. stories about people making a difference shaping their nation. and their continent africa on the move stories about motivational change makers taking their destinies into their own hands w.'s new multimedia series for. d.w. dot com africa on the move. jacob talbot spends a lot of time tracking down drug dealers drug and opioid abuse is out of control in the 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. all right. burke the. little girl. good morning to you. it's been raining in east liverpool since early morning. but 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 will come out for. jacob talbot grew up in this small town in ohio he knows every street an alleyway tony 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 products. yeah that one back there we just got some tips on and. we haven't got out of zach. time location as far as on to narrow it down on what ship that might be running on. but they they called and so the challenge and every day they are you know we had a. turn for the past and the old blue tire. portrait work that's another patrol has pulled over a suspect tell but is called in as a backup. a for a sense of. drama but another runner on the line. up and on. not only. the police officers know the driver from previous drug offenses his passenger has served prison time for drug dealing or any. of the girl you what they are there are in your home not from your legal. tell but suspects the men were on their way to their supplier. 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 this used to be housing there. less one fake and. about leaving one lives there these are the older weaker occupy but very rough. order if you were. to make it 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 at. 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. insurance options her. fight against looks like crack cocaine all. it's. as if your purse like. this your wallet. just your wallet. just rolled up here. is one of the silly crap are you. sure. you have anything on you just don't ditch it mccorkle as 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 tell but to encounter former schoolmates and acquaintances who have become addicts to get it to me it's a little bit more disheartening when when it's someone. that she knew and grew up with or if it be a family member or close friend it it kind of hits home a little bit more than it is some of the jude you have no idea about them or know anything about. me although 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 faith is key basically what they'll do is they can call me a first responders can call us and then we can just go in that moment of crisis and begin to show 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. 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 say ok that's a. time like almost losing my kids completely my family 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 your 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 at a distance. call them on. an emergency call comes in. someone's overdosed. officer kevin thomson makes his way to the scene. where exactly sure what she took you see things began. to change and if they did. they'd go into the well never completely full of the big god you know my granddaughter you want to know why i'm doing this because my daughter may have done that are that while this or that every day. i was nowhere around you i was in the would. we need to get on the appearance of her. or her up. grown and start to. 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's 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 these kids and stuff like that so that they like us and we're not seen as the enemy we're more or somebody that they can look up to and trust but you know we know most of the families that live here what's needed is more help for addicts and tougher handling and dealers. the police say they're doing what they can to prevent incidents like this from happening again this image was seen around the world. kevin thomson was on hand when the photo was taken here on a major thoroughfare on a school bus was close by at the time working. you put a face to this to the problem that we're dealing with on. a daily basis at the time where it's really easy to pick up a newspaper in your read something like that and work your fingers and go to the next page where now you've got a picture of face to put to it and and that's kind of what they were looking for was to to get some resources to get some help because if it's not just a law enforcement issue what with you can't do it on. the next morning jacob tell but he's back on duty. he tells us that ever since the police department and the community stepped up their efforts to combat the drug epidemic there have been fewer overdoses and fewer dealers. now we've kind of. we chase the bigger ones out the you know there are more and hodding than before we're know a lot of the bigger ones are all migrated down in the walls hill. but wells villas just a few kilometers from east liverpool and tell but admits there are still plenty of users in the area. problem on virginia which because of. that when you were here we got patriot. term for. the offices are on the lookout for a certain vehicle they three talbott spots the car and pulls it over. there's a warrant out for the owner's arrest. this time the issue has nothing to do with drugs it's about unpaid alimony. they got a warrant i got to get my handgun my back every day let me get this right that's just apartment protocol may not monitor. things like tell but would like to see his hometown prosper 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