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While scores of young and otherwise healthy people continue to die, they are in turn saving the lives of people on waiting lists who are often confined to dialysis machines and hospitals rooms.

VICE’s Matt Shea travels to Florida to meet some users and distributors of lean to see its influence on pop culture first-hand.

In the second installment of World of Hurt, VICE News travels to Maine to see how the states strict laws on prescription opioids has affected the population.

Frontline social workers in Vancouver's Downtown East Side talk about fentanyl's impact.