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Portraits Of Opioid Addiction

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About 64,000 people die each year after overdosing on drugs. Many of those deaths can be traced to opioids, and the issue has grabbed the attention of both the medical community and the federal government. Time Magazine spent a year documenting the problem, and Paul Moakley, deputy director of photography and visual enterprise, joins us to talk about what he learned from interacting with addicts.