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Half times the level of the recommends avoiding. that doesn't include people on cancer treatment, who has a legitimate reason to get these drugs. there is a vast over prescription problem. i know he said it's getting better and that is good news. but you can go get your wisdom teeth pulled out and they are going to hand your prescription for the stuff on your way out the door, bill. >> they are. it's a serious problem and i don't mean to understate it, but i'm telling you as this number has gone down, the overprescribing and the amount of pills in the system, it's still a serious problem. but ...

Fentanyl that, by the way, killed prince in minnesota, but we also have to stop people from getting addicted in the first place. that means better standards for when doctors prescribe these things. you don't need 30 pills when you get your wisdom teeth out. it means monitoring the drugs so dock force know if someone has been doctor shopping, and rob and i also have a bill on that to make that mandatory. >> way to plug that bill. >> states are sharing data across state lines. i had one guy in minnesota, 108 different prescriptions from 80 different doctors from 50 different cities, true story, ...

>> she was given 30 percocet. 30 percocet for two wisdom teeth. fortunately, i have been educated, so i took the percocet, i handed her a bottle of advil and i told her to tough it out. elizabeth: governor chris christie getting personal about his own daughters easy access to pain medication after routine surgery. this is an annual addiction converts in the state of new jersey were according to the state attorney general's office, heroin and morphine deaths increased 200% between 2010 and 2015. the decision to assist the president in leading a task force to take on what is now a growing nation...

More than my job, my friends my girlfriend at the time. reporter: he has been sober 4 months and said that substance abuse program at butler hospital saved his life. reporter: how do you know you are not going back again. >> i take it one day at a time, i see people dying, people close. i have more people died that i know, than i have fingers and toes. >> before i left, the nurse said, wait, i bet you are in pain, let me have that doctor write you a prescription. i'm like, for what. reporter: daniel said he do the hooked when she was a teenager after she went to dentist to get her wisdom teeth...

Hoping to spike their profit. the result, a massive increase in opioid prescriptions from doctors and a huge infusion of narcotics in the communities cross the country. it is now common, for example, for patients to receive opioids after having their wisdom teeth removed. a recent study found that the majority of those pills go unused by the patient after surgery. the affect of this 100 million tablets of synthetic heroin in circulation in american neighborhoods. that's just tooth extraction. multiply that by countless knee surgeries,u surgeries, and how t leads ultimately back to the crushing...