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Want to interact, things like that. i don't understand heroin and drugs like that? >> yeah, it's a -- it's a -- you fall in love with it, you're wrapped in a warm blanket, whatever emotional issues they may have had no longer matter. every day they convince themselves, if i take one more hit i'll figure this out, and they get into this cycle, and the withdrawal is so awful, and they literally can't live without it. >> there have been a number of deaths recently linked to a specific strain of heroin that has -- a particular brand of heroin, and the insidious thing i've read from police is that ...

When somebody od's on a particular brand of heroin, that brand becomes popular on the street, because real users think, that's a strong brand, i want to go -- >> it's called stinky thinking. >> whatever the brand was that killed phillip see more hoffman on the streets, that's going to become -- >> i think it would have to come multiple times. fentanyl is tough to dose. he probably got off the heroin, and a customary dose is enough for him to stop breathing. which is how heroin addicts die. >> thanks very much. you can see more of the story coming up at 9:00 p.m. eastern on dr. drew on call on ...

>> why do you put the camera on me? i am here minding my own sober. >> they say the states are actually misleading because if somebody od's on something like heroin and meth and has oxycontin in their system it is an oxycontin-related death. does that change wlaw going to say? >> absolutely not. the woman used two cliches, tip of the iceberg and wake up call. it is making it inherently meaning less. i want to congratulate you on starting with an upbeat story. the other thing is, i am torn. i said this before, a pharmaceutical industry is our space program. this is where we are creating little ...

>> oh my god. >> why do you put the camera on me? i am here minding my own sober. >> they say the states are actually misleading because if somebody od's on something like heroin and meth and has oxycontin in their system it is an oxycontin-related death. does that change wlaw going to say? >> absolutely not. the woman used two cliches, tip of the iceberg and wake up call. it is making it inherently meaning less. i want to congratulate you on starting with an upbeat story. the other thing is, i am torn. i said this before, a pharmaceutical industry is our space program. this is where we are cr...