Back then, doctors churned out prescriptions for opioidbased painkillers. And pharmaceutical firms pushed products with aggressive marketing strategies. Sales of prescription painkillers quadrupled in the first years of the 21st century and at the same time, the drugs got stronger. In 2015, 33,000 people in the u. S. Died from overdoses. A year later, 42,000 suffered the same fate. The u. S. Governments tactic so far has been to toughen controls on prescriptions driving many people with dependencies to turn to street drugs like heroin. Its estimated over two million americans are now opioid addicts. Its a desperate situation for the people affected, and their families. Reporter its a moment 15yearold Athena Gregory can enjoy when she can focus just on herself. Behind her lies a horrific childhood as the daughter of drug addicts. She bore sole responsibility for herself, her little brother, and her parents. Athena you always have to stick by your parents side and even when they are doin
Very much part of the u. K. Which has decided to leave the european union. But its still not clear what exactly brexit will mean in practical terms. Negotiations between london and brussels are proving difficult, with one of the main sticking points being the right of e. U. Citizens to live and work in the u. K. After brexit. Some businesses in scotland say some businesses in scotland say it will be very hard to survive if they can no longer rely on hiring workers from the continent. And european nationals who have lived in the u. K. For years are afraid they might be forced to leave. While most expect these issues will eventually be resolved, lingering doubts are making a lot of people nervous. There is never able moment at length and inhouse glenfinnan house. Manja and Duncan Gibson have run the hotel for 15 years now. They take care of the guests and the kitchen. Under their management, the hotel has won a host of accolades. Glenfinnan house lies on picturesque loch shiel. Its a cou
Nationalist protestors even stormed parliament to attack newly elected officials. Many of the young people in this small balkan state refuse to accept this. Reporter irina sterijovic is a young theater director in the capital skopje, and shes very worried about the nationalists she sees on the streets of her city. Theyve been demonstrating every day for 2. 5 months now, carrying old and new macedonian flags through the city center, past her favorite cafe. Skopjes young liberals gather here. Theyre horrified at the visible surge in nationalism. Irina you can see on their faces, you know. They are screaming makedonia, makedonia but their faces are all filled with hate. Reporter last year, sterijovic and thousands of others demonstrated for months in what was dubbed macedonias colorful revolution, because protestors threw paint at official buildings. Irina you have people who are going to prison for five years for stealing ten kebabs. And you have a government who is all in provisions, in
Detained in a leipzig jail on suspicion of planning to bomb an airport in berlin. Three days later, the syrian refugee, who was thought to have connections to socalled islamic state, committed suicide in his cell. Albakrs death is being viewed as the latest in a series of blunders on the part of German Authorities and its a huge loss for security officials, a potentially important source of terror intelligence is now gone. Our report follows the wouldbe jihadists trail to find out what went wrong. I have fallen in love with jihad. And my religion demands that i protect the servants of god. American security agencies, German Police and three Syrian Refugees prevented jaber albakr from carrying out jihad. He died in prison in leipzig when he managed to by strangle himself with his shirt, instead detonating of a suicide vest. This is the cell where the prisoner albakr committed suicide. The prison psychologist and administrators did not evaluate the prisoner as being in acute danger of su
Nation has a lot of work to do to prove that it merits such a status. To highlight its efforts at reform and at the request of the u. S. , albania has agreed to recital thousands of members of an Iranian Opposition group known as the peoples mujahedin. For years, theyve been housed in the u. S. Backed cant in iraq. Our reporter went to the albanian capital to meet a former member. Ehsan bidi is keeping a low profile in a toronto tirana suburb. He claims to have been threatened by his forme comrades, militant fighters from the peoples mujahedin of iran or mek. They do not want him to talk about his experiences. Bidi theyve been after me since the day i left the organization. I got eight threatening phone calls. The even posted a video calling on others to hunt me down. He lives away from the road in a little apartment which he shares with a friend. He recalls his time with the mek. They were fighting for a just cause, he says, the liberation of their native iran from the oppressive regi