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Boston / Jonathan Blakely / Andrew / Mike Duggan #1172881

CBS Evening News for Tuesday, May 17, 2016
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Returning now to an epidemic that is taking three lives in this country every hour the abuse of opioids including prescription painkillers and heroin. Jason Amaral could have been a dead man. The boy next door from a Boston suburb got hooked in college. He's now 30 and we're telling his story because we want you to know there is both hope and help for addiction. Last night we followed Amaral as he shot heroin for what he hoped would be the last time as we left him he was entering rehab. Correspo...
Reporter(s):
DeMarco Morgan
Duration:
00:04:57

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