As presidential candidates visit the early caucus and primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, they're hearing about heroin and meth. Drug overdoses now kill more Americans than traffic accidents. And, in many places, there's a growing acceptance that this isn't just a problem for other people.
New Hampshire is in the throes of a crisis. Last year more than 300 people in the small state died of drug overdoses. Mostly opiods like oxycontin and heroin.
On a recent morning at the Farnum Center, a drug and alcohol treatment center in Manchester, N.H., about a dozen women sat around doing arts and crafts. They string plastic beads into bracelets, paint flowers and laugh a lot.
"We admit clients from all over the state," said Christine Weber, director of substance abuse services at the center. "At all different levels of education, professional status, socio-economic status. And that's a change for the community."
[For more of this story, written by Tamara Keith, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/it...campaign-trail-issue]
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