maryland governor harry ho-ho began battling the opioid. peter doocy with the details. reporter: when adam mcpherson started pawning off his parents possession to pay for heroin, his mom thought her son hay need a different kind of help. once i pressed charges, the theft was so much that i was able to get him locked up. reporter: adam is out of jail and trying to stay clean, but so many maryland families like the mcphersons have been dealing with heroin that the state s governor, larry hogan, has declared a state of emergency to combat heroin and opioid overdose deaths that doubled here last year. and he s putting $50 million over five years toward the effort. in maryland we dealt with riots 90 days after i became governor. i declared a state of emergency. we sent 4,000 members of the national guard, and we stopped