Today, we’re not talking about a single murder, or a single victim. Today’s story is about devastation on a grand scale. It's about loss, not from a knife or a bullet, but from a little pill—the kind prescribed with a signature and a nod.

This is the story of how West Virginia, a place of mountains, mines, and tight-knit communities, became ground zero in one of the deadliest drug epidemics in American history.

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