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Now we have regular everyday kids who don't have an addiction problem who are dying and they have not been warned. so my biggest thing that i want to stress today is that every parent out there needs to talk to their young teens and young adults, especially college and high school students so that they are aware of this very new and very inherent danger to their children. >> martha: such a great point. in this day and age these are the things that kids are confronted with. it used to be they would want to try pot or want to try something else that now it's like these prescription drugs taken o...

Kids that don't have an addiction problem that are dying and they have not been warned. so my biggest thing that i want to stress today is that every parent out there needs to talk to their young teens and young adults especially college and high school students so that they're aware of this new danger to their children. >> john: dr. marc siegel is here with us from nyu langone and a fox news contributor. so fentanyl is a big driving force and it's coming across the southern border in numbers we haven't seen before, doctor. >> absolutely, john. fentanyl is 50 times more powerful than morphine....

Drunk." he references a bart o'kavanaugh vomiting in someone's car in beach week and passing out. is that you he's talking about? >> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge, is that you that he's talking about? >> i'll explain if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem and addiction problem that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from, and he nearly died. and then he had leukemia as well on top of it. now, as part of his therapy, or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he ...

>> senator, mark judge was -- >> to your knowledge, is that you he's talking about? >> i'll explain if you let me. >> proceed, please. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem, an addiction problem, that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from. he nearly died. and then he had leukemia as well on top of it. now, as part of his therapy or part of his coming to grips with sobriety, he wrote a book that is a fictionalized book and an account. i think he picked out names of friends of ours to throw them in as kind of close ...

Stated it over and over again, and i have that well in mind. let me ask you this. he authored a book called wasted, tales of a gen-x drunk, mentioned someone that passed out at beach week. is that you? >> mark judge -- >> to your knowledge is that you that he's talking about? >> i'll explain if you let me. >> mark judge was a friend of ours in high school who developed a very serious drinking problem and addiction problem that lasted decades and was very difficult for him to escape from, and -- and he nearly died, and then he -- then he had leukemia as well on top of it. now, as part of his th...