Now A new documentary series showcases the pain and the many effects of the nation's opioids crisis.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterdaythat emergency room visits for suspected opioid overdoses were up 30 percent compared with the year before.The series puts a human face on this crisis.Jeffrey Brown has that story.It's part of our ongoing coverage of this issue, America Addicted.The series is called "The Trade."I never thought that I would ever be like this, that I would continue to do something that would kill me.Get out of my house.And explores the opioid crisis in five parts and from multiple perspectives, the cartels growing poppies and producing heroin in the Mexican highlands,drug enforcement agents trying to stem the flow of heroin and synthetic opioids into Ohio,and active users and their families struggling with addiction in Georgia.I don't want my kids living in a casket.We are getting drug dealers off the street.
