For Small-Town Tennessee Judge, Opioid Crisis is Personal
Judge Duane Slone observed the arc of the opioid crisis first-hand since painkiller-addiction began taking ahold of lives in the rural northeast Tennessee counties he serves. Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean.
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