Join Elaine Doherty of the Crime Lab to learn about pain killing opioids and the effect they have on the user. The United States today is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic, but just how do people using these drugs become addicted? The physiological dependence most daily opioid users suffer can be linked with other drug misuse as opioids are rarely the first choice for abuse. If not the first choice, then why? How to drug users' brains change over time and use of these drugs?

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