isis is hunkering down, this year we have been following one man s struggle to overcome his addict tugs heroin. each day in this country, 78 people die from an opioid related overdose. so, jason amaral is fight his life. demarco morgan continues his series, in the shadow of death, jason s journey. real quick. is this good enough, dude? your dwrieyes open you think heroin. nothing else. any addict that is watching this, will attest to that. reporter: we met jason amaral, march 22nd, the day before he started rehab. roaming the city of boston on a there. i m going over there. not how i want to live. it s been 12 years. that morning we watched as he crushed and snorted pills from a toilet seat in city hall, scored drug drugs outside a restaurant aroond n around noon. i did heroin was sick. did a shot and am very, very high. that evening. at a friend s house. shooting up again. it gets boring. it gets old. it gets tiring. four and a half years, it has been misery. re
reporter: 59-year-old beth eagan the closest living family member two her nephews, both are heroin addicts. they re absolutely like my sons. i can t, and i dent want to lose them. everybody else in the family loves them of course. but they keep saying you know you got to walk away, beth. but i can t. hope he looks that good again some day. auntie beth as they call her has been looking out for the boys ever since her sister, their mother died of cancer when jason twas 11. eagan was the first person, jason scald for money the day he allowed cbs cameras to follow him as he looked for drugs on the streets of boston. can you save me $30? he used the money sent by his aunt beth to sniff crushed pills in a bathroom stall in city hall then to buy heroin later. which we saw him inject several times. is it hard to watch? absolutely. red means go when you are shooting heroin. reporter: knowing that jason has overdosed eight times. yeah. i have been there for one
runningmate. a preview into donald trump and hillary clinton s presidential calculations and approach to power. for clinton, capability is key. so i am going to be looking first and foremost as to who i believe could fulfill the responsibilities of being president and commander-in-chief. trump wants washington experience. then i would want somebody that could help me with government. most likely that would be a political person. reporter: clinton and trump need help beyond the obvious. for clinton, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren could electrify progressives. something plainly visible when the two campaigned earlier this week. i do just love to see how she gets under donald trump s thin skin. trump long had his eye on former speaker of the house newt gingrich. experienced legislator that could shore up the republican base. gingrich being vetted has been a close adviser to trump. i think we would be hard pressed not to say yes. would you look to do it?
in just one year more than 29,000 people lost their lives to an overdose of heroin or prescription painkillers, including oxycontin, hydrocodone and fentanyl. that s an increase of 329% since the start of this century. because this has become a national epidemic, we re beginning special coverage tonight, and we ll start with dean reynolds. he s coming around a little bit. reporter: the frightening rates of ore doses are fueled by a mix of heroin and an opioid called fentanyl, 30 to 50 times as powerful as heroin itself. there s this misperception that heroin laced with fentanyl is the better high. conversely, it causes too many deaths. reporter: one person dies every day from an overdose in chicago, where dennis wichern is with the drug enforcement agency. when they taint it with fentanyl, the impurity goes way up and that s when you get the overdoses. reporter: 25-year-old chelsea blackburn of pittsburgh, who was on heroin when she got pregnant but is now clean,
if you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. it s the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that s cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. all: osteo s preventable? right on! if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! the top u.s. military commander for the middle east made a secret visit to syria over the weekend. army general joseph votel met with rebels and kurds fighting the assad regime and isis. today isis unleashed a series of bomb blasts along syria s mediterranean coast. more than 120 people were killed. elizabeth palmer reports isis hoped to rattle the dictator. reporter: no one caught up in today s deadly bombings believed this could happen in latakia, the heartland of the regime. home to president bashar al-assad s family, and to two russian military bases. until today, it was the most secure part of the country. so much so that during our last visit we found syrians on the beach taking a break from the war. but today s car