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The Epidemic Raging Within the Pandemic: Opioid Addiction

The Epidemic Raging Within the Pandemic: Opioid Addiction
Craig Hettlinger stands in front of the Huntington Addiction Wellness Center he founded to help bridge the gap in the recovery community. Craig Hettlinger
Salena Zito
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WEST VIRGINIA—Craig Hettlinger explains that he started drinking when he was about 16 years old. He escalated to stronger drugs three years later, when he played Division I soccer at Marshall University. He started every game for a team that was then ranked in the Top 20 in the country.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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