Nurse Joie Cantrell checks the Naloxone supply in December at the Virginia Department of Health in Wise. Every participant of the needle exchange program is offered Naloxone, which can reverse an overdose.
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Many people in Wise County agree that they can’t jail their way out of a drug epidemic, but there’s a lot less agreement on what to do instead. And we find out what happened to Joey Ballard.
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