40 Years After 'War on Drugs,' Heroin Becomes a Public Health Crisis
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Back in 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs." Fast forward 40 years and we're facing another heroin epidemic, but the users, and the response, are very different.
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Produced by Dana Roberson