such as vicodin and percocet. >>> an ohio board is recommending that state lawmakers increase the tobacco task and boost the age to 21. this is just one of many ideas, leaders of the ohio commission included in a report released at a news conference at the state house. the other recommendations included improvements to collection of data and building on interventions and strengthening the health system. >>> let's check in with motion jason nicholas. >> the sunshine is out there. mostly cloudy skies across the lakes and you head inland south and west, sunshine. here is a live look. astubula mostly cloudy skies and the sun well off to the west here. today is a good blend of sun and sunshine and the good news than what we have seen so far to start spring. let's take a look. astubula, a steady rain across route 2 and see that area of yellow indicating a heavier little shower there. north and also off to the east of astubula. in geneva and portions of lake county and geauga. we are drying things out. upper 60s and low

addiction on opioids that you have to take every 4 to 6 hours drugs include morphine, vicodin and percocet. some say a more effective way to attack the problem is to find ways to keep the painkillers out of the hands of prescriptions especially since the center for disease control says nonmedical use of the drug is a big part of the prescription painkiller abuse problem. center for disease control workers say 12 million americans admitted to using prescription painkillers without having a prescription in the past and they also say this epidemic sense of tens of thousands of americans to the hospital every single year and that middle-age americans are the group at the highest risk. emerald morrow, 10 news. >>> haskell county. trinity area was one of the worst areas affected by the floods. water dumped into entire neighborhoods. pascoe county sprinting -- spending millions clearing out canals. pasco county commissioner katherine starkey and homeowner association representatives toward the improvements on wednesday. >> cleaning out the canals will help flush the water faster. >> for this post