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Right now from a drug overdose, according to the pud president's commission. and just last month. battle against drugs became very personal for one of the country's elected officials. the mayor of nashville, tennessee lost her son. maximum barry was 22 when he passed away after taking a combination of trugz in a suburb outside of denver. he feels the mayor's only child. in dealing with the heartbreak, she has choesz ento be very transparent about her loss speaking publicly about her families pain and the larger epidemic sweeping our country. >> mayor barry, let me just simply begin by our con ...

Those federal funds flow into our communities for more treatment beds and for more preventive measures. that's what i had hoped to hear. >> nobody -- i can't imagine all the different things you've thought about what this could have done differently, this could have done differently. you want to share your experiences. what would you tell the president if he asked you, okay, mayor barry, tell me the tools you wish you now would have had as a parent, let alone as a mayor? what would you tell him? >> sure. well, first, as maximum's mom, it was really important for us to be able to have access to...

I to tell you as parents sometimes we have blinders on, we don't see everything. my hope has been that by talking about what happened to my son, what happened to max, my conversation can inspire some other parent to talk to their kid and had they can avoid this horrible tragedy. >> i'm curious, what have you asked the city of nashville to do? what are you hoping to put in --? are you hoping to enact some new lies laws, procedures? >> well, in this year's bug before this even happened to my family, we had already put money in for an open 0i8d specialist to start dealing with the epidemic in nas...