Support for the program today comes from Uber. Uber is moving forward with new features

designed to take the stress out of your pickup. One of them is called pickup notes.

Another one's this thing where your phone just lights up a different color and you can

hold it up and wave it so that your driver can see you. You can learn more at uber.com

slash moving forward.

I guess I should probably kind of tell my story a little bit.

My name is Charlie. I am from South Burlington, Vermont. My mother is in Alcoholic. I don't

know what I was in too bad. I played hockey and more national championship and prep school

and went on to play division 2 freshman year. I got injured. I get prescribed this medication

and obviously it's one self-aggressive. You know you think you know you're the man.

You know I'm an athlete. You know I'm never going to be a drug addict.

Something you know I'm doing heroin. I started experiencing withdrawal. That ended up

sending me down a deep dark path that led to an even deeper abyss. I left and ended up dropping

out of college. I lost everything that I'd ever worked for. Literally was homeless and

ended up going to prison. My whole time was consumed by getting the next fix.

We turn now to look at America's staggering opioid epidemic. Opioids are now the biggest

drug epidemic in American history. I want to talk about opioid addiction. At a time when

overdose deaths have never been higher. And everyone knows someone who's been impacted.

That's why we call it the crisis next door.

Vermont Lopez Senior Report at Vox, you've written about this opioid crisis for years and

I feel like we're constantly hearing about it but when exactly did it start?

So there's really three waves to this opioid crisis.

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