A homemade sign says "Think drugs gets you high give God a try," on a front lawn in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The town in Wise County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
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It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the drug.”
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The team
Krissy Clark
Host and Senior Correspondent
Caitlin Esch
Senior Producer
Peter Balonon-Rosen
Producer
Catherine Winter
Senior Editor
Sitara Nieves
Executive Director, On Demand
Tony Wagner
Digital Producer
