Overdosed: The Hidden Opioid Crisis

This documentary confronts America's opioid crisis in Petersburg, West Virginia, the small rural town at the heart of the state hardest hit by the epidemic. Through former dealers, over-prescribing doctors and DEA agents, it traces how addiction took hold and spread. The film puts human faces to a national catastrophe of overdose and loss. Raw and revealing, it shows the crisis from inside the community it devastated. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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