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>> i want to welcome everybody tonight. >> reporter: social interaction important for the addicted. their families too. the butchers founded parents of the addicted loved >> well, send him somewhere and fix him or fix her. it doesn't work like that. >> why don't they just stop? >> why don't they just stop? don't they know they can stop? >> you'd think they'd know what they're doing to their children. >> you see, drugs take over the brain. >> matthew's brother glen says there is no easy way to recover and money alone won't solve the problem of addiction. >> addiction isn't something you can jus...

Overdose, any metric you want to use. >> a former opioid addict, alex 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 with it devastated the addiction community. >> what addiction is in your brain is down regulation of dopamine and what social interaction does is up regulate dopamine. it is literally organic medicine for the recovering brain. >> reporter: add to the mix cheap and plentiful fentanyl 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine whether in pill or powder form injecte...

It was fentanyl. >> reporter: how much did you use? >> very little. less than 0.1 gram. and i found out it was straight fentanyl. >> reporter: that is a tiny -- >> that is tinier than tiny. it is like barely a sprinkle of salt >> i want to welcome everybody tonight. >> reporter: social interaction important for the addicted, their families, too. jean butcher founded the kentucky chapter of parent of addicted loved ones and over the years they've had it all as they struggled to free their son matthew from opioids. >> well, send him somewhere and fix him. or fix her. it doesn't work like that. >...

Finding it hard to give up alcohol? You might be addicted.

Finding it hard to give up alcohol? You might be addicted.