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Part one: the scourge of heroin
Last year this article came out in The Atlantic Monthly: The New Heroin Epidemic
Ten years ago, prescription painkiller dependence swept rural America. As the government cracked down on doctors and drug companies, people went searching for a cheaper, more accessible high. Now, many areas are struggling with an unprecedented heroin crisis.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/10/the-new-heroin-epidemic/382020/ Then I saw this article at the Marshall Project: The Anti-Heroin Is Vivitrol an answer to addiction? A drug-plagued county thinks so. by Alysia Santo
Alysia Santo is a staff writer. She has covered for-profit jail medical companies, sexual abuse in women’s prisons, and other issues in New York’s detention facilities for the Albany Times Union. Santo was previously an assistant editor for Columbia Journalism Review, and holds a master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Part two: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
…the new Iowa darling (February 17, 2015, 04:07 pm Scott Walker leads big in Iowa http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/233001-poll-scott-walker-leads-in-iowa)
