rachel's addiction started her senior year of high school. She was on the volley ball sports team and had no scholarships to go to different colleges. We reached out to rachel just before she started her shift at a treatment center in martinsburg, west virginia. And rachel doesn't just treat addiction, she's lived it.
The pandemic wiped out the slow but steady progress America had been making against another deadly disease: opioid addiction. The Washington Post’s Peter Jamison explains.
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