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Opiate epidemic stretches across america no more affected than west virginia. three times the national average. highest overdose rate in the country. leaving many to wonder how do you solve this massive problem and should we start here. one local chief may have the answer. he says build a community bond. maurice richards. chief, i know you want to tackle this. you say there is many ways to do it. have you law enforcement. have you treatment. but you think the main thing you can do is go to the schools? >> absolutely, brian. and we realize that this is a problem that we have to attack on multip...

>> tucker: congress didn't actually deal with all those issues. the hundreds and thousands of people coming into the country illegally and the bulk of the era when that comes into the country and itsor devastated yor state, kentucky, and jefferson county represents as the highest overdose rate in kentucky. i'm sure you know about this. that's mexican heroin! what we're doing isn't working. how does it help you constituents explicitly to oppose this wall? i don't know. it's different. >> everybody i've talked to in the border security areaa and te drug enforcement area says that's not the issue...

Even members of the gang of eight -- >> tucker: congress didn't actually deal with all those issues. the bulk of the heroin that comes into this country comes through that border as you know and it's devastating, for your state, kentucky. enter your county has the highest overdose rate. i'm sure you know all about th this. what we are doing isn't working. how does it help your constituents? it's different, it might work. >> everybody i've talked to and the border security area, drug enforcement area says that's not the issue. the issue is not -- you are never going to build obstructions that a...

Nine million doses of hydrocodone a lone to one pharmacy. we also discovered, as the shipments were pouring into west virginia, the overdose rate was rising. and that number was 1,728 people who died of prescription drug overdoses of these two particular drugs over the six years. >> just astounding! one would think -- i know there are supposed to be safeguards to prevent this kind of overprescription. so are the doctors and the pharmacies and the big pharma companies just ignoring the alarms about how many millions of pills they're sending to this one state? >> well, we interviewed one pharmac...

His life through suicide. it is something people don't talk about. there's a huge stigma still in the year 2015. >> well, for those of like myself who are recovering from addiction and alcoholism, shame is what kills us ultimately. and the only way to treat shame is by talking about these issues. otherwise we get marginalized, isolated and don't talk to anyone. this is the prescription for disaster for people. we have suicide now at a record. twice the rate of homicide. over 41,000, 42,000. that's the number that we can count. how many others aren't counted that way? and then you think about t...