the musician, prince, was addicted to percocet.mostib certainly contributed to his eventual death from fentanyl. it's dangerous drugs. but popular musicians started to promote abuse of it. a rapper had a song that mentions percocet no fewerap than 18 times. not in a critical way. it peaked at number five on the billboard charts and the video received 230 million views on youtube. in effect it's an ad for percocet. aimed at a very young audience. it's far from the only one. the song "gucci game" and "grammys" by drake, we could go on. you may not listen to the music but your kids or grand kids probably do. imagine if this were happening with cigarettes? if there was a top five hit telling kids to smoke newports. people would be horrified. there would likely be hearings on the effect of children's health. if an artist promotes percocet, no one seems to notice. that is odd considering opioid overdoses kill more than cigarettes do. in a lot of places they kill more than car crashes and gunfire.ha drug abuse are the leading cause of dea

if an artist promotes percocet, no one seems to notice. considering opioid overdoses kill more than cigarettes do. in a lot of places they kill more than car crashes and gunfire. drug abuse are the leading cause of death for americans under 50. endo pharmaceutical owns the trademark for percocet and they profit from the sale. the company has to know recording artists are promoting the product to kids. how could they not know that? but they have said nothing about it. they haven't attacked a promoter for pushing percocet. they haven't threatened legal action. but a lawyer said today that endo would have a case. we contacted endo about this. they responded but only with the mindless boilerplate that didn't address the question. this is part of what they said -- >> tucker: well, there is at least one honest line in there. endo does not promote percocet. rap stars do it for them. it hasn't been a great year for the nfl. ratings are down. protests are widespread. the president is hostile. yesterday the president tweeted a picture of a woman mou

it was completely different from percocet. when you run out of percocet, you feel like you have a cold, but it is manageable. when i ran out of oxycontin, i started going to massive withdrawals. i remember sitting in my law office in albany and i had probably taken my last oxycontin a day and a half earlier, my stomach started to sort of floating, my body start -- flipping, my body started to cramp up, nausea. i remember the wastepaper basket asked to me. i had a client in the waiting room, the secretary is saying, are you going to see this client, and i was about to throw up. was having.t i had never been through withdrawals for. i called my friend, what is happening? he said you are withdrawing from oxycontin. -- times 30,lly and it was coming on fast. it was panic. there was no way i could have andin front of a client give legal advice. i was trying cases in federal court and was going to state courts and seeing clients, and so long as i was on the oxycontin, it was ok. it was not great. we know we would addiction and addic

she had less than one therapeutic dose of percocet in her system.t was clear she had not been using percocet probably for a few days prior to her death. >> and then there was nici's bracelet, that gift from david, the source of her joy. david had told police it had vanished, along with his wife. >> everybody assumed that, who knows, the killer took it. >> soon after david's arrest, police learned from co-workers that he had the bracelet all along. >> david said he had a bracelet that he had taken to a pawn shop, and he thought that the guy was trying to rip him off. >> he was trying to hock it, make a few bucks. >> trying to make money. at some point. >> and that spoke to his cover-up. his involvement. >> sure. absolutely. and that he had lied to police in the beginning and saying he didn't know where that bracelet was. >> still, one piece of the puzzle didn't fit the prosecution's theory, that saturday phone call made from nici's cell phone to the 24-hour fitness gym where david worked. >> this is evidence that at around noon, she is alive on satur

you're going to sign a contract that's going to say essentially, i understand if i get opioids, percocetcodin, i'm only going to take what i get, only get it from you as my doctor. i'm not going to ask for refills unless i need them and might undergo urine drug screening. >> so you've got to be an honest broker. >> exactly. >> so another thing we're looking forward to is a new kind of modern health membership. so you're not talking about just going to the gym. >> exactly. no, you're not talking about that. so instead of going to a health clinic, you're going to be a health member. and this means you're going to have something to do with your own health care itself. so these new offices -- ford is a big one on the west coast. what you do is, when you go in there, there is a lot of technology that gives you all of the results on the spot. and the doctor can plan with you what you do going forward. plus, you can take wearables home, can detect your blood pressure, glucose levels, get that information back to the doctor real-time, and they can go ahead and adjust what they need to. >> you th

only two exposures are possible percocet so he sometimes travels with days to find a material if there's a hits when the film is developed it was all in vain. on a motorbike i used to be a carpenter then a graphic designer until he got bored. and then he headed for iceland and greenland today many of his photographs hang in major museums the world over. he almost always too is alone once two hundred kilometers from the nearest village he had a serious accident. the work from six in the eyes of what we now know about nonstop for thirty six hours because there was nowhere to stop and at three or four o'clock in the morning i had to drive straight north to the sun. it was just above the horizon and blinded me and the next moment everything was quiet and dark after a while i woke up again and felt something cold pointy on my chin and i couldn't move. i opened my eyes and realised that i'd landed on an iceberg. he survived and kept going. on his expectations he often doesn't meet people for days on end no assistant no distraction he also shoots the photos himself. his walk to the entire lengt

. >> james kauffman would give free prescriptions for opiates such as percocet is, oxy cotton and oxycodone for those sent to his medical practice by ferd napped augelo. >> they say april kawvr man learned of the operation and sought to use it as leverage in a divorce setment jts. >>> as a result this provided motivation for james cough noon have his wife killed. >>> $20,000 cash was all it took. prosecutors say the murder was carry carried out by late francis ho carried out by late francis hoholland an associate of the pagan and drug ipt price. >> i feel like i'm living the most tv move most tv movie you can't make up these details. she was my best friend. that is the hardest part of this day today. because in a perfect world if this -- that would be the person i would be running to and that person is very absent from my life. >>> james kauffman is kimberly >>> james kauffman is kimberly's stepfather. six others have been charged in connection with to that drug enterprise. hof hof cbs3 eyewitness news. >> alex, thank you. >> well the warmer weather felt great today. there was a lot of melt

. >> james kauffman would give free prescriptions for opiates such as percocet is, oxy cotton and oxycodone for those sent to his medical practice by ferd napped augelo. >> they say april kawvr man learned of the operation and sought to use it as leverage in a divorce setment jts. >>> as a result this provided motivation for james cough noon have his wife killed. >>> $20,000 cash was all it took. prosecutors say the murder was carried out by late francis h hoholland an associate of the pagan and drug ipt price. >> i feel like i'm living the most tv movie you can't make up these details. she was my best friend. that is the hardest part of this day today. because in a perfect world if this -- that would be the person i would be running to and that person is very absent from my life. >>> james kauffman is kimberl kimberly's stepfather. six others have been charged in connection with to that drug enterprise. hof hof, cbs3 eyewitness news. >> alex, thank you. >> well the warmer weather felt great today. there was a lot of melting of snow. problem s. temperatures are now dropping. and that's lead

. >> if you are allowed to get prescribed different types of drugs like percocets, vo company din, allt good stuff, should you marijuana different than that. >> fare question. haunted by an opioid epidemic and booze is available anywhere. marijuana somehow remains a schedule one narcotic despite nearly 30 states legalizing it medicinally. pa says it's fine under approved conditions. federal law outlaws it but your gun ownership rights line p lie in the balance. >> becoming a constitutional issue of second amendment rights of first amendment rights of being able to express yourself as a patient. and have privacy protections as a medical marijuana patient in america. >> chris goldstein of south philly normal having a smoke with fellow weed activist mike. state police are using the medicinal patient database to enforce federal law says chris the state police website does say that if off card and try to buy a gun under federal law you will will be denied and if you had a gun when you got a card, they recommend you consult an attorney. so they do seem to be checking medical card holders. >>

alcohol, if it went away like cocaine, if it went away like heroin, if it went away like opiates and percocet we wouldn't have this conversation because... >> they sued dish to get coats' job back, claiming what he did during his off hours was none of the company's business. >> this case is about what happens when the lights go off, you punch out, and you go home in the privacy of your own home. does that long arm of your employer reach into a place where even police have to get a warrant to go into? >> they said that, because i tested positive for thc, that i would no longer be employed there and that they were turning me in to my licensing board. >> this registered nurse asked not be identified. she's 36 years old, lives in the denver area, and uses marijuana recreationally. >> it's just like having a glass of wine after work. i chose to do something else, which is legal. i did not go to work impaired, nor have i ever. >> not only did she lose her hospital job, she might be stripped of her nursing license, pending a decision by the state's medical review board. >> nobody's endorsing people

so usually percocet, something like that for pain.at didn't work anymore, he was prescribed oxycontin, and he was addicted to it. >> reporter: he went to a drug rehab center called the matrix institute here in the san fernando valley. >> he clearly stopped using. he was feeling healthier than he had felt in years. >> reporter: but when detectives john o'brien and ty labbe learned about gavin's addiction, they had to consider a raft of new possibilities. >> he disappeared. maybe he overdosed. we didn't exactly have any of those answers. >> driving all over the valley, we would have moments in the car of where we looked at each other and said, "i think this is a suicide." and then an hour later, we'd interview somebody or something would happen, and we'd go, "i think this is a murder." and our feelings and our gut instincts were going different ways very early on very fast. >> yeah. it's got to be pretty unusual though? >> it was very confusing. >> reporter: confusing for lisa too, because here was another secret, the smiths were underw

activities that surround opioids and fentanyl coming into our country, being counterfited to look like percocet or other commercial drugs, coming in with great potency. it has spiked the deaths in my area, and most of the country enormously. and a lot of that's coming from china. can you comment on what we're trying to do, we're right under the nose of the chinese government, the manufacturing of these drugs that are occurring, and being shipped through? because clearly that is costing the most american lives every day. anything we're doing to focus on that specifically? >> i can mention briefly what some of the things that inl has been doing. one of the important things on fentanyl and the analogs of fentanyl, so there's multiple types of synthetic opioids that are being produced in china and brought into the united states, is to get those substances on the list of prohibited substances. and that has been successful. we will be going into the meetings in april in vienna to get additional substances put on those lists. engagement with china has been effective and i think we've begun to see chin

they're dealing stuff -- percocet, all that highly addictive xanax.t stuff will mess up your life. this won't. lemonis: in desert hot springs, they seem to agree and have issued permits for more than 3 million square feet of construction to more than 30 growers. good for business, but i wondered if the town's reputation would be hurt. are you originally from this town? scott: born and raised. lemonis: scott matas is the mayor of desert hot springs, a self-described conservative. scott: i was a "no" on marijuana use in our community in 2007. lemonis: what happened? scott: the economy went bad. we needed to find another revenue. lemonis: when they put it to a vote, more than 70% of the residents here said "yes" to growing recreational pot. mayor matas doesn't smoke, but the side effects of weed are saving his town. job creation? scott: job creation -- it's taxation... lemonis: think about this. it costs $15 million a year to run desert hot springs. the town could eventually collect $50 million a year from pot taxes alone. goodbye, budget crisis. hello,

that's his focus percocet try to single out the support from any one individual but he wants to bring everybody together to move this country forward. that's when he campaigned on and doesn't weaken over the last year and that's what we'll continue to do for the next seven years. >> the white house us at the were false statements in this book. the president is a libelous statement. could you give a few examples of things that were sent in this book that are false that you like to set the record straight on? >> on the going to go through every single page of the book but there are numerous examples of falsehoods that take place in the book. i'll give you one just because it's really easy, the fact that there was a claimed the president did know who john boehner was is pretty riddick is considering the majority of you have seen photos, and, frankly, several have tweeted at the president not only knows and let us play golf with him, tweeted about him. that's pretty simple and pretty basic. ages of employees which would be super easy to fact check are wrong. again, there are numerous mist

she -- they put her on percocet to begin with. then they brought valium.eril which is, apparently, a muscle relaxant -- oh yeah. she was in a great deal of pain all the time. >> reporter: for michael peterson, the trial was hard enough to bear, but the family spilt made it even worse. there was kathleen's daughter, caitlin, across the room in the prosecution's camp. and behind him the whole time, his girls, margaret and martha. >> they were sisters. they loved one another. they helped one another. and that's been the biggest, to me, the sadness that everything that kathleen wanted to make happen and did happen as far as the family was torn asunder. >> reporter: michael's story is one he says those closest to him have known for years. >> that information -- >> reporter: a story his lawyers were about to present to the jury. and they had an ace up their sleeve, a moment straight out of "perry mason." one that would leave mouths agape in the courtroom. >> that's a blow poke isn't it? >>> coming up, the alleged murder weapon found. what will it reveal? and the

i had rotator cuff surgery not too long ago and i was given a bunch of percocet every month.ick.ade me i needed something else besides that, but they kept giving it to me. that wasn't my drug of choice. i was never into drugs eerie i remember back in the -- drugs. i remember back in 1970's when they sprayed the pot plants and we used to joke about it. the agent orange they used in vietnam, they were trying to bring down the pot. fentanyl, and i have friends who are current users. i have friends that are on heroin and friends that are on pills and some that are drunks. you are touching on the point where quitting smoking, you didn't die from quitting smoking p why are you tying -- the -- smoking. he was asking why people switch to fentanyl knowing it is so deadly. i think that gets into the state of mind that people who are addicted. quickly -- i believe you do not have rational, free will when you are addicted to these pills and drugs in general. it takes over, and that is why you find people living under the holesss and having gaping in their lives where all they did was loo

they're dealing stuff -- percocet, all that highly addictive xanax.uff will mess up your life. this won't. lemonis: in desert hot springs, they seem to agree and have issued permits for more than 3 million square feet of construction to more than 30 growers. good for business, but i wondered if the town's reputation would be hurt. are you originally from this town? scott: born and raised. lemonis: scott matas is the mayor of desert hot springs, a self-described conservative. scott: i was a "no" on marijuana use in our community in 2007. lemonis: what happened? scott: the economy went bad. we needed to find another revenue. lemonis: when they put it to a vote, more than 70% of the residents here said "yes" to growing recreational pot. mayor matas doesn't smoke, but the side effects of weed are saving his town. job creation? scott: job creation -- it's taxation... lemonis: think about this. it costs $15 million a year to run desert hot springs. the town could eventually collect $50 million a year from pot taxes alone. goodbye, budget crisis. hello, cash