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it's leaving our communities in shreds. and we're left behind to pick up the pieces from that. >> karen kelly is the executive director of operation unite, a community coalition devoted to preventing overdose deaths in kentucky. in fact, kentucky is the fourth most medicated state in the nation. and it has the sixth highest rate of overdose deaths. in one county alone -- >> half of the kids have no parent in the home whatsoever. so now we're seeing many raised by great grandparents, because we've lost an entire generation of young people. and, you know, the kids are really the ones paying the biggest price. >> we were just sick and tired of going to funerals. we were sick and tired of having kids come in and not being able to sit through physics class because they were worried about mom who had overdosed or dad had been arrested. >> nancy hale worked in the rockcastle county school system for 34 years.

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