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The Sunday Read: ‘Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town. Then Rehab Became Its Business.’

The Sunday Read: ‘Opioids Ravaged a Kentucky Town. Then Rehab Became Its Business.’

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Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small
town. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with
schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman.
Jackson was 1 at the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a car
accident and was prescribed pain pills. Not long after that, she
began using heroin. Over the next decade she went through nine
rounds of addiction rehab. Each ended in relapse. Her most recent
attempt came in 2022 after her son was sentenced to life in
prison for murder; he was 21.

In eastern Kentucky, a region that is plagued by poverty and is
at the heart of the country’s opioid epidemic, the burden of
addressing this treatment gap has mainly been taken up by
addiction-rehab companies. Many stand more like community centers
or churches than like medical clinics, offering not just chemical
but also spiritual and logistical services with the aim of
helping people in addiction find employment and re-enter society.

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