That people the world over information they provide to the pansy they want to express d. W. On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us germany state by state. The most colorful. The liveliest. The most traditional. Find it all at any time. Check in with a web special. Take a tour of germany state by state. Dot com. Jacob talbot spends a lot of time tracking down drug dealers drug and opioid abuse is out of control in the u. S. President trump has declared a National PublicHealth Emergency ohio is one of the states worst hit talbots hometown East Liverpool is one of ohios trouble spots to put a face on the crisis the town publicized this photo of a couple in their car high on heroin their grandson in the back seat right now the community and the police have stepped up to fight against this epidemic. All right. Richard berke. All over. Good luck to you. Its been raining in East Liverpool since early morning. Would like to think that the weather doesnt keep them from not one of their drugs and i. Think its on really bad it dont matter if its. Sun rain snow will come out for. Jacob talbot grew up in this small town in ohio he knows every street an alleyway tony its on river road heading towards downtown. Headquarters received a tip that a house in this area was being used as a drug house when the dealers used to sell their product. Yeah that one back there we just got some tips on it that. We havent got a exact. Time location as far as to narrow it down on what ship that might be running hot. But they they called and said the down ones i mean every day they are you know we had. Ten for passing the old blue tie or. Whatever or dont have another pair. Troll has pulled over a suspect tell but he is called in as a backup. For a sense of. Drama but another runner on the line. Up and on. Not only. The Police Officers know the driver from previous drug offenses his passenger has served prison time for drug dealing or any. Of the girl you know what they are they are going you have nothing illegal. To tell but suspects the men were on their way to their supplier. But he has no proof. To pick up truck at any rate is clean. These liverpool was once referred to as the pottery capital of the world but the decline of the industry led to mass unemployment and eventually drug abuse. This used to be housing there. Less one fake and. About leaving no one lives there these are the older weaker occupy but very rough. Order if you were. To could tell but also considered moving away. If i moved away there be no one here to to take care of our parents saying that mother siblings had left town. For other jobs and sisters married and they were their husbands work. So i made a commitment to the. Stay here and ride the storm out. Of the patrol unit has apprehended a woman. Shes wanted for theft. Your assumptions her. So i guess it looks like a crack cocaine or. Is this your purse like. This your wallet. This is your wallet. This rolled up here. This one of the sleeve crack for you. If you have anything on you just dont ditch it the car is i mean we check it at the beginning of every shift and theres nothing in here so we find something so. Well deal with it ok. Well out on call its not unusual for talbot to encounter former schoolmates and acquaintances who have become addicts to get it to me its a little bit more disheartening when when its someone. That she knew and and grew up with or if it be a Family Member or close friend it kind of hits home a little bit more than it is some of the jews you have no idea about them or know anything about. Me you know theyre back in East Liverpools Police Station jacob talbot and his fellow officers are hoping for reinforcements crack heroin fentanyl entire regions are being inundated with drugs ohio is one of the states thats been hardest hit by the Opioid Epidemic a Nonprofit Organization across from the Police Station aims to help josh lytle started using drugs at age twelve and was an addict for twelve years. Now hes trying to help others get clean he says faith is key basically what theyll do is they can call me of First Responders can call us and and we can just go in that moment of crisis and begin to share that there is hope and then once they get that message of hope once they believe that then we start to work with them and start to help deal with all these issues in their life i call them scar issues but its really just pains and hurts from growing up and this ease with themselves yeah sure. Randy has been clean for about a year and a half now she started taking painkillers as a teenager after suffering a broken leg at some point she found she couldnt do without them and. Thats the start of many addictions. Sometimes when you think you hit bottom you really get it and theres Something Else and you fall all the way down and say ok thats the bottom its time like almost losing my kids completely my family let trust me i couldnt go to my familys house. It was a hard thing to do i just had to stop and youve got us around or youve got to get away from those bad people that are still and that still want you to get high with them you got it you can still be their friends but you keep them at a distance. An emergency call comes in. Someones overdosed. Officer Kevin Thomson makes his way to the scene. Where exactly sure what he took you should think it would be a game. Changer and if they did. They dont want to they will never completely full the big god you know my granddaughter you want to know why im doing this because my daughter may have done that are back while this was not a good day. I was nowhere around you i was in the would. We need to get on the appearance of her. Hold up. Her. Own or start to. Many in this area feel like theyre on the losing side of life there are a few jobs and few prospect. We have officer thats stationed up here we take turns coming up i worked there last night for four hours and we we definitely interact with the kids in the families and try to. You know make a positive impact on these kids and stuff like that so that they like us and were not seen as the enemy were more or somebody that they can look up to and trust but you know we know most of the families that live here whats needed is more help for addicts and tougher handling and dealers. The police say theyre doing what they can to prevent incidents like this from happening again this image was seen around the world. Kevin thomson was on hand when the photo was taken here on a major thoroughfare on a school bus was close by at the time working. You put a face to this to the problem that were dealing with on. A daily basis at the time where its really easy to pick up a newspaper in your read Something Like that and work your fingers and go to the next page where now youve got a picture a face to put to it and and thats kind of what they were looking for was to to get some resources to get some help because its not just a Law Enforcement issue what was found you cant do it on. The next morning jacob tell but hes back on duty. He tells us that ever since the Police Department and the Community Stepped up their efforts to combat the drug epidemic there have been fewer overdoses and fewer dealers. Now weve kind of. We chase the bigger ones out that you know theyre more in hiding than before were no a lot of the bigger ones all migrated down into walls hill. But wells villas just a few kilometers from East Liverpool and tell but admits there are still plenty of users in the area. Problem on virginia which because of. That when you were here we got patriot. For. The offices are on the lookout for a certain vehicle they three talbott spots the car and pulls it over. Theres a warrant out for the owners the wrist. This time the issue has nothing to do with drugs its about unpaid alimony. They got a warrant i got to get my hands grandma back you know every day let me get this right thats this apartment protocol may not mind right. Thats right tell but would like to see his hometown prosper again hed like to see the jobs return and the drug crisis beaten he says theyre doing everything they can to make that happen. And. Im on the phone rather good health and all all all right truck for all. 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