everybody, so it could be the kid next door or it could be somebody that s been, quite frankly, living on the streets for five years and couch surfing. it really runs the gambit and it s heartbreaking when you see these stories. nobody wants to be an opioid addict. they don t choose this lifestyle but once it grips you, you re done. and it was interesting to hear from so many of the fellows up there that they came in to it saying this is about personal choice, make better choices, get off it, be disciplined, once it grabs you, it s got a hold on you that few are ever able to break. everybody knows that our first responders are angels on earth but i ve never seen a group of guys more dedicated up there than you at saving lives. i know you re waiting for more help, from the state and the federal government, grantite hammer is the program you have up there and it s working.
affordable health care in west virginia, does not do enough to combat the opioid epidemic that is devastating my state. cuts traditional medicaid too deeply and harms rural health care providers. susan collins also announced her intention to vote no partially because of the can cuts to medicaid. reporter: 33-year-old james, the father of three small daughters is an opioid addict. heroin, pills. he wachbnts to stop but he can . what has it done to you physically? lost, like, 70 pounds. reporter: james is an inpatient at the milestone detox program in portland, maine. a facility where addicts stay for three to seven days as a first step to rehabilitation. it s paid for at least in part through medicaid, but under the current senate republican health care plan, medicaid would be dramatically cut. how addictive are opiates to you?
narcan. she survived. will she ever recover? if she s like many heroin addicts, she won t. she ll keep using and overdosing, until one day she won t come back. she ll leave a family, maybe drchildren, and they too may become addicts until someone some day decides enough and addresses this horror at its source. jeff is a recovering opioid addict and he reached out to us after this series first sick. earlier this week. i should say that you re one of a lot -f people who e-mailed the show this week during the series but i thought your e-mail was really powerful and moving. explain why you e-mail - - you became addicted to opioids after a car accident? yes, that ss correct. in 2006 i was in a car accident which lead to a back injury. i went to my family orthopedic, the injury, he gave me
2009 crimes committed over seas riin mexico or central america d they fled into the united states to hide. that s not a good sign. been a pretty intense a-block tonight -t. thank you, tucker. up next, new scientific studies argue that babies are already racist when they re six months old. which of course is crazy. i m going to talk to the lead researcher to find out how he reached that conclusion. ththe opioid epidemic, we ll tak to an opioid addict about what it s like, the challenge to getting clean and how doctor contributed to his crisis. these are live pictures of kim son s birthday celebration, they re expected to start a missile test o there shortly. we ll monitor the news out of that region by the minute so stay t tuned. hey, how s it going?
that, always giving us the big statements to end on. renato marriotti, malcolm nantz, ed price and mike viqueira, thank you for joining me. what can we do to stop the biggest opioid crisis in the country? we go behind the scenes with an opioid addict. and in the wake of the weinstein scandal, more women are saying me, too. next, the fight for safety and respect for america s workplace culture. how do we say that this fall, our guests can earn a free night when they book at choicehotels.com and stay with us just two times? fall time. badda book.