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• 1 year, 9 months ago

Factory work, Friday night lights and fentanyl: all three have become daily life in this Mississippi town.

It’s early in the morning. Now-retired nurse Betty Hayhurst climbs out of bed and begins breakfast fo

Family and Fentanyl: How the ongoing opioid crisis is affecting the Deep South

Art, Drugs, Fall 2019, Family, Good Health and Well-Being, No Poverty (Economy), Showcase, Summer 2019, This is America, Writing & Communication

July 23, 2019

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Factory work, Friday night lights and fentanyl: all three have become daily life in this Mississippi town. It’s early in the morning. Now-retired nurse Betty Hayhurst climbs out of bed and begins breakfast for her family. She walks out onto...

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- Christina
  1 year, 4 months ago
  
  Wow. The statistic, “That is enough for 34 pills per resident for the entire county,” really made me realize how widespread and significant this problem is. Being able to visualize the amount of pills each person would have drives home the fact that there are too many pills being distributed.

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