Inside America Opioid Epidemic

This documentary confronts America's opioid epidemic, where overdose deaths have surged as heroin and synthetic drugs like fentanyl spread. It follows the human stories behind the statistics, showing how addiction takes hold and devastates families and communities. Along the way it examines the wider failures that let the crisis grow. Sobering and compassionate, it puts real faces to a national tragedy. Free to stream in 4K on Dr Documentary.

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