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ABC’s David Muir Examines the Heroin Epidemic


Topic: Drug Prevention
Posted on 5/5/2016

ABC’s David Muir anchored a one-hour special, “Breaking Point: Heroin in America,” that aired March 11. More than 100 Americans die every day from a drug overdose, which more than gunshot wounds or car accidents. “For more than a year, a very small team of producers armed with cameras embedded with very brave families battling heroin in their own home,” Muir told TVNewser. “This is an epidemic that knows no boundaries.”



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