But first we go to the u. S. To meet children of drug dependent parents what do they did to cope. The u. S. Is in the midst of a major drug epidemic the foundations for it were laid in the one nine hundred ninety s. Back then doctors churned out prescriptions for opioid based painkillers and pharmaceutical firms pushed products with aggressive Marketing Strategies sales of prescription painkillers quadrupled in the first years of the twenty First Century and at the same time the drugs got stronger in two thousand and fifteen thirty three sales in people in the us died from overdoses a year later forty two thousand suffered the same fate. The us governments tactics so far has been to toughen controls on prescriptions driving many people with dependencies to turn. And to street drugs like heroin. Its estimated over two million americans are now opioid its a desperate situation for the people affected their families. Its a moment fifteen year old Athena Gregory can enjoy when she can focu
A kick boxing champion for whom coverage is essential as action. But first we go to the u. S. To meet children of drug dependent parents what do they do to cope. The u. S. Is in the midst of a major drug epidemic the foundations for it were laid in the one nine hundred ninety s. Back then doctors churned out prescriptions for opioid based painkillers and pharmaceutical firms pushed products with aggressive Marketing Strategies sales of prescription painkillers quadrupled in the first years of the twenty First Century and at the same time the drugs got stronger in two thousand and fifteen surgeries three thousand people in the u. S. Died from overdoses a year later forty two thousand suffered the same fate. The u. S. Governments tactics so far has been to toughen controls on prescriptions driving many people with dependency. To turn to street drugs like heroin. Its estimated over two million americans are now opioids its a desperate situation for the people affected their family. Its a
But first we go to the u. S. To meet children of drug dependent parents what do they do to cope. The u. S. Is in the midst of a major drug epidemic the foundations for it were laid in the one nine hundred ninety s. Back then doctors churned out prescriptions for opioid based painkillers and pharmaceutical firms pushed products with aggressive Marketing Strategies sales of prescription painkillers quadrupled in the first years of the twenty First Century and at the same time the drugs got stronger in two thousand and fifteen thirty three thousand people in the us died from overdoses a year later forty two thousand suffered the same fate. The us governments tactics so far has been to toughen controls on prescriptions driving many people with dependencies to turn to street drugs like heroin. Its estimated over two million americans are now opioid addicts its a desperate situation for the people affected their families. Its a moment fifteen year old Athena Gregory can enjoy when she can fo
Den and oakland and hayward down to nine on live doppler hd. Check out the only way you will see the sun rising this morning, from our Mount Tamalpais with High Definition window. 58 to 66 at 7 00 with drizzle and by 9 00 county clouds pull back to the coast and by noon, 62 to 76 and we will have fog rolling across the Gabriel Esparza to emeryville and headed into the afternoon we have low 60s to low 80s inland and temperatures are well below average. Sometimes when you sigh the traffic you say, i dont want to see it. Exactly. It is getting worse and now we have reports of an accident, a possible solo spinout over the Santa Cruz Mountains on highway 17. We probably have slick roads there and that could have contributed to the accident. We are looking at Golden Gate Bridge and it is starting to get foggy there as you make it into the country knell. Traffic is not too bad but we have three lanes of it closed the closer you are to the waldo tunnel because of an accident. At the tolls at r
Rain rolling through that area. Even at this point back edge is still working its way through. Heres that view of storm scan three rotating around through bucks and montgomery counties and we do as a result, still have flood advisories and Flash Flood Warnings, posted across these zones. In the green that is your flash flood rather flood advisory but Flash Flood Warnings are posted in the red. Everything is updating as we go along so bear with us as we are updating our graphics as quickly as possible. As we look at the snapshot with the lightening strikes they are coming through in clusters but very frequently. Portions of sale he will, gloucester camden counties finding these not just heavy pockets of rain but lightening strikes that come with it. In short this isnt it and then were done. Rest of the day may feature showers and then are storms at anytime. We have to get this frontal boundary through before we can wipe the slate clean. That will take us until at least tonight. Well, it