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Addiction problem with your daughter? i believe you weren't even aware that there was an opiate problem brewing in the united states? >> that's very true. i had no idea there was an opiate problem. i didn't realize there was a crisis already in hand. she started out taking pills, and then moved to heroin. that's when she came to me and told me what was happening. even then i didn't realize it was as dangerous as it was. i thought it was simple matter of going into treatment and getting help. it's much more complicated than that. it was at that time hard to find the help, some one to talk to an...

People suffering from pain and we have to come up with a new solution for pain therapy. >> that's what the study is showing up. up until now, we said there is an addiction problem, an epidemic, but this is the first study to give us hard numbers. one in three americans in 2015 used prescription opioid. of those, 11.5 million misused and 1.9 million were addicted. i mean, they simply use ed it outside of the directions of their doctor, took somebody else's medication, used it too often, used too much. and what this is showing us is that this addiction problem is definitely here and is serious a...

Level that he was ten years ago, for quite some time. and yet, he's still getting tens of millions of dollars. >> and that's what i think we should focus on. where is the compassion here? of course he's got all the money in the world, but we're talking about someone who is not able to do the very thing that elevates his skills. it's got to be devastated. why run on him now? i think it's terrible, especially since we don't know everything. david: mike? >> i tell you where the compassion is, john, it's coming from me who has struggled with addiction. sometimes you need to hit a bottom before you...

Opioid epidemic. >> we had flooding, we have natural disasters. this is much worse. there is like five people everyday in our state who are dying. so it is a real emergency crisis. >> governor larry hogan calls the emergency declaration and the $50 million stit funds that came with it a drop in the bucket. how much is the crisis costing your state. >> it is almost no limit. you could almost not even put a number on it. >> right outside his office, three people died and 16 overdosed in one day. in the week following his emergency declaration. >> it is the most deadly thing in the state. it kill...

A state of emergency for the opioid epidemic. >> we had flooding, we have natural disasters. this is much worse. there is like five people everyday in our state who are dying. so it is a real emergency crisis. >> governor larry hogan calls the emergency declaration and the $50 million stit funds that came with it a drop in the bucket. how much is the crisis costing your state. >> it is almost no limit. you could almost not even put a number on it. >> right outside his office, three people died and 16 overdosed in one day. in the week following his emergency declaration. >> it is the most deadl...