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many teenagers, she had her wisdom teeth pulled at 16, and was sent home with a 30-day supply of percocet. >> then came the day where i took the pills off the shelf behind the stuffed animal that i had hid them behind and proceeded to take them. >> reporter: she quickly moved on to stronger opioids. >> i learned i could smoke them. and my life forever changed. >> what do you wish now? given what you know now. >> i wish that the dentist would have talked more to my parents about the potential consequences. >> reporter: a recent study in the journal of the american medical association found after a tooth extraction, 61% of 14 to 17-year-olds walked out with a prescription. dr. paul moore at the university of pittsburgh is spearheading an effort to get dentists and dental students to change how they prescribe. >> we need to stop and say, now, wait. >> reporter: moore says for about half of patients, over-the-counter pain relievers are enough. >> many patients who have their wisdom teeth taken out never need or require vicodin or percocet or any of those opioids. >> reporter: ashley told her

gave him the percocet and in what amount.s he doctor shopping and ele collecting drugs from various doctors. so a lot of questions have to be answered. if these were illegal drugs, that raises a whole other spector of where he got the drugs from. but just so sad that at 57 years old, this has gone to opiate overdose. it's a terrible, terrible loss. >> seven time grammy award winner. there is so much that you can say there in the loss. but perhaps the bigger picture is what we can learn from this. i am still curious about the forensic findings, whatever the toxicology will put forth. this is the one line the star tribune saying it's an opioid overdose. but you mentioned it before, oftentimes these deaths are not just from the opioids but a combination can the benzodiazepines. and would the toxicology report also indicate clearly that b benzodiazepines could be partially to blame and thus we might be able to see other prescriptions or nonprescribed drugs in the house? i'm trying to figure out where investigators would go to fin

still under the influence of percocet because they had to give him some percocet for the pain.ut he's doing good. he's got a lot of support. the whole family was there. >> and by family, you say sisters, he has a number of sisters. >> three. >> oh, this being one of them? >> this is the smallest, here. and is all the sisters. and -- >> got it. so is he going to school or what's his situation? >> no. he works. he lives in winter haven, but he works here in orlando. >> so, again, we're talking about a person who was wounded, angel colon, shot in the back of the right leg and later in the left leg and the hand and who survived and will be here at least a week, his father says. >> and in case after case, we have met through television these families, the survivors, the relatives, they're all nice people, life was cruising along. they had a loved one go to a bar on a saturday night and then everything came to a halt. still unknown, jacob, is how the this guy got an ar-15 into a bar and, yet, managed to sit at the bar and have a drink with that large a weapon concealed. i just -- unl

still on the influence of percocet. they had to give him percocet for the pain. he is doing good. he is doing good. he has a lot of support. the whole family was there. >> reporter: by family, you say sisters. he has a number of sisters? >> three. this is the smallest from this point. and all the sisters. two of them more. >> reporter: does he live here going to school? >> no. he works. he works. he works in orlando. >> reporter: so again, we're talking about a person who was wounded, 26 years old, shot in the back of the right leg and then later in the left leg and in the hand and who survived and who will be here at least a week his father says. brian? >> in case after case, we have kind of met through television these families, the survivors, the relatives. they are nice people. life was cruising along. they had a loved one go to a bar on a saturday night and then everything came to a halt. still unknown, jacob, is how this guy got an ar-15 into a bar and yet managed to sit at the bar and have a drink with that large a weapon concealed. i just -- unless he stowed it somewhere a

. >> most never need or require vicodin or percocets. >> the university of pittsburgh is spear get dentists how they prescribe. >>> here's inspiration for you. prom queen, graduated at the top of her class, has a full ride to college for free. she did it all by the age of 16 and all while living in a homeless shelter. destiny calls d.c. general home, the hospital home with her mom and sister. she says the shelter humbled her, gave her motivation to succeed. so she took classes on saturdays on-line and over the summer to graduate early. >> i want to help people like me h. i want to give back to my community and help. that's why i want to be a principal. i don't want to live in a shelter when i get older. i want to make better of my life. >> talk about impressive. while destiny did receive a scholarship she is trying to raise money for books and other expenses. if you want to help her go to our nbc washington app an just >> so impressive. >>> a local school is now a piece of history. today the arlington county board designated the stratford school a local historic district. >> stratford schoo

he's charged with selling oxycodone percocet and xanax to an undercover agent in return for sexual favorsreceptionist is also charged in the case. >> pennsylvania lawmakers have taken another step forward to possibly impeaching kathleen kane. a state subcommittee investigating the attorney general has authorized its chairman to issue subpoenaes on its behalf. kane has continued to serve the office with a suspended law license as she a waits trial for charges that she leaked secret grand jury information. >> 5:57 now. next and new this morning, a suspected donation thief doesn't get far when a businesbusiness owner catches ty in the act. >> toyota issues a air bag recall can which is separate from the takata products. >> ♪ >> "action news." delaware valley 's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala edwards, karen rogers and meteorologist, david murphy. >> ♪ good morning. its 6 o'clock on this wednesday june 29th and developing this morning, terror in turkey. >> asian stan bull's main airport is partially reopened this morning hours after three suicide bombers killed at least thre

addicted to things like heroin, which, you know, obviously is an illegal drug, but also oxycontin, percocet, prescription drugs like that. and a recent pbs special asked this question that i think a lot of people don't ask. why wasn't there such a wave of compassion for drug addicts when blacks were addicted to crack back in the 1990s? anyone want to answer that question? >> well, i would think -- >> why is it different now, is the question. >> i think because of the geographic distribution of this, you know, the fact that you've got legal drugs that are being abused, that wind up being a gateway to illegal drugs, to much more damaging drugs over time. so i think that may be a reason. >> much more widespread. i mean, we're talking about a virtual epidemic. it also, by the way, affects the african american community -- this problem -- as well as the white community. it affects all communities, and i'm gonna save my inside story to get into another aspect of this. >> right, but i do have to say that this question has been asked in the african american community. i was there in harrisburg work

and they say to a man, they would much rather use something like medical marijuana than the percocete seen a previous generation of players use and abuse. they've seen what opioid addiction can do. they've seen it for years. >> absolutely. that's one of the most critical points. i think that when we look at the prevention survey to showed a greater acceptance of the use of medical marijuana, that's what's underlying it. for instance, here's what we know -- someone degrees of a prescription overdose -- someone degrees of a prescription overdose every 19 minutes. opioid painkillers kill thousands every year. lethal overdoses with marijuana aren't a concern. they've been documented rarely if ever. so while we still need more evidence to show what medical marijuana can do, when it's effective, we definitely know when it comes to treating pain it's safer than the opioid drugs, percocet, vicodin, ox condon. >> -- oxycontin. >> you're less likely to die from an overdose. >>> millions of customer getting free tickets, next. ters heart was set on going to the zoo. so we said if you need safel

i mean all these kids get started with vicodin, percocet and oxy, and then they can't afford an $80 pill and they move to heroin at $10 a bag. it's become a national epidemic, and you guys have actually teamed up. so i congratulate you. >> if you go to opioid recovery.com, patrick kennedy's showing real leadership. we have a bipartisan team working on this. we think it is possible to use new, modern breakthroughs with medication therapies that really help save lives. and remember that the total drug deaths annually are greater than deaths from automobiles. >> scary. >> so this is a real problem for america. >> all right, mr. speaker. thank you. >>> coming up, more on the house select committee's report on benghazi. we'll get reaction from congressman mike pompeo and chris tanto peronto. he was one of the heroes that night. plus elizabeth warren hitting the campaign trail with hillary clinton. later tonight, we'll expose warren's controversial positions and why trump calls her pocahontas. all that and more tonight on "hannity." >>> i want her to apologize to me for calling me a liar on tv

>> i had percocet. is there a possibility for this? >> we go undercover to see how easy it is. plus, actress mackenzie phillips gets real. >> you go from opioid-prescribed medications. the doctors cut you off. it's not a hard jump from there to smoking heroin. >> are we one script from being hooked? >> i insist on recovering out oud. dr. oz: this season we are facing addiction head on. one in three families is affected by substance abuse. yet 90% of those who need treatment don't receive it. we need to change that.

prince reportedly struggled with a long-term addiction to the opioid painkiller percocet.sed the drug for pain from hip and ankle injuries. >>> number two. taylor and calvin call it quits. ♪ say you'll remember me >> everyone is asking, what went wrong? >> first started around may 2 when taylor didn't bring calvin with her to the met ball. and then calvin got into the car crash on may 20th. and "e.t." has learned taylor was there supporting him and mending him back to recovery. from what we know so far, nothing dramatic happened. no one cheated. it wasn't a dramatic split. it was just two people that really felt that it was their time to move on and go their separate ways. >>> and the number one story this week, johnny depp and amber heard's new divorce drama. a bloody lip, bruising under her right eye. "people" magazine has newly revealed pictures taken by amber's friend from another alleged incident last december when the actress, quote, truly feared my life was in danger. we reached out to johnny's reps and did not hear back by our deadline. but depp's lawyer previously

face lift the doctor prescribed hydrocordone and ambien and her doctor asked him to pre-describe percocet and valium. to alexis that seem ed like too much medication. >> the plastic surgeon said he told him what medicine to prescribe to her. >> isn't it the surgeon that does that? >> yes. that was strange. >> and still strange was what happened after her mother died and alexis went looking for those pills, asked her dad about them. >> he told me, the police must have taken them. i later found out he had my brother and his girlfriend flush them down the toilet and throw the bottles away. his reasoning for that he told them it made him too sad looking at having her medication there. >> very unpleasant thoughts rattled around in alexis' head. then there was the business of the funeral. my father was very adamant to have her funeral right away. >> at the funeral, said his daughters, martin talked less about his wife of nearly 30 years than he did about himself. >> lord, i thought i was your boy, lord, i thought i was doing a good job, lord, are you there? as the hours passed last night, the a

i mean all these kids get started with vicodin, percocet and oxy, and then they can't afford an $80 pill and they move to heroin at $10 a bag. it's become a national epidemic, and you guys have actually teamed up. so i congratulate you. >> if you go to opioid recovery.com, patrick kennedy's showing real leadership. we have a bipartisan team working on this. we think it is possible to use new, modern breakthroughs with medication therapies that really help save lives. and remember that the total drug deaths annually are greater than deaths from automobiles. >> scary. >> so this is a real problem for america. >> all right, mr. speaker. thank you. >>> coming up, more on the house select committee's report on benghazi. we'll get reaction from congressman mike pompeo and chris tanto peronto. he was one of the heroes that night. plus elizabeth warren hitting the campaign trail with hillary clinton. later tonight, we'll expose warren's controversial positions and why trump calls her pocahontas. all that and more tonight on "hannity." those hot dogs look good. oh yeah, hebrew national. their all

and i've been prescribing percocet and oxycontin, floated around for several days. and i'll tell you this, i quit cold turkey, too, on it because i would rather have a clear head and pain than deal with a drug addiction and depression. i think we're not being intellectually honest here today and whether dr. crow would like to give his, you know, professional opinion, if you can't speak to the medical side or yourself, give me one good reason why we should not implement this absent the already given opinion of further study. >> dr. crow, would you like to -- >> stand and just raise your right hand. can you stand? do you swear the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? okay. the witness answered in the affirmative. >> thank you, mr. chairman, the ranking member and the committee. >> you can do your microphone, sir. and thank you for being here today. >> i push this? okay. thank you very much for the question. first of all, i think we're mistakenly confusing a couple of issues, opioids are not used

armed suspect also reportedly got away with $3,500 worth of the drug percocet. >>> international cycling classic, returns to the streets of philadelphia. hundreds will line the course from manayunk to kelly drive through the schuylkill river. cherri gregg from our sister station kyw news radio is live with the iconic manayunk wall. are you starting to see people come out. >> reporter: yes, i expect a lot of people to come out even though this is a rain or shine event. rain is expect. people have already begun to gather. as you can see behind me there are trucks coming through, a lot of the teams are showing up with their bikes on the rooftops of cars, you can see all of the organizers gathering, the announcers gathering, security is very tight here, police all around and i'm here with gisele jones, deputy managing director for the city of philadelphia come on in here. gisele, good morning. >> how are you doing. >> fantastic, thank you for asking and welcome to race day. >> reporter: city has been working all day to prepare for this monstrous race that takes up a large part of the city. w

opio opioids, fentanyl is this strongest and most dangerous in that umbrella that includes heroin, percocetrphine and legally pre-described by doctors and hospitals for people in extreme pain even the last st e stages of terminal cancer. the dea says supplies of fentanyl on the streets to be bought illegally have gone up and there has been a spike in fatal overdoses of the drugs. and the question is how did prince get his hands on such a dangerous drug? was it a legal prescription or illegal and that will be at the foundation of any criminal charges. >> stephanie, thanks so much for reporting from minnesota. >>> in the midst of a national opioid epidemic, one police chief in a small massachusetts town is fighting the war on drugs with a unique solution. it does not involve jail time. we'll have that report after the break. >> i'm alex trebek. if you're age 50 to 85, i have an important message about security. write down the number on your screen, so you can call when i finish. the lock i want to talk to you about isn't the one on your door. this is a lock for your life insurance, a rate loc

. >> many patients never need or require vicodin or percocets or any of those opioids. >> the university of pittsburgh is now spearheading an effort to get dentists to change how their prescribe after wisdom tooth procedures. >>> coming up, the teenage girl d.c. can't help but be proud of. her success despite all the odds against her. news 4 midday is back in >>> right now on news 4 midday we're tracking more chances for severe weather. our storm team 4 radar is already picking up the system headed our way. this after a night of tornadoes flooded metro stations and the snapping of a lot of trees out there. we had 64 reports of severe weather. >> the damage is significant in parts of howard county. a tornado dragged along the ground for 12 minutes before finally breaking up. wbal's omar jimenez shows us how it looks right now. >> reporter: good morning, guys. across howard county, and there will be a lot for families to clean up in the aftermath of this tornado. in woodbine a family, teen and mom were at a farm when it came through. some of the trees snapped in half, others were pulled fr

armed suspect reportedly got away with $3,500 worth of the drug percocet. >>> new this morning fire raced through a commercial building in bucks county. it started a around 2:00 a.m. inside this office campus inside 200 block of swamp road in doylestown. fire officials say two suites inside simply beautiful smiles dentist office is damaged no one was inside at the time, the causes under investigation. >>> a very sad update to a fire rescue we told but last week, five-year old girl has died from her injuries after a house fire in northeast philadelphia. the sophia olson and perfect mother were critically injured in the fire that started before 5:30 inside their home on hereford lane. sophia was trapped in her bedroom and her mother could not get to her. a neighbor who happened to be a philadelphia police officer was injury and tried to help. he was released yesterday. her mother remains in stable condition. >>> this weekend the world is mourning the death of boxing icon and humanitarian muhammad ali. cbs news correspondent kenneth craig has the story from louisville, kentucky. >> reporter:

i became addicted to percocet. now he is helping others. he has been clean and sober for more than a year. he is beating it because he got treatment. again, mr. president, it's time for us to act. i've told again stories just from the last week of what's happening around the country and in my home state of ohio. there is no excuse. we need to act quickly to find common ground and get a bill to the president so we can start to help the millions who are struggling. delay is not an option. i yield back my time. mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: is not sphrr oklahoma. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that i being recognized for such time as i shall consume, as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, let me just say that my friend from ohio is truly passionate and in the years i've been here, i have not heard of anyone who is stronger and has a better understanding of this issue than the senator from ohio. and i find myself listening as he speaks and reflectin

his doctor prescribed percocet for the pain. he became addicted. when his doctor stopped filling his prescription, he started buying them off other people in the doctor's waiting room. when the pills weren't available or were too expensive, which is often the problem, for these prescription drug addicts who turn to heroin, he switched to heroin. it was less expensive and more available. he was trapped in the funnel of addiction and the drugs became everything. he lost his relationship with his wife and kids. he started stealing from his workplace. i did things i never thought i would do in a million years, he said. as i said earlier, the drugs are everything. but he got treatment, spending 40 days at an in-paeurbtd -- patient facility he's been clean for six months. he's getting help from the lie in a drug abuse -- lima drug abuse outreach program. he was able to step forward and get treatment. it was there for him. people can beat this and they do every day. madam president, experts tell us nine out of ten who need treatment aren't getting it. som

you will not be on percocet until the cows come home.and we will monitor it, and make sure that you are not taking too much and getting addicted to it, and try other things. like acupuncture, mindful meditation, all kind of ways, physical therapy, chiropractic, all kind of ways to get rid of the use of narcotic pain pills so we can deal with pain, get patients treated, and get them on their way. >> thank you so much doctor mike, we appreciate it. >> love you alex. >> i love you too. >> but it is heart break to go see there were reports of an overdose, but to see it, and have tests come bake and knowing it for sure that is something else. >> we will go to you, sue. >> we're starting to look at bus stop budd which rain gear this morning, we have clouds, showers in the area. we are seeing heavy rain where we see yellow and orange moving through chester county and delaware county. so around marple, concord township, we are seeing that steady toy heavy rain and that could slow you down for a while here this morning. yes, it is all moving west

prescriptions are often done with the best intentions, but as the father of four children, i know percocet, vicodin, oxycontin are made available freely. >> thank you, senator. it was a pleasure to be with you in connecticut and i think your leadership and innovation that is happening in connecticut is very important. i think you articulated that we a fewhe root cause of our it academic lies in the vast overprescribing of -- our opioid epidemic was in the best over prescribing of medication. we have been supportive of mandatory prescriber education. i have often said i do not think it is unreasonable in the middle of an epidemic to ask physicians to take a limited amount of education and many states have moved to implement mandatory education. one of our greatest deficits has been the black of access to treatment services -- the lack of access to treatment services. i hear that everywhere we go. not being able to give people into treatment. the president has proposed a pretty robust proposal to expand treatment for every state. while we need to focus on prescribing and dealing with the roo

exactly what was season, percocet it was reported before and the pills on the body and inside of hisething else, we do not know. these are very, very thin details. but we may not get a whole lot more from the medical examiner's office of what because the law is specific as to what they can tell us. but there has been a lot of little details that have come out along the way. that, for example, there was an emergency call made by his people who are worried about prince, becoming more agitated in the days leading up to the death, called in a specialist from california. that doctor couldn't make it and sent his son. he said it was a life saving mission to prince's home and in the backpack was the drug that can counter act an opioid overdose and a lot of little details that have people wondering if this is exactly why prince died. >> pieces of this puzzle, sara, thank you so much. dr. drew, you heard the california doctor to be there the next day. reading "the star tribune" today it say that is the doctor was going there to beat some sort of addiction. what do you think when you here this

and they are surely unintended, they are done with the best of motives and intentions, but i know percocet, vicodin, oxycontin are made available freely -- what can be done to change this culture? this issue is one that deserves our attention. your leadership and some innovation happening in connecticut is really important. we know the root cause of our opioid epidemic starts from overprescribing of prescription pain medications. physicians get little to no training on addiction issues in general. the cdc just came out with prescribing guidelines. we have been supportive of mandatory prescriber education. i don't think it is unreasonable in the middle of an epidemic to ask physicians to take an amount of education. one of our greatest deficits in this epidemic that's why we've been talking about scheduling, has been lack of treatment services in the united states. i hear the impact of not being able to get people into treatment in every state. the president has proposed a pretty robust proposal to expand treatment in the united states for every state. while we need to focus on we have some

then at age 27 he was prescribed percocet. percocet. he became addicted. his tolerance increased so he switched to oxycontin. when the pills were too expensive or you couldn't find enough picialtion he switched to heroin because it was less expensive and more accessible. he started selling cocaine to buy more heroin. the drugs became everything, which is what i hear from so many addicts, the drugs became everything. pulling them away from their family, their jobs, their god-given purpose in life. within three years ago jeff knight lost everything. he lost his business, he lost his relationship with his family, and he was arrested. but there he got treatment. and through a drug court program, he got soap sober. he moved into a socioliving facility where there was supervision, accountability and support from his peers. we're holding up those best practices and we want to fund those best practices that have that kind of support, not just treatment but strong recovery programs. jeff has now been clean for three years. and he's still got the same nth preen neur