cope, it s been over 200. a volunteer with learn to cope, jim derek says the group is vital support as he wrestles with his own son s fentanyl use. people come to a meeting, and they walk away with a kit, including narcan. how important is that? it is critically important. two people that i ve trained have used it directly to save their loved ones, including my son s mother, who saved his friend from a lethal overdose about six months ago. good morning. learn to cope. the stories that end up having, i think, the greatest impact are the ones that start off the way this story does. it s an individual who channels that grief into something really meaningful and starts an army. it s not just about accepting the status quo. it s about doing everything you can to change it. i ll never give up. i m scrappy, not afraid to speak up.
we really want to educate the families on how to recognize an overdose and what puts them at risk and make sure they have narcan in their home. reporter: narcan or naloxone is a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose and give families a chance to rescue someone they love. do you have any idea how many rescues have been reported? i know that for learn to cope it s been over 200. reporter: a volunteer with learn to cope, jim derek says the group has vital support as he wrestles with his son s fentanyl use. people come to a meeting and they walk away with a kit, including narcan. reporter: how important is that? it is critically important. two people that i have trained have used it directly to save their loved ones, including my son s mother, who saved his friend from a lethal overdose about six months ago. good morning, learn to cope.
going to be okay. and i have had so many people say to me they have feel grateful that they were a member of a peer group like learn to cope because they understood the disease. i know a mom, her son had cancer. he had been prescribed oxycontin. because he was in pain. he was taken off it and he turned to heroin and she told me she missed his cancer. she said, you know why? because everyone loved him then. no one gives anything about him now. reporter: even after 20 years of covering these types of is stories i still learn something every time i meet someone like joanne peterson. the idea that the ultimate first responder in this opioid epidemic is usually a family member. we really want to educate the families on how to recognize an overdose and what puts them at risk and make sure they have narcan in their home. reporter: narcan or naloxone is a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose and give families a chance to rescue someone they love. do you have any idea how many rescues
dana: border patrol agents overwhelmed are sounding the alarm on the spike in drug smuggling claiming cartels are bringing deadly narcotics across the border into the u.s. communities across america that are seeing an increase in fentanyl use and deaths. good morning to you. happening all over the place and we re coming up on three months since vp kamala harris was appointed as is so-called border czar and she has still not come down to look at the ongoing situation that doesn t appear to be getting better any time soon. the video we shot from late yesterday afternoon in texas. border patrol using a helicopter to chase down a group of runners who came across late in the day with a group of 10 young guys who came across. the ones who don t want to be caught and hoping they can slip into the united states and disappear into the interior. border patrol able to catch these pulling them out of the thick brush and using the helicopter to find them and
here. there s a clinic here where they re literally trying to stop people from dying today. people are going to vote on that. we re hoping they are. maine certainly has been hit really hard by deindustrialization. so with the collapse of the mill economies, people are trying to escape. they re trying to escape from the stress of their everyday lives and, you know, drugs is an easy way to do. in a way, what that guy said to me on the porch outside of the coffee shop, that when he mentioned fentanyl use, it s not just about fentanyl use. it s about the economy here. it s about the struggles that everybody is going through on a daily basis? yeah. those struggles, the fight to stay afloat in maine s second, is in part hidden behind the state s beauty. once you leave bangor, it s nothing but trees. obviously the backbone of what used to be a massive timber industry, and it s no surprise that when that industry collapsed, a lot of people were hit very hard. we hear millinocket is a p