CNN CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto August 23, 2019 14:42:00
Has come to this. it has become a crisis. >> reporter: west virginia has the highest drug overdose death rate in the nation. in the past ten years the number of people in this state who have fatally overdosed on drugs more nan double. in recent years at this hospital in huntington, one out of five babies was born exposed to opioids in the womb. it started because the cities and towns in this state were flooded with prescription opioids. enough to give 66 pills a year to every man, woman and chil...
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