CNN New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman August 23, 2019 10:49:00
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 fatally overdosed on drugs more than doubled. in recent years at this hospital in huntington, one out of five babies was born exposed to open yo -- opioids in the womb. they were flooded with prescription opioids here. enough to give 66 pills a year to every man, woman, and child in west virginia from 2006 to 2012 according to a recent investigation by "the washington post." the state cracked down on the pills, so...
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