4/24/2016: The Heroin Epidemic, Dialing for Dollars, Gold Star
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Ohio has been hit hard in the heroin epidemic and is taking extra measures, including drug courts, to reduce the deaths and the incarcerations caused by the drug. Bill Whitaker talks to former users and law enforcement.
Congressmen rail against the tedious task of fundraising, which many feel compelled to do to raise enough money to be re-elected. Some of them have sponsored a bill to outlaw members of Congress from personally asking for donations. Norah O’Donnell reports.
People who have lost loved ones in military service are attending an annual gathering where they can remember their fallen family members with other “Gold Star” people who share their pain. Scott Pelley reports from San Francisco.
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| 0:34.1 | with all these names on the wall here? We call this the death wall. |
| 0:37.9 | The death wall? |
| 0:38.8 | Yes. |
| 0:39.3 | Why is that? |
| 0:40.3 | Majority of the people on this wall have died of drug overdose due to heroin. |
| 0:45.9 | Angie Pelfrey, a former nurse and recovering opioids addict, runs the New Beginnings Rehab facility in rural Pikedon, Ohio. |
| 0:54.2 | By 2010, we had about 50 names total, but now 2016 were over 3,000. |
| 1:01.3 | Tonight, a story about an experiment that's being used to help end an epidemic. |
| 1:10.8 | It's illegal for members of Congress to make fundraising calls from their offices, so they come to these call centers. |
| 1:18.2 | No photos exist of the inside, but 60 minutes gained access with a hidden camera. |
| 1:24.4 | Here members spend hours on the phone dialing for dollars rather than working for their constituents. |
| 1:30.3 | Both parties have told newly elected members of the Congress that they should spend 30 hours a week in the Republican and Democratic call centers across the street from the Congress, dialing for dollars. |
| 1:40.3 | 30 hours a week? |
| 1:41.3 | 30 hours is what they tell you you should spend. |
| 1:44.6 | And it's discouraging good people from running for public office. |
| 1:50.4 | There's not a date goes by. |
| 1:52.3 | I don't think about my son. |
| 1:54.1 | He was Mike Jr. |
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