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His arm. >> steve: but, did that did not stop him from wanting to be back in the fight. >> ainsley: another time. despite his injuries, sergeant first class goudie, he deployed again on another combat mission to afghanistan. can you imagine? >> brian: all right. no doubt about it, he is this years modern warrior recipient. >> april 25th, 2012, we were prepping to go out the following day. we had a, basically insider threat. one of the partner forces had turned on us resulting in multiple casualt...

Tough as he was, he just couldnt. >> it turned out he had a lot of nerve damage down the right side of his body. he was left high and dry without being able to work anymore. >> denis could no longer be the familys strong, stable protector. >> once he lost his job, i think it was up to her to figure out, okay, like how do we make everything work. >> then it was a hot morning in august 1997 when everything stopped working. gabriel was in the kitchen, and he was more or less paying attention when h...

>> reporter: at age 55, he managed to quit. >> my legs will start spasming and stuff like that from it. >> because of the meth? >> yeah, gave me nerve damage. what it does, it actually fries your brain. >> if you had kept going what would have happened to you? >> id be dead. >> reporter: theres no life-saving antidote for meth overdoses. thats why deputy burke keeps pressing night after night. >> i want to see somebody whos constantly high on methamphetamine to change their life, become a produc...

>> do you feel different ton days meth than the stuff -- >> more violent. more violent. >> john chapman lives in the neighborhood deputy burk patrols. >> i think i was 11, 11 1/2 years old when i started. >> who introduced it to you when you were 11. >> sad to say my mom did. >> your mom gave you meth. >> reporter: at age 55 he managed to quit. >> my legs would start spazzing because of it. it gave me nerve damage. it fries your brain. >> if you had kept going, what would have happened to you? >...

Quit. >> it gave me nerve damage. it actually fries your brain. >> reporter: if you had kept going, how would you be? >> i would be dead. >> reporter: there is no friendliness with meth. thats why deputy burke keeps going night after night. >> i want to see people high on meth change their life and be productive. i think they want it as well. >> reporter: kyung lah joins me now. it is so clear from your reporting in california. is it most acute there? >> it just happens to be fresno. the sheriff...

Years old when i started. >> reporter: who introduced it to you when you were 11? >> im going to say my mom did. >> reporter: your mom gave you meth? at age 55, he managed to quit. >> my legs will start spazzing and stuff like that from it. >> reporter: because of the meth? >> yeah, it gave me nerve damage. it fries your brain. >> reporter: if you kept going what would happen to you? >> i would be dead. >> reporter: there is no life saving antidote for meth overdoses. thats why deputy burk keeps...

>> it was over. >> now mexican cartels use common chemical agents in mega labs. >> theyre like costco. huge, huge skrael industrial-sized buildings. >> and you can manufacture it at a much higher quantity? >> smuggled across the border as liquid, difficult to detect means cheap prices. >> no words, right? >> and high supply impacting life across fresno. >> not even meth anymore. >> do you feel different on todays meth than the stuff -- >> violent. more violent. >> reporter: john chapman lives in...

On blue attack, he lost his leg, shattered his arm. but that does not stop him from wantingac to be back in the fig. >> despite his injuries, sergeant first class goudie, he deployed again on another combag mission to afghanistan. can you imagine? >> no doubt about it, he is this years modern warrior recipient. >> april 25th, 2012, we were prepping to go out. we had an insider threat. one of the partner forces had turned on us, resulting in multiple casualties. i have a prosthetic humerus, write...

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Every surgery. like shes somebody who i look up to, very much so. shes, like, my best friend now. >> how well do you remember your high school years? >> like nothing. like, i dont remember that. but i remember my childhood very well. >> oh, thats interesting that you remember childhood but not high school. >> or middle school, very little of middle school. i -- i remember going to new york in middle school. but when i was in high school, not very much. >> brittanis nerve damage is so extensive, ...