The inaugural episode of Backstory STL features Pastor Pamela Paul. She started her church, Faith, Hope, and Love, after losing family members to drug overdoses. Her boots-on-the-ground outreach work is about trying to combat overdoses and deaths from drugs like fentanyl.

First Alert 4 featured Paul in a special edition newscast in 2024, "Combating a Crisis: a roundtable on fentanyl."