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Half times the level of the recommends avoiding. that doesnt include people on cancer treatment, who has a legitimate reason to get these drugs. there is a vast over prescription problem. i know he said its getting better and that is good news. but you can go get your wisdom teeth pulled out and they are going to hand your prescription for the stuff on your way out the door, bill. >> they are. its a serious problem and i dont mean to understate it, but im telling you as this number has gone down...

Fentanyl that, by the way, killed prince in minnesota, but we also have to stop people from getting addicted in the first place. that means better standards for when doctors prescribe these things. you dont need 30 pills when you get your wisdom teeth out. it means monitoring the drugs so dock force know if someone has been doctor shopping, and rob and i also have a bill on that to make that mandatory. >> way to plug that bill. >> states are sharing data across state lines. i had one guy in minn...

>> she was given 30 percocet. 30 percocet for two wisdom teeth. fortunately, i have been educated, so i took the percocet, i handed her a bottle of advil and i told her to tough it out. elizabeth: governor chris christie getting personal about his own daughters easy access to pain medication after routine surgery. this is an annual addiction converts in the state of new jersey were according to the state attorney generals office, heroin and morphine deaths increased 200% between 2010 and 2015. t...

More than my job, my friends my girlfriend at the time. reporter: he has been sober 4 months and said that substance abuse program at butler hospital saved his life. reporter: how do you know you are not going back again. >> i take it one day at a time, i see people dying, people close. i have more people died that i know, than i have fingers and toes. >> before i left, the nurse said, wait, i bet you are in pain, let me have that doctor write you a prescription. im like, for what. reporter: dan...

Hoping to spike their profit. the result, a massive increase in opioid prescriptions from doctors and a huge infusion of narcotics in the communities cross the country. it is now common, for example, for patients to receive opioids after having their wisdom teeth removed. a recent study found that the majority of those pills go unused by the patient after surgery. the affect of this 100 million tablets of synthetic heroin in circulation in american neighborhoods. thats just tooth extraction. mul...

Receptionist had weight. i bet you you are in pain. let me have the doctor write you a prescription. >> danielle says she got hooked when she was a teenager after she went to the dentist to get her wisdom teeth pulled. years of abuse later, she is taking another drug which cuts her craving and helps her live a sober life. >> you think of addiction, you think of a street drug and crack houses and scary places, and its not. its not. they are everyday people. >> nathan carries a clipping of a lost ...

Receptionist had weight. i bet you you are in pain. let me have the doctor write you a prescription. >> danielle says she got hooked when she was a teenager after she went to the dentist to get her wisdom teeth pulled. years of abuse later, she is taking another drug which cuts her craving and helps her live a sober life. >> you think of addiction, you think of a street drug and crack houses and scary places, and its not. its not. they are everyday people. >> nathan carries a clipping of a lost ...

>> no, theyre not. theyre drowning. >> she had just gotten her wisdom teeth out. her mother heard in the background trying to tell her the fish are just fine. those are your headlines, guys. >> i love it. >> thats going to live on forever. >> poor thing. it always lives forever on the internet. >> thank you, lisa. i didnt see the fish tank before. >> you know whos brilliant? miss janice dean. >> go on. keep going. >> thats all i had to say. >> beautiful and talented and amazing. >> look at all m...

Breaks it down next. and when you get your wisdom teeth removed, it hurts. that is unless you get some anesthesia. >> whos drowning? the fish are swimming. >> no, theyre not. theyre drowning. your insurance company wont replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says, "you picked the wrong insurance plan." no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with new car replacement™, well replace the full value of your car plus depreciation. liberty mutual insurance. mone hundredts thousa...

>> having wisdom teeth removed is not a laughing matter. but that doesnt stop this young mans family from finding humor in the drug-induced aftermath. >> why are you laughing at me? >> june 9th, 2012. lehigh, utah. 18-year-old chad alguire emerges from having his wisdom teeth removed and his mother and sister are there to take him home. they cant resist documenting his altered state. chads younger sister, alex, enjoys the moment he wakes up as only a sister can. >> one of the nurses came and sai...