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Situated like in a medical clinic. >> reporter: it was a murphy bed that could be pulled down from the wall, with several chairs surrounding it. and then in an adjacent hallway they found the parts of another bed which had been disassembled. track marks on the rug suggested it had at some point been moved in and out of the white room. the rangers put it back together, and this is what it looked like. complete with railings and a kneeling bench at the foot of the bed. >> we needed somebody to help us give us an understanding of the culture we were entering and the things we read that we didn't ...

Problem get in the pandemic >> between april and may of 2020, our numbers tripled. >> tripled >> yes. >> reporter: here in west virginia, the state with the highest overdose death rate in the country, cabell county was once the epicenter. is this what people around here are hearing all day? >> yeah. >> reporter: that's why local officials built quick response teams like this one, complete with a police officer, emt, treatment counselor, and faith leader so this is the quick response vehicle >> yep. >> reporter: to bring help where it's needed most. >> they're not going to come to us, right so ...

Streets and steal and rob for it. sometimes i've heard cases in here where the mother actually drives them to the spot where they pick up their heroin. that's why it's a mama's boy drug for me. >> at 22 years old michael still have boyish looks but said he mother didn't pay for heroin and said she didn't realize he was shooting. >> hit the same spot about a hundred times. even my mom was -- my mom never knew i was doing heroin because i never left track marks. >> he said he started using heroin at age 15. he was well on his way to completing the center's rehab program but recently he signed hi...

Stay with her. don't let her get any further into her addiction and try to control it now before it gets out of hand like i did. >> like she said about the scars and stuff, i think about that all the time. when i go in the bathroom i look at my track marks. i'm like, wow. you know what i mean? we're too pretty for that. we don't need to have all these marks and scars on our body. all the things i lost getting high. you know what i mean? it's crazy. but you have to get clean for yourself. you can't do it for other people. >> daniel espinoza has also paid a price for drug addiction. high when he...

Mom. i went through my dad's inheritance. it's taken a toll not only mentally but also on my arms and everything about me physically. that's pretty drastic, you know. >> that's a pretty big abscess you got from surgery. >> you could have lost your arm. >> yeah. i know you guys were staring at my arms like this girl's crazy. >> i didn't think you were crazy. i was oh my god. honestly, i'm glad that's not mine -- >> don't look like this? >> yes. >> i shot all my arms, you can see here. i was shooting over here straight into the -- i could go to the vein there. i was shooting right there for a wh...