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TUCSON (KVOA) - Opioid addiction is the leading cause of overdose deaths and is an epidemic. According to the CDC, more than 72 percent of the overdose deaths in 2019 were attributed to opioids. The Drug Enforcement Administration said that many people become addicted when drugs are easily accessible, such as in medicine cabinets in their homes.  DEA held a "Take Back" campaign on April 24, where people could dispose of unused or expired prescription medications. The Digging Deeper Team was given unprecedented access to the destruction of the drugs that were collected. In an undisclosed...

Tucson (KVOA) - Some Midvale Park residents are up in arms about a recent notice alerting residents they had to paint their homes or be fined. That's not settling too well with people who have lost jobs or had their hours cut due to the pandemic. Some of the residents tell the Digging Deeper Team there are about 7,000 homes in their community. This past August, they received a letter from the Midvale Park Homeowners Association telling them they had to paint their houses. "They're harassing us constantly that our houses have to be repainted, the houses have to be in a certain way and we never...

It's a Digging Deeper report we've been following for two years. Julian Tapia was recently sentenced to two and a half years behind bars for his role in the deaths of James Bohard Senior and his 26-year-old son. For Patricia Bohard, the Christmas season brings sad memories of when her oldest son James Jr. died from a fentanyl overdose along with her former husband her youngest son also overdosed and survived. "Even though what they were doing was wrong, they didn't deserve to die over it," Bohard said. The man who confessed to supplying the counterfeit oxycodone laced with fentanyl is spendin...