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The Documentary Podcast

Addicted in Suburbia

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The United States is in the throes of a heroin and opiate epidemic. For Crossing Continents, India Rakusen travels to Lorain County, in the state of Ohio, where addiction has become part of everyday life. West of the city of Cleveland, Avon Lake is a wealthy suburb – its large, expensive properties back onto the shores of Lake Eerie, and wild deer frolic on neat lawns. But behind this façade, there is a crisis. Many families have felt the damaging impact of addiction. And across Lorain County, opiates – pharmaceutical and street heroin - have killed twice as many people in the first six months of 2016 alone, as died in the whole of 2015.

Producer Linda Pressly.

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0:00.0

This is a BBC podcast.

0:02.0

You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCWorld Service.com slash podcasts.

0:08.0

The United States is in the throes of a drug epidemic.

0:14.0

I'm India Rachison and for assignment I've been to Ohio and I must warn you this program contains disturbing scenes.

0:20.0

We've just now had a call from the deputy coroner here in Lorain County and

0:27.5

there's been a fatal overdose. We know it's a man, we don't know much else

0:31.4

about it, so we are heading there right now.

0:34.0

It's a one-story bungalow, really well kept, lots of wrought iron hearts and little lanterns,

0:47.0

hanging patunias, neat lawn.

0:50.0

The corridor right now is talking to a woman.'s taking some details from a lady who's sitting

0:55.1

outside who we think is the sister of the man.

0:58.3

When I found him, I have a...

1:01.3

I know the driver Dr Craig Chappell into the living room. The TV's on, the

1:09.8

blinds drawn, there's a fan blowing hard and the dead man's phone vibrates with the occasional text.

1:15.0

He's sitting slumped on the sofa covered in blankets.

1:18.0

He could be asleep, apart from the icy blue tips of his fingers.

1:25.0

In this week's assignment, we're in Ohio, meeting the people affected by a heroin and opiate epidemic.

1:30.0

After any injury, many Americans expect to be pain-free. The US consumes around 80% of all

1:37.0

opiate painkillers produced in the world. But for too many people their dependence

1:41.5

on prescription medication has led them to heroin.

1:44.7

Addiction is everywhere even here in the upmarket suburbs of Lorraine County

1:49.2

west of Cleveland. Dr.

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