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>> i'm not going to lie. a tear came to my eye. i kind of got choked up a little bit. because she figured out the same way i figured it was me. we're on the same wavelength. i don't know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. >> coming up -- >> you'll see that most heroin users are really close to their moms. >> an insight into a unique aspect of bergen county's heroin problem. >> that's why i call it a mama's boy drug. >> one inmate in the rehab center thrives while another is forced to drop out. >> he's a guy i can't have back here. to me, what he did was that serious. u...

So i got this one. >> it's been reported in the national papers there's been explosion of heroin use, heroin-related crimes, overdoses. how does that happen? >> i think once this area realized we had a heroin problem, we were already behind it trying to play catch-up. we are on the 91 corridor. route 91 has been dubbed the heroin highway at this point. it's a widely used road to go north and south. there's opportunists here and for low money input, they're getting a high profit. that's the typical heroin packaging. bundles of 10, 50 bags here. >> 60 to 80 bucks for 10. >> they can charge what ...

Drug abuse is front and center on the campaign trail this year. thanks in large part to retail politicking in new hampshire. presidential hopefuls are addressing the issue at town hall after town hall. >> new hampshire has a heroin problem, the likes of which nobody can even understand. >> drug addictions, addictions of all kind can have on families. i think that tell us something. it doesn't tell us something about me. it tells us something about the nature and the depth of this problem. >> i have some personal experience in this as a dad. it's the most heart breaking thing in the world to ha...

That's going to stay isolated towards parts of upstate new york and into new england. that's what we're dealing with today across the northeast. quiet day in the southeast. as we head into the pacific northwest we're dealing with extreme weather out there. we already have the rain in place, and we're going to be looking at several inches of rain, potentially as much as four, even six inches of rain, and flash flooding will be a concern. the higher elevations could see as much as one to even two feet of snow and eventually that snow will make it down to parts of california. a quick look at your...

That we need to educate. we need people to understand the drug addiction is an organic brain disease that as you use drugs, your brain chemistry changes. so we need people to understand that, in fact, it's a very real disease, an organic brain disease. >> right. we all know that it's very addictive, it's bad. but your news today is it changes your brain. >> it absolutely changes your brain. >> all right. dr. stephen dewey, thank you very much. thanks for your life's work on this. >> thank you very much. >> it's so important. continuing on thursday, our series will continue with drug addiction ...