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US opioid crisis: How America's 'overdose capital' is helping addicts off drugs
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7:32Now PlayingHuntington in West Virginia is where it all began. A crisis that swept America, causing misery to millions.
The Opioid epidemic began when a miracle painkiller called OxyContin was developed by a pharmaceutical firm Purdue, owned by the now-infamous Sackler family.
For doctors in communities like Huntington it was just what they needed. Industrial accidents were common among a low-income population.
Between 2006 and 2014, an ultra-aggressive marketing campaign pushed more than 81 million painkilling pills to the town and the surrounding county.
US correspondent Mark Stone went to see how the town is tackling the issue of opioid addiction.
#opioidcrisis #opioidepidemic #ohio
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