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Treat, a bag of chocolate, that he had cooked with a white powder he said was extract from psychedelic mushrooms. >> he just gave eli and i the bag and said here you go. have fun. we just kind of started taking bites out of it. just eating it. it tasted just like chocolate. it didn't taste anything bad. no chemical taste or anything. it was just chocolate. and we just ended up splitting the bag. it was nothing like anything i've had before. i was kind of scared, but i was like reassuring myself, and my subconscious that it's just mushrooms. it's just mushrooms. >> it wasn't just psychedelic mu...

Don't put yourself in the family that these families found them else. talk to your kids. that synthetic drugs are dangerous. all drugs are dangerous. >> this was done for the memorial for eli. his friends signed that that came. >> the family of elijah sty say they, too, hope their son's death can be a warning to others about the dangers of synthetic, designer drugs. >> our lives were turned upside down. our lives will never be the same. i don't know if you can really put something like that into words. what your life is like after you lose a kid. it's a horrible thing to go through for any par...

What was inside that bag, or just how potent it was. budge melted the powder into chocolate that he gave to his new friends, including elijah sty. budge also sold some of the same drug to a young man who would share it with christian bjerk. >> adam budge early on in the investigation was the common link between these two overdose victims. so adam budge prepared the 2 cimbome into chocolate and he and eli sty consumed some of those chocolates, and eli sty died from them. >> 1,400 miles away from a suburb of houston, texas. a father and entrepreneur named charles carlton was oblivious to the fac...

Brain. >> when i got to the hospital, doctors said eli was brain dead. he was in the hospital for three days. he was on life support. so we had to make the call to disconnect him. >> there were now two dead. teenagers overdosing and dying from a deadly drug. and no one knew what it was or where it was coming from. do i need to have a certain amount? nope, now you can redeem your cashback for any amount, any time. that's great. yeah, you can use it for a statement credit or even get the cash. nice. i could use that extra cash for a last-minute gift... one less thing hanging over your head, righ...

In. because i couldn't see him like that. i was -- >> he was dead. >> he was dead. yeah. >> we got the phone call that eli wasn't breathing, he was blue in the face. >> you had to call your mom. >> i called her when i was outside waiting for 911. >> and told her? >> told her eli died. >> were you able to fully tell her why? >> no. i was ashamed of myself for failing him, more or less. i felt like i had failed him. >> justin was a teen when elijah's family had taken him in, raised hip as their own. >> after everything he had done for me, eli was lying there dead, and i was alive. >> elijah suff...