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and will have somebody else

in here that is not a high risk.

So it's had a huge effect.

When my kids get up

early in the morning

after sleeping well at night

and I've been up all night

'cause I don't sleep well,

and they're bouncing off the

walls and excited to do stuff,

and I don't have the energy to

get up and do stuff with them...

Are you kidding me?

You know how much that sucks

to have them wondering,

"What's wrong with Dad?

Why can't he come out

and do stuff with us?"

Once you get to that point,

you will do anything

to get out of it.

Anything.

We called one of these places

for detox and rehab

and all that, you know?

And some of them

are pretty pricey.

And you got to go in there with

money up front and all of this.

And so I honestly did not know

what to do.

Is it cheaper to stay on drugs?

Oh, yeah.

Absolutely.

Not only, I mean, just the

financial side of things.

You can have a pretty bad habit

and do it

relatively inexpensively.

Or, I mean, thousands

and thousands of dollars

for detox and rehab

and all that.

And, unfortunately,

a lot of these places,

they don't work for people

because they go in

with the wrong reasons.

And especially in this valley,

there's this mentality that,

if somebody's got a problem,

we'll drop them off and say,

"Make them better,

and we'll be back in a bit."

You know?

And it doesn't work that way.

So we come out

of the gas station.

We've been praying, looking for

an answer what to do.

I see this sign..."Addicted?

Drugs... Prescriptions?

We sponsor recovery!

Happy Valley. Confidential."

So I come out.

Come out of the gas station

after literally having been

fighting with my wife,

praying what can I do,

and I see this sign that says,

"Happy Valley Detox.

Confidential."

And on the way up to the city,

was on my cellphone

calling your number.

People realize that,

"You know what?

I've been so stressed

or I feel so much pressure,

and when I take this or that,

I feel a lot better,

and I'm able to deal with things

a little bit better."

Now you're stepping over

the boundaries

of taking it for reasons of pain

to reasons of depression or

pressure or stress or anxiety.

And then it's like now you're

just taking them for any reason.

You get to the point

where you don't know

whether you're taking pain

medicine because you got pain,

or whether your mind's

manufacturing the pain,

or whether you're just taking it

to take it, you know?

And you get to a point

where it is out of control.

It's absolutely out of control.

"So, Sister Andersen,

could I get..."

"Could I get some of

those antidepressants?"

"Sister Andersen, I need

some Valium, Percocet,

and four balloons of black,

please."

"Okay, I'll see you tonight.

Are you bringing jello or..."

"Listen, you old piece of...

This isn't what I paid for.

I said 10 Valium.

I'll be at the Bishop's house

tonight if you...

That's more like it.

Okay.

Don't ever try to short me,

you..."

Can you imagine?

Thanks for writing me

on my mission.

I would never bad-mouth or say

anything bad about the Church.

I live for the Church.

It's my guide. I love it.

But there are...

There's...

You can't single out the Church.

It's not like it's

a Church problem, you know?

But are there certain pressures

that go along with the Church,

with religion,

with any religion?

But it just happens

that in Happy Valley,

there's a dominant religion,

you know?

But, I mean,

there's no way I would dog

and sit there and say,

"This is a Church problem."

It's not.

It's... You know.

Is there pressure

that goes along

with always trying to be perfect

and do everything right

and being in denial

and not wanting to come clean

when you really got a problem,

and, you know, talk about people

that just have...

I mean, domestic-violence

problems and marital problems

and never even come clean with

that kind of crap, you know?

So it's not... Yeah.

It's not a Church problem.

Okay, where'd he go?

You think there's a chance

we could...

- He's back.

- ... help him with recovery?

He wants to, and he said...

He goes, " I don't want to do

this and expose myself

and have my parents see this,

you know,

if I'm not doing something

to get help."

You know, so he really does.

If you can just not start,

you know.

Because once you start

and you get into this lifestyle

and you get into taking stuff,

it'll take... You will...

There's no good outcome.

There's...

I don't know.

If you look around, there's

not too many old addicts.

They're gone.

You either get better

or you die.

That's it.

There's no heroin or cocaine

in Utah.

This is Utah. You can't get

heroin and cocaine in Utah.

That's what they do...

cocaine and heroin.

They won't deal

in anything else.

No meth, nothing like that.

They say meth makes people loco,

so they won't deal with that.

Find that interesting.

They won't deal with guys

that are speeders.

Yeah, because they're crazy.

Yeah, they'll do anything.

What do you want to do?

You want to go back

and see his pad?

- Greg, can we go back?

- Nah. Right now?

Let's go see the bachelor pad.

No, 'cause if you show my room,

anyone that knows me

is gonna know it's me.

Well, no.

Yeah, but we won't show it

until you decide what it is

you want to do.

Just so we have it.

That's the whole idea.

I mean, if you really do

want to change it, get help.

I mean, that's the reality.

That's where you live.

You can do it. You don't have

to, but I think it just...

If you really

do want to help people

and show them

"Here is the ultimate,"

from having everything

and a family,

to my whole life is in

one room, you know?

I want to get high

as soon as I get home.

You hear that?

He goes, " I want to get high as

soon as I get home, though."

- That's fine.

- Okay.

You want to roll?

Okay.

No, I got to tell you.

Just from my standpoint,

I can't tell you

how proud I am of him

for having as much of a problem

and saying, "You know what?

I'm willing to expose myself,"

'cause he's embarrassed.

He feels absolutely horrible

about where he is,

what he's given up, you know?

But like you all said,

if we can just help somebody

not go the same route

that he has, you know?

Say you lose all your money,

or say you lose your family,

say you lose whatever,

and you get in Greg's situation,

well, you'd think that he would

want to do anything

to get out of it, right?

Living in that crappy

little room of his?

Well, he'll tell you himself,

it's like, "Why?

Why go through the effort?

I've already lost everything.

I can't lose anything more."

It's probably tripping for you,

too.

You've never been around

this kind of stuff, have you?

No?

No, not none of that.

Just...

Was that a trip going...

going on that ride?

- Not really.

- I didn't notice anything.

Yeah, just gonna film.

Just filming.

Concentrating on filming.

There's some heroin right there.

How long have you lived here?

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