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Dean Cain on the human cost of opioid addiction

2020-08-31 | 🔗
Actor and producer Dean Cain on his film 'Jack Jonah' and opioid addiction.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Thank Hillary. Meanwhile, speaking of the suburbs, it appears that where big city residents are heading, moving, companies reportedly can barely keep up as locals. Flee New York City because of the surge in violence. Ongoing restrictions from Covid 19 Steve Land of the flee is the New York Post headline our next guest says. Democratic leadership is to blame actor Dean Cain here to explain Dean good morning to you good Morning, Steve Emily Brian yeah well see im not shocked at all to see this exodus from New York City living in Malibu California, where im from im used to having outdoor space and area to move about. I always felt a little bit strange in New York City kind of, like I dont mean to say in a negative way, but like living in little rat boxes and everybody on top of each other. That and the combination of the Covid 19 situation and the measures of literally the worst mayor in the history of New York City has made it. So it is the land of the flee and
everybody wants to get out and get space and a little bit more freedom and dean in honor of international overdose Awareness Day, which is today wed love to show a clip from a film you star, red in about an opioid addiction and an overdose from two thousand, and sixteen well play a clip and wed love to get your thoughts on it. Take a listen talk to the supervisor and let them know its one of ours down here. Who is it? Is it my daughter? Just let me look is that my daughter child screaming? How does it get from this drug? I mean it. I want to know. I know what is that I just dont know who I am anymore or why im here really? I wish I could see one more time: dean such a powerful film that especially resonates on today. What is your message for viewers?
Well, Emily its a thing you know, Jack was a regular 19 year old kid and a family was a loving, wonderful family and they had no issues. They had no idea that he was doing drugs at all and last. I think it was April of twenty nineteen Kirk. The father came on Fox AMP friends and talked about it. They had no clue their wonderful child was using drugs at all and he went to bed one night goodnight im going to go to bed and went upstairs and overdosed on heroin, and so his mission and his life its the kind of thing that I dont know how. I would overcome that as a father and what theyve chosen to do is start a foundation, Jack Joanah Foundation, and they want to make parents aware of the dangers of opioid overdoses and things of that nature, and one of the things he talked about when he was on last year was go through your kids backpack. It seems like its in a position and going through their privacy, but after his son overdosed, he went through his backpack and
found all sorts of drug paraphernalia and it just shock Ed him and actually, after he was on the show, I got messages from people who actually did that and found drug paraphernalia in their kid S, backpacks and they were stunned, so its closer than you think be aware of it. President Trump did a very nice job on this and he declared the opioid epidemic, a national health public emergency and made a lot of funds available and independent. Two thousand and eighteen was the first time in thirty years, where the actual number of overdoses in a year has gone down. So its a good sign, I think in twenty twenty, its going to be scary, with this pandemic and everybody being locked inside Brian. I know China too, with fentanyl and again all roads leads to China over and over again, but the Jack Jonah Foundation is to support that great movement which really bumped into two thousand and ten became a major issue. Dean before you go youre also youre in LOS Angeles in the area, people are leaving there. They are leaving New York City theres a debate here, even
though the numbers are staggering in terms of home sales into the suburbs and flee to Connecticut and Upstate New York and New Jersey. Do you think its Seinfeld says its temporary everything? We just go through a cycle and other people here say: weve, never seen things as bad. You have the same thing in LOS Angeles. Do you think this is a blip or do you think people are leaving for good ive lived in California? I went to school in New Jersey and things like that, but lived in California, and never did. I ever think I would leave Malibu California, I for the first time ever am concerned if this election goes the wrong way, im concerned about living here in California and actually considering leaving for the first time in my life, so id like to believe its just a blip. However, just things have gotten so out of control here in terms of taxes. Its insane here in California were just doing such a poor job of governing that when I go to visit with the state, sometimes I
go wow. It be nice to live here and save an additional huge amount of money and have more freedoms, and maybe I would consider that so I hope its a blip. But I fear its not Steve yeah, no taxes in Texas or Florida or Tennessee and a couple other states something to think about all right. Dean Cain, Superman.
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