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♪ may i have your attention. >> the bergen county jail drug rehabilitation center opened in 1995. it was the first of its kind inside of a correctional facility in the state of new jersey. >> inspection for lockers. >> now nearing retirement, officer lopez has been a fixture in the center for those years, supervising the hundreds of men that have passed through here. >> i don't like mice. i have to live in here for eight hours. >> i could have very easily been one of these guys. i could have been a dmn good drug dreeler and a damn good drug user, but for some reason, i chose the right road...

Texting. >> yes, but nobody has done it before. and it is weird that we connect on a different level. >> i will not lie, a tear came to my eye and i got choked up a little bit, because she figured out i was writing out to her, and she was writing back to me, 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 thriv...

Effectively, is what most people are looking at. mary schiavo, always great. >> thank you. >> i hope we can get some source of information and some answer, especially for all those families. >> soon. >> the rest of us, we fly, we worry. but those families are going through utter hell. >> i think it will come soon. >> good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you. the death of actor philip seymour hoffman raised awareness about the national epidemic of heroin overdoses. and now prosecutors in one state have had it. they're using an old law to bring new justice to the people who push the dealer...

Case of 46-year-old actor philip seymour hoffman. but evidence found by police on the scene, prescription drugs and nearly 50 envelopes of a substance believed to be heroin, strongly suggests that hoffman died of a drug overdose. the suspicion of a heroin overdose has shed light on the proliferation of the use of heroin and the changing face of users in america. heroin used to conjure a gritty 1970s image of addicts on an urban street corner with track marks up their arms. that was before the hiv/a.i.d.s. crisis in the '80s and the fear of sharing needles. now, today the heroin crisis has spre...

So much as left out in the cold. i was homeless. i was living in alleyways. i was just completely strung out on heroin, having to use heroin five to eight times a day. so the warm blanket was essentially gone. it was pretty much continuing to use heroin for my survival at that point. >> i'm curious, when you heard about philip seymour hoffman, what did you think? as somebody who has used and knowing that he had been through rehab i think at age 22. he was now 46 years old. what dud you -- i imagine your perspective was different maybe than mine. what were your thoughts? >> i was profoundly sad...