Ha rd est drug they called the devil has hit hardest in smalltown america. Areas already ravaged by years of economic difficulty. A year in the life of the penguin caught on camera. How the penguin caught on camera. How the birds are adapting to Climate Change. America is in the grip of a heroine and prescription painkiller epidemic. More americans, as many as 50,000 a year, are dying from Drug Overdoses than from car crashes or being shot. Increasingly, the victims are young, white and middle class people. They have become hooked on the deadly drugs. Over the past year, ian pannell and cameraman Darren Conway have followed a number of addicts as they tried to kick the habit. You may find some of the scenes in their report difficult to watch. A darkness has descended across america. A aoish year old female, possibly not breathing. Od. A plague of Drug Addiction and death greater than there has ever been. Opioid painkillers and increasingly heroine are killing more americans than ever before. Oh, my god. What is wrong with her . Get out of the way we were just past here for a female in her 405 who was not breathing. It was an apparent drug overdose. How common is this . Every day. Every day . Every day. Sometimes more than once a day. We have a dry spell where well go a day or two, but mostly every day well have a call like this. I started when i was 17 years old. I was at a party, high school. I started doing the pills. When i was 13, i started using pain pills. Five, six people i know died just last year. All my values and morals went out the window. It will take everything you have. All of the money you have and everything you have worked for, everyone you love. There was almost nothing i wouldnt do for it. Because im a heroin addict. My brother is also an addict. I know i will die if i go back home. I have overdosed four times. I had my own sister have to save me. I know a lot of words are overused in our lexicon historic, unprecedented, unique. We fall back on those words all the time. Actually, in this case, this is an epidemic, and that is the right word. That is precisely what this is, an epidemic. This crisis has spread across america, created by Massive Overprescription of morphine like painkillers. It gave birth to a nation of addicts. A Heroin Epidemic is sweeping across america. It respects no man or woman, whatever their creed, colour or class. Friends, families, whole communities have been left to bury the dead and deal with the devastation addiction brings. But the drug they call the devil has hit hardest in smalltown america, taking hold in areas like this, that have already been ravaged by years of economic decline. For so many people, the future looks bleak. Increasingly, addicts are young, white kids from the suburbs and rural areas. They have moved from pills to heroin because its cheaper and easier to get. But its far more deadly, and its no exaggeration to say this generations under threat. I hurt myself today to see if i still feel. Dr huckabee is the medical director here and is an expert on Pain Medication and what it does. Hes also a Recovering Addict who became hooked after getting pain pills for a broken foot. The needle tears a hole the old familiar sting. I was given oxycodone. It was like pulling a trigger. I could not turn it loose. It tickled my brain in such profound ways it totally blindsided me to the point i eventually was injecting my own fentanyl in the operating room, and was fortunate to have partners who intervened upon me. You were injecting yourself . Yes. Powerless, powerless over it. I promised myself all the time, we will not do this again. That we are not going to do this again today, and by the end of the day, you know, ijust could not control it. Im addicted to heroin. I about died six times. All i could think about is, when am i going to get some more . Never feeling better. I am tired of this. I remember the first time i 0dd, and my boyfriend was actually filming me. He brought me back, and right after that he went and did a shot, and just kind of like, wow, ijust almost died. Heroins addictive like no other drug, and for many, there are only two Ways Out Rehab or death. Today, the Victim Isjust as likely to be your friend, your neighbour, or even your child. I miss you so much. I held him first on february 11, 1994. Then i held him last on august 22, 2015. I never want a parent to ever have to do that. Its the hardest thing that youll ever do. There is nothing else you can do that will hurt like this. That should never be. But this epidemic is only getting worse. There will be more families devastated, and more lives lost. Ian pannell, bbc news, western pennsylvania. A fascinating look into the life of the penguin. Scientists in the antarctica have been working on a groundbreaking project to capture the activity of a colony of penguins on camera. They have spent much of the year using remote cameras to find out how they are adapting to Climate Change and the threats they now face. Victoria gill was given exclusive access to their research. Her report contains some flashing images. Im in antarctica, following a team of scientists who are setting up remote cameras in penguin colonies. Im tom hart, im a scientist at oxford university. We have got probably a0 and they are spread out along the length and breadth of the peninsula. The bottom one takes photos all year round every hour. The reason were here is to monitor penguins on a vast level. If we have a constant presence in these colonies, we can look at how many chicks survive. Its like cctv. Seeing what is going on in winter is something you would never get to see. The partnership with tourism, this access is really important. Its vital. We would never have the access without them. We are doing this because, partly, tourism is a potential threat and we want to monitor it and so we measure it. Where we have looked, there seems to be very little impact of tourism. We have a Close Partnership and they drop us off where we want to go and in return we educate their tourists about conservation and hopefully inspire them to conserve penguins. This is the hole in the side of the ship that we go through before we go to shore. We have to wash out routes. It is a pristine place. We cant take anything onto the antarctic mainland which shouldnt be there. This is a zodiac. It is a fast rubber boat and we use this to get around. They are fantastic boats. Very fast and stable and they bounce when you hit against rocks. Wonderfulfor down here. It is incredible to see how ubiquitously everyone is deeply affected by antarctica. What we love about working with the production of scientific knowledge is that we give people the kind of emotional attachment to the place and they provide ground work and relevance for people to put that energy. And it also brings home a lot of Bigger Picture questions about human beings presence on the planet. So this is the last camera . Thats it for this year. And for this camera anyway. Now it is just turn it on and fingers crossed. Back next year. Yeah. Victoria gill, bbc news, antarctica. Thats it from this Special Edition of reporters, looking back at some of the best reports from this year. From me, david eades, bye for now. New year s day was a bit of a shocker. For many it turned out to bea shocker. For many it turned out to be a wet day. Tomorrow it will be sunny and but colder as well. Chilly aircoming in underthose sunny and but colder as well. Chilly air coming in under those clearing skies. Temperatures falling away quite sharply and frost developing later on the night. Cold air coming in behind the cold front, which brought the rain earlier on, clearing the south east coast right now. Showers, wintry showers across the north of scotland and known into and down into more areas. The north of scotland and known into and down into more areas. Some slippery slopes and warnings out for ice across northern parts of scotland and the north east coast. Further west, a clear and sunny start but you will have to wear several layers because they will be an edge to the and it will feel quite cold out there. Showers in north east england, some snow also. Elsewhere, sonny. In scotland, a different stories. Accumulating snow over hills and mountains. But the snow will turn into rain as something milder crib scene off the atlantic. Showers but for the rest of usa atlantic. Showers but for the rest of us a sunny afternoon. Temperatures briefly at best around 3 temperatures briefly at best around 3 five degrees for the early afternoon but temperatures falling quickly as soon as the sun goes down. It will be getting down below freezing in some places. Frost later on in the night across the southern half of the uk. Ice could also be an issue. Watch out for that. On tuesday, more cloud and showers across western scotland. Filtering into other northern and western parts of the uk. Further south, dry weather albeit with more cloud around. Temperatures a couple of degrees higher. It turns colder again through the middle part of the week but sunshine returning. Sunshine by day but colder by night. Keep up to date with developments including whether warnings on the weather website. I will be back in half an hour. Im mariko 0i, in singapore. The headlines cctv footage emerges of the moment a gunman launched an attack on a turkish nightclub, killing 39 people. A huge manhunt continues. Questions for indonesia after 23 people are killed when fire breaks out on a crowded ferry. Others are still missing. Im kasia madera, in london. Britains Queen Elizabeth is said to be better despite missing a Second Church service due to a heavy cold. And will the worlds scientists come up with desperately needed antibiotics to fight superbugs in 2017 . Well look at the big Global Health issues of the year ahead. Announcer live from our studios in singapore and london,
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