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Fentanyl. just a few milligrams of fentanyl can be a fatal dose. >> we're seeing 40% of the pills being analyzed now have a potentially fatal dose of fentanyl. >> back when we were kids, if a middle schooler experimented, it didn't kill them. >> we're dealing with a different threat -- a drug threat, fentanyl has changed that game. >> reporter: wheel ile still ra drug deaths from kids ages 10 to 14 nearly tripled in the past few years. in the past month, 12-year-old delilah ma dooers died of fentanyl poisoning and fentanyl killed a 14-year-old boy in connecticut. >> what did alex think that he...

My leg and having arthritis everywhere. but it isn't something i have to have, and i'm excited to put it down. >> joey, we hear about people's struggles n your case it seems to me to be different. as you say, you lost both of your legs, there has to be a pain we can't even imagine that comes with this. so talk about the struggle of wanting to relieve the pain but fearing that you're getting hooked on a drug that you just, you're worried about addiction. talk about that struggle that many of us may not understand. >> yeah, absolutely. in 2010 when i lost my legs i woke up in the hospital and th...

Okay, i think -- >> i spoke to one of senator mccain's best friends, yeah, one of his best friends lindsay graham to ask him what he thought about the ceremony earlier. he said he thought the speakers got senator mccain exactly right. one of them of course was the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. >> peter doocy, appreciate the time and reporting. meanwhile, america's opiod abuse epidemic hitting veterans hard. senator mccain a veteran who tried to help a lot of veterans. my next guest is a marine veteran who has spoken out about his own issues, tweeting i'm putting this here for the wo...

I didn't apply it to my own life, i didn't think of it that way. since 2013 i've been on some dosage of oxycodone to manage the pain. i'm on my legs 12, 14 hours a day, a lot more than guys above the knee amputee f i have to give up a couple of hours of mobility to be healthier, not have something that is so addictive when i get up in the morning, having spent eight hours without taking medication, i feel the effects of not having it in my body, isn't healthy. it's taking lives every day, something that many americans struggle with, not just the veteran community. when you have the v.a. using ...