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

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Ingrid Jackson had by no means lived in a trailer earlier than, or a small city. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a person with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old girl. Jackson was 1 on the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a automotive accident and was prescribed ache capsules. Not lengthy after that, she started utilizing heroin. Over the subsequent decade she went via 9 rounds of habit rehab. Every resulted in relapse. Her most up-to-date try got here in 2022 after her son was sentenced to life in jail for homicide; he was 21.

In japanese Kentucky, a area that’s stricken by poverty and is on the coronary heart of the nation’s opioid epidemic, the burden of addressing this remedy hole has primarily been taken up by addiction-rehab corporations. Many stand extra like group facilities or church buildings than like medical clinics, providing not simply chemical but additionally non secular and logistical companies with the purpose of serving to folks in habit discover employment and re-enter society.

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Further manufacturing for The Sunday Learn was contributed by Isabella Anderson, Anna Diamond, Frannie Carr Toth, Elena Hecht, Emma Kehlbeck, Tanya Pérez, Frannie Carr Toth and Krish Seenivasan.