Please keep the hope and tell somebody. Come forth. It is not anything to be shamed of. All i have to say is wake up. Kids are dying this. The only thing that keeps can us alive. We cannot continue to lose our kids. Facing the dragons is the Endless Journey take on on by her prin addicts trying to give back to the euphoria that they experienced when they first got high. Heroin epidemic is out of control in this country. Speak k since 2010 and the number of people addicted and suffering. In new jersey, it is troubling as the deaths are three times the national average. Today, this is what you see in the headlines. But this is reality. We are bringing you tonight, a very special addition of chasing news where chasing the outofcontrol heroin and end yid addiction cry since america and the families and the people that it impacts every day. These stories in the subject matter may make you uncomfortable. They are not easy to digest but you cannot look the otherway any more. Addiction is everywhere you turn. Now i sat in the living rooms and seeing the tears and pain the loved once faces. Loved ones faces. I was trying as hard as i could. I couldnt. I would like to introduce to you t. J. Walsh when we brought t. J. To you. He was homeless, heroin addicted and begging for money to feed the addiction. 3 00 if when did you see it. A change. A change. 3 00 right after he graduated col hemming, actually. Exponentially. And when he was resting in june of 2015. The officers let him know. Wow. Wow. I was sure. People getting on the ben frang lynn bridge and going to scour the area. The ben franklin bridge. Used to sleep here. Hes now sweeping over where the tow trucks are. If. How are you . I heard you. Yes. When was the last time . A long time. Really long time. No. Definitely not. A big part of your life and, you know, may not have worked out the way everyone might have thought. Not at all. And i worked for company, a mational company, it is really amazing. What we are look do is of fear scholarship to come to the problem for full 30 days free of charge then we want to set you up with housing after this and continue treatment and then obviously, well do this for the family. Right now. Right now. A i told you. I said cant believe that my family has not come like yet. I know what that is. I told him. I like to see just like. I hope that is what this is. What are you going to do . Dude, i cant do it. Deep down inside knew it was godsend. I knew what it was. I knew that i was. Tell me. Need get clean. How are you doing . A long haul. You need to get cane. You need to get clean. We are in the middle of the woods. Beautiful. As much as i wanted to be there. Nigh from the moment i got there. It was not going to work. You always want to have one more. The last time used, i didnt know it would be the last time used. My every wake thought was i wanted to get high once more. This is my good by of drugs would ever. I am making the biggest mistake my life. I am willing to leave. I am willing to leave a comfortable rehab and executive chef and great councilors to go back to the streets of philadelphia. I makes no sense. It makes no sense. Will not go away. I am hurting a lot of people. Come on. No i. Any teem i see anyone, i get paint. He am a not trying to make feel worse. As much as everyone thinks i dont understanded the holograph think of situation. I am gnat stupid person. 1 00 i am the one causing the problems. I see it. It likes you can hide from it. If i have kept the habit down. Before i would say i would use 100 a day. Now i wont let myself use more than 40 a day. It is less than half what i was doing. I give my sale of pat on the back for that. But i am still using, so it doesnt matter. I would love to hear back to the day when i started using and make different decision. P dont by this want to do. Got to get clean before i a in do anything. Do you have a plan for that. I all i have to do is call the lad dwy i. Development number and she can get me in a staterun fa cycle ty . I. I cannot gotten my i. D. Crazy. If. Pit is for the kids. Do not let your kids fall into this. It is every day battle. It is an every day battle. How long have you been around for . Three years. Yeah, loy love it. I love it, man. I love it. You said you wanted to feel better about your cereal. General mills big g cereals hear you. Thats why we say yes to whole grains as our first ingredient. And no way to high fructose corn syrup. In every honey nut o. Every lucky charms spoonful. And every cinnamon toast crunch square. You can feel good about General Mills big g cereals. In the living room, taught me everything i need to know who heroin. He even lost his life after an overdose in his mothers home. He did not get to witness the birth of his son. The past few years, it is tough. 26yearold steven was struggling heavily with heroin. A good man if. He bass living with his parents in Egg Harbor Township to try get better for his girlfriend elizabeth and two daughters. His girlfriend is currently pregnant with the third child. It took a tragic turn on march 26th. He it was supposed to be a joyous day. The whole family planned to go out for easter egg unt. I wacked over. I said come on. He with we got go. Be are going to his the easter egg hunt. I yelled, i think is dead. My husband grabbed his feet. I grabbed his arm as and pulled him to the floor and brief breathed so har. As hard as i could to make him breath. He couldnt. I wanted to. I couldnt. I couldnt have it. I didnt have what it took to bring himming if. Steven was dread a heroin overowes. Elizabeth herself, his girlfriend, has struggled with addicts but since become clean. A it is every day battle. It is every day battle. Thank god that i am in a program today because i dont know where i would be today but i am sober. I am here for my family today. Now donny is sustain cousin, more like a brother. His father died from a heroin overdose 22 years ago. This its tammys brother. He is struggling with heroin addiction, too. But after steven died, he stopped and looking for help. Like i wanted to. You know . One thing that is keeping the family together and will not let the death be in vein and made it the life mission to save others through the memory. We want to impact lives. The whole idea behind doing this. He want to go places and tell the story. We want to sit with lawmakers. We are here to make change. This is sustain place. Each bedroom holds two guys. Everything is donated in here. Yeah. Everything that you see. 3 00 we try get out as often as we can. All of this stuff is donated. A we make these bags. How long have you been in the house for . Three years. Are you loving. Hov it. Love it. Love it love it. We all get along. We all help each other with each ors recovery. F each others recovery. Perfect. This is nothing we could have done differently. Many turn a blind tie the fact that ocean in atlanta counties the deadliest regarding heroin overdose. These two conit is a loan account for over 300 people that have died from heroin overdoses since nez gypping of this year. I met a family in the living room right now from Egg Harbor Township. That is e dealing with the heavy loss of their broth earn son, 289yearold Christopher Cox whose life spiraled downward until the last date. Late october when he died from heroin overdose. The family has left the funeral and never said good biand tried everything to save him. I learned how to handle it. I mean, i tried everything. Tough love. Overlove. Pleading. Christopher and his little brother joseph were inseparable. They wreck the law together. They sold drugs together. They went in and out of jail and rehab together until four years ago when joseph decided to get clean. Clean and hard work to this day. I am all a rush. Chasing that rush. Chasing that rush. Chasing that rush. When you realize, you can get the same rush out of doing something productive. Christopher, however, could never escape the dark life of cripple and addiction. Joseph was wrong in talking about their struggles, their connectionance the death of his bee of looed brother who he called his best pren. Leaving the room, mother, to sisters where shall nephew and brother. A different energy. His family sworn of the loss of christopher but also leafed for him. Christophers brain his mine, heart, soul to deal with the change his adduction had on him any more. What would you say . 3 00 its never going to be the same. Learn to you live differently even with the moments that come when you feel look you cannot breath. You still manage to make it through the day. We actually teamed up with stop the heroin and created an app for them and going to be available to everybody soon. Try to get it. Let everybody know there is help. I help people get into treatment now in honor of my son. I want to say keep fighting. If you are battling addiction, you can beat it. I am nine months cheap, actually, today. I hope thats the only thing that keeps us alive and we cannot continue to lose. 3 00 he was just out of a detox and was waiting for bed for longterm care. We found him in his bedroom on a tuesday fight. Pe struggled with addicts for eight years and relapsed in september and it was fatal. Real people that feed their addiction. Real people still in the fight. Real families living with loss. Every single day. I help people get in to treatment now in honor of my son who had just turned 20. He passed aphrase a heroin overdose. We had free insurance and still turn aid way. I think august 22nd 2014 i want to say keep fighting. If you are battling addiction, you can beat it. I am nine months cheap actually today. It has been really great road. My name is joe richie, addict and recovery since march 10th crash 2012. Wake up croc croc because they are dying. He was tin a recovery place in florida and his probation made him come back and they found him in the park a short distance from here in trenton and he had died of overdose. Am a member of csc. What they do is great and there is hope. So dont give up. Shat the stigma. The only thing that keep us alive. We cannot continue to lose our kids. He struggled for a lot of years and i out of rehab with the minimum a. Time they would give. I have been in recovery since september 8th of 200p and here to say that recovery is possible and please keep the hope. We had two and a two and a half years clean. He was in the ocean county program and looking forward to loving life. This is right before he actually passed away. Come forth. It is nottage thing to be ashamed of. I am jason rivera in recovery. 3 00 together, we all help people get their lives straight and recovery. Well, i am in recovery since september 6th 2016 and when i was actually tin detox to the lack of funding and i overdosed the same day ands a v been in recovery since. Every day that i am sober shows i and get through anything. There is nothing to be ashamed of with being drugged a dick. There is hope for you and proof of that. My son is in recovery for three years thankful. He wound up getting four years almost clean doing wonderfully. Went out to get food at 3 00 in the morning for friends and never came back. 12 hours later they found him dead in the car. I am one of the lucky ones who had easy access to treatment. I am here todd support the true heros. The moms and dads who lost their loved ones who are still out here fighting this fight. I struggleled with addicts for many years but fortunate enough i have been sober since january 14th, 2011. My frustration was not only having to endure the death of my ung youngest son but the frustration trying to get the phone unlocked to get information to bring the dealers to crust is. I have been here since april 20th, 2016. I have been sober. Am here to show that recoveries possible. My son is in recovery nine mons today. It has been a tough road. There is always hope. Passed away onianary 27th. He was on heroin for five whole months. One of the worst parts about it. I could not get him treatment. Sp they said he didnt fit the cry year to. Criteria. I dont want any more kids to die. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. Wiggum yeah, i know ralphies birthday is coming up. Of course im gonna get him a present. Im at the. At the toy store right now. Lets see, present for ralph, present for ralph. Ooh, what do we have here . 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