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My name is Kayne.
I'm 27 years old and I live in Aberdeen, Ohio.
Just making the gravy, buddy.
I love to cook.
It's my passion.
And tonight, I'm making country fried steak with pork cubed
steak, and it is the bomb.
Once Kayne gets in the kitchen,
there's no stopping him.
He can make a full course meal like no other.
He could have a future in being a chef.
I live with my sister and my brother and my father.
Do you want me to fix you a plate, Dad?
He has the best heart of gold you will ever find.
Kayne could go on and do anything he wanted.
But right now, he's on a one-way road to death.
KAYNE: I am a heroin and a Xanax addict.
Heroin and Xanax are a deadly combination.
They go into a real deep sleep.
Their breathing slows down, the respiration slows down.
Kayne!
Come on, get up off the floor.
Come on.
I'll help you up.
Come on.
They'll get a little too much and they
just quit breathing, and die.
JERRY: Help me get him up off the floor.
The amount of money Kayne spends on drugs makes me sick.
I spent probably $1,000 a week, if not more.
I sit up at night and watching and pray that he
makes it through the night.
If you had told me 10 years ago that Kayne would end up
the way he is, I never would have thought it would
happen in a million years.
[calm music]
WOMAN: Kayne was a very beautiful baby.
All my family always won baby shows.
Every one of us won baby shows.
I did beauty pageants until I was probably seven or eight.
Growing up, Kayne was an amazing athlete
and he was a heck of a ball player.
I loved basketball.
I lived 100 feet from the basketball court,
so I was there every single day.
He was a good kid growing up.
When Kim and I split up, Kayne came with me
and of course, he got to hanging around
with my oldest son, Jeremy.
I remember the first time I smoked weed.
It was with my oldest brother.
I sort of blame myself because of what he is today.
But he went to work every day.
He wasn't late.
He worked hard.
He made his money.
He'd smoke a little weed maybe, but I
never knew him to really do drugs then,
but he was around it.
Kayne and I got together eight years ago.
We have two daughters.
They're two and seven.
He was the dad that cooked, gave them their baths.
He did everything for them.
Kayne is an amazing father.
Those little girls are his world.
Our mom was still around and loved spending time
with his kids, too.
And she made sure that we was taken care of as well.
When I played basketball, my mom
was the loudest one in the gym.
My mom was the coolest person.
She was my best friend.
I know for a fact he started using drugs
every day once my mother passed away.
We would use drugs here and there recreationally,
but there was no addiction.
But when Kayne's mother died, along come the heroin
and then that was the end of it.
I just lost my mom.
A lady we had never seen before showed up at the door.
And they asked them for a random drug test
and they couldn't pass it, so they
got their children taken away.
[sobbing] I just want my babies back home with me.
They need to be home with me and their mommy.
Kayne and Amy losing their kids was a wake-up call to Amy.
I legally had to divorce Kayne to even have
visitation rights with my kids.
I have a fear that I would never see my girls again and be
a part of my girls' life.
When Kayne's drug use went off the deep end
was when he lost his kids.
It's not fair.
It's not [bleep] fair, what the courts are doing.
That's when it went really bad.
He went through the windshield.
They had to sew up his face.
And he had to wear a back and a neck brace for a long time.
You think you almost die, would
bring you back to reality.
But it didn't.
It got worse, because I was in pain.
He's lost everything he's had because of heroin,
and I'm just afraid he's going to lose his life
if he doesn't get treatment.
Mm-hmm.
Kyle got clean for six months.
And when he came home, Kayne kind of ruined
that because he was doing drugs in front of him.
If Kyle didn't have Kayne around,
I don't think Kyle would do anything.
I hate to leave Kayne, but when I come back
home I walk in the house and here's Kayne,
face down on the table, slumped way over.
I can't go nowhere without having to worry about you,
and I come home, and there you sit.
You already fall off a chair.
It's going to have to stop. You're going have to get help.
KAYNE: I don't need--
You hear me?
Yes, you need help.
This ain't no joke!
KYLE: What ain't no joke?
Kayne.
If Kyle knew this was an intervention,
he would tell Kayne in a heartbeat.
Because Kyle uses Kayne to get high.
KYLE: You act like this is something new, man.
What do you expect me to do?
I'm seeing this every day.
I'm getting tired of it!
It's old!
Without my daughters, I hate to say it,
but I probably will stay high.
I can't throw him out.
I love him. He's my son.
I love him.
No!
[laughter]
AMY: Will you come sit down with us, please?
Come sit by me.
Sit down, son.
Kayne, you're different now.
You're out of control.
You've lost your children, family, everything.
I can't describe the pain that I'm going through.
I love you.
I love you, too.
Kayne, you truly have a heart of gold,
and it hurts to see how heroin has affected
you in so many negative ways.
I've lost my mother and I don't want to lose you, Kayne.
[sobbing] And if Mom was here, she would want you to go.
Dear Kayne, I think back to when we were young.
We were 19 and I got pregnant with our first child,
and that was one of the best moments of our life.
[sniffs] But now things have changed due to your addiction.
[sniffs] You have chosen drugs over your wife and kids.
[sniffs] I don't know what to tell our oldest
daughter when she asks me if her daddy's dead because of drugs.
Please Kayne, not only for me and the kids, but for you,
will you get help today?
[somber music]
[sobbing] I love you.
We love you, Kayne.
So much.
STAFFER: Welcome to Willing Way.
Hi. - Hello.
How are you doing?
I hope that I get clean and stay clean and go back home and take
care of my little girls.
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