¾ÅÉ«Íø Special 8/3 8a: ¾ÅÉ«Íø the impacts of heroin addiction on children and families in Rio Arriba County, N.M. The region's had one of the country’s highest overdose rates for decades. Ed Williams' reporting follows the lives of families and community health leaders, providing an intimate view of the opioid epidemic from the perspective of the people who have been living through it for generations.
Tune in Thursday morning at 8 a.m. for an hour-long, nuanced special devoted to this problem. Ed talked with those working on the front lines to treat and prevent addiction, law enforcement, children and families, teachers and more.
This series, , was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and the , programs of the at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
¾ÅÉ«Íø’s Public Health New Mexico project is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the McCune Charitable Foundation. Find out more at .
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This program was originally broadcast on February 2, 2017.
