Has a population of about 200100 years ago it was one of the Fastest Growing towns in the u. S. It was famous for producing tiles and was even cooler to run capital of the world in the last 50 years the population has fallen by a 3rd and continues to decline these days akron is better known as the meth capital of ohio its a city where the number of drug addicts keeps growing every year this film was shot in several private Rehab Centers and is about the people who still live in them or have recently left. We are at the emma recovery residence a home thats been in my family for over 50 years 53 years i believe i have know ive read read some editorials and such lately were and people are saying that the worst is behind us and that is far from true. The statistics. Such as they are are disappointing now the just released accounting report worm were on track to outpace last years deaths significantly. To former prisoners and to people who have checked out of state rehab center and need a safe shelter for a while they can stay for free until they find work then they pay 500. 00 a month in rent. 10 months and. I mean really dont know why thats huge my last jury. My 4 story apartment window on the sidewalk and should not be alive here today should be able to walk just another thing everything just to the nice story. You know they send a work out. And you get to serve. The darker tone know if i would like an early day or 2. More still be the last time i was smoke. Here all those. Kind of drugs. You know it. Was you know corey met when they both rented rooms from ray not have been heroin it misuses for than 10 years. Corey is from a very poor family in West Virginia his mother abandoned her at birth and shes never seen her biological father. Then thats me he was right after they adapted me is that after that 4 days old i remember that she doesnt even know the. Big mystery i dont really care. Its not important. And i have a great family anyway. And then thats me senior picture so i was 17 and a half there. And i was a blonde then. If. This says her adoptive parents were wealthy and loving but that didnt save her from addiction and other things the rap sheet and corey have now stayed sober and i knew. I was just broken you know i broke in college when i was raped in that stairwell you know thats when i was like started drinking and that slate when the the addiction in me was like awakened but never like. Consistently or like nourished like i mean i nurtured my heroin it made everything that was broken inside of me go away. When we met for all things he was working at one of across Rehab Centers and had been clean for long enough as well as Administrative Law to the center. Of the streets hoping to try and help them change their lives. Hopefully. Plain to see me thats what its all about you know all it takes is that one person. Connecting with another person you are believing somebody else. But god god god with all your wifes mind uncle im right im rob and your uncle geoff might have. Ok so you mean the research is pretty conclusive i mean we have a genetic marker for addiction the disposition towards addiction certainly it is a Learned Behavior as well so now we have 3 generations of people under the same roof who know active addiction and again thats pretty entrenched i mean how do you interrupt that cycle. Dads wasted on this you know the kids are on meth where do you start to untangle that one im good now because i dont want to be a statistic i want to give my kids stuff that i didnt have. The whole life my dad could means money. You know my aunts and uncles came up when i was 14 i came up to ohio. My whole family were gigantic it was a perfect storm of factors we are just now peeling back the layers of trauma throughout much of the 1990 s. And beyond the doctors were encouraged in some cases incentivized to overprescribe we have towns small towns here in ohio surrounding us that have been prescribed millions of pills i mean enough to sedate a small country then we have the sim aloa cartels and the other mexican cartels who have Distribution Centers throughout the rust belt in the midwest. Very central among them drug addiction and the many of the just deaths it causes is the main reason behind this steadily declining population according to the American Medical Association in 70 is from 2010 to 2017 the death rate among people aged 25. 00 to 60. 00 full rose by more than 20 percent. This memorial was actually conceived built by the young people of our residents here are recovery residents part of who we are part of. What we do is we provide ceremony in these peoples lives the ceremony of death which. Started about in 2013 we buried our 1st young guy from the house here and it has not abated and they are succumbing you know one after the next so these are all the personalized tags of the young souls who came to us and sought help and theres more coming. We had a couple of our crew of our sort of core guys who lived at the house when they left against the council 48 hours later they were dead relapse and just. Pick back up part of the challenge is if you stay in recovery obviously your tolerance lowers significantly. So you go back to believing in the way of the way in this changed significantly i mean were talking about. A chemical that can stop your heart with the net mess of a grain of salt can stop your heart. You know just talking about fentanyl and cough and tamil people it seems to treat pain quite similar to heroin chemically but. Compared to heroin fenton elice 50 times more potent cough until 5000 times cough into the is so powerful that its used as a veterinary tranquilizer 2 milligrams is enough to sedate an elephant recent years have seen several mass proven doses on fentanyl and come off until the drugs are cheap and pushes them to the expensive heroin and meth to increase their profits given addicts more of a high for less money and to strengthen the dependency for dealers to get. The dose right when they concoct the mixture at home thats why so many people die from overdoses and anyone who survives enjoys a painful withdrawal much worse even than from heroin. Doing too much. Why would you want to kill off your clientele but then you should also hear about people dying say ray ray over here that yes somebody 3 people just died off all that stuff and we got to go get that guy was just crazy he did too much he know he would do it im different you dont know why you. Know you are going to the same thing a world weve got it wrong lets go get it. From. The ground were in a house theres nobody around is guess what. Im a. Drug dealing has long been a simple and accessible source of income for many a time for anyone who wants to quit and break the cycle of addiction because the push is on literally everywhere. Its not hard. I want to be sober but i thought i did and i was walking to the bus you know from the sober house was over and brown street great area and i literally met my dealer walking to the bus stop he was like hey you want to sample thats how. You know and i was like sure like what do you get you know and thats thats that was. One curious. Byproduct of course of the epidemic is the. Epidemic of crime. And i just read here were 3 young guys right down the. Here were shot in a running gun battle i mean were talking about a small city were at 100 what 90000. 00 people and weve got a running gun battles up i mean its like chicago in the thirtys its a wave of crime ive had rounds hit the building next door and 9 millimeter rounds right through the picture windows so this is the wild west you know courtesy of the epidemic. Where you put this that in your hand. Myself. Im not. Ok were at a. B. C. Church and bible church on ground street and we came here to do trunk or tree. Its where the kids travel trying to try and cart a car in their costumes and get candy. Into this because halloween coming up and its a Recovery Church and thats what they do the dirty of everybody thats here is the recovery from some sort of addiction. Its a rough neighborhood. And. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Enough people talk about recession but actually theres a risk down that the globe is heading into a depression thats right steve kruschen the word. You cannot be both with the yeah you like. Dont. Relax a cold girl is a member of the crown bible church she has 4 children and no husband she hasnt used meth for over a year and believes her drug and sex addictions a rooted in a childhood. My dad raised me work and now fox saying he raised me like as if i was his son instead of his daughter so thats how i dress and a lot of people would make fun of me for it that i and then at home my dad choosing my step mom over me i feel like because she didnt like me and she didnt like the relationship that my dad and i had and he kind of wanted to please her which kind of left me lonely i think thats where it all came into play i just wanted to sleep with somebody even if it was for one night just that you know 5 minutes or an hour or couple hours of being with somebody for one night made me feel like i had selfworth. The drugs would know me but then the more people i slept with or the more bad things that i did or you know people that i heard id have to use more drugs to try to numb those feelings on top of the feelings or mardy numbing and it was just a process that never ended and then eventually it got to the point where nothing worked. This is the place for a play baseball yes i was real good at it played Little League world series when i was 14. Very good at it baseball was my escape baseball was my getaway because of the childhood and i had a grown up i used to do is use it driving foolish when i have my moments i still come down here. You know i love being around kids and you know helping kids and stuff to the point where ultimately i dont want to use them for their kids but when i go and i spend more time over there because they have kids because it allows me to decompress. No there. Wasnt there for marc huge. And there was. Never knew her biological father but since shes immensely grateful to her adoptive dad he kept believing in her throughout her years of addiction its largely because of his support that she managed to overcome dependence start a family was corey and move into a house in a nice safe neighborhood. Plus so many close. In may be using. The. F. Word dad every time i go to treatment he have to pretty much buying new clothes he. Got so good at blake going to the store and getting like Womens Clothing like the ladies at the store a new when they go she need more clothes you know my dad. Found this neighborhood for us he thought it would be a good place to start a family without her dad we would not be here. But thats what it takes to take family for. More really stuff. This is for oh the cover here were. Worried about really were eating there so theyre right here and in the end he is and. Since i was baby my mom got does theyre collectors items now i guess dad sees her for like all these years and then gave them to me for lizzie oh. Oh oh. We are out. In the highlands where. We come every morning of course for pride to do his thing but we also visit. A number of our misfit. In this place is. Fairly planted with them. Tom was 36 is actually one of the institutes very 1st volunteers and staff people just tremendously creative spirit really a beautiful person to look like a viking. 36 he was. Seth apple also used to rent a room from reno while recovering from his addictions he was adopted by lance and carol apple pious financially stable and seemingly prosperous in every sense a good christian couple. We. It was 18 days that our son has passed away he died on. November 12th. I got the call at. 8 36 in the morning this. Particular addiction to alcohol was an issue for but. Its called. And they also street. It is called robo tripping robitussin. What he would do is he would drink several bottles of it and it would cause some. Effect and thats what he was going. Pretty much with using drugs for about 12 years he did have some very stringent rules that he voiced that. No heroin you know he said those dont mess with those so he really we believe he thinks thought he had a handle on this that he was using it properly and he was not quite. Willing to give it up. For. Well we had lets see a little was the best i know them are 6155 pm so this isnt my 1st child its coreys 1st child my 1st child that was adopted. By fusing family to say that it was the best option and you know my cousins ended up adopting her. But the 1st time was just it was a mass you know i was trying to understand sobriety and then trying to become a mother at the same time and it just fundamentally didnt work. We 1st met our protagonists in june 29th teen and for the last time in february 2020 during that time the rehab center where gronings worked closed down. And started using it again. Then he completed a one month at a rehab clinic and found a job now he delivers heavy white goods like fridges and washing machines he gets up at 5 am every day and mostly lives in hotels because he has to travel a lot for his work he says hes making more than ever before and feels happily selfsufficient his dream is to save enough by the end of the yeah to rent premises for his own house so he can start helping other people again. The most important of our recovery men dont lose yourself trying to help other people find themselves obviously everybody wants to help everybody the epidemic is ridiculous out there take care yourself before you take. You know you know getting nobody else if youre poor from an empty cup you cant transmit something you dont have. Running a household 14 guys and every time i would get down every time i would hurt every time i would feel pain i would go find one of the guys in the house and see what they needed done because you get you get a good feeling when you help somebody else problem is you cant use that as a substitute instead of me going out shooting dope when i feel like i was going to grab somebody else and help thats the same thing you know if i dont. And the problems maybe theres just put a bandaid on it because when that stuff goes away just like the drugs you go. So you know i was. So i actually i had relapsed in my head a long time before i. Left as is its a process. Mentally. Emotionally by time you get to the physical part is just simply picking back up 70 percent of. Ever get. A heroin addict i am less. If you have every Treatment Center ive been in since i started on major. Every and then they relapse and then back at her every and then reacts and etc ive spent. Close to 3 years in programs and thats not counting time that i spent in sober living but every time i went you know planted a seed and it made i made more connections it wasnt all for not you know because im sitting here and im alive and i am giving back to the community of that day used to be a burden on a. Completed her studies at the Recovery Coach Academy founded by reno. 2022 years since she stopped using more than 10 years ago she went to college to become a social worker melville wants to use knowledge and experience to help addicts to break the vicious cycle and claim back. They have this false belief that the streets care about them and those people support them that are out on the street but if they get some support over here you know and you can introduce them to like a better way of living slowly no its not going to be fast and its not going to you know but maybe they will one day grow maybe they wont desolate the saddest thing about this field is youre going to watch people die and youre going to watch them kill them so. The colegrove also completed her recovery Coach Training a little earlier but she hasnt started working yet she wants to get her life back on track so now devotes all of her attention to her children. You know i my children i have 4 kids with 3 different dad my 1st daughters father harm himself my. Kids. That i have. Who are 5 and 4 their dad is about alcoholic hes clean right now but. Last kid that i had his dad is an active addiction still to this day. So chances are one out of 4 of my kids will be an addict at least if i live the right way and show them how to live instead of tell them how to live their lives my job i can only lead by example and if they choose the opposite way thats ok ill be here for them i wont enable that but i will be there for them. Just a couple of news items is anyone following whats happening in Franklin County this week 28 deaths in 10 days again thats 28 deaths in one county in the past and. Continues to help rehabilitate former drug users and educate others he believes that individual coaching is the best solution. Other teachers at the academy see addiction as an illness and not just a sickness of the mind and body but an affliction of the spirit and thats what gets in the way for many who are trying to escape drug dependency they dont have the strength of spirit or higher goals to face but they can succeed. Again i think its important to note that its not an Opioid Epidemic i mean perhaps ultimately its an epidemic of spirit its the fact that weve become so disconnected soul bereft of spirit and community. Moving forward now a lot of you. Youre all going to be working in wildly different capacities please know you are the tip of the spear of the recovery revolution. The primary purpose of history is to understand the past as a guide to understanding the present and future history. Because a lot of history is facing. So how should we find the right balance the statue size the life. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the countrys military and the decision. Every song came to a complete. The day that i was raped. Told a shot kill me and i see how it destroyed. Any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me this berthing area if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished them the offender and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an hour in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats men or women. Greetings and sal you take a shims all right while millions and millions of People Living in the United States will wake up on july the 1st with no idea how to pay their rent or earn an income in the wake of both the us congress and the trumpet ministrations abject failure to protect and support us during the covert 1000. 00 pandemic that my friends will not be the biggest news story of the week or the day no it will not no no no that slot is reserved for yet another helping of russia gate or in this case why