Drug Abuse Turning Deadlier in Nevada
Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong has been on the front lines of fighting drugs his entire 35 year career. Lately, it has taken a turn for the worse. In the past few years, he's seen something that's become all too common: "Very young kids just out of high school overdosing, lying at home on their bed, and they've passed away.
Drug abuse here is more fatal than ever. After programs were successful in fighting the epidemic of meth in Nevada, heroin has taken its place — and it's a deadlier replacement.
Sheriff Furlong says that the skyrocketing heroin use they're witnessing began with something else. "Every time we've arrested someone who happens to have a bad heroin addiction, you will almost always find at the root of that a prescription pill addiction before the heroin came on."