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  • Apr 11, 2019

    Supply

    Lt. Ryan Phillips of the Wise County sheriff's office drives through Appalachia, Virginia, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Phillips has seen the opioid epidemic up close as a law enforcement officer and life-long resident of Wise County. "I knew them [persons suffering addiction] before they got addicted, so I know they're not just some dope head," he said.
    Julia Rendleman/Marketplace

    It’s not easy being an undercover cop in a county of just 40,000 people. But drugs were making it hard for Bucky Culbertson to run his business, so he made it his business to get rid of drugs.

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  • Apr 4, 2019

    Welcome to Wise County

    A homemade sign says "Think drugs gets you high give God a try," on a front lawn in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The town in Wise County has been hit hard by the opioid epidemic.
    Julia Rendleman/Marketplace

    It’s the deadliest drug epidemic our country has ever faced. We go to ground zero, where “nothing changes except for the drug.”

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  • Mar 28, 2019

    Sentencing

    Keith Jackson's former home in northeast Washington, D.C.
    Jared Soares/Marketplace

    The drug bust and the trial were a “farce,” but the full force of the law still came down on Keith Jackson — and thousands of people like him. That didn’t end the crack epidemic, so what did?

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  • Mar 22, 2019

    What happened to Keith?

    Washington DC's Spingarn High School, where Keith Jackson attended before his arrest, November 2018. 
    Jared Soares/Marketplace

    One day, early in the semester, Keith Jackson didn’t show up to class. He’d been arrested for selling crack, but for his classmates, that wasn’t the surprising part.

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  • Mar 21, 2019

    George H.W. Bush and his baggie of crack

    President George H.W. Bush addressing the nation on Sept. 5, 1989. The president illustrated the threat of drugs by holding up a baggie of crack he said had been seized across the street from the White House.
    Courtesy: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum

    It was the perfect political prop: drugs seized by government agents right across the street from the White House, just in time for a big presidential address. The reality was more complicated.

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  • Mar 7, 2019

    The Uncertain Hour Season 3: Inside America’s Drug War

    The third season of "The Uncertain Hour" starts March 21.
    George Bush Presidential Library and Museum and Tony Wagner/Marketplace

    Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush held up a baggie of crack on live TV, and said it had been seized right in front of the White House. The Uncertain Hour’s third season looks at how the policies launched that day continue to reverberate – even as the crack epidemic has faded into history. New episodes start March 21.

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  • Aug 1, 2011

    Power and smoke: A nation built on coal

    Coal has shaped America's history, but its power has come at a price. As Americans use more electricity, we keep burning more coal.

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