Mountain State Spotlight – Betty Hunter was 12 years old when her mother introduced her to painkillers.
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By her 30s, her drug problem had turned into a full-blown addiction. When the pill mills shut down, she switched to heroin, then finally to fentanyl, the powerful opioid that has supercharged West Virginia’s overdose crisis.
“Fentanyl is a whole other game, because you need more of it,” she said. “I’ve seen people do almost a gram in a shot.”
