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as its members see 40 or more dead bodies a year, including friends and classmates. She also said she wanted to highlight the estimated $ 100 million impact opioids had on Cabell County's economy, as her department responds to five to seven overdoses a day. Though Rader, Sheldon was introduced to a
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rate is 10 times the US average. It follows police, judges, and local nonprofits attempting to help people who struggle with opioid addiction and bring them to recovery as the city grips with a growing number of
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number of people who experience the opioid epidemic every day, and settled on the three women featured in the documentary because they often work with the same people at different parts of their lives.
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considered it a front-runner for an Oscar because it "addresses an issue in the news — the opioid epidemic — with present-tense reportage and an eye toward putting human faces on the crisis."
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