Were. They had cameras in their hands. So that his action was deliberate. But i dont have an answer to the question. Why he did it. The Russian Embassy in the u. S. Has branded the Police Response in minneapolis unacceptable and sent a note of protest to the state department asking it to initiate an investigation thank you for joining us here on r. T. International a downhole kids will be here at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines. World is driven by a dream shaped by one person or those but those are. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. You cannot be bold with the yeah you walk. Down the walk tough story. Deal cammy. Wound i walked up the street. I can see. The shops at least you can join us. 5060 to 66th street leads. Us to ensure it is. Oklahoma in the heart of america. One of the most deeply afflicted states in the opioids addiction crisis. That might change the course of history. For the 1st time in the United States a doctor will be sued by the state for 2nd degree murder for over prescribing opioids hears the accused not to reconnect calls. A Family Doctor for over 22 years shes now suspected of being a prescription matter. The judge has to ascertain if there is enough material to go to trial. The plaintiffs in the room have lost a child a brother a friend from an opioid overdose. Dr nichols was their doctor she was the one prescribing the trucks. Let him serve unbox im an attorney in Oklahoma City i practice cripple defense ive got a Police Officer and ive been a prosecutor and ive been a judge ive been here all my life born and raised in oklahoma. Provided the hardship of the Oil Production were right on the edge of were cowboys are that is so weve got a lot of people in here that are hard working people and its a pretty peaceful city as far as that goes. In box knows these roads inside out and whos on 1st name terms with the local people all his career hes descended this community but today the confines have changed before i was having people from more the Poverty Level and i have people all walks of life i have lawyers i have doctors children who have become addicted to the opiates every level in every area of life is for is for the low income high. All of what affected by the use. He represents several families from this town everyone has lost a relative deceased of a cardiac arrest following a painkiller overdose drugs prescribed by dr nichols. Talks about. This Oklahoma City lawyer has never seen a case like this a new victim wants to press charges. You can see you can see you. Have a seat and that marshall has been raising her 2 children alone since her husband died of a painkiller overdose my math shows thats 99. 00 per day that she would prescribe. And i passed my 2nd. One in 20122012. He was a fireman she works in education counselor a regular family all it took was back surgery to turn everything over in a few months her husband became addicted to the painkillers prescribed by dr nichols of course once you have that surgery its never quite the same and then they get some other treatment anyhow and you know its a matter issues with just on the judge just injuries it from being to having such a physical job and i think it just snowballed you know he persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer. More drugs than the regular drug dealers of the street would prescribe but shes doing it in the name of medicine. According to her doctor nicholas would swiftly see patients without any physical exam a few dollars for a prescription her husband would have been prescribed 100. 00 pills a day 3000. 00 a month the doctor should have been the response well course and theyre trained and thats what their job is is to make sure theyre treating you in a healthy manner and theyre doing whats best for you and not whats going to bring harm to you. It happens to just your next door neighbor to your uncle miltie firefighters here come a city Police Officer to your School Teacher to your you know its a its not a its not a disease that is specific it could hit anybody. How come opioids invaded america pain has become a market and the idea of not suffering even likely if you get in drug stores that look like fast food anyone can shop for pain killers physical or psychological a pain killer exists for almost any reason. Imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. Imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. Imagine with less pain and amongst the pain killers on prescriptions are the opioids usually prescribed for back aches or headaches 2000000 americans are addicted to these pills for a reason that most ignore their opium based. Im jason be minute and i am the chair of psychiatry at Oklahoma State universitys center for Health Sciences our oath is essentially 1st do no harm and i think that thats one of the biggest problems is that doctors dont realize that by prescribe opioids. That they could doing more harm than good and weve seen that in a lot a lot of cases what were they originally prescribed for well historically the uses been for what we call cancer pain cancer does a lot of horrible things to your body and can cause a lot of pain nowadays its used for a lot of Different Things these pills. Are found to know other drugs that are legally sold on the market share the same component a powerful narcotic heroin and sometimes they are a 1000 times more concentrated. The opioid compound comes from a plant called the opium poppy and these plants are really grown mostly in asia and then theyre imported by Drug Companies into the United States but what we do with the pills is we take the good parts of the flour that you would smoke and we concentrate them in a little pill. And so the pills are a much more potent than smoking ever was but in the United States we outlawed the smoking of opium in the early 1900 if you get a 3 day per script theres a 13 percent chance that youll be taking those opioids a year later so whether its a few prescriptions or a few pills its a very small amount that it takes to get addicted. To the left a lethal dosage of heroin to the right its a quick lived up to opium samples. To date you know something for your pain talk to your doctor. To be able to not feel pain has become a tacit agreement between doctor and patient this is what price. These drugs a ticking bombs whos aware of that fact did dr nichols know. A wrongful death lawsuit was filed today against a midwest city doctor Regen Nichols is already accused are prescribing a massive amount of opioids to 5 patients who later died when i heard that there was 4 other deaths then i said. Good evening the midwest city doc you got 3 i mustered up 3000000 jobs davis im just reading and listening to the doctor raising as many times you can stuff and he. Was very happy she got a rest question on t. V. Oh very happy that it went on there or it was sad because this is all 3 doctors i mean did she harm i didnt know any internet i met a man why america should search for the man and marriage to my daughter. A met. You. Mean these are navy have spent their entire life in this house this is where their daughter chelsea was born 21 years ago here also that she passed away as a painkiller overdose in 2013 their story is one of an analgesic Burden Family hiding in the secret and shame with addiction. Shes headed for back surgeries dr nichols was lizas doctor for 7 years she was the 1st to fall into the trap when i 1st started seeing her i thought she was going to be ok and she was giving me Pain Medicine to help my back but as the years go by course your body gets used to that medicine so that it doesnt work you know you used to take one page bill and now you have to stay 2 or 3 pain pills because the pain is so bad. So it just increase and its just a vicious cycle because you know youve got to have the medicine but you know you dont want to have to take that much medicine. But you cant i could work and do my job if i didnt have those. Lisa had her own addiction what she didnt know is that her daughter was doing the same thing for 3 years chelsea had diabetes which causes muscular pains it was her turn to consult with dr nichols. And i asked her about the quantity of medicine she was given her and her response to me was chelsea was an adult that she could talk to me about chelseas medical but she could talk to me about chelseas diabetes but she wouldnt talk to me about. The medication that she was there i did trust her maybe money for you to do it. Maybe just to the love of money maybe get that to her because i know that when she chose to be a doctor i would bet on it because she chose to want to help people. With. Financial Survival Guide i dont buy a i because public teachers. Face some of the friday as a lesson about buying from the future so crocker was kaiser. We go to work. Street hold. On ill show seemed wrong when old rolls just dont hold. The world to get to shape our disdain for you cant get educated and engaged with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Is the United States hell bent on selfdestruction. Dramatic economic turndown and massive civil unrest all point could this have been avoided also targeting watching looking for species played well indeed. We met dr nichols almost a year ago i think she has a very good heart she wants to help people maybe a little awkward but shes got a really sweet heart my names tommy adler im in a criminal defense attorney here in Oklahoma City we represent dr Ragan Nichols or really like her very much. Doctors lose patients all the time. To accuse a doctor of. Acting in reckless disregard for her patients when we believe that she was genuinely attempting to care for them. Is a big step for the government thats a. That exposes doctors to a lot of risk newsgroup troubled people these patients were abusing the things that they had access to. It wasnt the amounts that dr nichols prescribed these people that killed them it was the amounts that they decided to take. Her line of defense is set to shift away the shadow of responsibilities dr nichols was an irreproachable professional who was duped by drug addicts and she never had any awareness that her patients were facing any danger whatsoever nowadays in Oklahoma City addiction can be seen at every corner. I think america got here because we are the most in the. Decade of country in the world. We are a country of fast food quick fix is now now i now feel bad heres a pill her heres a pill. Function heres a pill all of those things are right there at a doctors. Good painter minds us that were alive. He went to the center as a patient since then hes become the head of the facility in order to save. Everyone here has to learn to live without pain killers this private ranch places a year but receives 40 requests a day at 21 years old kyle is in rehab for the 1st time. Sub or other. Im good well cool man are you feeling. All right ran. In here and then well good will get everything started. Right after you guys. Carl. Has been to college and hes the father of a little boy. But 4 years ago he became addicted to opioids and then heroin. Writes opiates heroin and oxycontin anything else you know ok and this is the 1st treatment on right all right are you feeling very emotional. The motion of everybody shes waiting for her boy to come back. Its going to take kalb out 30 days for you to really begin to see a change. So why the death man theres only 3 ways out of this which is get sober which is what i pray for you on the 2nd one is is prison if youre lucky 3rd one is. The barry. I dont know how else to say it but on them right and i cant do this in the room or as. Our own so much rather not see how. Them who are for at this moment i dont know. If you will be on if you want to. Crawl through here. Kyle has 90 days to learn to live without opioids. How it feels to warm like my body is a lot of. My thought process its slow. Which is about a lot of pain or in the. South emotions in me its just i cant keep my emotions in one place and you know whats up with. Her i just dont feel good. So. A lot of our friends and its all of us ferns and. After that. We in my friends kind of stuck together and were doing these pills and it was just blocking out so much pain or so stressed out i. Fighting back tears every day i think its hard to hide things and it was just blocking out that pain. And made me feel good it made me forget it they actually helped me out with a lot of things depend on it. I was. That was my girl you know that was my love and then. Just this last year like too many too many bad things of loss for family and that wasnt enough that wasnt enough to write or change. Mentally in my head i know its gotten close to suicide. These pills are. A. Little. Just like tobacco addiction the dangers of opioids have been hidden it has taken 20 years for the government to take action for financial reasons. And. In my office the lawsuit against purdue pharma. So long and janssen pharmaceuticals. In putting this lawsuit together. We believe these companies are culpable for the tragic heartbreaking number of oklahomans who have become addicted or who have died as a result of the Opioid Epidemic in our state. Hes the Oklahoma Attorney general and the 1st one in this country to go to battle. My counter is likely accusing pharmaceutical companies as having caused this epidemic. In order to prove that he and his team have been investigating for more than a year. Attorney here in Oklahoma City. In my mind is model burrage i am my lawyer in oklahoma. Carol hunter hired my law firm whitman verged to represent the state of oklahoma and try to recoup all of the costs that the state has incurred because of the Opioid Epidemic and we need this person as a. Base. And. I think were going to be able to prove that 80 percent of all the crime in the state of oklahoma is directly caused by this Opioid Epidemic and our prisons are overfilled because of that loss of productivity of taxpaying citizens costs the state money but im anxious to get this 1st this 1st battle started. What they did to this country. Is for. Their estimates bring the cost of the epidemic to 7000000000. 00 in oklahoma. This is storm cool hearing will take place in a few days. Today reggie which will explain his motivations to a group of students for this struggle is a personal one. Partner a gene has been involved in the opioid addiction the opioid crosses ever since the death his brain and i had a nice that also related to drugs and so when the attorney general talked about representing the state. In this case. I think he knew that we both had family members and because of the epidemic. Were going to talk to Incoming Freshman athletes at the university of oklahoma im going to tell on. A story about my son brandon and that the power of addiction and how dangerous it is and maybe. Save somebodys life. I think i got a chance to shake almost everybody saying when you came in i was trying to figure out what sport you are its hard to guess every sport from your you know your size but thank you guys for coming. So let me introduce you to my co speaker tonight this is brandon. And rand is not here today and ill tell you why later this is me when i was at o. U. And i had this young son and also when i had more hair. Brown was a cute little kid brand his plan was to go to college and play football which he did. And he ended up playing on a National ChampionshipFootball Team never got in any kind of trouble and the drug that brought him down was an opioid and it did not come from the streets it came from a pharmacy i just told him stop using those pills and i found out its not that easy i found out its like telling a diabetic to use more willpower and stop needing insulin you cant do that and thats crazy. I never told him about addiction i never warned him and so now i i have survivor guilt now but im living with it so i started a foundation called fighting addiction through education because i think education is the key to this problem and when i tell this story at schools it gets so quiet you could hear a pin drop and theyre not really interested in me theyre interested in brandon they i show pictures of him he was one of them hes just ordinary kid and if an ordinary kid like brandon can end up getting hooked they could and that is the truth these pills that big pharma sells. Theyre essentially heroin pills most people dont know that but these opioids are essentially the same this here one thats the key telling patients that theyre not addictive thats the killer we literally thank you guys for being a good audience and im hoping some of the information ive shared with you today might help you in a good way. Richie son never managed to quit. There is someone responsible for his misery. Pharmaceutical. America raise use for another annoyance with more looting and police will test the vonneguts in the wake of lloyds death we hear from his on. One side of the report on. My new. Book a fuse have been imposed in over 30 u. S. Cities though that didnt stop roger was wrecking destruction with more businesses and shops vandalized. And calls for new york citys mayor to resign off to defend its Police Always as he drove their rescue