Thursday Crime Stories: Kids dead from dope: HELP

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

An average of 115 Americans die each day from opioid overdoses, more than from guns or car crashes. And the rate is rising. 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, Tim Ryan, a recovering heroin addict who is the star of A&E's "Dope Man" series, and reporter Ninette Sosa.

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0:00.0	The Crime Stories with Nancy Grayson
0:07.0	Sirius Xim Triumph
0:09.0	Last year synthetic opioids like fentanyl
0:11.0	surpassed heroin as the leading cause of drug overdose deaths.
0:14.0	More people are dying from prescription pills
0:16.0	than they are from motor vehicle accidents.
0:18.0	The number of overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids
0:21.0	has more than doubled from 2015.
0:23.0	These are people, these are real people.
0:25.0	And they're dying out because nobody seems to care anymore.
0:28.0	Altogether the number of opioid overdose deaths in 2016
0:31.0	surpassed the number of deaths caused by the AIDS epidemic
0:34.0	at its peak in 1995.
0:36.0	Folkton County leaders, along with representatives from a private law firm,
0:39.0	are suing 12 manufacturers and distributors of opioid-based medication.
0:43.0	They say the companies downplayed the risks associated with the drug.
0:47.0	We were all stunned to see recent images.
0:51.0	And these were not doctors, they were not photoshopped
0:54.0	because believe me, I investigated it.
0:56.0	A couple, nice car,
0:59.0	look like a suburban mom and dad passed out at the wheel.
1:03.0	At first I thought I was seeing an image of
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