In this episode of West Obsessed, High Country News editors Brian Calvert, Kate Schimel and Paige Blankenbuehler discuss the nearly year-long investigation of a drug epidemic in the rural West. In tiny Craig, in northwest Colorado, a private practice spurred a complicated drug crisis that continues to outpace the available resources for addicts, the health care community and law enforcement.

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Kate Schimel is High Country News’ news and investigations editor. She lives in Bozeman, Montana.