Every week in the United States, 1,500 people die from opioid overdoses, more than from traffic accidents and firearms. The star has accompanied addicts for several months in Philadelphia, a hotspot of the drug epidemic.
If Bud Rodney, 33, thinks about it, He injects the drug Tranq Dope into more than a hundred addicts every daysome accidentally overdose.
If Carrie Grady, 30, thinks about it, She has lost more friends to opioid overdoses than are still alive.
When Brittany Potter, 37, calculates it exactly, There are still eight weeks left until the birth of her babyif the little one in her stomach survives her long-term consumption of Tranq Dope until then.
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