US state battling drug addiction crisis

Name: US state battling drug addiction crisis
Uploaded: 2014-02-06T09:29:03Z
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: Governor of Vermont says $2mn worth of heroin and opiates are trafficked into the state every week.

Governor of Vermont says $2mn worth of heroin and opiates are trafficked into the state every week.

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The death of American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has once again drawn attention to drug addiction in the US. One of the smallest states is struggling to cope with one of the country’s worst addiction rates.

Al Jazeera’s Cath Turner reports from Vermont.

Source: Al Jazeera