Smack in Suburbia: America’s Heroin Crisis
With the United States in the midst of a heroin and opiate epidemic, India Rakusen travels to the state of Ohio, where addiction has become part of everyday life.
With the United States in the midst of a heroin and opiate epidemic, India Rakusen travels to the state of Ohio, where addiction has become part of everyday life.
West of Cleveland, Avon Lake is a wealthy suburb – large, expensive properties with white picket fences back onto the shores of Lake Eerie. But behind this façade, there is a crisis. Young people are dying from overdoses at an alarming rate. Many families have felt the damaging impact of addiction; and across Lorain County, opiates - pharmaceutical and street heroin - have killed twice as many people in the first six months of 2016 as died in the whole of 2015.
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