By: Mickey Nardo
Welcome to Appalachia. The trail of pain, addiction and poverty extends up the mountains from North Georgia, through East Tennessee and Western Carolina, on into Kentucky, West Virginia, and northward....
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Excellent point, Mickey! And of course, the extractive industry extends all through Appalachia. Which came first, meth or mining?
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[...] ← West Virginia’s prescription drug problem: a gift from the coal mining industry? [...]
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[...] what should be done to curb the over-prescribing of addictive painkillers by doctors — see here and here. I also talked about how the state’s inadequate health care system tends to feed [...]
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