'My Child Died': Opioid plague hits America

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

More Americans died from drug overdoses than guns or car crashes last year, with opioids blamed for most of the 64,070 deaths. A federal report estimates 2.4 million Americans have an "opioid-use disorder." Nancy Grace discusses the crisis with lawyer Mark Tate, who represents local governments suing drug companies for marketing practices they contend help fuel the epidemic, Dr. William Morrone, an opioid treatment expert, reporter Ninette Sosa, and Tim Ryan, a recovering heroin addict who is the star of A&E's "Dope Man" series.

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0:00.0	The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 132
0:11.3	Last year synthetic opioids like fentanyl surpassed heroin as the leading cause of drug overdose
0:16.0	deaths.
0:17.0	More people are dying from the script she feels and the art from Motivated relaxness.
0:21.0	The number of overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids has more than doubled from 2015.
0:26.1	These are people, these are real people.
0:27.8	And they're dying out because nobody seems to tear anymore.
0:30.6	Altogether the number of opioid overdose deaths in 2016 surpassed the number of deaths caused
0:35.1	by the AIDS epidemic at its peak in 1995.
0:38.0	Folkton County leaders along with representatives from a private law firm are suing 12 manufacturers
0:43.2	and distributors of opioid-based medication.
0:46.0	They say the companies downplayed the risks associated with the drug.
0:50.3	We were all stunned to see recent images and these were not doctored, they were not photoshopped
0:56.9	because believe me I investigated it.
0:59.8	A couple nice car, look like a suburban mom and dad passed out at the wheel.
1:05.7	At first I thought I was seeing an image of some kind of a hit and run or a crash or a single
1:12.6	car incident.
1:15.4	It wasn't.
1:16.8	There were children in the back seat.
1:19.0	They were looking at mommy and daddy passed out on opioids heroin.
1:25.4	And that photo, that one image circulated around the world.
1:30.7	We are in the middle of an opioid crisis and opioid epidemic.
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