Recovering Addicts Save an Opioid Town
A child inside Ready Set Play toy store in Hazard, Kentucky. (Stacy Kranitz for The Free Press)
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Sam Quinones has been covering America’s opioid epidemic for about a decade. He detailed the decline of Appalachia in his seminal book, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.
But a funny thing happened when he went to the town of Hazard, Kentucky, last spring. Even though the town sits in the county most devasta…
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