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what do you make of the way this strategy has been launched today? we have had a lot of talk around the criminaljustice elements that they are going to be introducing. and i know you did not focus on that side of things in your report, but what is your take on the way the government seems preoccupied on the justice side of things? i think they feel they must be occupied and preoccupied with enforcement, and of course it is important and we do want county lines to disappear, but unless you give equal balance to treatment and recovery, we are really not going to move forward. we ve had enforcement for many years and we haven t really solved our problem. well, as we wait for that plan to be published, a recovering heroin addict has told the bbc that a new treatment being trialled in the midlands is like being given the keys to a new life . buvidal is a monthly injection that replaces daily treatments like methadone.
welcome back to cnn s debate night in america on the future of health care. we want to get to a brutal issue that is plaguing this country and that is opioids. drug overdoses as you know, senators, are currently the leading cause of death among americans under 50, a number that is rising due to opioid addiction. republicans are proposed eliminating funding for medicaid expansion which helps pay for substance abuse treatment. i want to bring in ashley hurry toe, a recovering heroin addict from new hampshire and she has a question for senator graham. senator graham, in march 2015 i lost custody of my son and then three months later on june 11th i woke up to find my husband dead next to me. lifeless from an overdose. my addiction was so strong and so sick that not even his death
abuse past, obviously you can t eliminate all of your friends and the environment, but how important is it for someone who s struggling to try to avoid these places and influences? i have this idea that if i go to a barbershop day in and day out, i m likely going to get a haircut. and likewise, if you put yourself around people, places and things that are triggers for you, or if there are drugs on the table right here, i would be triggered in ways that i wouldn t. you know, i think it s just an awful headline. and it goes against the notion that many families get stopped by it s the idea that somebody has to hit bottom. and i think if we interrupt and help someone get treatment, that s their bottom. we help them establish their bottom. the bottom is when you quit digging and accept help. we know that his father was a recovering heroin addict. he lost his mother at a very young age.
as the kind of drug people used in street alleys. but not anymore. that notion that it s concentrated in the inner city among the down and out is is less and less the case. reporter: as we ve seen, heroin has an appeal beyond street corners. contributing to the death of beloved television star cory monteith. let s talk about this. we have bob forest, vh1 celebrity rehab and sober house and founder of bob forest counseling services joining me. also gary langus, recovering heroin addict. drug use researcher currently. sitting alongside him ken hansen, director of addiction services for the north suffolk mental health association. before we go to you, elizabeth cohen sitting next to me in studio seven. we just heard from you. those who know zero. just what we see in tv and on the movies. the needles on the street. heroin is an opiate. what does that mean? it means it depresses your central nervous system. so you get a high from it. but when you take too much of