welcome back. we have been telling you about the alarming crisis facing our nation when it comes to addiction and overdoses. a new report out just this week says 1.3 million people had to go to the hospital for problems from o popioids. montgomery county is what officials are calling the overdose capital of america. jails have become detox centers and some sheriff deputies are not just crime fighters anymore. why are you knocking on people s door afc they overdose? we re the heroin capital of the world. [ inaudible ] to get addicts to seek treatment, montgomery county sheriffs detectives are playing social workers, checking in on people recently saved from overdoses. did you overdose?
republican s health care bill and the impact on the opoid crisis. over one-third of medicaid recipients in ohio report dependency and could lose access to treatment. jacob soboroff has more details in this, the final installment this week of his series one nation overdosed. ali, in montgomery county, ohio, what local officials call the overdose capital of america as we have been talking about all week, jails are makeshift detox centers and some sheriff s deputies are not just crime fighters anymore as we saw firsthand. why are you knocking on people s doors after they overdose? we re the heroin capital of the world. and [ bleep ]. get your [ bleep ] and hit the road. reporter: to get addicts to seek treatment, the sheriff s
players and they can make things happen. peter baker, white house correspondent for the new york times and friend of this show. appreciate that perspective. appreciate it. take you to a place that is called the overdose capital of america. heroin and fentanyl are killing more people than ever before. he s going to show you how law enforcement is trying to tackle it. beyond is a natural pet food that goes beyond assuming ingredients are safe. to knowing they are. going beyond expectations.
gone up since then in the overdose capital, law enforcement working every day to keep the deadly drug sending people to the hospital off the street. jacob soboroff more with one nation overdosed. reporter: you re talking about montgomery county, ohio, 800 people expected to die of a drug overdose this year, double last year. and as the opioid getting stronger, the task force dedicated to stopping narcotics trafficking is in a daily race to save lives. this is the epicenter of america s opioid crisis, montgomery county, ohio, i m with a task force to stop heroin and fentanyl, killing more people than ever before. put your hands bind your back. they just did it. and here s the dealer right
here. here buying dope? in what local officials say is the overdose capital of america, this is a normal weekday morning for montgomery county sheriff s captain mike brown. what went down here? a cold call on a guy that was selling heroin. caught him in the act. basically a buy bust. do we know if it was heroin or fentanyl? most likely, it s fentanyl. let s look if we can. this is the dope he was going to sell. somebody calling him right now. it s been blowing up. that could be another deal trying to go through? good chance. when you look at the deaths that are happening on the street today, can you trace that back to deals like this that happen on the street level? this is the street level dope that s killing people. this is the day-to-day stuff that people are going to the morgue for. street level dealers may seem like independent operates, part of a global crime rate. china is the primary source of fentanyl in the united states and most shipped to mexic