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We have changed the way we practice emergency medicine and change the way we approach pain. going back to the old ways of prescribing opiates is not an option. >> julie, listen to this. according to the national institute of drug abuse, nearly 80% of heroin users started with a prescription opioid. doctors in this program see hope in the epidemic. julie? >> thanks, alecia. >> eric: former u.n. ambassador bill richardson will be here. he has a long history of negotiating with north korea. he will be on "outnumbered" straight ahead. tries to get in my way? watch me. ( ♪ ) mike: i've tried lots...

Top drawer. >> bergen county jail's drug rehabilitation center opened in 1995. it was the first of its kind inside a corrections facility in the state of new jersey. by your lockers. inspection for lockers. >> tugh nearing retirement officer lopez has been a fixture in the center for the past eight years supervising the hundreds of men who pass through it. >> i don't want no mice in here. i don't like mice. i have to live in here too. for eight hours. i could have been a damn good drug dealer. i could have been a damn good drug user. but for some reason, i chose the right road. >> recently, th...

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. unfortunately he blew his shot.

The greater the deterrent effect we'll achieve. ainsley: how are most people getting their opioids? >> you know it, comes in a variety of ways there are many people who become addicted to opioid actually through legitimate medical prescriptions. and once they're addicted then they turn to the streets. i think the statistics, the data shows us that about 80% of heroin users first engaged in the nonmedical use of prescription pills. so we know that prescription opioids are the pathway to heroin and fentanyl use. ainsley: because it's cheaper? >> then we see it's just a fact that there are ruthle...

Know, ruined my chances of finishing school and could have been certainly fatal for me as well. >> well, and it's interesting because yours, like so many others, started innocently, a prescription that just sort of led down, that spiraled out of control, and that's what seems to happen to so many young kids these days, as it happens with a sports injury or something like that, and then suddenly, your life is completely opposite of what it used to be. >> of course. i mean, four to five heroin users started on prescription opioid pain medication, you know. so when we talk about the failed policy...