Photos: A West Virginia town wrestled down addiction. Then came Covid.

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A West Virginia town was beating back one crisis. Then came Covid-19. As the pandemic killed more than a half-million Americans, it also quietly inflamed another public health crisis: addiction.

“You’re not in trouble,” she always says first, then offers them naloxone.

Barnette had struggled with addiction all her life. She overdosed many times and developed infections. By the time she sought treatment, the infection in her heart was too far gone.Sue Howland, a member of the Quick Response Team, checks in on Betty Thompson, 65, who struggles with alcohol addiction, at her apartment in Huntington.

The Quick Response Team was born amid a horrific crescendo of America’s addiction epidemic: On the afternoon of Aug. 15, 2016, in just four hours, 28 people overdosed in Huntington. By 2017, the county had an average of six overdoses a day. Paramedics grew weary of reviving the same people again and again.Misti Mann-France stands in a bathroom at the laundromat she manages in Huntington under a blue light installed to make it harder for drug users to find a vein.

Then she stopped answering calls. Her mother went to her apartment on a Friday morning in October and found her dead on her bathroom floor.A police patrol vehicle sits along a stretch of railroad tracks in Huntington on March 17.

 

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