Virginia governor. Governor. Live coverage of the richmond rally begins 6 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Watch both on cspan. Org were the cspan radio app. Next, before among opioid addiction and th the affect it s on families. Parents of a young man who died from a heroin overdose talked about their experience of losing a child and addiction. We will also hear from the senator portman and mansion and later a panel of journalists that cover the epidemic. Epidemic. The discussion was hosted by the washington post. Good morning, everyone. Im lenny bernstein, the health and medicine reporter at the washington post. I aim going to introduce to you today todd and evelyn, the parents of thad berkey who died of a Drug Overdose and ellis lee, the journalist who made the remarkable video that you just saw. [applause] can you tell us a little bit about how the addiction began and how it progressed . In january of 2015, he broke his hand and foot and we took him to the emergency room and everything and
Good morning, everyone. Im lenny bernstein, the health and medicine reporter at the washington post. I aim going to introduce to you today todd and evelyn, the parents of thad berkey who died of a Drug Overdose and ellis lee, the journalist who made the remarkable video that you just saw. [applause] can you tell us a little bit about how the addiction began and how it progressed . In january of 2015, he broke his hand and foot and we took him to the emergency room and everything and he got prescribed painkillers. We had no idea that he got addicted. Now around october of 2015, his mom found the walk pills in hism and this is when he told us about his addiction to painkillers. I looked it up online and educated myself a little bit about it and the that and then k upstairs to the top and yelled out called him im sorry, i love you. He was on it in an attempt to beat his painkiller addiction. I said i love you and if anything happened to you, i wouldnt want to live, and then, of course we