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How New Mexico deploys best practices in the opioid crisis

Clip: 10/16/2017 | 11m 11sVideo has Closed Captions

New Mexico deploys best practices to avoid the worst outcomes in the opioid crisis.

While states nationwide have been scrambling to respond to the deadly opioid epidemic, New Mexico has been hard at work with an aggressive response for years. So why have its addiction rates remained stubbornly high? Hari Sreenivasan visits a state caught between two powerful forces: best-practice treatments and the international forces supplying American addictions.

10/16/2017

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