addiction. shepard: for you this became personal when you took opioids and it was nothing. i had back surgery six years ago, i had oxy two days, no problems. but i had a buddy injured in the service came back, had a prescription and it turned his life upside down. he lost everything, his family, his house, his job and ended up in prison with a felony record. shepard: i ll bet a lot of people have stories like that. i would say especially in ohio, where the epidemic has been so terribly devastating for people far and wide of all economic classes and beyond. have you talked to doctors and scientists who say they believe that somewhere in a genetic code there is a piece that might make this horror go away? it is probably combination of genes, probably not a single marker, interaction between multiple genes that affect dopamine pathways. i m hopeful, i have talked with