jacob talbot spends a lot of time tracking down drug dealers drug and opioid abuse is out of control in a u.s. president trump has declared a national public health emergency ohio is one of the state's worst hit talbot's hometown east liverpool is one of ohio's trouble spots to put a face on the crisis the town publicized this photo of a couple in their car high on heroin their grandson in the back seat right now the community and the police have stepped up to fight against this epidemic. when i. heard. that their workday. it's been raining in east liverpool since early morning. like to think that the weather doesn't keep them from not one of their drugs and i . think it's on really bad it don't matter if it's. sun rain snow or come out for. jacob talbot grew up in this small town in ohio he knows every street an alleyway tourney it's on river road heading towards downtown. headquarters received a tip that a house in this area was being used as a drug house when the dealers used to sell their product. here that one back there we just got some tips on and. we haven't got a exact. time location as far as on to narrow it down on what ship that might be running hot. but they they call it and so the challenge and every day three you know we had to. turn four and pass in the old blue tire. were correct or not and one other patrol has pulled over a suspect tell but is called in as a backup. for a sense of. drama but another runner runner. up on. not only. the police officers know the driver from previous drug offenses his passenger has served prison time for drug dealing really. of the girl you what they are there are in your home not from legal. tell but suspects the men were on their way to their suppliers. but he has no proof. to pick up truck at any rate is clean. these liverpool was once referred to as the pottery capital of the world but the decline of the industry led to mass unemployment and eventually drug abuse. for the us used to be housing there. less one fake and. about leaving one lives there these are older weaker occupy but very rundown. old. jacob tell but also considered moving away. if i moved away there be no one here to to take care of our parents saying that mother siblings had left town. for other jobs and sisters married and lived where their husbands worked. so i made a commitment to the stay here and ride the storm out. of the patrol unit has apprehended a woman. she's wanted for theft. control sources when you're. trying to guess looks like a crack cocaine oh yes. this is your purse my. sis your wallet. just your wallet. just rolled up here. oh it's on the sleeve crack for you oh. you have anything on you just don't ditch it mccorkle i mean we check it at the beginning of every shift and there's nothing in here so we find something. we'll deal with it ok. well out on call it's not unusual for talbot to encounter former schoolmates and acquaintances who have become addicts. to me it's a little bit more disheartening when when it's someone you knew and grew up with or if it be a family member a close friend it kind of hits home a little bit more than it is some of the jews you have no idea about them or know anything about them. you know they're back in east liverpool's police station jacob talbot and his fellow officers are hoping for reinforcements crack heroin fentanyl entire regions are being inundated with drugs ohio is one of the states that's been hardest hit by the opioid epidemic a nonprofit organization across from the police station aims to help josh lytle started using drugs at age twelve and was an addict for twelve years. now he's trying to help others get clean he says fifi is key basically what they'll do is they can call me of first responders can call us and and we can just go in that moment of crisis and begin to share that there is hope and then once they get that message of hope once they believe that then we start to work with them and start to help deal with all these issues in their life back home scar issues but it's really just pains and hurts from growing up in this ease with themselves yeah sure. randy has been clean for about a year and a half now she started taking painkillers as a teenager after suffering a broken leg at some point she found she couldn't do without them and. that's the start of many addictions. sometimes when you think you hit bottom you really get it and there's something else and you fall all the way down and you say ok that's the bottom it's time like almost losing my kids completely my family met and trust me i couldn't go to my family's house. it was a hard thing to do i just had to stop and you've got us around or you've got to get away from those bad people that are still and that still want you to get high with them you got it you can still be their friends but you keep them out of distance. rather on. an emergency call comes in. someone's overdosed. officer kevin thomson makes his way to the scene. right there we sure what she should she should think it would be a game. changer and if they did. they don't want to do we're never completely fooled the big guy did you know my granddaughter you want to know why i'm doing this because my daughter had done that our back while this was not a good day. i was nowhere around you i was in the woods. when you get on the appearance of her. holding up. her. own structure. many in this area feel like they're on the losing side of life there are a few jobs and few prospects we have officer that stationed up here we take turns coming up i worked there last night for four hours and we we definitely interact with the kids in the families and try to. you know make a positive impact on.