When your child is an addict

John and Leigh Ann Wilson fought to get treatment for their heroin-addicted daughter. But in a town where one in four residents is hooked on opioids, the odds were stacked against them.

When teens get addicted.
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The white car had stopped in the middle of the highway. The driver was slumped behind the wheel, her breaths faint and few.

Her head was bobbing, chin to chest; her pupils were the size of pinpoints. The car was strewn with syringes. Paramedics inserted a needle of naloxone, an opioid antidote, into her left arm — the one with fewer scars. A minute passed. Two. At last, Taylor Wilson's eyes flickered open.

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