Part 4: Wellness Check

This episode contains references to mental health challenges,
including eating disorders.


Joanna Lopez, the high school senior we met in our first episode
of Odessa, has turned inward: staying in her bedroom, ghosting
friends and avoiding band practice. But playing with the marching
band at the last football game of her high-school career offers a
moment of hope that maybe, one day, things will get better.


In the finale of our four-part series, we listen as the public
health crisis becomes a mental health crisis in Odessa.


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