>> one of the strong actions that president obama took was to establish prescription drug monitoring every state in this nation by providing resources so that doctors had access to databases to be able to prevent doctor shopping. and we've seen in states that violence increased robust prescription drug monitoring programs and that require physicians to access those databases before they prescribe, we've seen real reductions in prescription drug overdose deaths in those states. so it's a prime vehicle that many states and many physicians can use to really diminish the overdose and the addiction that we've seen with these prescription pain medications. >> what about prevention? >> so we know that, you know, unfortunately, addiction is a disease of early onset. and we need to promote good education and prevention efforts before kids start to use. >> how do you do that? >> we need to -- so there's great evidence based prevention programs. grant funding through the office of national drug control policy and through sam's that promote good evidence based and community based prevention prog

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they're twice as likely to end up walking out with a prescription for an opioid. that begs the question why. this study didn't address that, but there are a few theories. one is that perhaps people with anxiety or depression just ex conditions. that might be one factor. the second is it may have to do with empathy or the doctor feeling bad for the person they're seeing. the person is presenting in a depressed way. they're talking about their pain maybe in a different way. therefore the doctor feels a little bit more compelled to give them a prescription for an opioid. the third thing is that people with anxiety or depression, particularly untreated who then take an opioid for pain, many of these people will get relief temporarily from their anxiety or depression. so they will feel better psychologically. and so then they have this added incentive when they go back to see their doctor to want to continue on the medication, because many of them maybe aren't aware this is a problem if they keep taking it long-term. how bad can this be? i feel so much and sort of conv

his lawyers said in part, you can't blame the doctor if people are misusing their prescriptions. the allegations of the seven people died happened over the last five years. he's had hundreds if not thousands of patients over that time. with diamond no longer practicing -- >> painful. >> mike is concerned. he's been coming to dr. diamond for prescription painkillers for injuries he said he sustained on the job a decade ago. >> i've been rationing my medicine. >> now he worries where his next refill will come from. >> i have five pain pills left. >> what happens after that? >> i don't know. i'll have to go to the street to get them. >> we've been talking about this for a number of years that you it is getting worse. >> a lot of people who prescribed opioids for surgeries, kidneys, broken bones. now you have all these people he addicted to prescription opioids so there's a culture change toward making sure that we're not prescribing too many opioids. >> we're back in phoenix with the d.e.a., in this neighborhood about to take down the next leg in a suspected multimillion-dollar ring

while millions of working families struggle to afford the cost of college, prescription drugs, food, and health care. i'm afraid the majority is in the same boat as they are as health care. they don't want to say their real reason for being -- for changing health care. they want to slash medicaid. a good number of courageous members on the other side said we won't do that, but that was the core of the senate bill. they knew it was unpopular with the american people. so they didn't talk about it, and they entered a process that hid it from the american people. i think, unfortunately, history's repeating itself. they know how popular cutting taxes on the top 1% are, but the special interests, koch brother wing of their party, that's their number-one goal. that's all they talk about is cutting taxes on the wealthy. so they're stuck. well, to my colleagues, have the courage to break free from the koch brothers and the special interests. don't give breaks to the top 1%. everyone knows they don't need it. it's an old discredited idea that has lost its steam except among the hard right koch

the american society of addiction medicine four and five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers in fact a s.a.m. found that in two thousand and twelve two hundred fifty nine million prescriptions were written for opioids which is more than enough to give every american adult their own bottle of pills cities big and small across the united states are now dealing with the fallout from this rising epidemic an r.t.s. not sweet discovered that this fall and tells more than just the care or incarceration of the addicts but also dealing with their delivery method. many refer to the us as opioid. demick as a modern plague and according to the c.d.c. the number of heroin related deaths has nearly quadrupled as a byproduct of that health crisis there is another one in the making use needles are carried up all across the country and all those who don't even use drugs or at risk for disease. and the scene of serenity and natural beauty. it's startling to know endless amounts of needles are all arounds it's an issue about that's not only that everybody has to take serious or wash

that she stole them from the doctor and issued 23 prescription. when 25-year-old devon hawks of bear tried to fill a prescription at a walgreens. he was also arrested. the investigation is ongoing. >>> surveillance video captured a robbery inside of a chinese takeout restaurant in the section. when two men post him from behind and they grab the victim and get into an altercation and he grabs the money off the counter, they got away with the wallet containing more than 3 $300. >>> coming up tonight on 20/20 on abc the first interview with the father and daughter convicted of murder in north carolina. they said they had no choice but to defend themselves. molly corbett says her husband got angry after she woke up to tend to the daughter who had a nightmare. her parents were sleeping and thomas martin was woken up by loud thumping noises. >> he wanted to shut me up and he covered my mouth and started to choke me and at some point when he stopped, i screamed, and he started again and the next thing i remember is my dad standing in the doorway. >> i re

the more you write prescriptions the better off you might be. there is incentive for the doctors to write the prescriptions. but i want to address one more thing to you, dr. howard. you are in the streets to see what's going on. medicaid folks are getting a lot of these drugs. it's because i believe medicaid doesn't have the money to treat people long term. so these drugs are a shortcut. 25% of medicaid members have an opioid addiction. >> well, you know what, gerri, i have to totally agree. they throw opiates at the problem for their pain. yet they won't throw treatment that's acceptable for the detox and the recovery. gere require' more expensive. >> that's why we have to change the philosophy before more people die. gerri: dr. john, a quick last word. >> how do these people get addicted. i run two methadone clings. they are here to treat their pain. we are trying to educate, hopefully the federal government to get anesthesiologists who can practice appropriate pain medication. gerri: thanks so much. the cost of healthcare is expected to incre

so for me, again, my son did have prescription medicine on him, but he didn't have a prescription.gotten a prescription at some point, so those drugs flowed into the community in some way. >> as a parent, what advice would you give to another parent who is concerned, who thinks i'm not sure, maybe, you know, what were some signs that you now know you saw? >> well, if you are a parent or friend or somebody who thinks that you have somebody in your life that's in trouble, please talk to them, please reach out to them and get them the help that they need. i to tell you as parents sometimes we have blinders on, we don't see everything. my hope has been that by talking about what happened to my son, what happened to max, my conversation can inspire some other parent to talk to their kid and had they can avoid this horrible tragedy. >> i'm curious, what have you asked the city of nashville to do? what are you hoping to put in --? are you hoping to enact some new lies laws, procedures? >> well, in this year's bug before this even happened to my family, we had already put money in for an o

often seniors have to make a difficult choice between paying for the prescription or putting the food on the table. >> last month the house budget committee approved a resolution to cut the program funding by nearly $150 billion over the next 10 years. >>> the national park service is lifting the ban on the sale of plastic water bottles. in 2011 that adopted of plant that encouraged parks to stop selling plastic bottles encouraging people to use the refillable bottles. none of the parks in california implemented the ban, and the bay area golden gate national recreation has been considering the idea. they will still promote recycling plastic water bottles and provide free stations for filling the bottles. >>> there is a new ride for thrill seekers in santa clara, the rail blazer is the first of its kind, the single rail steel roller coaster set to debut. take your dramamine. this is going to be at the amusement park in 2018 and it will plunge them into the air and then down at a 90 degree angle. eight are lined up single file straddling the rail. the state-of-the-art seating creates a

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the idea was to reduce number of prescriptions for highly addictive opioid painkillers. what changed was the moment he had a patient who had overdosed on heroin and how she started. >> what she said is she got her first prescription for an opioid from an emergency room physician for an ankle sprain, she got a prescription for percocet. and why that impacted me is that earlier that day, i had seen someone with what i thought to be a bad ankle sprain and i sent him home with a narcotic. >> according to the national institute of the emac drug abuse, more than 80% of heroine abuses started with prescription opioids. this program hopes to encourage doctors to write fewer opioid prescriptions, treating without narcotics and getting patients on therapy. some patients are skeptical and offered alternatives to opioid, many of which are just as powerful without the narcotic and are applied directly to the pain point. >> we have some hospitals where patients have written back in already and said they are happy, thank you so much. >> notably, this program uses no government money. >

and, what jeff flake was talking about is that he voted against prescription drugs, he voted against the george w. bush proposals that busted the budget in his view. he views himself as a real conservative. he's making a distinction between conservatism and populism, and i think that's a good conversation to have for republicans as well as democrats. what you're seeing, david, in your precinct and elsewhere and certainly in west virginia which is ground zero of trump country, is, anger against elites. people feeling that they've been passed over, anger, you know, you see the state, the stats on anger against league colleges, even among those college-educated. extraordinary. so it's anger against all of us, the media, as well, and trump has just tapped into that. and i really appreciated that jeff flake said the locker up, those cries at the republican convention by michael flynn no less, the call and response was really a nayier of -- what i

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i do think the prescriptions have changed. think -- charlie: have they articulated on anti-globalism and contempt for globalists? >> this gets back to diagnosis-prescription. it is much easier to diagnose. then to step forward and talk about the solutions. including ones that are hard to hear. like that coal jobs are not coming back. this issue is crystallizing. there are huge storm clouds on the horizon about how automation will disrupt jobs even more rapidly than before. that is focusing the mind.timise that the american people are now ready to hear from people -- how will we do this? charlie: they heard someone listening in 2016, now they want to know, what have you done? what would somebody else do? we will hold you to the same they felt they had not gotten several years which was, a cry i believe that. i think there are a number of intriguing voices in ourarty that are putting forwa around how we build a new social safety net in a world in which people don't stay in the same job for very long. how you train and educate pe

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you're exactly right, the prescription industry and overprescribing is something our kids are experiencing we have to stop it. >> your home state of tennessee had the tenth highest number of drug-related deaths in 2015. what needs to be done? how can the average american help? what do our politicians need to be doing? >> well, i think, again, we can really focus on making sure there is kind of a two-prong approach. first of all, our first responders need to have access to life-saving narcan and making sure that's available. but treatment beds are affordable. my son was able to go to rehab because he could afford a treatment bed. we have to recognize this is an epidemic examiand make sure tho resources are out there. >> tell us something about max beyond the addiction. tell us something personal about your son. >> thank you for askingment max was a beautiful, sweet child who loved his life. he loved mountains, he loved fishing, and he loved his friends. i've been so grateful to the nashville community. our hearts are overwhelmed and so grateful for all the outreach we've received throughout

greekt don't have e if you a prescription or not taking it as you are supposed to. clinical and abuse is definition. you go through withdrawal, it interferes with home life, you trouble with the law, go through withdrawal, tol is clinical definitions that differentiate as een abuse, as well misuse. host: one more call from north eric, hi. this is caller: this goes out to everybody having a problem with addiction with opioids. i've been on them myself and had and it's ad accident degenerative, nothing can be done about it. years and really was addicted to them. is derstand everybody different, but this is going out for people who are addicted to it. you can get off of these, you can get your life back and you is justourself and that what i really wanted to say to you. c-span, and everyone di -- ing that is ark addicted to this, i send my love out to you. guest: thank you. so much. host: as far as the trump administration going forward, can is the best advice you offer? guest: we're waiting for the final report for the president's commission in october. i think it wil

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area can get a prescription for $5, $10. it's everywhere. and three the big one is our justice system. this one needs to be addressed because a lot of people -- for different things. whatever they accumulate in whatever situation keeps following them and as a result agrees the population where we cannot find jobs. they go back and do using drugs because they get frustrated. we have to deal with the situations every day. is there a way we can address this? >> host: before he addresses your question what kind of medical profession are you? [inaudible] >> guest: those are huge questions and i thank you for bringing them up. it's a first of all this certainly started in the rust belt in poverty-stricken areas and rural areas primarily zero ohio, kentucky and west virginia, virginia eastern tennessee and western pennsylvania. that would be like ground zero if you like and yes i think those were areas that were ripe for this. there were a lot of places where doctors found solutions not just to people's physical pain but their economic pain as well

his wife had a dependence on prescription drugs.x said he was sure emily's addiction had killed her. >> it's really not my wife that did it. it's the addiction. >> what did you think had happened? >> i didn't know if she had took a handful of pills. i was having a hard time trying to reconcile if she killed herself or she just overdosed. >> you thought overdose either deliberate or unintentional? >> yeah. that's -- i thought it was a reasonable assumption. >> reasonable because alex said he had been dealing with his wife's addiction for more than a year when he discovered she had stolen pain pills from his father. and then a few months later, alex's own doctor asked a strange question during a check-up. >> he says, and how's your shoulder? i said, well, it's fine. why do you ask? he says, i wanted to make sure the vicodin i prescribed you we worng i said, excuse me? and i mean, i started crying. >> you hadn't asked for any vicodin. >> correct. >> vicodin is an opioid, a powerful pain medication that can be highly addictive. emily ha

this is a chance to cut down on the supply of the prescription drugs.and preventing it continuing on the market was pretty amazing. >> martha: emily thank you very much. emily waldron and andy beshear are a. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> martha: still ahead tonight, the president has strong words for those inciting racial violence in this country. >> tonight, this entire arena stands united in forceful condemnation of the thugs who perpetrate hatred and violence. >> martha: and as charlottesville mourns the young woman who was killed in those protests, espn is facing backlash tonight for how they chose to respond to this. this is just going to blow you away what they did at espn when we come back ♪ they say the girl has got a heart of stone ♪ that rock won't roll ♪ visit alz.org to join the fight. for 100 years, heritage and innovation have made gillette the #1 shave in america. now get gillette quality at lower prices -- every day. brought to you by 1200 workers in boston -- we're proud of giving you our best. gillette. the best a man can get.

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. >>> a prescription pill epidemic takes his toll in the jail. >> and drug use on the inside can keep another inmate from leaving jail. >> please don't keep me from going home on friday. >> if you don't go home on friday, i didn't keep you here, you did. >> and officials are concerned over one inmate's growing influence. >> i got a reputation of leading these young guys to do all this type of crazy stuff. this is a reputation that you've got to live down. >> a source of pride for louisville, kentucky has been the revitalization of downtown. marked by new high rises, residential and retail centers. but it also has been a busy time for another downtown landmark. the louisville metro department of corrections jail books about 45,000 men and women each year. and many of them have been through the process several times before. >> so is the life of a criminal. since the time i was 18 i've been in prison for all my life. it's all i know. >> terry says his history at louisville metro is based on a near life-long struggle with drug use. he's been arrested 27 times and has been convicted of cha