deaths from within the last week or so. why is that so deadly? well, they are still looking into specifically what this is. my guess is, after reporting on this and talking to detectives, what happens a lot of times with heroin, they will try and cut it with something else, they will add another substance to make it more potent so they can use less of it and they make more money and a lot of time they cut it with something known as fentanyl. 10 to 100 times, depending on the dose, more powerful than heroin. so the scenario is, someone who is a regular heroin user, an abuser, all of a sudden gets this substance, thinks that they are going to take the same dose as normal and all of a sudden they have an overdose because they have taken a lot more than they have expected to take. i remember talking to a heroin expert from john jay college years ago who said oftentimes when there s a particularly potent brand of heroin, people have actually died taking, it becomes more
i like to break that image because if i met you on the street, you wouldn t think that two years ago, i was an i.v. heroin user. yes, casey is a new face now tasked with taking the message of 23 million americans currently in recovery straight to the candidates. jeb bush, bernie sanders, chris christie. good to see you again. anyone who could possibly stop this epidemic. i would appreciate if they use the same language, not those addicts, those people because those people are your moms, dads, sons, daughters, your neighbor, the chief of your police. they are everybody. they are your doctor, your nurse. we re not unique people, just we have a chronic neurological condition that treatment is available and recovery is 100%
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still, this wasn t the life he ever imagined. slowly becoming the new face of a former heroin addict. people think that in a person suffering from alcoholism or addiction, they have this image that comes up in their mind and i like to break that image because if i met you on the street, you wouldn t think that two years ago, i was an i.v. heroin user. yes, casey is a new face now tasked with taking the message of 23 million americans currently in recovery straight to the candidates. jeb bush, bernie sanders, chris christie. good to see you again. anyone who could possibly stop this epidemic. i would appreciate if they use the same language, not those addicts, those people because those people are your moms,
his mom, who he was close to, he was at her bed. side when she died of cancer. his grandmother then took him in and later on she died of cancer. he had a 6-month-old son who died of sudsen infant death syndrome. and recently he had two close friends who died from drug-related causes. so a lot of tough stuff going on. he absorbed all of that. you could feel that. it made him a more empathetic person, but he struggled with drugs and alcohol at different points in his life. he was suspended at one point for that. this is a moment that a lot of lamar s friends around the nba and he has so many friends around the nba, unfortunately, they were just this is the call they were hoping wouldn t come but worried were going to come as they saw him slip further and further this past year. kobe bryant raced to his side this week. also his estranged wife khloe kardashian. shawn, you have interviewed