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>> your home state of tennessee had the tenth highest number of drug-related deaths in 2015. what needs to be done? how can the average american help? what do our politicians need to be doing? >> well, i think, again, we can really focus on making sure there is kind of a two-prong approach. first of all, our first responders need to have access to life-saving narcan and making sure that's available. but treatment beds are affordable. my son was able to go to rehab because he could afford a treatment bed. we have to recognize this is an epidemic examiand make sure tho resources are out there. >...

Have been taking. >> right. >> when did drugs enter your son's life? >> max had an encounter last summer when he went to rehab. he spent a month in rehab which was a great gift. we were able to make it happen for him ask make it happen quickly because we had access to health care. actually, that got him back on the right track. he went back to school. he graduated in his senior year this year and was headed to his next phase of life. he made a really stupid choice two saturdays ago and it's one he can't ever undo. >> you acknowledge max's drug overdose in his obituary. why is it important for ...