[We’re interested in hearing from people who live in rural communities in California. “They shouldn’t have closed the playground down if they didn’t want homeless people all over town,” Ms. Cobine said. So they take meth to keep moving at night, and take heroin during the day to feed their cravings. But even without fentanyl, Humboldt County is ill equipped to handle rising heroin abuse and addiction. Access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid abuse disorder is severely limited in these remote parts of California — a problem shared by rural counties across the country.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2018 09:00 UTC