Young Girl's Shocking Discovery Highlights National Heroin Epidemic

Watch Lorie Johnson's latest report on the heroin addiction epidemic in America.

The shocking story of a 7-year-old girl who found her parents dead of a suspected heroin overdose is highlighting the nationwide drug epidemic rocking America.

It has become so mainstream that several cases are even being documented on videos and going viral on the Internet.

On Monday, the Pennsylvania girl told officials at her school in McKeesport that she hadn't been able to wake her parents up for a few days.

Watch this viral video of a heroin addicted couple on the street.

The police visited her home and found her parents dead of suspected drug overdoses. A 9-month-old girl, 3-year-old boy, and a 5-year-old boy were also in the home. They were taken to the hospital for evaluations.

Authorities said there was no foul play involved in the deaths and suspect that 26-year-old Christopher Dilly and 25-year-old Jessica Lally died from overdoses of heroin.

Police say another fatal overdose also happened on the same street the day the bodies of Dilly and Lally were found.

In an interview with WNEP, Lally's sister said she encouraged Jessica Lally to get help for her addiction. She had also attempted to gain custody of the children.

"My sister wasn't the person she became when it came to drugs. She wasn't the person I knew. It was like the drugs had taken over and at first we didn't know it was heroin," Courtney Lally said. "She loved her kids -- she did. She loved her mom, she loved me, she loved us."

In Tennessee, video of a couple laying on the sidewalk unconscious from a suspected heroin overdose went viral. 

According to WREG-TV, police said two witnesses claim two people "snorted some heroin" in a nearby Walgreens bathroom and began to have strange reactions on the sidewalk.  

EMT's were able to revive the husband and wife.  A bystander recorded the scene on Facebook Live which has been seen more than 1 million times. 

And in September, police in East Liverpool, Ohio posted photos of a couple who overdosed in a car while a 4-year-old boy was in the back seat. The photos also went viral.

Family of boy pictured with 'heroin overdose' couple in car slam police for releasing images https://t.co/DAVo01gOZw pic.twitter.com/tn3eg2uH2d

— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) September 14, 2016

Heroin use has reached epidemic numbers, with overdoses killing more than 10,000 Americans in 2014 alone. For years, people considered this addiction a big city problem, but people are now quickly learning heroin is in their own backyard.

Caitlyn Weems died of a heroin overdose at the age of 22.  Her mother Carolyn, says although it's been three years, she still  grieves her loss everyday. 

"Life has just been so different since," she explained. "No one, unless you've been in that situation, can even fathom how that turns your whole world upside down within a second."

CBN News reporter Lorie Johnson featured Weems in a report about how Heroin is now an epidemic in the suburbs. 

Dr. Paul Hardy, Founder of Recovery For Life, talked with CBN News about the new strain of heroin and why it is killing so many people. 

Meanwhile, Courtney will now go to court to try to get custody of her nieces and nephews.  She said she has a message for others fighting to help their loved ones who are struggling with drug addiction.

"Just don't stop trying. Keep pushing. Make them understand you love them and you're doing this because you love them," she said.