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Crime stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel 132

You know it's an equal opportunity to destroyer it impacts everyone poor middle class wealthy black white suburbs

world cities you name it

how does a teen boy a teen boy never been in trouble leaves home on a usual Friday morning

just like your child just like your children just like you and then suddenly he's staring

into the face of death by overdose I just had to let that sink in for a moment because you know

this morning like every morning I'll wake the children up I sing oh what a beautiful morning as I wake them up

I bring them a warm drink in bed we get ready and we go to school get there early

just trying to imagine if that afternoon I find out one of them are looking at death by overdose

that is exactly what happened to my guest Rick then Warner I Nancy Grace this is Crime stories thank you for being with us

joining me Rick van Warner author of a brand new book on pills and needles

the relentless fight to save my son from opioid addiction Rick van Warner with me Dr. William Moroni

opioid addiction expert author of American Narcan and LA psychiatrist Dr. Carol Lieberman

Alan Duke and Jackie Howard first I want to go to Rick van Warner Rick thank you so much for being with us

at a time when the rest of the world is looking at America and claiming we have an opioid crisis that we cannot control

that's all well and good for a headline but it's more than a headline for you let's start at the beginning Rick what happened

you know it really we had no idea that our teenage son had had fallen into this this addiction until one day on a Friday he did not return home from school

and we initially felt that that while this was unusual there is there are times that 16 year olds have certain amount of angst and rebellion

but as the night fell that that particular evening the dread started sinking in and we started searching around and calling around and looking to friends houses etc.

and what the information we got turned our our fear into terror really because we heard that he had had hooked up with a friend of his and that they were they were using some serious drugs which was an absolute shock to us at the time

and that led to a several days search

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