This week, Kentucky Edition has brought you coverage from Nashville, Tennessee, of an Illicit drug summit focused on addiction treatment and recovery, as well as prevention to members of President Donald Trump's cabinet traveled to Tennessee to speak at the summit.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. Our Laura Rogers has more about what the administration officials shared at the conference.

Congressman Hal Rogers of Kentucky's fifth district, welcoming U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to the summit.

All these drugs have just infiltrated our country, he says.

As Florida attorney general, she played a key role in shutting down the pill mills targeting eastern Kentucky.

And I worked closely with Jack Conway, who was the attorney general at the time.

I think it was called the Oxy Express, and people would drive down from your state, from West Virginia, either right from everywhere.

Tennessee.

They would Tennessee, they would drive to Florida because we had absolutely no regulations.

And they were, I call them, drug dealers wearing white coats.

Today it's fentanyl getting the most attention as a deadly drug, which Bondy says is coming across the border.

It's fentanyl, xylene, it's car fentanyl.

It's these crazy drugs that are are made in China, all made in China and shipped to Mexico and come in right across the border into our country.

Rogers applauding the Trump administration's border policies and helping to curb the flow.

First, it's all Donald Trump.

It's his directive.

And everything we do is working with him to keep America safe.

If you've ever heard that man open his mouth, he is anti-drug.

Attorney General Bondi says this year alone, they've seized 21.5 million fentanyl pills and 3,100 pounds of fentanyl.

It's flowing in to our country.

And President Trump said no more.

It's going to stop.

No more human trafficking, no more drugs across our border, and we're doing everything we can to stop it.

But so many of these drugs are already in our country.

And that's why all of you in this audience and you, chairman, have such a vested interest in this and helping these victims and getting these drugs off our streets.

This morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, speaking at the summit, sharing his own story of addiction that began in his teens.

I knew that I needed a spiritual awakening because I did not want to be the person that I was.

I wanted to be an arm, a person who didn't wake up in the morning, think of drugs, and think about them all day.

Kennedy, who lost his brother and other loved ones to overdoses, entered a 12 step program and has now been in recovery for 42 years.

If you believe in God, you're more likely to get sober and your sobriety is going to be more enduring.

He attributes his faith and spirituality to his sobriety journey, but admits it hasn't always been easy.

When the cash in prizes start flowing and my inclination is to say, Thanks God, I, I got it from here and take the wheel of the car and drive off the cliff again.

And the challenge for me, and I think for all of us who are trying to maintain long term sobriety, is how do we stay a positive surrender even when everything is going well in our lives?

Kennedy says more than four decades later, he still attends 12 step meetings to stay on track.

When I came in 42 years ago, I said, Guy, how long you have to keep coming to these meetings?

And he said, just keep coming to me like it.

I've been coming 42 years and I still don't like it, but I go every day because when I go the rest of my life, work.

The lights turn green from a parking place.

Open up.

People answer the phone.

The projects that I work on get over the goal line.

And it's kind of this magic.

He says his agency has $4 billion for harm reduction, prevention, education and recovery and treatment programs.

Along with those, he says, he would like to see people think more broadly.

How do we restore our families?

How do we restore that commitment to community?

One idea helping young people cut back on the use of addictive devices, adding cell phones and school is one of the things that we need to do to remedy addiction, not just all the standard nuts and bolts things which we need to do.

We need to do everything we can to reestablish hope in our kids.

Reporting from the Wrecks and Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville for Kentucky edition.

I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you so much, Laura.

More from the summit, including a conversation with a motorcycle rider who became addicted to opioids.

That's later on Kentucky edition tonight.