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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 packages. bundles of ten, 50 bags here. >> 60 to 80 bucks for ten. >> they can charge what they want. it's supply and demand. >> one dose for most people? >> multiple bags, anywhere from three to five backs at a same time. up to 30 bags a day. and the current economics of t...

Active. >> detective 1: heroin use in the past year, it's just increased to a level i've never seen any other drug come into an area. people are all going to be affected. it hasn't topped out yet. >> detective 2: someone you've known, someone you went to school with. someone you work with. >> anthony: sonny crocket gets a ferrari. what's wrong with this picture? >> detective 1: tried the lexus but they said no way so i got this one. >> anthony: it's been reported in the national papers there's been explosion of heroin use, heroin-related crimes, overdoses, how does that happen? >> detective 1:...

Opioid overdoses alone which is, you know, that's more than three times as many people who died in the vietnam war. the entire vietnam war. and so i think doctors now are prescribing more carefully. hospitals, et cetera. it's much harder to get these prescriptions. now what you're seeing is with the scarcity of these pills on the street, a lot of people are turning to heroin and fentanyl. they can get it cheaper, more readily, and they're overdosing left and right. >> you have a growing heroin problem now. scott, thanks for your great reporting and the work "the washington post" put into this....

Liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >> sandra: doctors and administrators focusing on how painkillers are prescribed. this comes amid a nationwide spike in overdose deaths. alecio is live in denver. what makes this program different? >> hi, sandra. it's because it specifically targets emergency rooms and it also is done on such a large scale. retraining doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to see if they can change the heroin problem on the street. now, according to the national

Because she figured out the same way i figured it to 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. unfortunately he blew his shot. home, car, life insurance obviously, ohhh... but with ad...