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- The verdict denied the county $2.5 billion it sought over 15 years to fund recovery services.
Alicia Bowman, 38, wanted to get clean from her opioid use disorder but didn’t have a place to turn.
She was in Cabell County, West Virginia — the state with the highest opioid overdoses per capita in the nation. It was January 2012. She hadn’t seen her daughter for five years and she couldn’t find help.