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Robobot. if you want to talk to your car, you will talk to your wrist watch, car, pick me up and park yourself, cars will become intelligent, you will talk to your cars, you will argue with your car to find out best route. artificial intelligence will be everywhere. and nowhere. hidden in the environment, meaning all our need -- meeting our needs just by asking for it. trey: doctor this is a little bit of a philosophical question, technology and innovation to me, seems benign, what we do with it what makes it good or not, drugs can relief pain, make us better or leave us addicted. how do we ma...

Robobot. if you want to talk to your car, you will talk to your wrist watch, car, pick me up and park yourself, cars will become intelligent, you will talk to your cars, you will argue with your car to find out best route. artificial intelligence will be everywhere. and nowhere. hidden in the environment, meaning all our need -- meeting our needs just by asking for it. trey: doctor this is a little bit of a philosophical question, technology and innovation to me, seems benign, what we do with it what makes it good or not, drugs can relief pain, make us better or leave us addicted. how do we ma...

Ijust didn't like my smile. i didn't like the fact you could see my gums. i first got lip filler when i was 16, it was right before my prom. when it was going in, you could physically feel your lips expanding. 0bviously, because it was the first time as well, my lips, had never, like, had that sensation before. i remembershe said, like, "you're going to be like addicted now." now 19, liv has visited multiple practitioners for lip fillers. she often found them on social media. some was still in training. they'll be discounted usually, like a lot, a lot cheaper and it's obviously more directed a...

He thought was heroin. it was a very high level of fentanyl, as well. >> within the heroin. it doesn't take any of it to hardly kill ya. >> reporter: fentanyl and s synthetic opioids representing over 60% of the deadly overdoses from april 2020 to april 2021. >> did the pandemic kill matthew? no. it just intensified, i think. he was more emotionally fragile during that time. >> reporter: what did the pandemic do for addiction in places like kentucky? >> yeah, there was a clear and obvious increase in use, in overdose, in any metric you want to use. >> reporter: alex elswick, former opioid addi...

100,000-plus deadly drug overdoses from april 2020 to april 2021. did the pandemic kill matthew? no. it just intensified. i think he was more emotionally fragile. >> what did the pan emdid for places like kentucky? >> there was a clear and obvious use in use in, overdose in, my metric that you want to use. >> reporter: alex, a former opioid addict, 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 that came with it devastated the addiction community. >> what addiction is in your b...