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Addiction problem with your daughter? i believe you werent even aware that there was an opiate problem brewing in the united states? >> thats very true. i had no idea there was an opiate problem. i didnt realize there was a crisis already in hand. she started out taking pills, and then moved to heroin. thats when she came to me and told me what was happening. even then i didnt realize it was as dangerous as it was. i thought it was simple matter of going into treatment and getting help. its much...

People suffering from pain and we have to come up with a new solution for pain therapy. >> thats what the study is showing up. up until now, we said there is an addiction problem, an epidemic, but this is the first study to give us hard numbers. one in three americans in 2015 used prescription opioid. of those, 11.5 million misused and 1.9 million were addicted. i mean, they simply use ed it outside of the directions of their doctor, took somebody elses medication, used it too often, used too mu...

Level that he was ten years ago, for quite some time. and yet, hes still getting tens of millions of dollars. >> and thats what i think we should focus on. where is the compassion here? of course hes got all the money in the world, but were talking about someone who is not able to do the very thing that elevates his skills. its got to be devastated. why run on him now? i think its terrible, especially since we dont know everything. david: mike? >> i tell you where the compassion is, john, its co...

Opioid epidemic. >> we had flooding, we have natural disasters. this is much worse. there is like five people everyday in our state who are dying. so it is a real emergency crisis. >> governor larry hogan calls the emergency declaration and the $50 million stit funds that came with it a drop in the bucket. how much is the crisis costing your state. >> it is almost no limit. you could almost not even put a number on it. >> right outside his office, three people died and 16 overdosed in one day. i...

A state of emergency for the opioid epidemic. >> we had flooding, we have natural disasters. this is much worse. there is like five people everyday in our state who are dying. so it is a real emergency crisis. >> governor larry hogan calls the emergency declaration and the $50 million stit funds that came with it a drop in the bucket. how much is the crisis costing your state. >> it is almost no limit. you could almost not even put a number on it. >> right outside his office, three people died a...

Have been shot. he was a dirty rotten deserter. ainsley: bergdahl was exchanged for five afghanistan prisoners in 2014 after walking off his base in 2009. he is facing desertion charges and five years in prison. brian? brian: all right. thank you, ainsley. the opioid crisis in america show nothing signs of slowing down sadly. while democrats claim the g.o.p.s health care plan will make things worse the next guest says they are looking to spark fear in americans and make the president -- joining ...

The patient that we are seeing dealing with a primary pain problem, or is it, in fact, are the waters being muddied by the fact that the patient may have a primary addiction disorder, and that sometimes is harder than it may seem to sort out, but we dont, as for just hints, we dont want to be contributing to a national health crisis that we are seeing all around us. >> jon: obviously not, what you are quoted as saying that regulations wont solve the addiction problem. >> well i think the problem...

Ran into her three months later at the state house in boston, where she was at a rally and didnt recognize her at all. she came up to me and said, you know, you guys saved my life. and thats a really satisfactory result. we have dozens of stories like that. so its -- its, you know, its a great thing to be able to do when youre a police officer, to see that progression. >> thats great. youre changing lives and youre saving lives and thats why so many police departments across the country are look...

Bushes are not known for introducing private stuff about their family. i think inside the beltway, at least its widely known that jebs daughter had an addiction problem, its very un-bush like and very important. >> i agree with that. >> thank you very much. still ahead on "morning joe." isiss claims they took down that russian jet may not have been as farfetched as they sounded. nbc pentagon correspondent joins us next with the latest from the u.s. intelligence. well be right back with that. t...

>> he was a member of a -- and this was brought out in trial, all right? the judge knew this. member of a drug gang in a housing project. drug gang housing project. okay. everyone knows, including you, shah if you are a member of a drug gang in a housing projects you carry a gun, all right? because thats how you do business. you cannot be unarmed. you are in a violent society and you know it. this is not some guy out in the middle of a desert smoking refer or something like that. >> bill, we can...