Rural Virginia communities are still struggling to recover from the opioid epidemic

WBUR | By Scott Tong

Published September 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM EDT

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The country’s opioid epidemic of the last generation hit Appalachian Virginia particularly hard. Rural counties are still struggling to recover.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong reports on one woman’s story of addiction recovery.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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