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Understand if you are on the street thats one thing. we talked to a lot of people where this fentanyl is coming across the border from china to mexico into the united states and we have one couple who lost their son on his first experiment he was killed. and these injection sites are a huge problem for the neighborhood, but it doesnt do anything to address that problem of the fentanyl coming across the border, sir. >> no, it doesnt. and look, ive passed bills dealing with opioid abuse and were a...

>> capri: well, you have an american citizen who is willing to risk life and limb for a few hundred dollars or a few thousand dollars says to me there is an underlying issue here. the underlying issue the trump economy is not reaching these people and the trump economy is so strong, they are willing to engage in illicit activities to get a few hundred dollars, that combined with the fact that they may have an addiction problem, that they need to get quick money in their pockets. you need to look...

Some distance. plus, marty walsh will join the conversation, thats coming up next. >> from one wall to another, joe walsh joins me in the new episode of podcast and spotify. he talks about his life in the fast lane with the eagles a decades long addiction problem. and his future brother-in-law, a drummer by the game of ringo star along with his future wife and ringos future wife. he talks about how losing his father and being a member of a gold star family inspires him to help veterans. i hope...

Into detox, into specialist treatment providers where they can get to look at the rate causes of their addiction which is always some kind of underlying trauma. that is what will tackle the war on drugs that we have at the minute. at the moment, we are losing the war on drugs. they have a long road ahead of them. ., ., r drugs. they have a long road ahead of them. . ., ,, ., i. drugs. they have a long road ahead ofthem. ., ., ., ., of them. can i ask you, how you got into taken heroin _ of them....

That is taxpayers then. not only are we paying for food, housing and services but also paying for the harm enabling center as well so taxpayers are putting the bill, 30% of the people on medicaid, we spend a lot on medicaid. we dont need this to be a magnet for every person who has an addiction problem in our region to come to rhode island and get on our medicaid service. todd: this is creating a market for drug dealers around these senders. do you share that fear? >> i do. one of the aspects of...

Now we have regular everyday kids who dont have an addiction problem who are dying and they have not been warned. so my biggest thing that i want to stress today is that every parent out there needs to talk to their young teens and young adults, especially college and high school students so that they are aware of this very new and very inherent danger to their children. >> martha: such a great point. in this day and age these are the things that kids are confronted with. it used to be they woul...

Kids that dont have an addiction problem that are dying and they have not been warned. so my biggest thing that i want to stress today is that every parent out there needs to talk to their young teens and young adults especially college and high school students so that theyre aware of this new danger to their children. >> john: dr. marc siegel is here with us from nyu langone and a fox news contributor. so fentanyl is a big driving force and its coming across the southern border in numbers we ha...

Drunk." he references a bart okavanaugh vomiting in someones car in beach week and passing out. is that you hes talking about? >> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge, is that you that hes talking about? >> ill explain if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem and addiction problem that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from, and he nearly died. and then he had leukemia as we...

>> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge, is that you hes talking about? >> ill explain if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem, an addiction problem, that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from. he nearly died. and then he had leukemia as well on top of it. now, as part of his therapy or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he wrote a book that is a fictionalized book...

Stated it over and over again, and i have that well in mind. let me ask you this. he authored a book called wasted, tales of a gen-x drunk, mentioned someone that passed out at beach week. is that you? >> mark judge -- >> to your knowledge is that you that hes talking about? >> ill explain if you let me. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem and addiction problem that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from, and -- an...