Overdose County, Usa
April, 2012
WHY DO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS KILL SO MANY PEOPLE?Tom Hatcher, mayor of the mountain town of War, West Virginia, has been keeping a tally for the past few years of the local folks killed by drug overdoses. One family has lost three daughters. Another has buried two brothers. An 83-year-old woman is raising the grandson left behind after the deaths of her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Hatcher's nephew fatally overdosed in 2010 in a shabby apartment right across the street from Hatcher's of...
