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Has been to hell and back. danny is the second oldest of six kids. last week, he overdosed on heroin and this monday morning, he signed himself up for outpatient rehab but then wanted one last high. mom, debbie, says most of the family was home when danny's older brother found him slumped over in his room. >> i just kept yelling, is he alive and they kept saying, yes. >> reporter: her daughter, samantha, was trying to shield her 9-year-old sister from seeing her big brother like this. >> i saw my dad move him and that's when she looked at me and said is he gonna live? and she just broke down c...

Danny overdosed. he, by the way, is doing really well now in recovery at that facility in tennessee. i just talked to debbie this morning. but it is pervasive and it crosses all socioeconomic lines, all, you know, all kinds of demographics, andrea. this is not something -- maybe the stereotype of people living under a bridge somewhere, that's not what this is anymore. i think you heard eric holder touching on that, too, that this is all across the nation. >> in fact, i first really focused on it with the state of the state message in vermont from the governor there in the winter and then you w...