Huntington in Ohio is the place all of it started. A disaster that swept America, inflicting distress to thousands and thousands.
The Opioid epidemic started when a miracle painkiller referred to as OxyContin was developed by a pharmaceutical agency Purdue, owned by the now-infamous Sackler household.
For docs in communities like Huntington it was simply what they wanted. Industrial accidents had been widespread amongst a low-income inhabitants.
Between 2006 and 2014, an ultra-aggressive advertising marketing campaign pushed greater than 81 million painkilling capsules to the city and the encompassing county.
US correspondent Mark Stone went to see how the city is tackling the problem of opioid dependancy.
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