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Capital. >> that was from the presidential race. now comes knew that same bain capital is betting on a new train they can make sop money off, substance abuse. particularly the increase in heroin abuse, according to the substance abuse and healthy services administration, number of heroin users increased by almost 180% between 2007 and 2012. a lot of this increase in use has been happening in the northeast part of the country, which is why bain paid $58 million to acquire habit opoc ii inc., along with crc health corp., this bain bought for $723 million in 2006. and which just happens to be the...

Realities that heroin users and their families can face on a daily basis because of the devastating addiction. 669,000. that's the number of americans that reported using heroin in 2012. 156,000 is how many people started using heroin for the first time that same year. that was nearly double the number of first-time heroin users in 2006. that's how many people were addicted in heroin in 2012. that's double the number of heroin addicts from ten years earlier. 770% is how much of a heroin epidemic has grown in just the state of vermont since the year 2000. 45% is the increase in the amount of he...

You're now hooked on the drugs. it's a lifelong battle to get off of this. the consequences of everyone around you, for the economy t there are big consequences for vote. if we have a lot of heroin users. # to talk about drug addiction. i prefer that. we talk about alternatives to sentencing. having this human reaction, the sense of addiction, but also again kind of shocked there was so little criminalization because in other drugs we've talked about and covered -- >> oh, there is. it depends where you live. if you go to state of maine, they've got a republican governor who is very much cracki...

To work on prevention, try to teach parents how to -- teach them about how they can talk to their kid, how can they prevent their child from going down the same path as my son. we just tell our stories, which are all very powerful. different but similar. and we just started doing this, going to different schools and speaking with parents. we are going to be speaking with kids as well. but if i had to say the most important thing is to really get to know your kids, their friends, and the parents of their friends. that's so important. >> well, the numbers are staggering. the department of health...

And it is like we were on the same wavelength and i don't know who would have picked up on that kind of thing, but we did. >> coming up -- >> you will see that most heroin users are very close to their moms. >> insight into a unique aspect of bergen county's heroin problem. >> that is why i call them mama's boy drug. >> and while one thrives and another is forced to drop out. >> he is a guy i can't have back here, because to me, what he did is that serious. unfortunately, he blew his shot. ñ