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>> it was the 1990s and doctors were seeing a lot of commercials like this one. >> these drugs, our best, stropgest pain medications, should be used much more for patients in pain. >> problem is, they were never intended to be used long-term. >> we went along with some of the advertisement coming around that we were getting in medical schools. >> the director of the national institute on drug abuse believes that have the beginning of our opioid crisis. >> we started to see patients who were prescribe ed opioids f their pain addiction who had never been addicteded to anything. >> we knew there ...

Even a tiny dose of it can be lethal. craig uses fen tannal. like everyone, he wants to stop but says he can't. >> i'm addicteded to opoids. >> what do you do here in the street, what kind of opiates? >> all the opiates right now is fentanyl. so everybody's dying. >> reporter: it's about to start pouring in boston. these people who can't live without their pills and their needles will be sleeping in dirt that will turn into mud. are you afraid you're going to die from this? >> i know i'm going to die from this. >> reporter: are you afraid you're going to die from this. >> not really afraid. ho...

>> the concentration of thc in marijuana today is 30,40% in a typical smoke marijuana versus 3 or 4% thc concentration of 60s and 70s. >> reporter: other drugs including alcohol and nicotine have higher addiction rates. but there is serious concern among those in the substance abuse field that colorado's new marijuana law will substantially increase the number of marijuana addicts. >> i think we'll see more people using it on a consistent basis. >> reporter: but addiction isn't the only concern. 22-year-old stella blessing is also a successful graduate. she was addicteded to crack, meth and he...

>> tonight dr. sanjay gupta, michael's lifelong friend kathy hilton. the trial of conrad murray. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. an extraordinary first day in the trial of dr. conrad murray today. michael jackson's parents, his brothers tito, jer maine and randy joined janet and la toya and rooeby there. it wasn't because it was right but because he was making $150,000 a month off the singer. he charged the doctor with gross negligence towards his patient. mr. chernoff called it a perfect storm that killed him instantly. murray wiped away tears during his lawyer's state...

fixated to begin with, they sure were at that point. of course, family -- it was a very emotional moment for the family in the courtroom as well and for everybody to see that image of michael jackson. obviously, what they're trying to hammer home here, what they were early on in the opening was that this was the victim. he was an international star. and every one of those jurors, they know it, has an opinion and lass some connection to michael jackson. they knew that in voir dire. they threw that picture out and they established that connection searly. >> the perhaps even more extrao...