How The Opioid Epidemic Has Ravaged Walker County, Ala.

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Published August 12, 2019 at 4:22 PM EDT

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with reporter Melissa Brown of the Montgomery Advertiser about her reporting on Walker County, Ala., which was flooded with tens of millions of opioid pills.

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