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Has come to this. it has become a crisis. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation. in the past ten years the number of people in this state who have fatally overdosed on drugs more nan double. in recent years at this hospital in huntington, one out of five babies was born exposed to opioids in the womb. it started because the cities and towns in this state were flooded with prescription opioids. enough to give 66 pills a year to every man, woman and child in west virginia from 2006 to 2012, according to a recent investigation by the "washington post." ...

Come to this. it has become a crisis. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation. in the past ten years, the number of people in this state who fatally overdosed on drugs more than doubled. in recent years at this hospital in huntington, one out of five babies was born exposed to open yo -- opioids in the womb. they were flooded with prescription opioids here. enough to give 66 pills a year to every man, woman, and child in west virginia from 2006 to 2012 according to a recent investigation by "the washington post." the state cracked down on the pills, so...

That the vice president has bragged about having his name on, and obviously leading. so, look, if the vice president ends up being our nominee, especially communities like detroit where i am, he is going to have to own up to what he did then. and he did it with the iraq war last night. he said i made a mistake, and was just very direct about that. these are the kinds of things with three-strike laws, incredibly long sentences, the time i was in law school and city of mayor in newark as our infrastructure was crumbling, we were building a new jail or system every five days. overwhelmingly, the ...

And i was running, gunning strong ever since. so i'm going to do it again and stay that way because if my mom was to pass away while i was in prison, i would never forgive myself. and she's not -- she's not healthy. she's sick. so -- and i want to regain the respect of my oldest daughter. i don't want them to be all, mom's just another convict, addicted, jerk-off, worth nothing. so i'll show i am worth it. so that's -- yay. i'm stuck on stuff today, so, yeah. >> in a few days, butcher will take her acceptance letter to court and ask the judge to approve her plans. >> i've been an addict for a ...

The per person average in 2012 is 36 of these pills for every man, woman, and child. 36. in norton, virginia, the smallest city in rare vvirginia were not shipping 36 per person. they were shipping 306 pills per person. over the course of just one year. it's astonishing. the other thing that's amazing is it doesn't just tell us how they went up and up as the country got more and more addicted, but what the companies knew about their own behavior. this is what they knew they were doing. their own data they plugged in. they knew. this company's speck knew they were shipping 4.7 million highly ad...