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The safer ways you can use substances. there's things you can do. there's tools you can have. in massachusetts we have a program. we train drug using -- folks that are using heroin, their family members and witnesses to that, how to use a drug which reverses a heroin overdose and gives them enough time to get to the e.r. >> we also need to look at not having people discharge from rehab and be alone. because if they're alone, that's another danger. that's a strong message that has to be heard. people need people. >> as your colleague, my friend told me, you know, once you're out of rehab, your ...

Bottom of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. for the next 30 minutes, we are talking heroin. we will be speaking with two former aar eer heroin addicts. we'll talk to doctors, police about the drug, the addiction and the recovery. ♪ small town girl, living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train going anywhere ♪ >> he played the singing high school football star fin hudson in the hit tv show "glee." but on saturday cory monteith's voice was silenced. he was found dead in a vancouver hotel room. behind the smile, the 31-year-old actor was battling demons. a drug and alcohol addiction he s...

Up a tolerance a lot faster probably than most of the heroin that's on the street right now. but you can become addicted in just a few times. >> i know i've been -- >> you get withdrawals. >> i've been getting tweets and people are saying this is old news. just because of cory monteith's death that people are talking about it. kim, i was having a conversation with your colleague in boston over the weekend. she was saying to me, it made me just stop and pause and think about it for a minute, so many more -- it seems like there is this uptick in young people. you counsel folks in the boston area...

As the kind of drug people used in street alleys. but not anymore. >> that notion that it's concentrated in the inner city among the down and out is -- is less and less the case. >> reporter: as we've seen, heroin has an appeal beyond street corners. contributing to the death of beloved television star cory monteith. >> let's talk about this. we have bob forest, vh1 celebrity rehab and sober house and founder of bob forest counseling services joining me. also gary langus, recovering heroin addict. drug use researcher currently. sitting alongside him ken hansen, director of addiction services f...

His death. vancouver, british columbia. some of his many, many fans including lots of young girls stopping by mourning a life cut short by drugs. george stroumboulopoulos is with me now from toronto. host of cnn's "stroumboulopoulos tonight." good to see you. i hate that we're talking under the situation that we are. but i have to ask about this interview. you talked to cory. it wasn't the first time. but you talked to him in 2011. it was a time when he seemed to have turned his life around. let me play part of your interview. >> you're so unique in this position that fame often leads to the d...