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Ohio has been hard hit by heroin, and we selected columbus because the area is Middle America personified, where companies have gone for years to test and market new products. Now its where drug dealers, many of them from mexico, are marketing their cheap and increasingly powerful heroin. We decided to go back to ohio this year to see what is being done or could be done to solve a problem that is killing at least 23 people in ohio every week. Angie, what is this with all these names on the wall here . Angie pelfrey we call this the death wall. Whitaker the death wall . Pelfrey yes. Whitaker why is that . Pelfrey majority of the people on this wall have died of Drug Overdose due to heroin. Whitaker Angie Pelfrey, a former nurse and recovering opioids addict, runs the new beginnings Rehab Facility in rural piketon, ohio. Pelfrey by 2010, we had about 50 names, total. But now, 2016, were over 3,000. Whitaker thats incredible. Pelfrey it is incredible. Whitaker many of the names are mothers, brothers, even grandmothers. Relatives or friends of angies residents. They come from all over the state, and nearly everyone knew people on the wall. Thats almost everybody. Theres 23 people in there on the wall from my hometown. Whitaker is it a small town . Yeah. Whitaker a new university of cincinnati study says one in five ohio residents knows someone who is struggling with heroin. One sheriff told us that up to 80 of the prisoners in his county jail have drugs in their system, largely heroin. What can Law Enforcement do . Mike dewine the attorney generals not gonna solve the problem your local sheriff, your local prosecutor is not going to. Whitaker Ohio Attorney general mike dewine is also a former senator and congressman. Weve been fighting a war on drugs now for decades. If this is the biggest epidemic that you have seen, this heroin epidemic, it sounds like were not winning that war. Dewine you know, ive been involved in Law Enforcement for four decades. And ive learned over those years that were not going to arrest our way out of this problem. Whitaker thats why mike dewine says hes encouraged by a different kind of court in ohio. Congratulations. Whitaker theyre drug courts and deal only with drug cases. There are 91 in ohio. We went to one in columbus that was being run at the time by judge Scott Vanderkarr. He was handling only heroin cases four times a week. The judge believes heroin addiction is an illness and in his court, heroin addicts are treated more like patients than criminals. Judge Scott Vanderkarr and how long have you been clean . I have been clean for 84 days. applause whitaker there are students in the courtroom. A teacher, a state employee, the c. E. O. Of a tech company. If they come here for up to two years, get drug tested and stay clean, their heroin charges are dismissed. You sort of use the carrot and the stick. Judge vanderkarr absolutely. Whitaker you stick with the program or ill put you back in jail. Judge vanderkarr ill put you back in jail. And youre going to end up with a conviction on your record. Right before i went into detox. Whitaker under judge vanderkarr, 250 addicts went through the program, people who might otherwise be in jail or dead. You get resistance from other judges . Judge vanderkarr absolutely. Whitaker so whats whats their criticism . Its too touchy feely . Judge vanderkarr yes. Its too social work. Thats not my job. My jobs to be a judge. Dewine drug courts work. Ah, some people look at them and say, well, its you know, its the judge becoming a social worker. Its not true at all. Whitaker it worked for caitlyn and robert not their real names. They were both arrested for heroin possession and went to judge vanderkarrs court after being addicted to heroin for years. Caitlyn it was this, like, really, like, animal instinct level, like, obsession with with getting high. Whitaker you had to do it . Caitlyn even when i didnt want to, like, wou really using against my will. Whitaker where did you get the money . Robert stealing, lying, cheating. Using other people. Ripping other people off. Caitlyn i had no relationship with reality at all. Umm, my my thinking was limited to how i could get high. Whitaker in judge vanderkarrs court, they both were given a new chance. Robert its a gift. Whitaker whats the gift . Robert life. A new way to live, you know, and try to give me a little bit of some education on why im acting the way im acting, why i cant stop. Caitlyn they didnt treat us like criminals, i think that was a big thing. Whitaker after they passed random drug tests several times a week, went to therapy and stayed clean for more than a year, their drugrelated criminal charges were wiped off the books. Robert started a landscaping business. Caitlyn is in premed and wants to be a doctor. Caitlyn its freedom. And if i had those charges, i i wouldnt be able to continue on the path that im on now. Whitaker there are a lot of Law Enforcement folks who do see your behavior as criminal, and who do think you should be in jail for what you were doing. Caitlyn we did break the law. Robert yeah. Caitlyn but im talking about branding someone a criminal for the rest of their lives. It just doesnt work. Whitaker but its been that way for years in many ohio communities. We went to Hardin County, one hour outside of columbus. Jenna morrison i have eight felonies on my record that i will never be able to get rid of. Whitaker Hardin County is now experimenting with a drug court, but it didnt exist when Jenna Morrison first started using heroin seven years ago. Shes been arrested at least six times. Bradford bailey looked at this case. The old case whitaker the prosecutor in Hardin County, bradford bailey, says hes overwhelmed by drug cases. He takes a harder line than judge vanderkarr. Bailey were going to get them, because they dont have the ability to say no. They dont have the ability to stop using, some of them. They dont. Whitaker in 2011, Jenna Morrison overdosed and almost died. Prosecutor bailey charged her with felony heroin possession, internal possession. Jenna morrison i got charged with possession of heroin, because i had it in my system. Whitaker she was charged with a felony for that. Bailey thats what it is. Its a schedule one drug. No one can have it in their possession under any circums not even medicinal. Whitaker isnt isnt that a bit extreme . Bailey no. Thats the law of ohio. And its the law of the United States of america. Whitaker Jenna Morrison is no poster child for sobriety. But judge vanderkarr told us prosecutors have discretion, and its unusual to charge addicts, whove overdosed, with possession because a drug is in their system as prosecutor bailey did. Jenna sold a Police Informant small numbers of pain pills and a drug that helps wean addicts from heroin, bailey came down hard with nine counts of felony trafficking. When jenna and her sister stole cash and credit cards from their mother to support their heroin habits, bailey charged them with felony theft. Tracy morrison i couldnt stop them. I filed charges on my own daughters. Whitaker at her wits end, it was Tracy Morrison who called the police. Tracy morrison it resulted in five felony charges for one, three for the other. Whitaker felony charges . Tracy morrison felony charges. See i was thinking, because im naive, that 100 is petty theft. Well, no. They got them for forgery, and all all these felonies. And then they were trying to send them to prison, and i thought, this i just didnt even expect that to happen. Whitaker since she first used heroin seven years ago, Jenna Morrison has been charged with 23 felonies. Todd anderson is her lawyer. Todd anderson so theyre taking these lowlevel users and addicts, charging all these felonies, and then the problem is, is that they stack the sentences on them. And then when they violate their probations, then theyre getting lengthy prison sentence for really, being an addict. Whitaker the county prosecutor would say, theres just no denying she broke the law. Anderson i agree with that. But the issues what we do with them, and whats the sentence. The sentences got to be fair. Whitaker when we first met jenna last year, she had kicked her heroin habit with the help of a new drug called vivitrol, which blocks the effects of opioids in the brain. She went back to school and was managing to take care of her children. But she was still posted on prosecutor baileys website as a drug trafficker and she couldnt find a job. Her mother says she got depressed and started using cocaine. She recently was locked up again and the prosecutor charged her with five more felonies, making a total of 28. 18 have been dismissed; 10 remain on her record. Whitaker you think shes been treated fairly . Bailey where has she been untreated unfairly . Everything shes done shes chose to do. We didnt tell her to do these things. She chose to do felony crimes, not the state. Were not giving her a free pass. We dont give anybody a free pass. Whitaker but you also know that shes addicted to heroin. Bailey i have a lot of people who are addicted to heroin. Most of the people that are in our drug business, the illegal drug business, are addicted. Whitaker prosecutor bailey says the voters have told him they want drug addicts off the street. But Scott Vanderkarr says Law Enforcement needs to recognize the old, toughondrugs approach isnt working. That addicts like jenna need help, not punishment. He recently resigned his judgeship to help other communities in ohio set up their own drug courts. He meets with judges and elected officials like greg peterson, the mayor of dublin, ohio. Greg peterson i dont want anybody in dublin to have a problem and ever think, i dont know where to turn. Whitaker but many parents in the columbus suburbs told us they dont know where to turn, even if they can afford private Health Insurance to pay for rehab and detox programs. Christy and Wayne Campbells son tyler was a Star High School and College Football player, and a heroin addict. He was in and out of rehab three times, short rehabs because most Insurance Companies limit the length of inpatient treatment. Christy campbell the last one that he was in was in there two weeks. And the Insurance Company wanted to release him. Whitaker christy convinced the Insurance Company to give tyler two more weeks. Wayne campbell when he came home, there was there was something obviously different. I mean, he, like, he got it. Whitaker he he was talking about the future Wayne Campbell yes, this Christy Campbell talking about the future Wayne Campbell this is midnight. So we go to bed with the biggest sigh of relief that you could ever have. Its over. Tomorrows going to be a great day. Whitaker but tomorrow never came. Tyler went up to his bedroom, shot up and overdosed. Pelfrey new beginnings. This is angie. Whitaker at the new beginnings Rehab Facility, Angie Pelfrey told us what happened to tyler is not unusual. Pelphrey they get to a point to where theyre not using. They go out and want to use maybe one more time, just one more hoorah. And it takes their life because they s they go back to using the same amount that they did when they were ending the addiction. Whitaker their tolerance goes down after two weeks of rehab pelphrey right. Right. Whitaker they go home, shoot up the same amount they were using before pelphrey of her yes. And its taken their lives whitaker and its now an overdose. Pelphrey right. Whitaker Angie Pelfreys facility is a faithbased program, supported by a church and the local community. Addicts can stay without paying for up to a year. But angie has to turn away up to 20 people every day. There just arent enough beds. This is in regards to my son, hes a heroin addict, and hes asking for help. He needs help, or hes gonna die. You can call me anytime. Thank you so much. beep pelphrey its horrible to know that you have to tell a mother that youre sorry that you cant take them, knowing that there is a good chance they may not live until the next day. Whitaker its a daytoday struggle. Angie says the odds of staying clean after a year at new beginnings are only 5050. Whitaker what do you think about what youre seeing and experiencing . Pelphrey my fear is that its never ending. Thats my fear. Whitaker never ending. Pelphrey never ending. Im not seeing an end to it anywhere. 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