the cnn newsroom. i wolf blitzer in washington, and we re following breaking news. israel now appears ready to formally publicly sign up to president biden announced ceasefire plan i m for gaza. in a statement attributed only to a government official, but widely understood to be the prime minister s office says, israel won t end the war without reaching its objective. but it now says, and i m quoting now the proposal presented enables this route to achieve those goals. and israel will indeed do so. and quote, our white house correspondent are left signs and standing by over at the white house are achieved national security correspondent, alex mark court is here with me in the cnn newsroom. alex pressure has been growing and growing on the israeli prime minister benjamin at tiny. but this appears to be a major breakthrough. it does appear to be significant or hearing more and more positive signs from both sides, from both hamas and israel. we have this new statement, albeit
100,000-plus deadly drug overdoses from april 2020 to april 2021. did the pandemic kill matthew? no. it just intensified. i think he was more emotionally fragile. what did the pan emdid for places like kentucky? there was a clear and obvious use in use in, overdose in, my metric that you want to use. reporter: alex, a former opioid addict, now dedicates his life to studying, understanding and working with the addicted and recovering at lexington s voices of hope. he says the pandemic and the isolation that came with it devastated the addiction community. what addiction is in your brain is down regulation of dopamine and what it does is up level dopamine. reporter: cheap and
devastated the addiction community. what addiction is in your brain is down regulation of dopamine, and what social interaction does is up regulate dopamine. it is organic medicine for the recovering brain. reporter: add to the mix cheap and plentiful fentanyl, 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, whether in pill or wow durr f powder form. how did fentanyl come into your life? first overdose. how many overdoses has there been? 14. reporter: he was clean 19 months, then his grandfather died. grief drove him to relapse. he thought he was using heroin. it was fentanyl. i used less than 1/10th gram. less than 1/10th? it was straight fentanyl. that is a tiny that s tinier than tiny. it is barely a sprinkle of salt.
overdose, any metric you want to use. a former opioid addict, alex now dedicates his life to studying, understanding, and working with the addicted and recovering at lexington s voices of hope. he says the pandemic and the isolation with it devastated the addiction community. what addiction is in your brain is down regulation of dopamine and what social interaction does is up regulate dopamine. it is literally organic medicine for the recovering brain. reporter: add to the mix cheap and plentiful fentanyl 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine whether in pill or powder form injected or snorted, dangerous even in tiny amounts. how did fentanyl come into your life? my first overdose. reporter: how many have there been? 14. reporter: he says he was clean for 19 months then last december his grandfather died. grief drove him to relapse. he thought he was using heroin.