A GoFundMe page is raising $20,000 for the family of Michael Perez who was badly injured in a softball game. The father of two faces a painful & expensive recovery
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.